Posts tagged with 'Amazon'
I've recently seen a growing number of people encouraging businesses to look at 'cloud hosting' solutions such as Amazon's EC2 and Rackspace's Mosso.
Cloud hosting takes the concept of cloud computing into the realm of hosting.
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by Patrick Oak
07 July 2008 08:45am
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User product reviews are a must for retailers and when used well can enhance the credibility of a site and nudge customers towards buying a product.
Reviews can have the benefit of bumping up conversion rates and average order values, as well as providing some unique content for the search engines.
Here are some tips for retailers on providing user product reviews...
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by Graham Charlton
30 June 2008 12:40pm
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Zoomii, launched last week, is a virtual bookstore that displays books from Amazon.
The site is built on Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud and uses the Amazon S3 hosted storage service. Buyers are directed to the online retail giant via an affiliate link.
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by Graham Charlton
25 June 2008 08:30am
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Jonathan Wall is the marketing director at Dabs.com, the online technology retailer bought by BT in 2006.
Here, we ask him about the company’s latest efforts around acquisition, conversion and retention, including a current project to digitise its print catalogues.
He also gives us some interesting thoughts on cashback affiliates and shopping comparison sites, as well as the good stuff IT manufacturers are doing to support retailers like Dabs.
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by Richard Maven
10 June 2008 13:26pm
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BookRabbit is a recently launched website which combines book retailing with some very useful social network features. Users can upload their bookshelves and compare these with other users.
We recently talked to MD Kieron Smith, who has previously managed e-commerce operations at both Waterstones and Game Group....
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by Graham Charlton
05 June 2008 08:45am
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Bookseller Borders has launched a revamped version of its US site, with a new UK version to follow soon.
We've taken a look to see how it measures up from a user experience perspective...
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by Graham Charlton
29 May 2008 12:49pm
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Leon Bailey Green gives fashion retailers five tips to think about for increasing revenue and sales.
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by Guest Author
21 April 2008 10:00am
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Amazon this week introduced a new service in the US that lets customers buy products from the site by text message.
With the new system, dubbed 'TextBuyIt', mobile users can text a product name, search term or ISBN number to Amazon, and will get the top two results from the search sent back to them.
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by Graham Charlton
04 April 2008 11:45am
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Amazon has unveiled a new design for its UK site, with a new homepage and navigation system.
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by Graham Charlton
24 March 2008 09:00am
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Amazon is one of the great e-commerce success stories, and we often use the site as an example of best practice. But what can it improve?
The site's usability isn't perfect but users have become familiar with the way it works, and Amazon won't want to mess with a winning formula. It's the same story with eBay. Change isn't so easy once you achieve scale at a global level.
Nevertheless we've spotted some areas that could be improved upon...
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by Graham Charlton
07 March 2008 12:54pm
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