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04/01/2009 - Sites Wield Influence
User REVIEWS and recommendations on online retail sites are more useful for typical web shoppers who plan to reduce the amount of money they spend on a variety of products, according to a recent study.
03/01/2009 - Belkin Gets Caught Buying 5-Star REVIEWS
Just last Wednesday, I spent an entire session of my online reputation management workshop explaining how to manage negative product REVIEWS, and increase the positive ones.
03/01/2009 - Retail Landlords Make Deals
As the list of store closings grows, so does the pain felt by retail landlords, not only because of the loss of some major tenants, but also because of a common but little known clause in retail leases.
03/01/2009 - Web Club Touts Deals
DealBundle.com, a worldwide online social shopping club, has been established by YippeeO LLC.
02/01/2009 - Online Fraud Climbs 11 Percent
Ecommerce fraud losses in the U.S. and Canada are expected to reach $4 billion for 2008, an 11 percent increase from 2007, according to CyberSource Corp.
02/01/2009 - Words That Make Or Lose Money
During the recent holiday shopping season, I noticed many stores using terms that seemed to contradict their intended purpose (to generate sales).
12/01/2008 - E-Tail Marketplaces
Small and mid-sized online merchants who have not experimented with e-tail marketplaces are leaving money on the table.
12/01/2008 - Shoptopia Merges Bricks and Clicks
Malls in Virginia and Nevada have launched a social shopping site to drive online shoppers to their local retailers.
11/01/2008 - Holiday Email Tips
Major online retailers began sending holiday emails on October 28th last year, 58 days before Christmas, according to a new report.
11/01/2008 - Monitor Social Networks
While online merchants' use of social networks can bring benefits, they also can carry harmful consequences.
11/01/2008 - Ranking Buyer Satisfaction
Brick-and-mortar units outranked shopping websites when it comes to finding product information, according to the E-tailing Group's fourth annual crosschannel shopping study.
10/01/2008 - Silver and CZ.com
This company carries more than 1,000 different designs of sterling silver jewelry set with CZs and other simulated gemstones.
10/01/2008 - Prep Websites for Holidays
More consumers are expected to shop online this holiday season. Now is the time to make sure your retail website is ready to maximize the potential.
10/01/2008 - Congress Eyes Hot Web Goods
A bill submitted in Congress would require operators of web auction sites to identify and REVIEW the operations of those suspected of selling high volumes of merchandise stolen from retail stores.
09/01/2008 - Ranking Wholesale Marketplaces
In this Internet era, sifting through all the available online marketplaces and search engines to find a wholesale supplier can be extremely time-consuming.
09/01/2008 - Early Holiday Web Marketing
While most consumers don't start holiday shopping in earnest until the day after Thanksgiving, online retailers should begin marketing for the season as early as October, according to MarketLive Inc., an eCommerce platform provider.
08/01/2008 - Shoppers Like Peer REVIEWS
The popularity of shoppers' online REVIEWS of products is leading to the use of peer REVIEWS in emails, too.
08/01/2008 - Refresh Your Brand
Every business should take a periodic REVIEW of its full line of branding materials, which includes the company logo, marketing materials, business cards, packaging, website and any other component that makes for a store's public identity.
08/01/2008 - Gaining Customer Confidence For More Sales
The Internet can provide store owners with a wider channel of distribution for their products.
08/01/2008 - Economy Favors Online Growth
While consumers expect to decrease their overall spending this year, according to a recent survey, the decline will take place more offline than online.
08/01/2008 - Art From Behind Bars
CONVICTED CLOTHING carries a variety of apparel with artwork created by prison inmates, while they were incarcerated.
08/01/2008 - Amazon Adds Office Products
Just in time for Back to School, and in the midst of evidence that people are increasingly turning to the internet instead of driving to stores, Amazon.com Inc. has created a new office supplies section to its website.
07/01/2008 - Meeting Global Challenges
The decline of the U.S. dollar has led many domestic online retailers to consider targeting international markets as a way of expanding their customer base and revenue.
07/01/2008 - Buyers Network Speeds Transactions
In addition to all its free and convenient features, WholesaleCentral.com also allows users to utilize a free Buyers Network.
06/01/2008 - Home Furnishing & Housewares REVIEW
The diverse nature of the Home Furnishings & Housewares niche always makes this an exciting time of year, due to the great many products being released on the wholesale market.
05/01/2008 - Shoppers Research Online
Researching online prior to buying continues to gain among today's online shoppers.
05/01/2008 - Going Organic: Optimizing for Search to Increase Website Sales
Gaining exposure about your web business and its products or services is critical. As I stated in my last column, if a potential customer does not know you exist during their buying process, then you have no chance to make a sale.
04/01/2008 - Toy Safety System
At its meeting during Toy Fair in New York City in February, the Toy Industry Association's (TIA) board of directors unanimously endorsed the general direction of a proposal for a new toy testing.
04/01/2008 - Payment Fraud Grows
The percentage of online revenue lost to fraud in 2007 held steady with 2006 at 1.4 percent.
03/01/2008 - Regulations Anyone?
As the small business committee of the House of Representatives addresses regulatory reform, The National Federation of Independent Business weighs in.
01/01/2008 - Web Buying Habits
Easy search tools were seen as the most useful and desired characteristic of retail websites in a recent survey from The E-tailing Group Inc.
12/01/2007 - Price Perfect Gems
Morfra Designs manufactures a full selection of designer sterling silver jewelry for women, with some designs for men, totaling over 6,000 styles and new designs added daily.
11/01/2007 - Websites to Get Facelifts
As today's shoppers become more discriminating about their interactions online, the stakes are being raised for retailers to provide a consistently positive, more sophisticated experience.
11/01/2007 - Web Apparel Sales Skyrocket
Apparel has become the largest and fastest growing component of internet product sales. Combined online sales of apparel, footwear and fashion accessories, excluding jewelry, moved ahead of computer hardware and software in 2006.
11/01/2007 - Revamped Travel Site Increases Conversions
With ecommerce easily being more than a decade old, one might think that the art of site design would be a little further along than it is.
11/01/2007 - Optimizing Product Pages For Sales
Usability research from Nielsen Norman Group (E-Commerce User Experience, pg. 26) suggests that there are two primary reasons why website visitors decide not to purchase from a website:
11/01/2007 - Dollar Store Strategies
Variety is the spice of life. William Cowper first shared this profound thought with the world nearly 250 years ago.
10/01/2007 - Gifts & Housewares Spark Sales
During the all important fourth quarter, a mix of practical and unusual products is expected to motivate holiday shoppers to dig deeper into their wallets.
10/01/2007 - Fun Friends
In 1998, Julian Parry, CEO and co-founder of Fun Friends, a company that manufactures novelty cell phone covers, was a man with a vision, but he did not know it.
10/01/2007 - Fashion Accessories: Never Out Of Season
The leading sales category for the past two holiday seasons has been Apparel & Clothing, which saw double digit growth, year over year.
10/01/2007 - 10 Tips for Press Releases
Small businesses can now gain widespread dissemination of press releases via companies that distribute them over the internet.
09/01/2007 - Social Shopping Sites
People who love to shop, also love to talk about shopping.
09/01/2007 - Orbitz Biz Site
Orbitz Worldwide, the online travel service, has expanded its Orbitz for Business managed booking tool for small business with a new self managed travel site.
08/01/2007 - Stores Catching Up Online
Retailers that only sell online are rated higher in customer satisfaction than websites operated by brick and mortar retailers. But the latter group is catching up.
08/01/2007 - FashionPenny.com: A Family Tradition Of Success
If you were to make a map of Robert Vayner's personal journey to becoming a successful businessman, it would be dotted with precious minerals.
07/01/2007 - Small Retailers vs. Big Boxes
How do independent retailers compete with the, "big boxes?" Let us face it: It is hard to beat the economies of scale that the big boys enjoy in the retail market.
07/01/2007 - News Archive Offers Insight For Retailers
All of the articles you read in Web Wholesaler Magazine can now be found conveniently online in the "Wholesale News and Article Archive," on Wholesalecentral.com.
07/01/2007 - Merchants Set Up Shop at Facebook
Facebook Inc., the online social network with 24 million active users, now allows merchandisers to develop applications that its users can add to their personal pages. Various name brands have already jumped into the fray.
07/01/2007 - Free Seminars at August Merchandise
ASD/AMD is offering Complimentary Seminars with registration for the August 12-16, 2007 ASD/AMD Trade Shows in Las Vegas.
06/01/2007 - New Web Tactics Engage Buyers
Video streamlining and social networking are among the tactics online retailers are utilizing to engage shoppers, increase shopping trips and build loyalty.
