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How Much Should I Charge? - Pricing Part 1: Selling Physical Products Online

How Much Should I Charge? — Pricing Part 1: Selling Physical Products Online

Jeffrey J. HardyBusiness

This is the first in a 2-part series on pricing products to sell effectively online. eCommerce is a mega-trend, and competition is fierce. Selecting the right price for your products is a critical part of your success. In this article, we will talk about how to find the right price to charge for your products online.

How to Prepare and Format eCommerce Product Images

How to Prepare and Format eCommerce Product Images

Jeffrey J. HardyBusiness

How your products look online is super-important. The first thing that most eCommerce merchants do is establish a style - what kind of background you use, how much exposure, whether the products are shown by themselves, or displayed in context as "lifestyle" images. All that is important for the consistency of your brand and the look of your website theme. Those are the more subjective aspects of product photography.

Hotcakes Commerce Version 03.02.01 is Full of Community and Support-Driven Updates

Will StrohlBusiness

New Hotcakes Commerce Release

Our team has been working hard at delivering the next great release of Hotcakes Commerce.  This time, we primarily focused on some updates that both our support clients and the community really wanted.  We’re very happy to announce that version 03.02.01 is ready for you and it brings with it some very popular updates.

Hotcakes Commerce 03.02.00 Does Some New Heavy Lifting

Will StrohlTechnology

Upendo Ventures presents Hotcakes Commerce 03.02.00

I know what you’re thinking, “What do you mean, version 3.2 is out? I haven’t heard about version 3.1!”  No worries… Version 3.1 did come out and it was released, but none of the marketing materials went out to announce it.  I’m taking the initiative to announce both releases at this time.  They are exciting releases too – with 3.1 offering support for variants in promotions and 3.2 supporting UPS Freight.

What You Need to Know About the TLS 1.2 Update

Will StrohlBusiness

Upendo Ventures on Security

There has been a lot of talk in recent weeks about TLS compliance requirements.  There’s good reason for this, because notable vendors that are known for being on the forefront of security such as Authorize.net, PayPal, and UPS began notifying their partners and vendors about two years ago.  Everyone else began receiving similar notifications about a year ago.  What does this all mean though?

Upendo Ventures Will Be at DNN Summit 2018 in February

Will StrohlPersonal Branding

Will Strohl giving a keynote speech at Southern Fried DNN 2013

DNN Summit has a long history.  It’s grown a lot since 2009, when I first founded the Day of DotNetNuke conference.  Back then, I used to speak at pretty much every user group and conference I could get to.  I love public speaking.  I love helping people learn something new – or better – helping inspire people to try something they may have never before considered.  I took about 2 years off from speaking, and now… I’m back!  I’ll be speaking at DNN Summit!

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