August Blogger’s Digest

August 31st, 2011 by Elan Sherbill

In the coming weeks, Building Keystones will focus on the state of online video gaming, optimizing pay-per-click campaigns, and providing tips for getting the most out of your business intelligence. Subscribe now to the Building Keystones email list to receive a notification of every new post.

In this Blogger’s Digest, we direct your attention to U.S. retail e-commerce spending for the second quarter, cloud-based Salesforce integration, changes to Google Analytics, how load times affect conversion rates, and different options for foreign online payment methods.

Internet Retailer – E-commerce Spending Jumps 14% in Q2: This analysis of our industry’s market performance, based on a report from comScore , shows U.S. retail e-commerce consumer spending grew nearly 14 percent compared to the second quarter of last year, marking the seventh consecutive quarter of growth for e-commerce retailers, with small to medium sized retailers recovering market share previously lost to the Top 25 online retailers.