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e-RETAILING NEWS & OPINION ARCHIVES

May 2005

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About Advertising

and Promotion

 

May 31, 2005

From iMarketing News:

"Getting the Good Click-Throughs (and Avoiding the Bad Ones)"

Keywords you bid on are reflections of the audience you're advertising to.  Advertise accordingly...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

May 13, 2005

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Thieves, Scallywags and Scoundrels:  Combating Trademark Infringement in

Search"

To protect a brand - your brand - the best defense is a good offense...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

May 12, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Blog Marketing Strategies (and How to Measure Them)"

Both small businesses and major corporations can use blogs to build closer relationships with their customers...

http://www.clickz.com

 

May 10, 2005

From InternetRetailer.com:

"How Small Retailers Can Make New Google Approach Work"

The auction model provides good market intelligence and helps companies analyze the true cost of their ad strategy...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

May 9, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Back to E-Mail Basics"

You get the most bang for your buck from the subject line's first 23 characters...
http://www.clickz.com

 

May 4, 2005

From TechWeb News:

"Marketers Shift Ad Spending To Online"

Online consumers today spend about a third of their time online...
http://www.techweb.com

 

May 3, 2005

From Nielsen//NetRatings:

"Integrated Interactive Marketing:  Quantifying the Evolution of Online
Engagement"

There are three rules for lifting consumer engagement...
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com

 

About Customer

Service

 

May 26, 2005

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Listen Up:  Your Customers Are Talking About You Online"

Do not neglect the importance of blogs and how they affect the way your brand, products and services are perceived...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

May 24, 2005

From iMarketing News:

"Multichannel Retailing:  Failing to Deliver on Promises?"

The problem is that merchants, sensing a marketing opportunity, promise multichannel capabilities to consumers before they've worked out the logistics...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

May 23, 2005

From E-Commerce Times:

"Stop Experimenting on Your Customers!"

Use permission-based customer experience testing to get predictive insights that will help you truly optimize your online channel...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

May 23, 2005

From DM News:

"Content Sells"

Users need to be convinced through informative content, usually in the "About Us" or "About Our Products" sections, that they are dealing with a reputable online business...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

May 16, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Pull the E-Mail Trigger"

Trigger e-mail is targeted and responsibly packaged in the context of an important announcement, news, event, or other important message.  Messages are short and clearly state why people are receiving it and what the call to action is...

http://www.clickz.com

 

May 2, 2005

From E-Commerce Times:

"Online Consumers Window Shop More than Impulse Buy"

Safety and trust often trump price and availability in the online consumer's value calculation...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

 

 

About Webstore

Management

 

May 30, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Test or Die"

The perfect offer, price, Web or landing page will change over time.  So a successful test provides search marketers with answers to optimization questions that may only be appropriate for a short period of time...

http://www.clickz.com

 

May 27, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Five Critical (and Overlooked) Design Elements"

Designing landing pages and other buying process pages is an objective process...

http://www.clickz.com

 

May 25, 2005

From E-Commerce Times:

"Online Sales To Grow 22 Percent this Year"

Growth will continue to be fed by the rising number of women buying online...

http://www.ecommercetimes.com

 

May 25, 2005

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Publish the Web Content You Can Manage"

Design your Web site so that your most important customers can find what they need in the shortest possible time...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

May 24, 2005

From DM News:

"Online Retail Sales Up 23.8%"

U.S. online retail sales in 2004 grew to $141.4 billion, accounting for 4.6 percent of retail sales in all channels...
http://www.dmnews.com

 

May 24, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"Breaking Down a Conversion Funnel"

Break your online funnel into eight different conversion steps...
http://www.clickz.com

 

May 20, 2005

From Internet News:

"Retail E-Commerce Growth Outpacing The Pack"

First quarter growth of 24 percent on a year-over-year basis...

http://www.internetnews.com

 

May 19, 2005

From eMarketer:

"Seniors Online:  The Picture Is Changing"

There are 33.2 million people online in the US between the ages of 50 and 64, triple the number of 65+ online users...

http://www.emarketer.com

 

May 19, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"E-Mail Response Addresses: Static or Dynamic?"

By combining a static sender address with a dynamic reply address, you get the best of both worlds...

http://www.clickz.com

 

May 18, 2005

From MarketingProfs.com:

"Practical (and Cheap) Usability Testing"

Four steps to affordable usability testing...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

 

May 17, 2005

From SearchEngineWatch:

"Search Engines and King Content"

View your audience as one single reader, and to write specifically to that reader...

http://searchenginewatch.com

 

May 13, 2005

From clickZ.com:

"A Site With a 100 Percent Conversion Rate"

Every click is a conversion when you plan a scenario as if every click requires an individual decision - because it does...

http://www.clickz.com

 

May 11, 2005

From InternetRetailer.com:

"Mother's Day Online Purchases Rise 24% to $4.4 Billion"

Transaction activity totaled 54.8 million, representing a 31% increase over the same period last year...

http://www.internetretailer.com

 

May 6, 2005

From The Economist:

"Profiting From Obscurity"

E-commerce aggregates and makes profitable what were previously unprofitable transactions...

http://www.economist.com

 

May 5, 2005

From iMarketing News:

"Don't Overstuff Keywords on Your Site"

Focus on writing good copy that effectively communicates the offer...

http://www.dmnews.com

 

May 5, 2005

From SearchEngineWatch:

"What Clicks with Web Searchers"

More than 92 percent of searchers never use brand names as search terms...

http://searchenginewatch.com

 

May 2, 2005

From MarketingProfs.com:

"The Myth of Rankings:  Beyond Search Optimization"

No number of high search engine positions will address the real problem if your Web site is not serving as an effective marketing and sales tool...

http://www.marketingprofs.com

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