The Cart Blog » Cart-less selling

Studs from a dud? Go to Ex Boyfriend Jewelry

thatsoftwareguy — Tue, 13 May 2008 10:48:59 +0000

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

Does your cart have horse sense?

thatsoftwareguy — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 11:07:59 +0000

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

Mini-carts in CMS systems

thatsoftwareguy — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:17:36 +0000

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

Shoemoney digs Build A Niche Store

thatsoftwareguy — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 10:05:03 +0000

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.

Cart-less selling, monetization and Lemonade

thatsoftwareguy — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 12:11:49 +0000

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

thatsoftwareguy — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 08:03:31 +0000

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.