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e-RETAILING NEWS & OPINION ARCHIVES

April 2006

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

April 28, 2006

From InternetRetailer.com:

"81% of Small Businesses to Use E-mail to Promote Mother's Day Sales" 

42% of retailers will also use web-based marketing...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

April 27, 2006

From CNET:

"Cleaning Up a Bad E-mail Reputation"

Adhere to the policies that most spam filters recognize, like proper formatting, and test to ensure that the e-mails are delivered to users' in-boxes and not junk/ spam boxes...

http://news.com.com

 

April 25, 2006

From MarketingProfs.com:

"What Every CMO Should Know About SEO"

Five questions every Chief Marketing Officer should ask and be able to answer...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

April 21, 2006

From The Globe and Mail:

"On-line Ad Revenue Grows"

Spending on Internet ads this year will increase 27 per cent, surpassing magazines and the Yellow Pages...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

 

April 19, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Designing B2B E-Mail for Deliverability"

Keep your message and HTML code as clean and simple as possible.  Test the readability of your messages in different browsers to verify your text and images translate successfully in each...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 17, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Is E-Mail an Art or a Science?"

95 percent of companies use or are planning to use e-mail as a marketing tool this year...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 7, 2006

From E-Commerce Times:

"One-Size E-Commerce Fits All Badly and Lacks Marketing Soul"

Having compelling content, stating the unique selling proposition, ending with a call-to-action are as necessary on a Web site as they are in traditional marketing mediums...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

April 3, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"E-Mail Is About Awareness"

During the e-mail design process, there are four areas where you should verify whether your campaign is focused on delivering awareness...

http://www.clickz.com

About Customer

Service

 

April 27, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"The Evolution of Retail and Local Search"

Internet integration means meeting the expanding consumer demand for information before purchases, many of which occur offline...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 21, 2006

From E-Commerce Times:

"Striking Gold in the Multichannel Retail Rush"

Consumers have developed the expectation that they will have the same experience across every channel - the same visual branding, the same product mix, the same promotion pricing...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

April 13, 2006

From iMarketing News:

"Retailers Missing Out on Consumers' Interest in Online Bill Pay" 

Whenever a bill is presented to a customer via e-mail, the retailer has another opportunity to not only reduce costs and strengthen customer loyalty, but also to provide the customer with relevant and valued offers...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

April 14, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Conversion vs. Persuasion:  What's Your Challenge?"

Consider every touch point (online, offline, and across channels and media) as a piece of the buying process in a customer's persuasion scenario...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 6, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Conversion Funnel 2.0"

The hub-and-spoke conversion model places the product page at the hub, with multiple inbound spokes to products and outbound spokes to desired conversion paths and points.  When you shift to this model, you get a more sophisticated view of your customers' interaction with your online business...

http://www.clickz.com

About Webstore

Management

 

April 27, 2006

From eMarketer:

"Where Do Women Go Online?"

More women are going online to find multimedia content, check classified ads, listen to radio, and read maps...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

April 26, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Mindful of the Medium"

The problem with search engine spam and enterprises that attempt to game search engine algorithms is such activities can make good companies appear to be bad, at least to search engines...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 25, 2006

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Online Retail Sales in Canada Grew 80% in 2005"

Retail sales accounted for 14% of total online sales.  That compares with 10.6% of total online sales in 2004...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

April 25, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Web Analytics and Online Branding Metrics, Part 2"

By setting up special landing pages for offers promoted in offline space, you can get a better view into how people interact between different channels...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 24, 2006

From The Globe and Mail:

"Web Merchants Fight Costs of Fraud"

Credit card companies are helping Web merchants, offering payer-authentication services and other fraud-fighting tools and streamlining the process by which chargeback disputes are mediated...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

 

April 21, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Creating Value"

Online conversion is more than making them want it...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 21, 2006

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Retailers Put E-Commerce Backbone into Multi-Channel Systems"

62.9% of retail companies surveyed have integrated all of their e-commerce applications with a centralized inventory management system...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

April 20, 2006

From Knowledge@Wharton:

"How the Offer of Free Shipping Affects On-line Shopping"

Approximately 60% of online retailers cite free shipping with conditions as their most successful marketing tool...

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

 

April 18, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"The Ideal Web Analytics Tool"

The perfect Web analytics system wouldn't be one that could do everything.  It would be one that would allow fast, reliable access to core data on the site and also allow the site operator to easily and cheaply access and extract data in different formats...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 17, 2006

From DM News:

"Online Only Catalogs Nearly Double"

Online catalog editions make up 78 percent of 11,438 listed catalogs.  Last year, they accounted for 60 percent of the total...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

April 12, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Time to Spring-Clean Your Site?"

Change headlines and refresh content.  Update title tags, description, and keywords as well.  If images are outdated, add new ones.  Make certain to optimize file names and alt tags.  Doing so increases the site's credibility, readability, crawl-ability, and professionalism...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 12, 2006

From iMarketing News:

"Importance of Getting Top Organic Placement"

Users are becoming more adept at devising successful search terms and quicker to try another search if their initial one hasn't located the right results...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

April 11, 2006

From ClickZ.com:

"Web Analytics and Online Branding Metrics"

Four website metrics to evaluate the impact of online branding...

http://www.clickz.com

 

April 10, 2006

From eMarketer:

"E-Tailers Focus on Shifting Merchandise"

Merchants are focused on analytics to understand and then hone in on what works in order to run more efficient and profitable businesses...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

April 5, 2006

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Merchandising Topping E-retailers' To-Do Lists as Online Retail Matures"

Online merchants reporting conversion rates between 8% and 15% have doubled...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

April 4, 2006

From DM News:

"7 Simple Ways to Boost Deliverability"

Technology continues to make great strides in separating the good e-mail from the bad...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

April 3, 2006

From The Globe and Mail:

"E-Commerce Branding:

The Big Challenge of 2006"

Seriously explore your selling proposition and image-positioning strategy, and examine your current URLs' naming with an eye to any related difficulties with getting search-engine exposure...

http://www.theglobeandmail.com

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