Salon bets on ecommerce for Black Friday and the future

… they've created conversational marketing campaigns around the blog content and plan to beef that up. And then there is the ecommerce platform that will launch on Black Friday. Salon has long had a once yearly holiday store, but this effort will remain …

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How to keep the ecommerce momentum

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Amazon fuels 2008 ecommerce increase

Web-only retailers continue to be the fastest growing channel with combined sales of $31.30 billion in 2008, up 23.37 percent  from $25.37 billion in 2007. Amazon dominates the web-only channel, accounting for 61% of web-only sales and 34% of total …

Ecommerce missing from retail reporting

Ecommerce numbers get the short shrift because Wall Street analysts don't like change. They want to compare same … this economy is good. But a three percent year-to-year growth for ecommerce for a teen brand needs to be explained. However, kudos to Urban …

Ecommerce can help save the planet

… in that transaction were getting the customer to and from the physical store,  packaging, and last-mile delivery on the ecommerce side of the equation. The biggest offender? Customer transport, which accounted for 65 percent of carbon emissions in the …

US Census Bureau: ecommerce slumped in Q4 2008

… sales dropped 7.8% during the same period, showing that ecommerce held up better than offline commerce but still not as … , which is put together by the University of Michigan and ecommerce partner ForeSee Results, online retailers as a whole received an …

How Drs. Foster Smith uses video to drive ecommerce success

Jeff Molander is a social media speaker and analyst. As CEO of Molander & Associates Inc. he helps people build profitable businesses by challenging current marketing practices and connecting marketing tactics directly to strategic goals. Jeff can …

Shoppers RSVP to invite-only ecommerce

The positioning and marketing tactics differ among the sites. Gilt is glossy. It uses event marketing at major fashion shows to get the word out. RueLaLa is funky. Ideeli is clean, with a lot of white space and has a co-marketing deal with InTouch …

comScore - ecommerce shrinks first 23 days of November, will Black Friday, Cyber Monday save the day?

By comScore's count, in 2007, $8.51bn in sales occurred online in the first 23 days of November. That dropped to $8.19bn this year. A drop of this sort during the holiday season is an unprecedented event in the world of online retail. comScore …

Brand tweets sends twitterers searching

… offers or promotions from advertisers through the sites, and 25% said they have gone directly to an online retailer or ecommerce site after learning about a product or service on Facebook, Twitter or another social site. Those surveyed were also happy …

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How to use Google Analytics to track telephone leads

… of HolidaysToTheMoon.Com. This fictionary company predominantly want to sell holidays to the moon, except they don’t have an ecommerce site.  They require that a searcher Finds their site Like what they see (engages with site) And, pick up the …

Q&A: Web metrics magician Jim Sterne

… retailers, even mom 'n' pops. You are talking about major brands and major resources. What can I do with metrics for my ecommerce site that's selling, say, potholders from somewhere in Vermont? A: The easiest thing, if we want to make this just brute …

Looking at the recently-launched $3m domain name, Candy.com

… list, gift registry, email a friend, customer reviews, related items, etc. Since Candy.com is powered by a third-party ecommerce platform, it didn't have to reinvent the wheel. The Candy.com browsing experience is fairly smooth. Candies can be viewed …