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March 2002

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About Advertising

and Promotion 

 

March 27, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Your Web Site Should Have an Opinion"

Tell them why your product is so much better than your competitors'...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 27, 2002

From Ipsos-Reid:

"Canadian Internet Users Know What They Want When It Comes To Email

Marketing"

The effectiveness of email marketing is double that of direct mail marketing when encouraging Canadian Internet Users to opt-in to receive email marketing on a regular basis...

http://www.angusreid.com

 

March 19, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"E-Newsletters: Advertise and Consent"

A monthly, weekly, or even daily e-newsletter is often welcomed by the recipient. The key is to provide subscribers with genuine value, not simply a transparent advertising vehicle...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 15, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Oops! Your Web Site Is Out of Date"

E-tailers should track how promotional and other supportive content correlates with products...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 6, 2002

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Ten Tasks for Tailoring Email Newsletter Content"

A central pillar of successful relationship marketing through email newsletters is delivering valuable content to your readers...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

About Customer

Service

 

March 28, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Web Sites Bowing to Consumer Privacy Demands"

Commercial enterprises should look at privacy as a benefit they could sell to their customers, rather than as a detriment that restricts their ability to earn profits...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 21, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Zero-Budget Personalization"

Keep costs to a minimum, while providing a lot of immediate value for current and future customers...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 18, 2002

From the Pew Internet Project:

"Getting Serious Online"

Time online breeds competence and self-assurance for users; they are more efficient at what they do online and what they use email to accomplish...

http://www.pewinternet.org

 

March 7, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Designing a 'My' Area"

Make your users feel more secure about your site and understand viscerally that what they are seeing is just for them...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 4, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"What Sells Best Online"

For retailing, the point is not to try and find one best channel, but to use multiple channels and let the customer choose which one is best...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 4, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"It's Not the Price, It's the Value"

Superior value goes way beyond price, and it's superior value that keeps customers coming back...

http://www.clickz.com

 

 

 

About Webstore

Management

 

March 30, 2002

From Knowledge@Wharton:

"The Failure of Customization"

Focus on streamlining the shopping experience without over-customizing the actual products or services being sold...

http://knowledge.wharton.upenn.edu

 

March 29, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Pick One:  Open Methodology or Slave to Technology"

If you're have bottom-line responsibility, ask yourself: Who's in charge of your business, the people or the technology...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 28, 2002

From USA Today:

"Web Growth Slows, But Time Online Rises"

Users overall spent 14% more time online in 2001 than in 2000, viewing 14% more Web pages...

http://www.usatoday.com

 

March 27, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"The Seven Deadly Sins of E-Commerce"

One of the things e-commerce companies have learned is that they have to integrate their online and offline operations...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 25, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3"

Testing should serve the purpose of increasing your response or conversion rates or helping you reduce costs...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 25, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Canada Closes E-Biz Gap with U.S."

E-commerce in Canada showed tremendous year-over-year growth, totaling US$26.4 billion in 2001 - an increase of 69 percent over the 2000 figure of $15.6 billion...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 21, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"E-Commerce Skips Recession"

According to the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC), e-commerce sales gained 19.3 percent year over year in 2001, although total retail sales grew by just 3.3 percent...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 18, 2002

From HBS Working Knowledge:

"Making Your Company Ready For the Next Twenty-Five Years"

Internet technologies will offer managers much more scope to define their company in the most efficient way...

http://hbswk.hbs.edu

 

March 13, 2002

From iMarketing News:

"Online Retailers Get Back to Basics"

After nearly a decade of learning what works in the online marketplace, retailers are getting back to basics and focusing on factors that build the bottom line...
http://www.imarketingnews.com

 

March 11, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Applying the 80-20 Rule to Your Business"

Where do we focus our energy? Ideally, on those 20 percent of pages that are critical to the sales and buying processes and are required to maximize conversions...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 8, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Not Your Grandma's Internet Yet"

E-tailers will have to focus on utility and simplicity rather than on flashy design and bleeding-edge functionality...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 7, 2002

From clickZ.com:

"Designing Web Navigation:  Traffic Light, Not Neon Light"

Making navigation obscure, making it look like New York's Times Square, is not artistic. It's bad Web design...

http://www.clickz.com

 

March 7, 2002

From eMarketer:

"Different Age Groups Shopping Online"

A majority of household shoppers with an annual income of between $45,000 and $70,000 (55%), and those making over $70,000 (50%) say they shop more online in 2002 than they did in 2001...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

March 7, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Clutter and Consumer Confusion"

Traditional retailers will win the day online with their brand advantage. A confused customer is going to head for the comfort of the known quantity...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 6, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"How the Bricks Conquered the Net"

What successful brick-and-clicks have in common are strong brand names and clear paths that let shoppers move from one channel to another...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

March 5, 2002

From iMarketing News:

"Online Shoppers Aging"

The next generation of online shoppers will be quite a bit different than the consumers who defined the Internet channel in its early years...

http://www.imarketingnews.com

 

March 4, 2002

From the New York Times:

"Online Shopping Gets a Lift From Experienced Net Surfers"

As online users become more comfortable with the idea of shopping, and as newcomers do the same in the next few years, the Internet shopping population will not only grow briskly, but will reflect offline demographics much more closely than today...

http://www.nytimes.com

 

March 1, 2002

From E-Commerce Times:

"Shipping Product: The E-Commerce Albatross"

Analysts advise e-tailers to enable customers to buy products online and pick them up in stores...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

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