Every day, it seems that about a dozen new ecommerce terms are introduced to the online business community. Some catch on, but many are condemned to the dungeons of forgotten and unused ecommerce jargon forever.

In the first part of this series we talked about SEO, SEM, hard goods and soft goods, Internet merchant accounts and conversion rates. We continue this series with 5 more terms which should interest web store newbies. Most of these terms have been around for a while so it’s useful for a web site shopping cart owner to know what they actually mean.

Just over 50% of online shoppers begin their shopping as early as October. Sadly, less than 15% of merchants are prepared for this. Almost 90% of shoppers surveyed use the Internet to do a bit of comparison shopping. Some end up making their purchases at conventional stores. But fret not owners of online only stores, because 53% of those surveyed revealed that they would buy online. If you own both offline and online stores: lucky you!

This is the period when top website ecommerce hosting shopping cart providers report an increase in sign-ups  as well.

So what do you need to do to get ready for the virtual holiday crowd?…