12/11/2001
Revisiting Online Travel
The attacks on 11 September and the down economy are factors in PhoCusWright's revised 2001 US online travel estimates. $23.0 billion, predicted in May 2001, is now $20.2 billion (presented October 2001).
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12/4/2001
Forget On- or Offline, 2001 is about Multi-line Shopping
Confirming the recent buzz about multi-channel retail, a 2001 study found that 44% of people in the US say buying online has "somewhat" reduced their offline purchasing behavior -- down from 56.3% in 2000.
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12/4/2001
US online retail up in Q3, says government
Reuters reports that online sales in the US increased slightly in the third quarter, the first increase since Q4 2000.
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12/3/2001
Turning Clicks into Real Orders Part II: The E-media Buy
maximizing your website & ability to generate sales and maximize profit.
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11/9/2001
Consumer Credit Ads Increase as Spending Season Approaches
A soft economy and an approaching holiday season have combined to trigger an increase in online ads for consumer credit services, a report from Jupiter Media Metrix found.
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11/9/2001
Few online shoppers use wish lists
CRM Daily reports that online shoppers have little interest in online gift registries and wish lists.
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10/29/2001
Predicting ROI from e-Business Initiatives (Part 2)
challenges in measuring ROI on e-Business Initiatives
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10/29/2001
Small Manufacturer finds 100% ROI (part 2)
In our last newsletter, we published the first part of a two-part series on Plastopan’s successful launch into e-Business strategy. The first article dealt with the ROI, concept and strategic decision-making process for Plastopan.
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10/12/2001
Internet-influenced retail purchases rising
Europemedia reports that 17 percent of all retail sales in the US this year will either be made online, or be influenced by online research.
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9/24/2001
Email Marketing: The Cost-effective Cornerstone To CRM
Email marketing has rapidly become a cornerstone of Customer Relationship Management (CRM). According to the Aberdeen Group, from 1999 to 2001, email marketing grew by more than 270% and has emerged as one of the crucial applications for marketing today.
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9/24/2001
CRM applications market growing steadily
CRM applications market grew by 84 percent last year, reaching a value of USD6.2 billion
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9/24/2001
Predicting ROI From eBusiness Strategies (Part 1)
As CEO of three prior companies, I often found myself evaluating every investment or business initiative in terms of its effect on my P&L.
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9/24/2001
Your eBusiness Success May Depend on Selecting the Right Developer
The Internet has created a more efficient, cost-effective and streamlined way of conducting and building business.
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9/21/2001
B2C will continue to grow in US
B2C ecommerce revenues in the US are set to rise from USD38.3 billion last year to USD156 billion by 2005, according to eMarketer.
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8/24/2001
Customer Service: What Consumers Want
90% of US consumers have used the phone for customer service, but only 46% are satisfied with its effectiveness. However, 12% of consumers have used an online chat for help and 62% grade it with high satisfaction.
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8/24/2001
Ethnicities Buying Online
31% of online African Americans and 32% of online Hispanics in the US have made internet purchases -- which compares to 69% of the general US market.
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8/17/2001
US small firms take to the Net
A new survey from Dun & Bradstreet has found that two thirds of all small businesses in the US have Internet access and about half of those have a website.
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7/2/2001
Global 'Net Users Plan to Shop Online
Currently 15% of worldwide internet users shop online, but 41% in Japan, 30% in Germany and 28% in Australia plan to shop online in the next 6 months.
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6/29/2001
Index shows sites with selling power
A new buying power index from Diameter shows that the most popular websites are not necessarily those where Internet users spend the most money.
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6/29/2001
Number of Net Users Shopping Online Up 50 Percent
The number of Internet users worldwide who have shopped online has increased by 50 percent over the past year, according to a 36-country study by Taylor Nelson Sofres Interactive (TNSi).
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6/21/2001
Traditional retailers selling more online
One third of revenues for so-called “clicks-and-bricks” companies in the US came from the Internet last year, according to ActivMedia.
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6/19/2001
Travel sites continue to thrive
Traffic to travel websites in the US is up 27 percent among leisure travelers and 10 percent among business travelers, according to new survey results from NFO Plog.
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6/19/2001
Online Spending Drops in May
Total spending on online sales decreased from $4.3 billion in April to $3.9 billion in May, according to the NRF/Forrester Online Retail Index.
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6/15/2001
Monster top of job search sites ranking
Internet users think that recruitment sites are a more effective way of finding work than newspaper job listings are.
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6/11/2001
Half of for-profit sites making money
New research from ActivMedia has found that over half of for-profit websites are already profitable.
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