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Marketing for holiday season should begin in October
July 10, 2008 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 e-commerce platform provider. During 2007’s fourth quarter, online merchants in the MarketLive ...
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Reliability and scalability are key to third-party platforms, retailer says
Jun. 17, 2008 One Way Furniture Inc. CEO Mitch Lieberman began his business on what he calls a “paper platform” with binders holding printouts of e-mailed orders. The business made the leap from hard copy to electronic as an on online store on the Yahoo Merchant Solutions e-commerce platform, also known as Yahoo ...
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AKAMAI ENABLES JC WHITNEY TO IMPROVE SITE PERFORMANCE AND INCREASE CONVERSION RATES LEVERAGING DYNAMIC SITE ACCELERATOR
Jun. 10, 2008 INTERNET RETAILER CONFERENCE, CHICAGO, IL – June 10, 2008 - Akamai Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: AKAM), the leader in powering rich media, dynamic transactions and enterprise applications online, today announced that it has helped JC Whitney, the largest direct marketer of name-brand automotive parts ...

It’s summer; Santa is getting near
Jun. 1, 2008 Before holiday bells ring, retailers get their sleighs ready to fly By Paul Demery It may have been spring to most retailers, but to apparel retailer Roots Canada Ltd., it was Christmas in May. The weekend of May 3 and 4, Roots processed more than triple its usual number of orders, close to the volume ...
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With only 338 days to Christmas, Hitwise offers tips for 2008 holidays
Jan. 22, 2008 It’s not too soon for online merchants to start planning for the 2008 holiday season, and web measurement firm Hitwise says the just-completed holiday rush offers some valuable lessons. Comparison shopping engines are worth the effort, Hitwise concludes in its newly released “Holiday 2007 Retail Recap ...
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With strong finish, online holiday sales end up ahead 19%, comScore says
Jan. 7, 2008 Online retail sales picked up steam between Thanksgiving and Christmas, growing at a 21% rate over 2006 during that period. With that strong finish, online sales wound up ahead 19% over last year for the two-month holiday season, says web measurement firm comScore Inc. That increase fell just short ...
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Amid economic weakness, online holiday sales outpaced offline sales
Jan. 1, 2008 Online holiday sales grew substantially in the fourth quarter, but not at the rates of prior years, as lower-income consumers in particular cut back on spending as the economy weakened. Sales from Nov. 1 to Dec. 16 totaled $23.48 billion, up 19% from the same period in 2006, according to web measurement ...
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After post-Thanksgiving outage, Yahoo strives to reassure Yahoo Store retailers
Jan. 1, 2008 The Monday after Thanksgiving 2007 arrived as usual with high expectations among e-retailers of a busy kick-off to online holiday sales, but for OneWayFurniture.com and most of the more than 40,000 other merchants on the Yahoo Merchant Solutions e-commerce platform, the day was a disappointment. Database ...
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Gem of an Idea
Jan. 1, 2008 Bella of Cape Cod moves the Tupperware house party to the web By Don Davis Megan Murphy and Catherine Bean like to describe themselves as two stay-at-home moms from Cape Cod who started a jewelry retailing business. But now, they admit, they’re not home all that much. That’s because of the sudden success ...
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Shoppers spent nearly $28 billion online this holiday season, comScore says
Dec. 31, 2007 Shoppers spent nearly $28 billion online between November 1 and December 27, a 19% increase over last year, according to data released by comScore Networks Inc. "Even as the holiday shopping season winds down after Christmas, we continue to see some relatively strong online spending days," ...
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