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• Forecasting Repeat Sales at CDNOW: A Case Study

  The author conducted a modeling exercise in conjunction with the online music retailer CDNOW to develop a simple stochastic model of buyer behavior capable of forecasting medium-term aggregate CD purchasing by a cohort of new customers. The author modeled weekly sales using a finite mixture of beta-geometric distributions with a...

  White papers 2001-06-01

  Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, CDNow, forecasting, online music, sales, modeling, spreadsheet, CD, environment, job

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• SightSound settlement.(Vidbits)(Sightsound Technologies)(CDNOW Inc.)(N2K Inc.)(Brief Article)

  * Bertelsmann Music subsidiaries CDNow and N2K have agreed not to contest a series of patents held by Mount Lebanon, Pa.-based SightSound Technologies covering the commercial downloading of music via the Internet. The agreement, part of an out-of-court settlement in SightSound's patent infringement case against the...

  Articles 2004-03-01

• Lessons from the tech boom-bust: overpromise and overspend, and you will likely overreact. (Executive Suite).

  FOR A WHILE IN THE 1990S, WE FORGOT that the mortgage industry doesn't move at the same breakneck speed as consumer electronics, the computer chip sector or online sales of books and CDs. A number of mortgage industry dotcoms hit the Web amid fanfare and...

  Articles 2003-03-01

• Why Online Sales of Music CDs Are Plummeting.(Industry Overview)

  CD sales by online sites like Amazon.com, buy.com, CDNow.com and other music peddlers are in a suicide dive, according to new comScore Media Metrix research and the real reason may be a dearth of imagination on the part of the record labels. Online...

  Articles 2002-11-11

• Online Music Retailer to Leave Philadelphia Area.

  By Reid Kanaley, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 9--CDNow, we'll see thee later. The online music retailer that was born in the Philadelphia suburbs in 1994 is set to vanish from the local landscape. ...

  Articles 2002-11-09

• SightSound patent might bite studios. (Video-on-Demand).(Brief Article)

  In a twist that could put a kink in the online plans of studios and record companies, a federal magistrate in Pennsylvania has ruled that patents held by SightSound Technologies for distributing audio and video files through telecommunications networks also cover the Internet. ...

  Articles 2002-02-18

• Napster initiates beta trial launch - Brief Article

  INTERNET BUSINESS NEWS-C1995-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD Online music web site Napster will launch a beta test version of its new service to 20,000 users randomly selected from a group that expressed interest in participating. The new version of Napster will reportedly offer over 100,000...

  Articles 2002-01-14

• Napster initiates beta trial launch

  TELECOMWORLDWIRE-11 January 2002-Napster initiates beta trial launch C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com Online music web site Napster will launch a beta test version of its new service to a selection of 20,000 users randomly selected from a group that expressed interest in participating. The...

  Articles 2002-01-11

• Distributor SightSound axes Web VoD offering.(SightSound Technologies lays off employees)(Brief Article)

  Independent Internet film distributor SightSound Technologies has laid off most of its staff and will henceforth focus on pending litigation against Bertelsmann-owned CDNow. Three-year-old lawsuit alleges that technology used on CDNow.com to offer consumers downloadable music infringes SightSound patents. SightSound (USA; +...

  Articles 2001-08-01

• Three Friends Stay in Philadelphia to Pursue High Technology Dreams.

  By Wendy Tanaka, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 18--Call them the three dot-keteers, three former Penn fraternity brothers who decided to stick around and buck the area's "brain drain." Instead of chasing dot-com dreams in bigger...

  Articles 2001-06-18

• CDNow.com Taking Notes - Marketing - Brief Article

  After years of million-dollar losses and an inevitable take over by Bertelsmann, CDNow.com is looking for ways to maximize its marketing budget. As a result, it is birthing creative initiatives such as its CDNow Musicologists" tour. Hitting seven cities, including Atlanta, Detroit and Los Angeles, the tour will...

  Articles 2001-06-04

• TOOLS; MAY 2001.(includes multiple products and services)(Brief Article)

  Banding Together Although dot.coms are dropping like flies, surviving merchants are showing faith in eVguide, a 16-page booklet featuring advertising from e-merchants that is mailed to online buyers within two weeks of purchase. Merchants can also target consumers within seconds of...

  Articles 2001-05-01

• OFF THE RECORD: A Fine New Jersey "Colleen"

  Farragher, MikeIrish Voice05-01-2001OFF THE RECORD: A Fine New Jersey "Colleen"BY MIKE FARRAGHERCOLLEEN Fitzpatrick, a comely lass from Old Bridge, New Jersey, is themedia dynamo behind the concept known as Vitamin C. She not only sings, sheacts, has a Mattel doll made in her likeness, and has had a lipstick shadenamed...

  Articles 2001-05-01

• Judge Stops Securities-Fraud Lawsuit against Internet Music Retailer CDnow.

  By Joseph A. Slobodzian, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 13--A federal judge yesterday dismissed a class-action securities-fraud lawsuit against Internet music retailer CDnow Inc., ruling that the plaintiffs had failed to prove that corporate officers had misled...

  Articles 2001-04-13

• Villa Mt. Eden Winery Partners with CDNOW for National Music for Your Mouth Consumer Program; Hispanic Point of Sale Materials Highlight the Retail Program in Select Markets

  Business Editors ST. HELENA, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--March 23, 2001 Celebrating the lifestyle connection between wine and music, Napa Valley winery Villa Mt. Eden teams up with online retailer CDNOW for an innovative national consumer retail program. "Music for Your Mouth," which runs now through May,...

  Articles 2001-03-23

• Double Trouble for Brothers

  Irish Voice01-30-2001Double Trouble for Brothers?ICAN just see the t-shirt now: "The brothers in arms tour." Fightingsiblings Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis are set to join battling brothersChris and Rich Robinson from the Black Crowes on a summer tour of theStates.I personally wouldn't want to be the insurance agent that...

  Articles 2001-01-30

• Lily Drums Up Support for Bra Launch - Brief Article

  Lily of France, which revamped its rather staid image with last year's daring X-Bra ads, will mine the same edgy territory with its RockOnColor entry, backed by print ads and a cross promotion with CDnow.com. Creative, via D'Arcy, New York, dials up the music theme in print ads...

  Articles 2001-01-22

• Virtual Service.(Brief Article)

  E-tailers invest in fulfillment systems to meet the holiday rush5 ONLLNE MARKETERS in the fourth quarter of 2000 were determined to avoid the snafus that plagued them the previous holiday season. For many, that meant rethinking and revamping fulfillment operations. We ...

  Articles 2001-01-01

• CDNow.com to Re-open Award Central on Web Site - Brief Article

  FT.WASHINGTON, PA.--CDNow.com's first initiative from its year-long $6 million "Never Miss a Beat" effort is reopening the Award Central portion of its Web site. Set to go live this month, the site will offer promotions and discounts for artists featured in Q1 music award shows, including the Grammys, Academy Awards...

  Articles 2001-01-01

• Express.com Squeaks by Amazon.com for the Win in Forrester's Latest Movies PowerRankings

  Business/Technology Editors CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--BUSINESS WIRE--Nov. 15, 2000 Express.com edged into the top spot by less than one point with high scores in usability and service in the latest PowerRankingsTM of online movie sellers by Forrester Research, Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR). Forrester PowerRankings combines survey data from online...

  Articles 2000-11-15