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SPEEDERA Posts another Record fiscal year, revenue jumps 60 percent Description: New Services Combined with New Channel Partners and Sales Offices Spur Strong Growth and Profitability
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SPEEDGREETINGS SECURES $3 MILLION IN FUNDING; APPOINTS RENOWNED INDUSTRY EXPERTS TO BOARD Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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SPENCER GIFTS CHARTERS SONICWALL TO PROTECT NATIONWIDE RETAIL NETWORK Description: Secure, reliable POS system drives improved productivity and revenue opportunities
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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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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: A New Way to Think About Performance Monitoring Description: Retailers are deploying measuring and monitoring tools that drill down to the root cause of performance problems to fix the ailment and not just the symptoms.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Analytics: Boosting sales by tracking behavior Description: Retailers are rapidly adopting technology to gather data about what their customers are doing online. Now they`re looking for ways to turn that data into action-oriented information.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: As the web does more, making technology choices becomes more complex Description: SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT:
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: CRM Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Creating a winning web site Description: Choosing the right site technology is more complex than ever. But by focusing their objectives, retailers can identify the technologies that will make their site stand out.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Creating product information for online and offline shopping Description: As consumers change how they use the Internet for shopping, retailers must re-think how they present product information
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Creating the e-commerce platform of the future Description: Tired of having to overhaul their e-commerce platforms every few years, retailers are looking to e-commerce vendors to provide scalable, flexible platforms built on open architecture.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-Commerce Systems That Do It All for Retailers Description: The new realities of online retailing require technology that is flexible and scalable
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-Mail Marketing Options Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-Mail Marketing: Sailing High in Troubled Waters Description: E-mail marketing remains an effective medium Some service providers are trying to make it perform even better.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-Payment Security Description: The Ever-Evolving Fight Against Online Fraud
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-Payments Processing Moves into High Gear Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-Payments: Curing the Achilles Heel of the Web Description: Fraud isnt going away, but retailers and payment processors are getting smarter about dealing with it
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-mail marketers raise the performance bar Description: Consumers may be more receptive to e-mail marketing, but that hasnt made it any easier for e-retailers to get their message to the customers inbox and opened. More stringent spam filtering rules, sender authentication policies imposed by ISPs to reduce unwanted clutter in consumer mailboxes, the threat of phishing attacks, new technologies such as embedded video (see sidebar), and mailings to mobile devices have e-retailers scrambling to stay ahead of the curve.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: E-mail marketing Description: New strategies for a tried-and-true marketing medium
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Finding the right payment alternatives Description: By accepting payment vehicles besides credit cards, retailers can reduce costs and attract new customers
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Getting ready for Christmasand preparing for the post-Christmas rush of returns Description: With fulfillment uppermost on retailers minds as the Christmas shopping season approaches, many retailers are looking even beyond Christmas. As surely as New Years follows Christmas, some of those packages that go out are going to come back. And retailers are constantly looking for ways to make that process less painful for both themselves and their customers.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Here Come Retailings Fulfillment Giants Description: In todays online retailing market, order fulfillment isnt as simple as it used to be. Today a customer can start an interaction in any channel and complete it in any channel and the entire experience has to be consistent, says Devdutt Yellurkar, president and CEO of Yantra Corp., developer of fulfillment software and systems. Thats extremely important in todays market.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: How to find the payoff in search marketing Description: SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT:
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: In the online sales tax debate, How has replaced Whether. Description: Technology increasingly solves the complexities of tax collection and payment
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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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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Live Chat: The new reality of online customer service Description: As today`s young web users become tomorrow`s customers, live chat will become a crucial part of e-retailers` sales and customer service options.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Making the most of the email marketing tool Description: As deliverability and spam issues get resolved, e-mail marketings focus turns to relevance and customer relationships
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: New weapons against an old nemesis: Fighting e-payments fraud Description: Payment processors upgrade their technology for combating online criminals
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Online customer support: Lower costs, higher quality Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Package Deal Description: How e-retailers can keep control of the online order once the product goes out the door
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Search Engine Marketing: The Major Online Promotion Tool Description: Theres no doubt that consumers are turning to web search more than ever for the products they want to buyor researchonline. In just the past six months, for instance, consumers have conducted more than 1 billion retail-related searches at Google.com. In the past year, paid-search provider Overture Services Inc. has provided results on more than 2 billion commercial searches.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Search Engine Marketing Description: There`s no doubt that search engine marketing is the most successful form of marketing for online retailers. Nearly half of retailers ranked search engine marketing as somewhat or much better than other forms of marketing for their web sites in a recent survey by Internet Retailer. That proportion is surprisingly high given that 75% of users of search engine marketing have been at it for four years or less.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Search Engine Marketing Description: Harnessing the Webs Most Powerful Marketing Tool
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Search Engine Marketing Description: The must-have way for merchants to find web shoppers
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Search Marketers Broaden their Horizon Description: Retailers can optimize search marketing results by including in their search strategies content that they have overlooked.
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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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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Securing the e-Payments Process Description: For consumers and retailers alike, ensuring the security of online payments is key to the future of online retailing
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Site Search: Creating the Online Precision Shopper Description: Its no longer enough to simply help customers find what theyre looking for
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Site Search Description: The New, Powerful Merchandising Tool
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Site designs that meet customers needs Description: An elaborate site design may be aesthetically pleasing, but if it gets in the way of the shopping experience, sales wont come
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Site search software: A no-brainer investment Description: When Chicago-based consultants The E-Tailing Group Inc. asked online retailers to rank which technologies they would spend money on if resources werent constrained, site search popped almost to the top of list. It ranked No. 2, behind cross-sell/upsell and personalization, which were tied for No. 1. Its definitely on peoples minds, says Lauren Freedman, president of The E-Tailing Group.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Site search Description: E-retailings most powerful online merchandising tool
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Streamlining the e-Returns Process Description: Retailers find that returns can be a customer acquisition toolif theyre used the right way
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Taking the hassles and mystery out of supply chain technology Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: Taking the worry out of merchandise returns Description: Processing of returns needs to be more thanan after-thought for online retailers
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: The All-In-One E-Commerce Platforms Description: SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT:
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: The Coming Boom in E-Retailing Fulfillment Services Description: Through the end of September, online sales volume is up 30% over last year to $29.7 billion. And that growth is expected to at least hold, if not accelerate, through the end of the year. At that rate, U.S. consumers will spend $44 billion online this year, comScore Media Metrix projects. And at Media Metrixs average of $105 per purchase, that translates into nearly 420 million orders. Thats a lot of packages.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: The Increasing Value of Customer Service Description: E-retailers that skimp on customer service risk losing more than a sale.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: The growing link between site security and sales Description: As consumer concerns over site security and fraud grow, e-retailers are not only looking to vendors for the tools to thwart cyber crooks but also the expertise to implement them.
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SPONSORED SUPPLEMENT: The new world of fulfillment companies Description: How Progressive Distribution has moved into roles that extend beyond managing the order
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