E-Commerce

Career and Life Changes

I’ve recently sold my web development business, EleyTech, and have joined the acquiring firm. I am now an account manager, consultant and web developer at Brant Kelsey Design. It’s an exciting and interesting story.
A few months ago, I came across a help-wanted ad on a competitor’s website. I have thoroughly enjoyed owning a small web [...]


Internet Sales Tax

I feel pretty strongly about Internet sales tax. I have owned and run an e-commerce business for over 5 years. We pay sales tax to our state for any orders that ship to our state. Orders from out of state are exempt from sales tax, as they should be.
When someone orders from out of state [...]


Redesigns Coming Up

I’m doing redesigns of several of my websites. I don’t think I’ll be designing my personal site anytime soon but I will be redesigning RackData.com, EleyTech, and E-Commerce Resources in the coming days (or weeks).
The reason? I’m making them more accessible, more usable and more standards-compliant. In doing this, I hope to increase search engine [...]


Christmas Shopping Season

This year e-commerce sales during the Christmas shopping season were predicted to be higher than ever before. I was worried that this season might not be as big as predicted; sales at 2BigFeet.com were still slow in late November (when business is usually picking up). Sales steadily climbed though, and it is turning out to [...]