Top500Guide.com®: Interact With The World's Largest E-Retailing Database
Introducing the Web-Based Application That Allows You to
Custom Mine All Data on America's Top 500 E-Retailers
Now in its sixth year of publication, Internet Retailer's Top 500 Guide® is the undisputed "Bible of E-Retailing." Each annual edition of this data-rich directory profiles and ranks the 500 largest e-retailing businesses based on their latest annual online revenues. It also provides dozens of metrics on their web sites, including web traffic, conversion rates, number of SKUs, average ticket, growth rates, customer satisfaction and performance ratings, search engine effectiveness, lists of all their vendors, corporate address and top management . The Guide also lists names and titles of nearly 2,000 top e-retailing executives.
But you may know all that. What's new?
The Top500Guide.com® Database:
The Print Guide on Steroids
Now, the voluminous competitive and operational data on the country's largest e-retailers, as profiled and ranked in the Top 500 Guide®, is available online at Top500Guide.com®. But Top500Guide.com® is not a digital, page-by-page version of the printed data directory. Instead, it's a whole new way of analyzing the competitive data on the Top 500 that lets subscribers instantly mine the data at Top500Guide.com® when they want to, how they want to and wherever they want to.
Under development for more than a year, the Top500Guide.com® is a new and much more powerful information service. While the printed Top 500 Guide® is a raw and static data base, the Top500Guide.com® is an interactive electronic database that provides subscribers with a wide variety of custom research reports. It processes data on e-retailers to provide the desired analysis of our massive e-retailing data base that subscribers want.
Examples of Custom Reports
In short, Top500Guide.com® lets you slice and dice five years worth of data on the 500 largest retail web sites in America any way you want. You can use the sophisticated queries developed by our editors to satisfy the questions our readers most often ask. Or you can use a special feature of the Top500Guide.com® that lets you custom-design your own query to fulfill a unique research need. Here are just several examples of what the Top500Guide.com® can do to answer your particular questions regarding the e-retailing market:
- Want to know what apparel web sites are growing fastest? Top500Guide.com® ranks them for you based on their online sales growth rates.
- Need to know what jewelry sites have the highest average tickets? Top500Guide.com® will rank jewelry sites based on their average tickets for online sales.
- Want to rank e-retail sites on more than just sales—say their web traffic, conversation rates, growth rates, web performance ratings, average tickets, number of SKUs or any other key performance variable? Just query Top500Guide.com® and you'll get your answer in seconds.
- Which e-retailers get the highest or lowest percentages of their sales from search engines? Top500Guide.com® will give you the answer—for all top web merchants or those just in your category.
- Want to analyze the growth of all or any group of e-retailers and find out what factors contribute most to their growth? Top500Guide.com® will tell you how much of their growth is the result of increased traffic, increased conversion rates, increased average tickets, or increased SKUs.
- And what about vendors? Which vendors get the lion's share of Top 500 business in search marketing management, e-commerce platforms or any of the other 19 solutions categories we track. Top500Guide.com® reveals the e-retail vendors by solution category and the retail clients they serve.
The Convenience Factor
Because Top500Guide.com® is web-based, subscribers can access the Top 500 Guide® database from any computer anywhere and at anytime. When you're in the hotel preparing for a meeting with a prospective client, in a meeting with investors appraising an investment opportunity in e-commerce, or meeting with your marketing team to compare the stats of a competing retail web site, Top500Guide.com® lets you instantly access the data you need. And if you need the name of a contact at any one of the 500 largest e-retailing sites in America, the Top500Guide.com® lets you search its database of the nearly 2,000 e-retailing professionals in those web businesses.
Print Your Customized Reports
Top500Guide.com® is a superb tool for producing any customized analysis of the 500 leading players in the e-commerce market. That's because any standard or custom data report or ranking that you generate on Top500Guide.com® can be printed from your computer and the printed report is available for your personal use. The same is true for all profiles and executive contact listings of e-retailers in the Top 500 Guide® Database.
Designed For Companywide Access At Affordable Subscription Prices
Because the Top500Guide.com® is a web-based information resource, this massive database can be accessed from any computer and at any time by anyone in your company who has been provided with a user license. To encourage broad usage of this tool at your company, multi-user licenses have been priced at deeply discounted rates. The bigger the license, the lower the incremental cost of adding another user. For example, the incremental user cost of a two-person license is $100 and the incremental cost of a 20-user license is less than $53 (refer to table below to determine the incremental user costs). This tiered discount pricing is designed to allow companies to make this powerful research tool available to every employee who needs access to it.
| Type of Annual Subscription | Total Cost | Cost Per Added User |
| Single User License | $195 | $195 |
| Two User License | $295 | $100 |
| Three User License | $375 | $90 |
| Five User License | $525 | $83 |
| 10 User License | $795 | $67 |
| 15 User License | $995 | $57 |
| 20 User License | $1,195 | $53 |