There are many payment gateways to choose from, just as there are tons of online shopping carts. Choosing the right one for your store is equally important with both as well. If you sign up for InstanteStore’s free ecommerce hosting shopping cart trial, you can see from the “Configure Online Credit-card Processing” page that InstanteStore is integrated with an extensive list of payment gateways. Most gateways are easily integrated into online shopping cart software packages.

In this article, we follow up on our previous article in which we took a look at Authorize.net and 2Checkout by going over the features of 2 more popular payment gateways that are integrated with InstanteStore as well as other online shopping carts.

Do you know what Social Networking sites are? Did you know that they aren’t just for fun and are now considered an essential online marketing tool by many Internet marketing experts (just like good online shopping carts). And just like with a store, a healthy “client base” is also important in social networking.

The Lowdown On Social Networking

Social networking websites are made up of online communities of Internet users. These users are brought together by common interests – sports, religion, products, hobbies, etc. – and form groups to discuss these common interests. Some of these sites have become so immensely popular that Internet marketers have grown to realize the potential of social networking as a marketing tool.

In mid-June 2009, computer maker Dell announced that it earned $3 million in revenue from using Twitter, a popular micro-blogging facility. It took 18 months to make the first million but only six to earn the rest.

Find out how social networking can benefit your store as well…