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e-RETAILING NEWS & OPINION ARCHIVES

July 2002

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

July 31, 2002

From Knowledge@Wharton:

"In E-mail Marketing, Consumers Weed Out the Weakest Links"

Marketers need to focus on learning from their mistakes and deliver effective pitches rather than flabby softballs...

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

 

July 31, 2002

From eMarketer:

"Evaluating E-Mail Marketing Effectiveness (Or Not)"

How effective was the campaign?  How much did it cost?  How much did you make?

http://www.emarketer.com

 

July 30, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Don’t Think Too Different"

Branding is as much a matter of following consumer expectations as about innovation...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 29, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"What’s New in What’s New"

Most sites do a terrible job of clearly labeling new content and an even worse job of notifying individual visitors when content’s changed since their last visit.

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 26, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"What’s Really Surprising About E-Tailing:  No Surprise"

What’s surprising is so many multimillion dollar Internet marketing budgets are blown by people who don’t know (or maybe don’t care) the answers to the problems they have are readily available...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 19, 2002

From the Federal Trade Commission:

"Advertising and Marketing on the Internet Rules of the Road"

If you’re thinking about advertising on the Internet, remember that many of the same rules that apply to other forms of advertising apply to electronic marketing...

http://www.ftc.gov

 

July 17, 2002

From DM News:

"Personalization Sends E-Mail Response Soaring"

Name, interests, gender, age, purchase history and message frequency preference generate a response rate of 14.8 percent compared with 4.7 percent without those elements...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 16, 2002

From iMarketing News:

"Using Searches as a Marketing Tool"

Navigation, architecture, content, content delivery system and other site features will affect search indexing, rankings, traffic and conversions...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

July 16, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Branding With Passion"

A logical association between a brand and a worthy cause has to do with the business category to which the brand belongs and with the values the brand represents...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 12, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Click-Through Equals Effectiveness?"

Look past the click.  It isn’t an indicator of effective advertising if it can’t be correlated with a substantial change in revenue...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 8, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Need Leads?  Put Your Site to Work"

Sharing information via email combined with consistent branding from other media channels will progress a lead through the buying cycle...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 3, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"How to Get Personal With Your Visitors Online"

Create a unique voice, show a little character, let the personality of your company shine through in every line you write...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 1, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Preview Windows:  Ignore At Your Peril"

Design the key elements (i.e., the major benefits) of your offer to work within the preview window so the recipient instantly understands the entire marketing proposition...

http://www.clickz.com

About Customer

Service

 

July 29, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Winning Customer Confidence Online"

The process of building confidence in a company’s Web-based offerings starts with execution - processing purchases quickly and securely...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 22, 2002

From the Wall Street Journal:

"What’s in Store"

More and more retailers are bringing the Web into their physical stores. They’re giving customers and salespeople access to computers that enhance the shopping experience...

http://online.wsj.com

 

July 18, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"For Better Email Results, Survey Your Audience"

Use a survey to find out who is visiting your Web site and learn what type of information they’d like to receive via email...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 5, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"The New E-Commerce Metrics"

Companies want to understand consumer behavior, from what drives them to a site to what makes them decide to buy or not to buy...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 3, 2002

From DM News:

"Moving Customers Up the Loyalty Chain"

Develop ongoing programs to maximize the business relationships with those customers that have proven they’re genuine online buyers. Focus on boosting loyalty and increasing share of customer...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

About Webstore

Management

 

July 29, 2002

From eMarketer:

"Online Retailers Continue to Grow Sales"

Traditional retailers have started to see favorable results from their internet operations, with many expecting to have profitable online operations by the end of this year...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

July 26, 2002

From CNET:

"Web Sites Send More Surfers Into Stores"

Summer sales and preseason fall promotions drive home-based Web surfers to brick-and-mortar e-tailers...

http://news.com.com

 

July 25, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"You Say Tomato, I Say T-Shirt"

If you sell products or services on your site, make sure your search engine uses more than your internal categorization and taxonomy to index them...

http://www.clickz.com


July 19, 2002

From the Wall Street Journal:

"Click and ... Drive?"

If home delivery is more nuisance than convenience, retailers have a solution:  order online and pick it up offline...

http://online.wsj.com

 

July 18, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Bare-Bones E-Commerce Versus Bells and Whistles"

Online retailers finally seem to be learning that a bare-bones approach tends to attract more customers than one that favors bells and whistles...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

July 17, 2002

From Knowledge@Wharton:

"Can E-tailers Find Fulfillment with Drop Shipping?"

Opting for a virtual, traditional, or hybrid inventory structure is and will continue to be a high-stakes decision where companies risk customer loyalty, large investments, and ultimately market success...

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

 

July 17, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Iterative Design Can Be Lazy Design"

Approach Web site design as though you’re performing heart surgery: Make too many mistakes and you lose the customer...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 15, 2002

From the New York Times:

"E-Tailers Wary of Credit Card Fraud"

Online merchants have been quietly cutting back on sales to foreign customers...

http://www.nytimes.com

 

July 12, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Confronting Relevance"

The information architecture of your Web site must recognize every step of the consumer buying process...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 11, 2002

From Backbone Magazine:

"Is Your Web Site Up to Date?"

The Web experiences significant and lasting change on a regular basis. And it will be obvious to your partners and customers if your site hasn’t kept pace...

http://www.backbonemag.com

 

July 10, 2002

From InternetNews:

"Newspapers’ Web Traffic Exploding"

Newspaper sites offer a rare opportunity for advertisers to efficiently reach local market audiences...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

July 9, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Content for Kids"

Younger Internet users expect the graphics and attention to detail they find on sites targeted to adults...

http://www.clickz.com

 

July 8, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Retailers Adopt Multichannel Strategies"

By having a comprehensive strategy for dealing with all channels, retailers will be able to interact with their customers when and where the customer chooses...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

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