The Cart Blog

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Studs from a dud? Go to Ex Boyfriend Jewelry

Filed under: Cart-less selling — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:48 am

ExBoyFriendJewelry.com – what an incredible idea for a female-focused store – and a great sponsorship opportunity for a female-focused business.

Friday, January 11, 2008

Does your cart have horse sense?

Filed under: Cart-less selling — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:07 am

USHorse.biz has set up a free e-commerce portal for horse related e-businesses.

Monday, December 17, 2007

Mini-carts in CMS systems

Filed under: Cart-less selling — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:17 am

I’ve seen a couple of interesting posts on this topic lately – this one for Drupal and this one for WordPress.

Friday, November 30, 2007

Shoemoney digs Build A Niche Store

Filed under: Cart-less selling — thatsoftwareguy @ 6:05 am

Build A Niche Store is a small eCommerce site builder that was recently reviewed by affiliate guru ShoeMoney. It’s not a shopping cart; it’s just an eBay affiliate program platform. It has a CMS built into it so you can add relevant content. The eBay feed is built in, but you can also add items from Amazon or any other vendor with whom you have an affiliate relationship. An interesting idea.

Saturday, October 6, 2007

Cart-less selling, monetization and Lemonade

Filed under: Cart-less selling,Widgets — thatsoftwareguy @ 8:11 am

As I said in my last post, I am a huge fan of utilities that let non-software-developers (i.e. “the ungeeked”) create a revenue stream from their website or blog.   I like the idea of WidgetBucks, and I like the idea of  Lemonade (they’re a bit different – WidgetBucks selects products based on page analysis, where as Lemonade lets you choose your favorite products).    The Varien guys were negative on Lemonade because of poor product choices, but this has to be something that they’re working on.  I think that for people who don’t want a cart or an Amazon store, simple options like this – used in moderation – could be a successful monetization mechanism.  We’ll see.

Interesting widgets for your blog or site

Filed under: Cart-less selling,Marketing,Widgets — thatsoftwareguy @ 4:03 am

I really like the idea of easy to use and install widgets that can be dropped on to a website.  Widgizit has created an excellent one for Amazon. Others are available at WidgetBox.com. I’ll be interested to see if smaller carts will start creating things like this for their vendors – it’s not hard to do, but it’s a lot more work to make it as elegant as Widgizit did.

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