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e-Commerce Provider Comparison: Shopify, BigCommerce, Volusion, Pinnacle Cart…

Friday, 24 June 2011 by Paul O'Brien

If you’ve ever ventured in to e-Commerce, you know that the platform choices can be mind boggling. From developing your own store to hosting it with a WordPress plugin to leveraging a 3rd party provider to getting started on a fully hosted service like Etsy, the options are so complex that it’s not a question

Published in eCommerce

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Analytics Vendor Comparison : Omniture, Coremetrics, Hitbox, and Google

Friday, 10 August 2007 by Paul O'Brien

For years, we have all pined over the lack of a comprehensive comparison of analytics platforms from Omniture’s SiteCatalyst, Coremetrics, Visual Sciences’ Hitbox (previously WebSideStory), and Google. Online marketers and web designers have to sit through cumbersome sales pitches and wade through confusing RFPs to decipher which solution is best for them. No more I

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Published in Analytics, Vendors / Agencies

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The Definitive Search Engine Result Comparison – An Investigative Report

Tuesday, 01 May 2007 by Paul O'Brien

I’ve received enough praise and criticism of my perspective on Ask’s new campaign that I felt compelled to do investigate the quality of each engine in more detail. As you can imagine, these results are completely biased, being scored alone by my opinion; nonetheless, I felt the experience worth sharing. Within five groups of terms,

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Published in Insights / Research, Search

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New Google Base Attributes

Friday, 09 February 2007 by Paul O'Brien

My favorite CSE, Google Base (I still prefer “Froogle” don’t you?), has made a significant enhancement to the quality of their product engine with the addition of product attributes to the feed specifications. As I hope you know, Google Base allows stores to upload product feeds so that their audience can find, consider, and compare

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Published in eCommerce, Search

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