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January 2002

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About Advertising

and Promotion 

 

January 30, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Clip 'n' Save"

Coupons provide a powerful incentive to interact with advertising. They clearly state what's in it for the consumer: a deal.

http://www.clickz.com

 

January 30, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"The Rise and Fall of the Online Mall"

Brick-and-mortar businesses are finding they can attract users to their Web sites using shopping bags, trucks, product packaging and their traditional advertising outlets...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 25, 2002

From The Globe and Mail:

"Smart Shoppers Find It's Hip to Clip"

The emerging medium for grocery coupons is the Internet, which has caught the fancy of consumers...

http://www.globeandmail.com

 

January 23, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Profile of the Perfect E-Commerce Customer"

Make customers happy, make friends for life and really benefit when those customers start spreading the word to their friends...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 18, 2002

From CNET:

"More Women Heading Home to Surf"

Tend to visit health, fashion, beauty, parenting and shopping sites...

http://news.com.com

 

January 2, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"The Revolution Is Over"

More traditional (non-Web) methods can be integrated, with the goal of creating total brand experience every place that our companies and our customers meet...

http://www.clickz.com

 

About Customer

Service

 

January 25, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Perils of the Customer Lost Between the Internet and the Store"

Effective integration of live, phone and electronic channels will change the role of salesclerks and customer service representatives...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 18, 2002

From CRM Daily:

"Gap Closing Between Online and Brick-and-Mortar Customer Service"

Customer experience at online stores is in many ways on par with the level of service that brick-and-mortar stores can provide...

http://www.crmdaily.com

 

January 17, 2002

From Business 2.0

"Where Did All the Online Bargains Go?"

Find ways to differentiate your company through customer service instead of price...

http://www.business2.com

 

January 15, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Answer That One Last Question"

No consumer should ever abandon a purchase because your site kept the total purchase price hidden until the last moment or because your checkout process is too cumbersome...

http://www.clickz.com

 

January 14, 2002

From iMarketing News:

"Online Marketers Improve Service for Holidays"

Online marketers made their commercial web sites easier for consumers to use this past holiday season by reducing the number of clicks to checkout and offering real-time inventory information and search features...

http://www.imarketingnews.com

 

January 8, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Use It or Lose Them"

A company cannot encourage customers to use email as a means of contact (saving the company untold sums in customer service expenses), then ignore the email when it arrives...

http://www.clickz.com

 

January 2002

From Darwin Online:

"Homepage Improvement"

Ten resolutions that will wring more results from your website...

http://www.darwinmag.com

 

January 7, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"The Customer Service that E-tailers Forgot"

Responding to online inquiries that could have been avoided with more carefully worded product descriptions or better visual images...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 4, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Community Pays Off for E-Commerce Sites"

Users who contribute product reviews or post messages on a site will visit the site nine times more often than non-contributors - and will make purchases nearly twice as often...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 4, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Four Cornerstones of E-Commerce Success in 2002"

Cornerstones on which e-commerce should rely in 2002, in order to take Internet buying and selling to the next level...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

 

About Webstore

Management

 

January 28, 2002

From InternetNews:

"Multi-Channel Buyers Worth Pursuing"

Good news for click-and-mortar retailers and catalog marketers is that multi-channel shoppers tend to spend more than shoppers that use only one channel...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

January 24, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Web Design Basics"

Web design is primarily concerned with the organization and presentation of text-based content...

http://www.clickz.com

 

January 22, 2002

From Ipsos Reid:

"The Internet Is Shaping the Way In Which Canadian Families Live and Work Together"

The average family spends more than 1,600 hours online per year (more than 32 hours per week)...

http://www.angusreid.com

 

January 16, 2002

From E-Commerce News:

"Consumers Spent $53B Online in 2001"

The average weekend day brings $97 million in sales, but average weekday (Monday-Friday) is a full 60 percent greater at $155 million, due to increased shopping from people at work...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

January 16, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Is E-Commerce Being All It Can Be?"

The buying process is just that, a process. It doesn't begin or end with money changing hands...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 12, 2002

From The Globe and Mail:

"Canadian Cybershoppers Ramp Up Holiday Spending"

Cybershoppers shelled out an estimated $1.16-billion for on-line gifts in late 2001, a surprising 78-per-cent surge from the estimated $650-million that they spent a year earlier...

http://www.globeinvestor.com

 

January 11, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"The Gold Standard of E-tail Web Design"

The best sites focus on clear navigation, beginning with the home page, and keep flashy graphics and other gimmicks to a minimum...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 10, 2002

From eMarketer:

"Even Santa Shops Online"

More than 10% of the US population was shopping online any given week during the two-month span, with levels hitting 20% at the height of the post-Thanksgiving, pre-Christmas rush...

http://www.emarketer.com

       

January 9, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Creating E-Tail Sales Out of Thin Air"

There is much evidence indicating that the company website does as much to drive traffic to physical stores as the other way around...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

January 8, 2002

From iMarketing News:

"Online Holiday Spending Reached $13.8B in 2001"

U.S. consumers spent 13 percent of their holiday shopping budgets online in 2001

http://www.imarketingnews.com

 

January 7, 2002

From eMarketer:

"Holiday Shopping and Satisfaction Scoot up in 2001"

88% of US Internet users shopped online during the 2001 holiday season...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

January 7, 2002

From E-Commerce News:

"Holiday Shopper Traffic Climbed 50%"

Online holiday sales were in line with forecasts - up about 30 percent year over year...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

January 1, 2002 

From Pew Research Center:

"Women Surpass Men as e-Shoppers"

More people claimed to have saved time and money by purchasing goods online and fewer complained about or worried about the potential hassles of purchasing goods online...

http://www.pewinternet.org

 

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