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An online shopping avalanche for holiday season 2007

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How the Top 100 e-retailers rate on two key performance metrics

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TicketsNow’s personal touch helps affiliates attract more eventgoers and boost sales

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Travel sites are harnessing the web’s power to further transform their industry

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Business intelligence enables broader view of data and better handle on performance

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Mobile mini-shopping mall seeks maximum revenue from minimal effort

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In addition to using paid search, retailers are hunting for customers naturally

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Underwhelmed by store shopping, a retail entrepreneur creates a web shop—and web tools.

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Retailers are turning to site personalization tools to get more intimate with customers.

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With online talent in short supply, retailers increasingly grow their own.

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Macy’s goes national, online and off, with the twentysomething shopper in its sights.

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The multi-channel provider of movie rentals is using Cellfire, a mobile couponing service, to deliver coupons to registered users’ cell phones for store redemption. A pilot program produced a redemption rate of 200% higher than Hollywood Video’s traditional paper coupon program, according to Cellfire.

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By investing $680 million to buy the 80% it did not already own of online ad space exchange Right Media Inc., Yahoo Inc. is sending a message to rival Google Inc. that Yahoo is here to stay as a major player in online advertising. Online ad exchanges will eventually become the primary means of purchasing online ad media, an analyst says.

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Evogear.com, a retailer of sports gear and apparel, has produced a sharp increase in Google natural search rankings by redesigning the URLs of product pages and developing brand-specific content. The changes have led to more thorough indexing of pages by Google’s spiders and, in turn, improvements in Google natural search rankings.

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Housewares and gifts e-retailer firstStreet is tag-teaming with marketing partners to pin down its target audience of Baby Boomers and older adults. Advertising on blogs and linking with Retirement Living’s web site, RL.tv, are two recent examples of how firstStreet is working out new marketing techniques.

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Outdoor gear and apparel retailer Moosejaw Mountaineering has launched a mobile shopping site that enables shoppers to browse, compare prices and purchase merchandise using any mobile phone or handheld device. The retailer also lets customers receive order-tracking information on their mobile devices.

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Amazon and music label EMI have joined forces to sell digital music in a way that lets consumers freely share music without the digital rights management, or DRM, that restricts use of downloaded songs and annoys many consumers. The music downloading service Amazon plans to introduce later this year will offer all of its music through the MP3 format, free of DRM.

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AmericanGreetings.com was renewed in May as AG Interactive, the media subsidiary of American Greetings Corp., spruced up its primary web site. New features include improved site navigation, more shopping tools and a sharp focus on American Greetings branding.

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There aren’t many clouds in Google’s sky these days, but there is a wisp of a threat to the search engine’s practice of allowing advertisers to buy keyword search terms trademarked by competitors. A federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit against Google on the issue, and a new Utah law could limit the sale of trademarked terms as search keywords.

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By acquiring outdoor sports gear retailer Backcountry.com, Liberty Media now controls four of the Top 500 online retailers. The company says it will keeping looking for additional e-commerce properties. The deal also represents the strong demand for niche online retailing, experts say.

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Convergent Retail, spearheaded by developer of the Forum Shops at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, plans to open The Epicenter Collection—a grouping of stores for online and catalog merchants at a mall in Delaware.

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At a time when more consumers are shopping through multiple channels, retailers are fine-tuning the emphasis they put on stores, web sites and catalogs. For Discovery Communications, that means closing stores.

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It’s tempting to think that nothing can stop e-retailing’s momentum. Tempting but foolhardy.

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Even with better pay and perks, web retailers struggle to hire all of the skilled employees they need.

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While throwing more products at customers, retailers use web-enabled planning to get the right products to stores at the right time.

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As more retailers launch buy online/pick up in store programs, competition is forcing them to differentiate the service.

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The web means new opportunities in retail— opportunities that require a closer look at values and business practices.

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Retailers are learning to use software to price and move goods; however, the technology is just at the starting point.

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Spearfishing vs. casting a wide net: Search marketers try out niche search engines.

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Another Web 2.0 development, social shopping sites, is bringing consumers together.

These four Top 500 e-retailers caught our attention. Here`s how.