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Why retailers are getting Google-eyed
Description: Google delivers—but online merchants face a constant challenge keeping up
Affiliates may be partners—but they still need monitoring
Description: Affiliate web sites have become a major source of sales and new customers for online retailers. But affiliate marketing sites, which host links to retailers and earn a commission on each sale that takes place when someone clicks from the affiliate site to the retailer’s, can also pose threats to a retailer’s brand and Internet search strategy if the retailer does not keep an eye on its affiliates.
To consumers, eBay and Amazon lead in protecting privacy, survey says
Description: To consumers, eBay and Amazon lead in protecting privacy, survey says Researchers cite fears by some consumers about the consequences of entering their credit card numbers into
Spanish-language web sites become a movement
Description: As more Hispanic consumers take to online shopping in a big way, more e-retailers and manufacturers are saying “habla espanol” to online shoppers. Earlier this year, Baby Universe Inc.’s BabyUniverse.com and Advance Auto Parts Inc.’s Advanced- Auto.com announced Spanish-language versions of their web sites, joining the likes of Sears, Roebuck and Co.’s Sears.com, J. C. Penney Co. Inc.’s JCPenney.com and Office Depot Inc.’s OfficeDepot.com.
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Behind the re-birth of Bloomingdales.com
Description: Back in the dot-com boom days, Federated Department Stores decided it would make a big splash in e-commerce. It bought Fingerhut in 1999 for $1.7 billion and planned to use Fingerhut’s catalog and web knowledge to build a major web strategy that would include Macy’s, which already had a strong web site, and Bloomingdale’s. Three years later, Federated was unloading Fingerhut and Bloomingdale’s was “the only $100 million catalog without an e-commerce web site,” in the words of Charlie Silver, vice president of marketing for Bloomingdale’s Direct. But now Bloomingdale’s is back in the e-commerce game with a web site that generated $30 million in sales last year.
ClearCommerce Delivers New Tools to Optimize Fraud Prevention and Improve Data Security
Description: Key Enhancements Make It Easier For Merchants and Service Providers to Integrate and Manage Comprehensive Fraud Prevention and Payment Features.
The Paperless Application
Description: How the web helps retailers zero in on the right applicant
Visa’s e-commerce transaction volume grows 59% year-to-year January-May
Description: Visa’s e-commerce transaction volume grows 59% year-to-year January-May Despite the growth of alternative payment methods for online retail commerce like e-checks and invoices,
CyberSource First to Enable New Fraud Screening Capabilities
Description: CyberSource certifies to new American Express Internet data enhanced specification
Pay for it online, redeem it at the store
Description: Pay for it online, redeem it at the store A state-run chain of liquor stores in New Hampshire found a point-of-sale promotion that awarded gift cards redeemable at its stores for
Riding the search train
Description: Search engines have become an indispensable part of many people’s every day lives, but few data exist as to how consumers use online search. Search engine marketing company iProspect.com Inc. commissioned a study to find out. Among the results: More than half of Internet users consult a search engine daily and consumers exhibit a high degree of loyalty for search engines. Here’s what iProspect.com’s survey, with the participation of WebSurveyor, Stratagem Research and Survey Sampling International, reports:
Continuing on the upward trail
Description: Online retail sales continued their robust year-over-year growth in the first quarter, increasing 28.1% to $15.5 billion from Q1 2003 sales of $12.1 billion, the Census Bureau of the U.S. Commerce Department reports. As has been the case since the Commerce Department started tracking e-commerce sales in Q4 1999, first quarter online sales were exceeded only by the preceding fourth quarter sales.
What’s The Fuss?
Description: Learning to live with the new rules of the e-mail marketing game
Shoppers’ worries about using credit cards online go beyond identity theft
Description: Shoppers’ worries about using credit cards online go beyond identity theft Consumer concern about the safety and security of online credit card transactions has been
Macromedia and Speedera Deliver Flash Video Streaming to Spur Interactive Video Revolution on the Web
Description: The "Lean-Forward Effect": Companies Can Quickly and Easily Deliver Video- Enabled Rich Content Across a High Performance, Distributed, On-Demand Computing Network
The latest twist in the patents dispute: The Patent Office reverses itself
Description: Following a reexamination, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has issued an initial rejection of claims in a patent it had earlier granted to technology developer Pangea Intellectual Property. The patents on payment processing technology used at e-commerce sites was at the center of a series of suits that San Diego-based PanIP had filed against small retailers claiming it was due licensing fees on their supposed use of the patented processes (Internet Retailer, May 2004; Nov. 2002).
In Full Swing
Description: Through innovation and investment, the Top 300 lead the way in the maturing online channel
More DIYers
Description: As e-commerce sales becomes more critical, retailers look outside for web site tech support
The Searchers
Description: Site search technology’s new goal: Making e-retail web sites think
How a small supplier uses web-based data sharing to boost sales to Wal-Mart
Description: Anything that speeds up delivering rice to his biggest customers and increases sales is worth the trouble, says Charles Trahan, vice president of sales at family-owned Falcon Rice Mill Inc. That’s why Crowley, La.-based Falcon Rice, which has 40 employees and does about $9 million a year in sales of processed rice to grocers and restaurants, became an early supplier to the retail trade to join UCCnet’s latest version of its Global Registry for trading partners.
Groundbreaking Amazon-Toys R Us deal gets shaken up
Description: The 2000 agreement that assigned Toys R Us Inc.’s e-commerce operation to Amazon.com Inc. was hailed as a groundbreaker—but today an increasingly competitive and complex online retail environment is taking its toll. Toys R Us online subsidiary ToysRUs.com last month filed suit against Amazon in Superior Court in New Jersey, charging it violated contract terms that it says give ToysRUs.com exclusivity on products it sells in the toys, games and baby categories on Amazon.
Direct to retailers
Description: Wholesalers adopt the internet to sell to merchants—and find that the web changes everything and nothing
The growing complexity of search marketing requires retailers to be flexible
Description: Search engine marketing is a hot topic among retailers—and it was a hot topic among speakers and audiences at the Annual Catalog Conference in Chicago last month. The underlying theme of most speakers at the conference: Be flexible. Find out what works, go with it, and cut keywords and strategies that don’t produce results.
A payments option opens CompactAppliance.com to Canadian consumers
Description: A payments option opens CompactAppliance.com to Canadian consumers Looking for room to grow in its niche market of providing refrigerators and other appliances designed for
A gift to retailers: Registries that build long-term loyalty
Description: Gift registries continue to pay dividends as customer loyalty and customer acquisition tools—particularly for multi-channel retailers with a national presence.
Picking up drop shipping
Description: Retailers are expanding assortments and testing products—and letting someone else do the shipping
The FTC takes its first CAN-Spam action
Description: When more than 1 million spam complaints made their way to the Federal Trade Commission since Jan. 1, the agency took the federal government’s first legal action under the new CAN-Spam Act in late April, charging two organizations with sending millions of spam e-mail messages.
The Internet Retailer New Products and Technological Innovations Showcase
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
No Speeding
Description: How Canadian Tire rolled into supply chain collaboration in low gear
The reasons behind the numbers
Description: A key part of Internet Retailer’s mission is to write about innovative retail web sites. While we do analyze the mistakes of some web merchants, our focus is on covering the most successful e-retailing operations. Over the years, we have put the spotlight on a good number of well run retail web sites, and our readers have profited by learning from the lessons of such innovators.
Sharing Consumer Demand Information is Key to Managing Inventory, According to BearingPoint’s John Cummings
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
INQ SIGNS DEAL WITH DELIGHTFULDELIVERIES.COM TO UTILIZE AFTER-SALE LIVE CHAT UPSELL PROGRAM
Description: Online Marketing Leader Will Utilize Technology to Help Internet Marketer of ‘World’s Most Delicious Gifts’ Drive Annual Revenue and Retain Customers
CIOs are optimistic, but IT staff is getting burned out, say 2 new reports
Description: CIOs are optimistic, but IT staff is getting burned out, say 2 new reports IT spending is up this year and CIOs are optimistic but IT staff are getting burned out and morale
PFSweb and Roots Canada Develop Winning Online Store
Description: Companies Upgrade Customer Experience and Logistics Support for Event-Driven ``Spikes``
Mirror Image Internet sues Speedera Networks for patent infringement
Description: Mirror Image Internet sues Speedera Networks for patent infringement Mirror Image Internet, a provider of online content delivery services, has filed a federal lawsuit against
Online consumers using single-use numbers outspend average, says Orbiscom
Description: Online consumers using single-use numbers outspend average, says Orbiscom Orbiscom has seen online consumer spending 200% to 400% higher than industry averages among cardholders
How Lowe’s Food Stores expects the web to increase sales of perishables
Description: How Lowe’s Food Stores expects the web to increase sales of perishables With 65 grocery stores in Texas and New Mexico, Lowe’s Food Stores Inc. runs into plenty of competition
Red Spade Selected by Eastern Mountain Sports to Increase Site Effectiveness
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
GXS to cut work force by 20%
Description: GXS to cut work force by 20% With a renewed focus on retail and other industries, Global eXchange Services will cut its work force by about 300 positions, or 20%, by the end of
WebSourced, Inc. Acquires Search Engine Marketing Company, Engine Studio, Inc.
Description: The Global Leader in Search Engine Marketing adds Global Promoter and Turbo Promoter to its KeywordRanking brand
Satisfaction and loyalty high among Google users; risk remains, S&P says
Description: Satisfaction and loyalty high among Google users; risk remains, S&P says Since filing registration papers with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Google Inc. has stayed mum
How CompactAppliance.com increased revenue through proactive marketing
Description: How CompactAppliance.com increased revenue through proactive marketing With its combined web site analysis and e-marketing application, CompactAppliance.com has eliminated
REI to get a new president
Description: REI to get a new president Recreational Equipment Inc., which operates stores as well as REI.com and REI-Outlet.com, announced today that CEO Dennis Madsen will retire next
Domain names reach a record 63 million, VeriSign reports
Description: Domain names reach a record 63 million, VeriSign reports Sometimes it seems like everyone’s got a web site. That’s almost true, VeriSign Inc. reports. The latest VeriSign Domain
THE SAK Selects CORESense to Manage Multi-Channel E-Commerce Operations
Description: Fourth Largest U.S. Handbag Company Expects to Save $250K in Three Years with CORESense
Online spending up 23% for week ending May 23
Description: Online spending up 23% for week ending May 23 Online retail spending increased 23% to $1.08 billion for the week ending May 23 from $879 million in the corresponding week a year
Linens `n Things Secures North American Network with WatchGuard Firebox X
Description: Major housewares retailer selects WatchGuard security solution over Cisco and Check Point for ease of configuration and reliability
Target looks for better margins with rollout of web-based pricing software
Description: Target looks for better margins with rollout of web-based pricing software After improving gross margins in its Marshall Field’s division with a web-based merchandise price
The web helps digital photography companies focus on store kiosks
Description: The web helps digital photography companies focus on store kiosks Digital photography is not only sparking sales of filmless cameras, it’s also driving a rollout of in-store