As the holiday shopping season approaches, most large retailers have already locked down their Web sites as they prepare for a profitable ride. Nonetheless, e-tailers should keep an eye on their search strategies -- and change what is not working -- en route to seasonal sales. Experts recommend cust...
Some 80 percent of American Internet users say they'll be buying gifts online this holiday season, according to an AOL Shopping/Zogby poll released Tuesday. The same percentage of Web users, the surveyors found, say they'll be spending the same or more than last year on online gifts. What's more, 24...
The holiday shopping predictions are in. Forester Research reports online retail sales this holiday season will reach US$27 billion in the United States alone. JupiterResearch is a little more optimistic, adding $5 billion more to that cheery figure. Jupiter further predicts that a record 114 millio...
Recognizing the mutual benefit that accrues to helping their online merchants succeed, e-commerce hosting companies, along with e-tailers themselves, are driving demand for software applications that can help them better manage and grow their businesses. This final installment in our five-part serie...
It wasn't so long ago that technological or economic reasons -- or both -- stood in the way of many people who aspired to launch a retail business online. That's changed drastically in a short span of time. Professional quality e-commerce hosting services, along with a growing range of easy-to-use ...
Michael Yang and Yeogirl Yun are hardly strangers to the realm of comparison shopping sites. The dynamic duo founded mySimon.com, which became the largest price comparison shopping site on the Internet, with over 10 million users in 2000. After raising US$30 million in investment capital, mySimon wa...
Although comparison shopping motivates many a consumer to shop online, it's second fiddle for small businesses shopping on the Net, according to a study released by JupiterResearch last Friday. The most significant factor governing purchases on the Web by small businesses is previous experience or f...
The converging Internet world may be about to see its latest head-to-head battle between Google and eBay, with reports suggesting Google is just days from launching a feature meant to rival the PayPal online payment system. RBC analyst Jordan Rohan predicted Google will launch a program called GBuy ...
The Internet has made it simple for consumers to shop and in some cases to find the best deal when making a purchase. Comparison shopping engines collect information, such as product pricing, feature set and shipment costs, from various vendors, and then present that data to users. While consumers t...
Google continues to gain market share in the search space, but its high-profile efforts to extend its reach into the portal realm have yet to succeed. Outside of its search site, Google is still drawing relatively few visitors. It hasn't made a dent in Yahoo's lead or MSN's second-place position.
Online holiday shopping grew at a pace that beat out even optimistic forecasts, with spending growing as much as 30 percent as various factors, including aggressive promotions and free-shipping deals that may cut into e-tailer's profits, attracted more Web buyers. The Goldman, Sachs & Co., Niels...
Sales of mobile phones that double as digital cameras have soared during 2005, with nearly 300 million such handsets expected to be sold before year's end, according to new projections from Gartner. Camera phone sales will reach 295.5 million units this year and represent 38 percent of overall mobil...
Cyber Monday outpaced Black Friday in the online shopping arena once again this year, which comes as no surprise to e-tail analysts who predicted the phenomenon long ago. Nielsen//NetRatings' Holiday eShopping Index saw 15 percent more traffic on Cyber Monday than on Black Friday, drawing a total un...
In what's become an annual event known as Cyber Monday, millions of shoppers logged onto the Internet from their jobs yesterday for holiday shopping. While not the biggest online shopping day of the season -- in terms of total shopping volume, that often occurs before Thanksgiving, though for some r...
High oil prices. Natural disasters. Slumping economy. Pink slip epidemics. None of that appeared to bother shoppers as they stormed Web outlets on the day after Thanksgiving, the day that's become known as Black Friday. According to Patty Freeman Evans, a retail analyst with Jupiter Research in New ...
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