E-tailers need to do more to sell big ticket items

… whether you opt for a two or three seater sofa, yet both the description and photos are woefully inadequate for a big ticket item. The description consists of just one line: 'A contemporary range with button detail on the back cushions', which doesn' …

Site review: Virgin Trains revamp

… be too small to me. Searching for tickets The new search interface provides more help … to another page. Also, mousing over the ticket price will provide more details, a … and checkout After selecting trains and tickets, you need to either login or …

Sh*t My Dad Says: from Twitter to television in less than five months

Halpern's tweets range from the common sensical ("Why would i want to check a voicemail on my cell phone? People want to talk to me, call again. If i want to talk to you, I'll answer") to the NSFW (a lot of NSFW). Last month, Halpern sold Shit My Dad …

Pizza Hut iPhone app generates an extra $1m sales

… services that people need while on the move, such as food, movie tickets and hotel rooms, have appeal for mobile users. In the US, … be missing a trick by not adding the option to book tickets through its iPhone app, and gain a valuable headstart in this …

App review: thetrainline for iPhone

… . There is also a link to buy tickets, but this leads to the main trainline website, … a mobile.  Also, the link to buy tickets is right at the bottom of the results … thetrainline wants customers to be able to buy tickets from the app, which some would find …

Tina Brown's Daily Beast gets into the book publishing business

… in The Beast model is that they will use their free content to encouraged sales of a value added product. Unlike big ticket items at other publications — like conferences and research — these will be sales generators tied to very brief, but profitable …

Q&A: Bec Clarke on selling luxury goods online

… first launched, and before your brand / website was known to consumers, was there an initial reluctance to buy such big ticket items online? How did you overcome this? We did have an initial job of building trust with customers, something we managed to …

Q&A: London Twestival organiser Elizabeth Varley

… target is £16,000, which will be made up from ticket sales, sponsorships, and donations on the night, all of which will … information, and set up meetings, as well as amiando for ticketing services. Bands playing at the events have used their MySpace and …

Don't look now, but the ad market might be picking up

… it all into perspective. It has been a year since the U.S. economy and the ad industry went into a tailspin. Without big ticket items like a presidential election and the Olympics this year, it's hard to pinpoint a single huge event that will bring the …

Retailers need to embrace m-commerce if they want consumers to start shopping

… are happy to pay for convenience items on their phones. 59% of respondents said they would purchase pizza, 58% said they'd buy tickets. Hotel rooms (43%), fast food (42%) and music (41%) were also high on the list. There are more than a few hurdles …

Who pays the price for poor usability? For air tickets online it could be you!

… .”  It cites examples such as a father who bought four tickets but was told he must pay an extra £340 when … being different, using discount vouchers, changing bookings or booking tickets through air miles.  I have made mistakes (such as …

Q&A: Dan Wagner of Venda on e-commerce

… we have used in the past. For instance,  when selling Robbie Williams tickets  on one of our sites a few years ago, we were … in a store. When we used this for the Robbie Williams tickets, we showed videos for customers to watch while they waited to place …

Q&A: USTA's Phil Green on live streaming the U.S. Open

Why did you decide to livestream all of the matches this year? We came off a record year last year, in terms of ticket sales and online web traffic. As far as live streaming for 2009, this is the next iteration for us. CBS is still our broadcast partner …

There's nothing wrong with liquidity

… ? Time was, the region was teeming with believers—be it believers in a company or believers in the sometimes naive, lottery-ticket hope that options would make them billionaires. People who work at the most highly valued startup in Silicon Valley and rush …

The box office Twitter effect. Fact or fiction?

… they have to damage box office sales. Ticket sales for "Bruno," for instance, dropped … exactly if Twitter had an effect on ticket sales. Last fall the teen hit " … on opening weekend. Consumers wooed by free tickets (especially ones that have been procured …