Kerry Murdock with Practical eCommerce was interested in including a few ecommerce merchant tips from us in his article on holiday preparations to help out merchants looking towards the holiday. The following are a few paragraphs discussing what I would suggest for other merchants for the holidays: Make sure all of your website improvement projects are scheduled and are targeted to end in September so that you have plenty of time to test and launch the projects to your e-commerce website in early October at the latest. Avoid launching new projects in November or December Plan for inventory availability. Either make sure vendors are committing to hold stock for you, or provide solid inventory forecasting plans to vendors so that you don’t run out of the best selling products. In cases of long lead time you should already have product on order to satisfy forecast demand. Take seasonality…