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When you cant unload it, eBay it
Description: Almost since its inception, eBay has been a Mecca for small entrepreneurs seeking a low-cost and efficient way to sell a few items-and harness the cachet of an auction to get a fair price. Now some of the biggest retailers are getting ready to sell their surplus goods over the same auction network.
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Where Cyber Monday occurs a week early
Description: Where Cyber Monday occurs a week early Cyber Monday sales this year were about 2.5 times sales of the same day last year at The Fruit Company, an online retailer of fresh fruit
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Where Internet Security Investment Dollars Will Go in 2001
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Where Products Best Fit
Description: E-retailers achieve merchandising success via an assortment of technologies and paths
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Where Sharper Image thinks 2004 web sales will land
Description: Where Sharper Image thinks 2004 web sales will land Sharper Image Corp. is forecasting final 2004 online sales to hit $112 million, an 18% increase over 2003. The Internet is
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Where are all these people coming from?
Description: Where are all these people coming from? Every day e-retailers face the continuous struggle to learn more about their customers and what they want as well as make constructive web
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Where carmaker Honda speaks Spanish
Description: Where carmaker Honda speaks Spanish American Honda Motor Co. Inc., manufacturer of a top-selling auto brand among U.S. Hispanics, is going online to extend its reach to the
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Where customer self-service options shine online
Description: Where customer self-service options shine online Some online shopping tasks may be more easily accomplished by customers with support from live help, but for other tasks, the
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Where does the web team belong?
Description: Chains redraw their organization charts as they pursue cross-channel initiatives
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Where everyone becomes an advertiser
Description: Retailers are placing their bets on social networking, the next BIG thing in online marketing.
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Where exactly is eBay.com again?
Description: Where exactly is eBay.com again? The terms ebay, ebay.com and www.ebay.com registered in the top 10 for number of shopping and classifieds Internet searches last month,
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Where greater complexity and easier understanding come together
Description: Its a seeming riddle: what is becoming more complex at the same time its becoming easier to understand? Take a close look at industry developments over the past few years, and its clear that analytics fits that description.
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Where live chat makes the most sense
Description: Where live chat makes the most sense Online live chat should be offered only to an e-retailers most valuable customers to get the best results from the customer-service tool,
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Where one fulfillment company sees customer service opportunity
Description: Where one fulfillment company sees customer service opportunity Fulfillment companies are beginning to offer Internet retailers a new-value-added customer service: web store
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Where online marketing is going
Description: The Internet is no longer a medium where it`s nice to have advertising. Today, a web presence is required. But there`s a lot of uncertainty among marketers and the vendors and web site owners who sell services and online space to marketers about the direction of online marketing and the effect that online will have on offline. Forrester Research has just released a report with a fascinating amount of detail about what`s catching marketers` eyes, what they think will work and what won`t work and where they expect to be spending their online ad dollars in the near future. Forrester`s "U.S. Online Marketing Forecast: 2005 to 2010" sums up the future in its subtitle: "Dollars will follow consumers online, driving spending to $26 billion by 2010." Here are a few highlights from the 23-page report:
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Where outsourcing is not a dirty word
Description: Retailers abandon their go-it-alone strategy and embrace third-party solutions providers
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Where professional buyers shop
Description: More and more smaller retailers are going online to source inventory as the web liquidation channel picks up steam. In Washington state, one Dollar Store franchisee recently sourced the entire inventory for two new stores on liquidation site Liquidation.com, an online arm of Washington, D.C.-based Liquidity Services Inc., by buying more than 40 lots of merchandise ranging from SuperGlue to cameras at auction.
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Where teens are going online
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Where the boys--and girls--are online
Description: In an earlier generation, young people hung out at the soda shop--and in a later generation, their children hung out at the mall. Today, young people are hanging out online. Researchers comScore Networks Inc. recently looked at how young people use the Internet and analyzed sites based on their proportion of young users relative to the population. Here are some of comScore`s findings as to where young people are online--and where to find their parents when they shop for back-to-school clothes.
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Where the conversion funnel starts
Description: Where the conversion funnel starts Web design and development companies have long been focused on site improvements that enhance conversion fixes to navigation, check out, and
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Where the girls are: Shopping online
Description: Where the girls are: Shopping online Online retailing sites are prime destinations for women 18-34 years old who are Internet users, reports comScore Media Metrix. While women
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Where the mother of all metrics is still sales
Description: Where the mother of all metrics is still sales The very latest trend in web retailing these days is web site analyticsmeasuring conversion rates by type of shopper, abandon
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Where the small, but growing market for alternative payments is heading
Description: Where the small, but growing market for alternative payments is heading Credit cards will continue to be the dominant method of payment for online consumer purchases through
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WhereNet and Elogex Team to Deliver Integrated Yard and Transportation Management System to Provide True Door-to-Door Shipment Visibility
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Where`s wireless?
Description: FTD.com, a member of the AT&T Wireless Services shopping channel, launched a wireless retailing program just in time for Mothers Day. Customers could use web-enabled cell phones to read text messages about floral arrangements and specialty gifts for Mothers Day. FTD customers could also qualify for a 10% discount if they used a cell phone to complete the purchase.
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Wheres My Package?
Description: Growing e-retailers steer through a changing delivery scene
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Wheres Wal-Mart
Description: Wal-Marts web revenue hardly registers on its ledger. The worlds largest merchant has bigger things in mind for its web site.
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Which site investments may promise the biggest payoff
Description: Which site investments may promise the biggest payoff Adding features such as gift reminders or community-based features such as message boards are among the ways retailers
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Which site problem can be the most costly and the most easily fixed
Description: Which site problem can be the most costly and the most easily fixed When web analytics deliver bad news to e-retailers, its often along the lines of how site problems are
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While Discovery closes stores, another company opens stores for e-retailers
Description: While Discovery Communications is closing stores, Convergent Retail LLC is betting other retailers that sell only online and by catalog will want to try a physical store. The company, spearheaded by developer Sheldon Gordon who created such lavish retail locations as the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, last month announced plans to open what it calls The Epicenter Collectiona grouping of stores for online and catalog merchants at the Christiana Mall in Delaware.
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While SmartBargains pursues IPO, its platform is already primed for growth
Description: While SmartBargains pursues IPO, its platform is already primed for growth As discount retailer SmartBargains Inc. pursues up to $80.5 million through an initial public offering
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While Spiegels online sales are up, the calendar trips J. Crews
Description: While Spiegels online sales are up, the calendar trips J. Crews As if the late date of Thanksgiving wasnt creating enough stress among retailers worried about the compressed
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While complying with Can-Spam, marketers miss chance to engage customers
Description: While complying with Can-Spam, marketers miss chance to engage customers 96% of e-mail marketing professionals include an unsubscribe function in their promotional e-mails and
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While flipping through wine magazine, readers click to buy wineor jeans
Description: While flipping through wine magazine, readers click to buy wineor jeans Destination Wine Country, which publishes a print magazine of the same name that covers the western U.S.,
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While hardly trying, eBay moves into the neighborhood
Description: Groups of entrepreneurs are planning to open hundreds of competing stores where consumers can drop off their cast-offs for sale on eBay.
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While pushing RFID, Wal-Mart asks for a little help from rivals
Description: When Wal-Mart Stores Inc. speaks, other retailers listen. But its not often that the worlds largest retailer reveals its technology strategies and plans. In the case of Wal-Marts aggressive plans to roll out RFID technology, however, the big merchant is really opening its mouth.
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While still dominant, price slips as a reason shoppers buy online
Description: While still dominant, price slips as a reason shoppers buy online Price is declining in importance as a driver of online sales, according to preliminary data from DoubleClick
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Whirlpool cuts consumer survey costs by 97% by putting them online
Description: Whirlpool cuts consumer survey costs by 97% by putting them online For marketers, the Internet is more than a sales or marketing channelits a survey tool as well. Whirlpool
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Whirlpool invests in home delivery service zBox Co.
Description: Whirlpool invests in home delivery service zBox Co. zBox Co., a provider of "smart" delivery appliances, announced an investment by Whirlpool Corp. in zBox`s Series C financing.
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Whirlpool launches web portal for product ordering
Description: Whirlpool launches web portal for product ordering Whirlpool Corp. is launching an enhanced online order-management system to allow retailers of Whirlpool appliances to manage
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Whirlpool takes consumers on a shopping spree
Description: Whirlpool takes consumers on a shopping spree Like a detective tailing his prey, employees at Whirlpool Corp. followed consumers as they shopped for appliances. The pursuers,
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White House pushes self-regulation of e-commerce
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Whitewashing the Internet: Color does make a difference, e-retailers learn
Description: Whitewashing the Internet: Color does make a difference, e-retailers learn The Internet is a visual medium, so it stands to reason that color would play a role in how consumers
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Who Knew?
Description: What your web visitors are trying to tell you
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Who Likes Amazon`s Expansion Drive?
Description: Only Its Shareholders
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Who Wants To Hook A Millionaire?
Description: Who Wants To Hook A Millionaire? Affluent North Americans-those with investable assets of at least $1 million-use the Internet more than other consumer groups, according to the
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Who knew? Analytics tool shows online campaigns doing better than thought
Description: Who knew? Analytics tool shows online campaigns doing better than thought At a time when e-retailers are tracking the return on every marketing dollar, the application of
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Who responds to e-mails?
Description: Article from Internet Retailer
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Who wins if Amazon offers online DVD rentals?
Description: If Amazon.com Inc. decides to enter the American online DVD and video rental market, Netflix Inc. may feel the impact more than Blockbuster Inc. At least thats the way events unfold in a scenario described by Michael Pachter, analyst in the Los Angeles office of Wedbush Morgan Securities Inc. who follows the video rental market.
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Who's spending the most time online?
Description: Who's spending the most time online? Here's a new challenge for retailers trying to attract shoppers who will buy a lot online: The heaviest users of the Internet tend to be
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