December
28, 2006
From CNET:
"Net
Sales Show Big Holiday Gains"
Online
sales grew by about 25 percent, eclipsing about 3 percent growth for
overall holiday retail sales...
http://news.com.com
December
26, 2006
From
TechWeb News:
"Online
To Outpace Overall Holiday Sales Growth"
Online
holiday sales growth is on track to be nearly four times higher than
overall retail sales during the busiest time of the year...
http://www.techweb.com
December
22, 2006
From
ClickZ.com:
"Online
One-Day Holiday Spending Peaks at $666.9 Million"
Between
January and October, e-commerce sites rung up $77.5 billion in sales, up
24 percent from 2005...
http://www.clickz.com
December
21, 2006
From
eMarketer:
"Canada
Heats Up!"
This
year 53% of Canadian Internet users ages 18 and older will make at least
one online purchase...
http://www.emarketer.com
December
21, 2006
From
E-Commerce Times:
"E-Commerce
Continues to Come of Age"
Increasingly
online shopping is serving as a precursor to actual buying taking place
offline...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
December
20, 2006
From DM
News:
"Four
Reasons Why Your Business Should Blog Next Year"
Blogging
represents a significant opportunity for your business to improve organic
search results, exhibit thought leadership, have a conversation with
customers, and sell more merchandise...
http://www.dmnews.com
December
20, 2006
From
ClickZ.com:
"Site
Architecture and SEO"
By
playing close attention to how well search engine spiders crawl our sites,
we can take the first steps toward improving the indexing of our sites...
http://www.clickz.com
December
19, 2006
From
MarketingVOX:
"Late
Surge in Online Holiday Retail Sets Records"
Growth in
online retail spending accelerated during the latter part of last week, with sales on Friday, December
15, growing 38 percent versus the corresponding
day last year...
http://www.marketingvox.com
December
18, 2006
From
iMarketing News:
"Free
Shipping Gets E-Mails Opened"
Online
is the place to go for a bargain because it's easier to comparison shop,
but the price of shipping can negate the cost of the savings...
http://www.dmnews.com
December
15, 2006
From
InternetRetailer.com:
"Online
Retailers Reject Too Many International Orders"
Merchants
are projected to reject 12.7% of orders from outside the U.S. and Canada
this year, resulting in a rejection rate more than five times the rate
of actual fraud...
http://www.internetretailer.com
December
15, 2006
From
eMarketer:
"Peak
Online Shopping Hours: 9 to 5"
Despite
the proliferation of high-speed Internet connections in US homes, a new
survey shows that most e-commerce shopping happens during work hours...
http://www.emarketer.com
December
14, 2006
From
ClickZ.com:
"Three-Quarters
of U.S. Web Users Are In the Fast Lane"
Eighty-two
percent of time spent online is attributed to Internet users with high-speed
access...
http://www.clickz.com
December
13, 2006
From
E-Commerce Times:
"Tis
the Season for E-Commerce and E-Crash"
When
companies underestimate online traffic, having effective network monitoring
tools in place will help ensure e-commerce sites stay up and running
despite heavy traffic...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
December
12, 2006
From
InternetRetailer.com:
"Online
Holiday Sales Up 25% Year-to-Year Through December 8"
The
season has already had seven days each exceeding $610 million in sales...
http://www.internetretailer.com
December
11, 2006
From the
New York Times:
"Online
Swindlers Shift Focus to Smaller Retailers"
Smaller
retailers often unwittingly welcome bursts of sales for too long before
recognizing that the purchases are from criminals...
http://www.nytimes.com
December
11, 2006
From
InternetRetailer.com:
"Holiday
Sales Showing Big Gains for Online Retailers"
One-fourth
of e-retailers report sales up 50% over last year...
http://www.internetretailer.com
December
9, 2006
From
E-Commerce Times:
"Home
Page for the Holiday"
Recommendations
from friends and family and search engines are the top influences
in identifying small, online businesses for holiday gift buying...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
December
8, 2006
From
eMarketer:
"Online
Shoppers Plan to Spend More"
41%
of Internet users say that they are going to increase their e-commerce spending
in 2007...
http://www.emarketer.com
December
8, 2006
From
ClickZ.com:
"Four
Steps to More Effective Web Site Testing"
A
lot of the testing is done by producing the creative first while skimming (sometimes
skipping) over step two and poorly identifying goals and fitness factors.
Don't make the same mistake...
http://www.clickz.com
December
8, 2006
From
E-Commerce Times:
"No
Customer Left Behind"
Multichannel-based
retailers are in for a strong holiday selling season, and online-only
retailers will be challenged...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
December
7, 2006
From
InternetRetailer.com:
"Most
Holiday Shoppers Look for Specific Item at Favorite Site"
Among
search tools considered the most important when buying gifts online, 83% said
keyword search; 63%, advanced search; and 52%, quick shop (entering a product
number from a print catalog)...
http://www.internetretailer.com
December
7, 2006
From
iMarketing News:
"December
19 Online Holiday Shopping Deadline"
Catalogs
are found to be the most successful offline tool to generate online sales...
http://www.dmnews.com
December
6, 2006
From
MarketingProfs.com:
"Killer
Web Content:
Make
the Sale, Deliver the Service, Build the Brand"
Quality
content is the essence of what makes a Web site successful...
http://www.marketingprofs.com
December
6, 2006
From
eMarketer:
"Biggest
E-Retail Day in History"
Online
consumer spending on Cyber Monday this year reached $608 million, making it
the highest single day in retail e-commerce history...
http://www.emarketer.com
December
6, 2006
From DM
News:
"Local
Search Is on Everyone's Mind"
For
getting listed in local search and map results, adding the physical address to
the bottom of every page is a good strategy...
http://www.dmnews.com
December
5, 2006
From
InternetRetailer.com:
"Online
Shoppers Are Spending 11% More Per Visit"
Online
retail sales reached $11.75 billion for November, up 24% from the same
period a year ago...
http://www.internetretailer.com
December
4, 2006
From
iMarketing News:
"E-Commerce
Firms Gang Up on Fraudsters"
When
looking for fraud, time of day is important...
http://www.dmnews.com
December
1, 2006
From
USC-Annenberg Digital Future Project:
"Online
World As Important to Internet Users as Real World"
77.6
percent of all Americans age 12 and older go online....
http://www.digitalcenter.org
December
1, 2006
From
eWeek.com:
"Down
But Not Out"
Far
too many retailers are blissfully unaware of their sites' performance if
their internal (behind the firewall) indicators show that all is well...
http://www.eweek.com
December
1, 2006
From
E-Commerce Times:
"Seven
Deadly E-Commerce Sins"
The
time until a user abandons a confusing or slow loading Web page has shrunk
from about 30 to seven seconds...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com