Category Archives: E-commerce

Email marketing and micro/small businesses

By Donnie Bachan | Published: January 3, 2010

Anyone who has ventured to start their own business knows that cash flow is important. Marketing and sales budgets are usually non-existent and the need for such budgets are often not apparent when you are working to generate revenue to pay rent. Email marketing is one of the lowest cost marketing tools available especially with [...]

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Authorize.net AIM osCommerce Payment Issue

By Donnie Bachan | Published: December 22, 2009

This has to be one of the most irritating issues I’ve come across in some time. Using any of the Authorize.net AIM modules for osCommerce 2.2 the customer would consistently be sent back to the Payment Details page with an error: There has been an error processing your credit card It seems that many people have been [...]

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Magento: Adventures in creating a custom design

By Donnie Bachan | Published: February 7, 2009

Let me start off by saying, Magento is an EXTREMELY powerful and well built ecommerce platform. It contains all of the features necessary to deliver a stable and scalable solution for ecommerce (and more). That being said, I do have a few issues. So far, I find the system quite slow. Maybe it is just [...]