Tag: Online Retail

If You’re in Online Retail, You Better Be Thinking About Support [Infographic]
This may come as a shock to you, but it’s a good idea not to piss your customers off. And nothing pisses customers off more than poor customer service. That goes for online busines...
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Thanksgiving Day Retail Traffic, Sales Increases
Shoppers appeared to get a head-start on the Black Friday shopping scramble by resorting to online retail on Thanksgiving Day to commence the holiday shopping season. Among the top...
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Is Facebook Still Cool?
I re-watched The Social Network the other night, and it’s funny to think abou...
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Google Trusted Stores Launched
Google announced the launch of Trusted Stores today. This is a pilot program aimed at helping online shoppers find online merchant...
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Google’s Advice for Online Retailers
In a recent post to its Google Retail Advertising Blog, Google provided a handful of tip...
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Amazon Attracts 1 in 5 Internet Users
comScore released a report today on the top global retail and auction sites, finding that Amazon sites were visited by one in five global Inte...
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Online Retail Spending Up 14% From Last Year
comScore put out its Q2 e-commerce sales estimates, and reported that e-commerce retail spending in the U.S. increased by 14% for the quarter...
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Big Growth In U.S. Retail Ecommerce Sales Predicted
Companies that sell stuff online may have a rather profitable stretch of years ahead of them if a new forecast from eMarketer is to be believed.  eMarketer thinks U.S. retail ecomm...
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Online Retail Websites Performed Above Average During Holidays
Williams-Sonoma was named as the best online retailer during the 2010 holiday season, with an availability of 99.98 percent and an average response time of 11.58 seconds...
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eBay Pays $200 Million to Acquire Brands4friends [Update]
Update: eBay just announced that it has completed the acquisition.  Original Article (12/20): eBay announced that it is acqui...
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comScore Documents Record Online Retail Holiday Season
Heading into the holiday season, many economic experts seemed to fear that the average present would be a homemade scarf or coffee mug.  Instead, the latest (and probably l...
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Amazon Shows What People Bought (and Wanted) Most in 2010
Amazon released its "Best of 2010" lists today, which list the bestselling, most-wished-for, and most popular gift products of the year. ...
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Experian Hitwise Finds Holiday Retail Traffic Consistently Up
As we wrap up 2010, there's still more evidence online retailers came out of the holiday shopping season in good shape.  Experian Hitwise shared data indicating that retail...
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Sears and Kmart Launch Movie Download Service
Sears has launched a new online movie download service called Alphaline Entertainment. It lets customers of Sears and Kmart download...
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UK Online Retailers Score Big On Boxing Day
Many retail sites that cater to people in the UK had a great time of things yesterday.  In keeping with tradition (and barring some strange New Year's Eve surge), new UK-sp...
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