November
28, 2003
From
Internet News:
"Online
Shoppers Are Getting It Done Earlier"
40
percent of online users plan to do some or all of their holiday shopping
online...
http://www.internetnews.com
November
27, 2003
From
BusinessWeek Online:
"E-Shoppers
Are Now E-Spenders"
E-commerce
sites surpass physical stores in satisfying customers...
http://www.businessweek.com
November
26, 2003
From
Nielsen/NetRatings:
"Online
Holiday Shopping Season Begins, Driven by Toy Shopping"
Always-on
broadband Internet connections mean more consumers are conducting
searches, doing comparison shopping and discovering more product- and
merchant-related information...
http://www.nielsen-netratings.com
November
25, 2003
From
TechWeb News:
"Happy
Holidays Expected For Online Retailers"
Total
online sales for the year are expected to top $100 billion...
http://www.techweb.com
November
24, 2003
From
MediaPost:
"Online
Retail Sales Build, Poised For Record Holiday Season"
Retailers
are not looking at the online channel strictly as a standalone business...
http://www.mediapost.com
November
24, 2003
From
eMarketer:
"Retailers'
Online Losses to Fraud Decline"
Measures
taken include address verification service, manual review and using
internally-built business rules and/or decision rules...
http://www.emarketer.com
November
21, 2003
From
Internet News:
"Senior
Surfing Surges"
Senior
citizens online grew to 9.6 million surfers, representing 7 percent of the
online population...
http://www.internetnews.com
November
20, 2003
From
E-Commerce Times:
"E-Commerce
Holiday Battle Plans"
What
are companies doing to ensure the season proceeds as smoothly as possible?
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
November
18, 2003
From
E-Commerce Times:
"Luxury
E-Tail: Who's Buying This Stuff?"
For
a high-end item, customers want the greatest level of service possible and
the greatest amount of information possible...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
November
17, 2003
From
E-Commerce Times:
"E-Commerce
Partnerships That Work"
Establish
a balanced agreement and accurately measure the success or failure of the
deal...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
November
14, 2003
From
E-Commerce Times:
"Net
Is Here To Stay for Retailers"
It
took 100 years for catalog retailers to account for 5 percent of retail
sales, while the Web has nearly matched that in about five years...
http://www.ecommercetimes.com
November
10, 2003
From
Internet News:
"E-tailers
Will See Green"
The
main motivation online shoppers cite is convenience...
http://www.internetnews.com
November
6, 2003
From DM
News:
"Strategies
to Get Your E-Mail Delivered"
As
many as 15 percent of your customers and prospects may never get your
messages because they are incorrectly identified as spam...
http://www.dmnews.com
November
6, 2003
From
MarketingProfs.com:
"Develop
a Five-Year Plan for Your Site"
Let's
dispel a big myth - that the Internet is changing so fast, it is
impossible to plan for...
http://www.marketingprofs.com
November
5, 2003
From
eMarketer:
"More
Consumers Online This Holiday"
64.8%
of consumers plan to research or purchase gifts for the 2003 holiday
online...
http://www.emarketer.com
November
3, 2003
From CNN
Money:
"Online
Retailing Celebrates an Early Christmas"
2003
is on track to be the first year that e-retail surpasses $100 billion in
total sales revenue...
http://money.cnn.com