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Amazon Introduces Two New Payment Services

Amazon.com has introduced two new online payment services that other retailers can use on their Web sites.The new payment services, Checkout By Amazon and Amazon Simple Pay offer businesses another payment option besides PayPal and Google Checkout.

Online Presence Vital For Offline Retail

The Internet plays an increasingly essential role in retail for brick and mortar retailers, even for purchases made in-store according to a new survey from Nielsen Online.People who had recently made consumer electronics purchases in a brick and mortar store, 80 percent bought from a store whose Web site they visited first. In addition 53 percent purchased from a retailer on whose Web site they had spent the most time.

Amazon To Absorb Holiday Shipping Costs

Online retailers cannot risk raising shipping prices. The sluggish economy combined with high fuel prices are hurting Americans financially but Amazon.com and other online retailers are unlikely to increase shipping costs out of fear of losing customers.Contracts with shippers may protect Amazon and some others as companies look for ways to cut costs. Companies such as Amazon and Overstock depend on low or free shipping to attract business.

Consumers Going Online For In-Store Purchases

ShopLocal, a multi-channel shopping and advertising services firm, said today that its ShopLocal Retail Index was up 29 percent for the month of June, bringing the average number of page views on major retailer sites to 33 percent for the first half of 2008.In June, the index reached 174 for the month (benchmarked at 100 for January 2006), and is based on 245 million page views from 20 million consumer visits to retailers Web sites. The index is designed to track the influence of the Internet on in-store shopping.

Expedia Labels French Worst Tourists

Here was the basic plot of the gore movie, Hostel: Obnoxious American tourists get sold to butchers at a higher rate than tourists from other countries because, well, they're obnoxious American tourists. And that's just not right, because according to a worldwide survey of hotel staffers from Expedia, it's the French who are the most obnoxious tourists. Like we needed a survey; we saw Talladega Nights *.

No Kids, No Votes, No Souls, on eBay

One thing we know about a culture based on money and trade: People will sell anything if allowed, and even when not allowed. eBay proved that point long ago and not half a year goes by without crazy stories of what people will buy and what they will sell. The latest: one German baby; one American Presidential vote.

24 Ways to Get a Customer and Keep a Customer

Let's start with the bad news, and there's kind of a lot of it, before we move on the good news of how to fix it. About three-quarters of online shoppers are unsatisfied with their online shopping experience. The other quarter are, flatly, satisfied, in that even bad pizza is good pizza kind of way. Sort of anticlimactic, isn't it? The good news is there's a lot of opportunity for satisfying customers, even making them very, very happy.

The Transaction of a "Lifetime"

eCommerce has come a long way over the years. You can buy or sell just about anything online. You can buy DVDs, cars, digital music, real estate, and brides. You can sell televisions, cosmetics, hand-made crafts, and even your skin as ad-space. You can apparently even sell your entire life - in a manner of speaking anyway.A 44-year-old man by the name of Ian Usher recently put his up on the auction block via eBay (the only way to go to unload your history).

Borders Launches New Web Site

Borders Group Inc. has launched its own ecommerce site after a year and a half of development and testing.The new site will allow customers to shop online and will also be available on in-store kiosks for people to use while they shop.

The Hottest Trends Of Internet Marketing

In internet marketing circles, there are a handful of names that pretty much everyone should recognize; Danny Sullivan, Dr. Ralph Wilson, and Larry Chase are among them. What? You’ve never heard of Larry Chase?