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How the web helps Mountain Equipment scale new multi-channel heights
Description: How the web helps Mountain Equipment scale new multi-channel heights Not every retailer needs to have massive economies of scale or a big name brand to use the web to achieve
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Online coupon company CoolSavings to go private
Description: Online coupon company CoolSavings to go private Landmark Communications, CoolSavings Inc.s largest shareholder, is taking CoolSavings private. It will pay 80 cents a
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RedEnvelope Selects Loyalty Labs On-Demand Retail CRM Suite
Description: Loyalty Lab Announces Fall 2005 Release, the Next Generation of Campaign Management and Consistent Messaging
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CrossMedia adopts its best known product as its corporate nameShopLocal
Description: CrossMedia adopts its best known product as its corporate nameShopLocal If youre known by your product name, then why not adopt that as your corporate name? Thats what
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Macromedia and Scene7 partner to deliver best of breed online experiences based on the Macromedia Flash Platform and Flex
Description: Scene 7 is a strategic Reseller and OEM of Macromedia Flex
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Bluefly launches $3 million national ad campaign
Description: Bluefly launches $3 million national ad campaign Bluefly Inc. today launched a $3 million national ad campaign designed to portray its site as a premier online destination that
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Online sales grow 24% for week ending Aug. 21
Description: Online sales grow 24% for week ending Aug. 21 Online sales for the week ending Aug. 21 grew 24%, reached $1.56 billion from $1.26 billion a year ago, comScore Networks Inc.
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SmartBargains names a new CEO and lands $18 million in equity funding
Description: SmartBargains names a new CEO and lands $18 million in equity funding Online, off-price retailer SmartBargains Inc. has named Benjamin Fischman as president and CEO. Fischman
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Endeca, ShopLocal to Debut The Web`s Premier Local, Multi-Channel Shopping Search Engine
Description: - New version of ShopLocal to provide unmatched discovery, research, comparison capabilities for local in-store and online shopping -
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Bigfoot Interactive selected by Samsung Electronics to manage advanced email communications
Description: - Company Bolsters Presence in High Tech Vertical -
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Most retailers have inaccurate customer data, study finds
Description: Most retailers have inaccurate customer data, study finds Only 13% of retailers say their customer databases are 100% accurate and complete, even though 63% of retailers say
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Using cash to make purchases at Amazon
Description: Using cash to make purchases at Amazon Amazon.com Inc. has signed a deal with Coinstar Inc., a provider of electronic cash-processing machines common in grocery stores, that will
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HARTE-HANKS NAMES GEORGE S. WIEDEMANN AS A MANAGING DIRECTOR IN ITS DIRECT MARKETING ORGANIZATION
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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RedEnvelope elects a new chairman
Description: RedEnvelope elects a new chairman Dan Lyle, a member of the board of directors of online gift retailer RedEnvelope Inc. has been elected chairman. He has served as a member of
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WebTrends Launches WebPosition 4 to Offer the Industry`s Broadest Combined Organic and Paid Search Marketing Analytics
Description: New reporting environment, trending capabilities and analysis of critical off-site factors empower marketers to attain higher organic positions that drive greater results
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$4.4 billion in sales tax at stake in online and catalog sales, study says
Description: $4.4 billion in sales tax at stake in online and catalog sales, study says States will lose to retail e-commerce and catalog sales this year an estimated $4.41 billion in
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Affiliated Foods Southwest Will Synchronize Its Distribution Operations with the Retalix Power Enterprise(TM) Software Suite
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Marine Corps Exchange Taps Triversity for Java POS and Loss Prevention Solutions
Description: Marine Corps Exchange will implement Transactionware Enterprise and FraudWatch at 220 retail locations
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Coldwater Creek moves up in converting browsers to buyers
Description: Coldwater Creek moves up in converting browsers to buyers Coldwater Creek, a multi-channel retailer of womens apparel, jewelry and gifts, joined the top 10 retailers in July in
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Ross-Simons boosts average order with new private label credit program
Description: Ross-Simons boosts average order with new private label credit program With a new private label credit card program that makes it simple to run finance promotions, jewelry
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Buy.com promotion offers in-stock books at 10% below Amazon.com prices
Description: Buy.com promotion offers in-stock books at 10% below Amazon.com prices Online superstore Buy.com is selling all of its in-stock books at 10% below Amazon.com prices in a
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TradeStone names former Oracle executive as president
Description: TradeStone names former Oracle executive as president TradeStone Software Inc., a provider of web-based procurement software for retailers, has appointed as president Joe Dugan,
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Ecometry Names Brian Dean Vice President, Marketing and Strategy
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Arial Software makes email message editing for non-technical business owners easy with new update to Email Marketing Director software
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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RichFX gets a new chief of operations and technology
Description: RichFX gets a new chief of operations and technology RichFX has appointed Tracy Tomasso as senior vice president of operations and technology, In addition to overseeing the
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Ritz Interactive names a new EVP
Description: Ritz Interactive names a new EVP Ritz Interactive Inc. has promoted Scott F. Neamand to executive vice president. Neamand, the companys chief financial officer, joined Ritz
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Pier 1 Imports Chooses WebTrends 7 Enterprise to Improve Merchandising Strategies and Increase Conversions and ROI
Description: With a new catalogue, 1200 stores, and a redesigned site, leading home furniture and décor retailer will leverage WebTrends to help optimize multi-channel initiatives
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eBay agrees to acquire Skype for Internet voice communications
Description: eBay agrees to acquire Skype for Internet voice communications In a move that eBay says will help its retail partners increase customer service at lower operating cost, eBay is
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Shifting Gears
Description: Keeping tabs on trucks: Retailers move to web-hosted transportation management systems
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Keeping up with rising expectations
Description: How retailers meet the demand that shopper expectations place on their web sites
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MSN moves into the comparison shopping arena
Description: The battle for comparison shoppers is becoming a lot more competitive. Not only did the granddaddies of comparison sitesShopzilla and Shopping.comget rich new parents this summer, but now Microsoft wants in on the game. In August, Microsoft re-launched MSN Shopping as a comparison shopping engine and formed an alliance with Shopping.com.
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Follow the Money
Description: Analytic tools jump channels in a quest to measure keyword value offline
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Information, Please
Description: With a new owner and some new money, Muze looks for ways to branch out
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Vermont Teddy Bear gets its own platform
Description: Like many online retailers, Vermont Teddy Bear Co. started its e-commerce life as a Yahoo Store, taking advantage of Yahoos out-of-the-box functionality. And as its grown to be among the 200 largest online retailers in the U.S., it has stayed faithful to Yahoo.
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To Staples, easy means customer centric on Staples.com
Description: To go along with its that was easy slogan in national advertising, Staples Inc. has relaunched Staples.com as a site that makes it easy to shop by different classifications of shoppers.
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Picture This
Description: Shoppers rely on pictures, but the images better enhance the user experience
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Run faster, jump higher, be cooler
Description: When youre a company known for basic navy or white canvas sneakers, its hard to cultivate an image of coolness. But Keds Inc. is hoping to pull off an image change with a micro-website featuring actress Mischa Barton, star of the Fox TV series The OC and the epitome of cool for many young women.
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SPONSORED CASE STUDY: Home Décor Products, Inc. Fuels Growth with Commerce Data Syndication SM
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Making Paid Search Pay Off
Description: In the race between Google and Yahoo, it`s strategy that wins for marketers
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PetMeds web site barks more loudly than its catalog
Description: How do you move more catalog orders to the web? Roll out the kind of shopping experience and customer service that only a web site can offer, says Bruce Rosenbloom, CFO of PetMed Express Inc., where the web accounted for 54% of first quarter 2005 revenue of $23.5 million.
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Narrow Target
Description: How plus-size Junonia.com goes after a petite market niche
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What offends site visitors
Description: Online retailers spend a lot of time and resources polishing their web sites to please their visitors and keep them coming back as customers, but too much whiz-bang technology may repel rather than attract shoppers, a new survey from Hostway Inc. says.
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Online sales growth: More of the same
Description: Online sales growth: More of the sameIts more of the same in online retail sales, the Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce reports. Online retail sales were up 26% in Q2 this year from Q2 last year, reaching $21.1 billion. Growth rates in the mid 20s have been the story of e-commerce for some time. Total retail sales for the second quarter of 2005 were estimated at $940.8 billion, an increase of 8.4% from second quarter of last year. The numbers are adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes.
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Online rock `n` roll is here to stay
Description: Ever since Napster went legit and iTunes rocked the online music world, many music retailers and those who sell music-related merchandise have wondered where the market is heading. According to a new report by eMarketer Inc., Online Music: Downloads, Streaming, Radio, Mobile, music downloading is in its infancy. Only a small portion of the population has downloaded music so far, although the reasons consumers give for downloading now when they had not before bode well for industry growth: got broadband Internet access, bought a better computer, bought a digital music player, all technology trends with strong growth ahead. "2004 marks the year that a genuine online music sector emerged," eMarketer senior analyst Ben Macklin concludes. EMarketer pulled together stats from a number of sources. Here are a few from the 16-page report:
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Online retailers learn to live with that persistent problem of returns
Description: Retailers learn to live with a necessary evil
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Getting those new e-commerce wheels
Description: To capitalize on the growth in online and multi-channel sales, retailers are beginning to shop for a new breed of e-commerce platforms
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When clicks are clinkers
Description: When Danielle Leitch first started speaking about click fraud at industry forums a little more than a year ago, few in her audiences knew what click fraud was. Today, the vice president of marketing and analytics at search engine marketing firm MoreVisibility.com has marketers attentionin part because shes done something about fraudulent clicks: gotten refunds from search engines when shes demonstrated to engines that without their knowledge theyve been a venue for click fraud..
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Internet Retailer Continues Its Expansion
Description: To achieve excellence in an endeavor, you must aim high. At
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Labels wont reduce spam, FTC concludes
Description: The Federal Trade Commissions conclusion that labeling unsolicited commercial e-mail wont reduce spam has struck a chord with e-mail marketers. Its consistent with what people are thinking about e-mail these days, says Keith Wardell, CEO of Exmplar. The spammers or bad players in the industry would not comply.
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The (insert foreign nationality here) are coming
Description: Foreign retailers use the Internet for an easy entree into the U.S.
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