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E-mail proves its power as a marketing vehicle
Description: E-mail proves its power as a marketing vehicle E-mail generated $15.50 in sales per dollar spent on e-mail marketing campaigns last year, 17% more than direct mail, even though
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CrossMedia Services Names David Hamel as Chief Marketing Officer
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Fingerhut Direct Marketing Enlists Premium Fraud Prevention Service from ClearCommerce
Description: Premium Risk Management Solution delivers complete fraud prevention management for credit-card-not-present payment transactions
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Two major auto web sites team up in a marketing deal
Description: Two major auto web sites team up in a marketing deal Two of the leading providers of online automotive retailing information are teaming up to enhance their competitive standing
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Home furnishings is the fastest growing online category, says new study
Description: Home furnishings is the fastest growing online category, says new study Home furnishings is the fastest growing category of merchandise selling online, saya a new report
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Paid search keeps gaining as top online ad format, but rich medias growing
Description: Paid search keeps gaining as top online ad format, but rich medias growing Ad spending rose across all online formats between 2002 and 2003, according to eMarketer, about 20.9%
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Online retail spending on merchandise keeps on rising, says Forrester
Description: Online retail spending on merchandise keeps on rising, says Forrester New households going online and more online spending from those already there will drive up consumer
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Kolkhorst Petroleum Chooses PerformanceRetail InSite
Description: Industry Leader Utilizes PerformanceRetail Solutions to Streamline Operations
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ATG to Acquire Primus Knowledge Solutions, Inc.
Description: Combination will create one of the largest online commerce and service software companies
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How GSI Commerce manages e-mail marketing with dozens of partners
Description: How GSI Commerce manages e-mail marketing with dozens of partners To get more effective e-mail marketing at the more than 45 e-commerce web sites it operates, GSI Commerce Inc.
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Neiman Marcus cuts a day and a half from time-to-return with Newgistics
Description: Neiman Marcus cuts a day and a half from time-to-return with Newgistics Since going fully operational with outsourced returns services from Newgistics Inc. in July 2003, Neiman
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Best Book Buys® Becomes First Book Comparison Shopping Site To Capabilities Powered by Endeca Provide Extensive Search and Guided Navigation
Description: Consumers can now perform targeted searches on 5 million book database in seconds
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Innotrac Corporation Announces 2004 Second Quarter
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Online grocer Peapod expands to Baltimore
Description: Online grocer Peapod expands to Baltimore Skokie, IL-based Peapod LLC is expanding into the Baltimore area, the company announced today, growing its potential market by 246,000
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Re-seller agreement with Retail Decisions broadens PayPals reach
Description: Re-seller agreement with Retail Decisions broadens PayPals reach PayPal, which is making a move to broaden its market as a payment option beyond its initial eBay.com audience,
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Coldwater Creek Moves to Scene7`s "Do-It-Yourself" eCatalog Solution Saving Time and Costs to Publishing Online Catalogs
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Sure Fit gets a new owner in technology investment firm D.E. Shaw
Description: Sure Fit gets a new owner in technology investment firm D.E. Shaw Technology investment firm D.E. Shaw has acquired most of the assets of Sure Fit Inc., a manufacturer and
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Risky business: Retailers learn tough lessons on how to use web-based hiring systems
Description: Some retailers are learning the hard way to trust web-based hiring management systems. Like the store manager who trusted his gut over the system and hired someone who stole $400 in food from the deli. The store manager learned the hard way to trust the system, says Katherine Jones, managing director of Aberdeen Groups human capital management practice and author of the recent study, Managing the Hourly Workforce. He said afterwards that he would never argue with the system again.
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Sterling Commerce Gives Lamson Home Products Competitive Edgeby Ensuring Accurate, Reliable Business Data
Description: Leading Retailers Recommend Sterling Commerce Data Synchronization Solutions to Streamline Multi-Enterprise Integration
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Faster and Faster
Description: How web services, on-demand environment speed retailing and marketing deployments
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ADVERTISEMENT:Creating a seamless multi-channel sales process
Description: Customers shopping for carpet made with Wear-Dated Carpet Fiber can start on the web and finish in the store in a seamless process that combines self-selection and education with sales associate guidance
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Meet the webalogers
Description: When the Internet burst onto the merchandising stage in the mid-1990s, some e-commerce enthusiasts predicted it would deliver a deathblow to the printed catalog. It didnt happen. For the same reason that printed magazines still circulate in the mails, catalogs continue to ride beside them on the USPS truck.
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Checking It Out
Description: Why educationfor merchant, processor and consumeris key to the spread of e-checks
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Roxio sheds software development to focus on Napster
Description: Roxio sheds software development to focus on Napster Responding to the opportunity that digital music offers, Roxio Inc., parent of Napster, is selling its software division to
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Pet Project
Description: Drs. Foster & Smith learn some new tricks on the web
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iTunes catalog grows to 1 million songs
Description: iTunes catalog grows to 1 million songs The digital music market remains so competitive that the providers are always looking for a way to appear better than their competitors.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Searching for a better web shopping experience
Description: Many online retailers have been so busy building sites, loading them with the right merchandise and marketing to get customers to shop at their sites that theyve overlooked one of the basics of an effective web site: Product search.
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A look inside SmartBargains
Description: Because many e-retailers are privately held, its rare to get a glimpse of how well theyre performing financially and of their strategic plans. But if they file for an initial public offering of stock, as SmartBargains Inc. did last month, they tell how they operate, how theyre doing, and where theyre heading.
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24/7 Real Media Reports Strong Results for Second Quarter of 2004
Description: Pro Forma EPS of $0.02 and GAAP EPS of $0.04
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Tiffany suit seeks to settle whos responsible for fakes at eBay
Description: Tiffany suit seeks to settle whos responsible for fakes at eBay
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Getting customers to sound off helps CustomInk boost sales
Description: One of the beauties of web selling is that retailers can easily use customer feedback to prompt others to buy. While testimonials are probably as old as retailing itself, the web makes it easier to pop them in front of customers.
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E-mail and the web help revive the moribund Fannie May candies
Description: Even when things look bleak for a retailer and it begins shutting its doors, it can pay to keep up a web presence. That strategy worked well for Archibald Candy Corp.s Fannie May brand, which is coming back to life after Archibald filed for bankruptcy and shut its stores earlier this year.
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2-year-old cosmetics retailer Saffron Rouge cashes in on enterprise integration
Description: It sounds like a lofty goal, but retail enterprise integration across multiple channelsa strategy that consultants and analysts tout for building customer relationships and salesisnt just for the big guys. It works for tiny Saffron Rouge Inc., retailer of organic cosmetics and body-care products.
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Store kiosks finally come of age in multi-channel strategies
Description: Staples, Office Depot and others are figuring out how to useweb-based kiosks to enhance the store experienceand make web inventory available to store shoppers.
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Legitimate e-mailers dont spam, some dont even mail
Description: Mike Adams has been a critic of the CAN-Spam Act since even before it took effect Jan. 1. Its not that Adams, president of e-mail management software developer Arial Software LLC, likes spam. Rather, he believes legislation does nothing to prevent spam.
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HatWorld.com learns how to fish the bigger pond
Description: HatWorld.com learns how to fish the bigger pond If youre going to pay the money to drive traffic to your site, why wouldnt you try to convert it at a higher rate,
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Featured Exhibitors at eTail 2004 East
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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TigerDirect to Use Protocall Technologies` SoftwareToGo(R) for Software Fulfillment
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Shoes.com buyers who arrive via paid search return products less often
Description: Shoes.com buyers who arrive via paid search return products less often Shoppers who arrive at a site via specific keywords are shoppers who know just what they want at least
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Broadband is here to stay
Description: Broadband Internet access is spreading and changing how consumers behave, says a new report from Forrester Research.
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Talk, Talk
Description: Live chat gains traction as retailers figure out how to use it
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The shoot-out over spyware
Description: Two sides are facing off in the battle of ad-pop-up softwareand its often retailer against retailer
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Better Self-Image
Description: E-retailers opinions of their industry move up, but still lag consumers views
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Paid search spending will more than double in 5 years, study says
Description: Paid search spending will more than double in 5 years, study says The popularity of paid search as an online advertising tool will continue to surge over the next several years,
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In the catalog world, there are no more pure plays
Description: The web pushes catalogers into multi-channel retailing and profoundly changes how they do business
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Rewarding Behavior
Description: 21st Century technology brings the small-town feeling back to the hardware store
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Q4 Internet sales at eGames rise 20% as total sales decline 8%
Description: Q4 Internet sales at eGames rise 20% as total sales decline 8% Though still a tiny part of its sales, the web accounted for the only increase in sales at eGames Inc. for the
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COREMETRICS AND FATHOM ONLINE FORGE STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
Description: Fathom Online To Integrate Web Analytics from Coremetrics to Help Clients Analyze ROI
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Auto Data Network`s CarParts Technologies Subsidiary Awarded Contract by Big O Tires for VAST Point-of-Sale to Improve Customer Experience
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Retalix Ltd. Announces Record Revenues of $28.7 Million for Q2 2004
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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