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- Online traffic onCyber Monday up 26% over 2006Millions of Americans set their sights on web sites on November 26 to snap up holiday deals and browse for bargains. According to the Hitwise Retail 100 Index, provided first to Shop.org, traffic to retail web sites on Cyber Monday rose 26 percent...
- Research articles 2007-12-15
- Mall Networks Moves to New Headquarters to Accommodate Rapid Growth and Expansion
- Company takes over 7,200 square feet in Lexington, Mass. LEXINGTON, Mass. -- Mall Networks, the leading provider of online malls and loyalty shopping solutions, today announced that it has moved into new headquarters in Lexington, Mass. Mall Networks will occupy 7,200 square feet at One Cranberry Hill. With...
- Research articles 2007-10-01
- Would Anyone Tell a Friend?
- Shop.org's Strategy & Information Forum is going on this week in Orlando. The theme this year: Web 2.0 and it’s implications for retailing. Neil Clemmons from the Experience Matters blog is attending and picked up a simple but powerful insight from keynote speaker, Andy Sernovitz, one of the founders of...
- Blog posts 2008-01-25
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- Shop.org, NRF Enter Alliance.
- Washington, DC -- Shop.org, a trade association focusing on Internet retailing and direct-to-consumer marketing technologies, has entered into a strategic alliance with the National Retail Federation NRF trade association. The alliance connects Shop.org's knowledge of online retail with the NRF membership, which comprises all retail ...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- The internet and the 'e-solated'
- A decade ago most of us had never used the internet – now we can't imagine life without it. Actually, some of us can: there are 10 million people in the UK still without a connection. Are they, Tim Adams asks, losing out economically and culturally? Below, we ask four...
- News items 2009-10-26
- Allurent Launches to Deliver Rich Internet Commerce Applications for Online Retailers; ATG Founders Reunite to Revolutionize the Online Shopping Experience; Angel Investors Include Alex D'Arbeloff, Bob Forlenza, and Nicholas Negroponte
- CAMBRIDGE, Mass. & LAS VEGAS -- AllurentTM, the Rich Internet Applications for Commerce company, officially launched today at the Shop.org 2005 Annual Summit, the premier event for the Internet retailing industry. The company, founded by the e-commerce visionaries who founded and led ATG (NASDAQ: ARTG), Joe Chung, Fumi Matsumoto, and...
- Research articles 2005-09-12
- Allurent CEO to Discuss the Future of Online Marketing and E-commerce at Shop.org FirstLook 2007
- Panel to Explore the Most Cutting-Edge Trends in Internet Retail
- Research articles 2007-01-29
- Retail Roundup: Online Retailers Optimistic, J.C. Penney Sues Dillard's, and More
- Retailers remain optimistic about online commerce during economic crisis -- About three-fourths of Internet retailers believe online commerce will survive an economic slump better than offline channels, according to a new study conducted by Forrester Research for Shop.org. The report also revealed retailers are seeing climbing profits in their online sectors, meaning even the employees who works in...
- Blog posts 2008-09-30
- Dot.com grows up
- NEW YORK -- Internet retailing has survived the dot.com boom and bust to become a more mature business with an emphasis on profitability and viability. It is also a business that continues to grow, according to McKinsey & Co. director Christiana Shi, who delivered a presentation at the recent...
- Research articles 2005-04-25
- So long, Cyber Monday?
- As long as there has been e-commerce, there has been Cyber Monday. But is that old gem of the new economy endangered? Online retailers for the last decade have counted on the Monday after Thanksgiving to deliver for Web merchants what Black Friday does for bricks-and-mortar stores -- a turbo...
- News items 2009-11-26
- Retailer Ready Cyber Monday Promos
- Cyber Monday, a term coined by Shop.org in 2005, began after retailers noticed a trend of people shopping online on the Monday after Thanksgiving. This year, 87.1 percent of retailers will have a special promotion for Cyber Monday, up from 83.7 percent last year and 72.2 percent in 2007, according...
- News items 2009-11-24
- Colorado Springs Retail Briefs: April 25, 2008
- Shop.org says that technology used to track how consumers shop provides a variety of benefits, isn't harmful and isn't as widely opposed as critics claim. Shop.org, the digital division of the National Retail Federation, is recommending that the Federal Trade Commission move slowly in attempts to set voluntary...
- Research articles 2008-04-25
- Borders' CEO: Retail as Theater
- Many of us thought Borders had missed the boat on e-commerce by hitching its Internet wagon to Amazon.com. CEO George Jones asked for that relationship to be severed when he arrived at Borders in 2006. Two years later, a fully independent Borders.com launched this summer, with multimedia features and a...
- Blog posts 2008-09-22
- Card fraud losses down 23 per cent to 232.8m in first half of 2009
- You are here: News / Card fraud losses down 23 per cent to 232.8m in first half of 2009 First ever fall in card-not-present fraud losses Financial Fraud Action UK reveals. The fraud to turnover rate on debit and credit cards amounted to 0.1 per cent in the first half...
- News items 2009-10-07
- 10 Reasons Social Media isn't Replacing Email
- The Wall Street Journal just ran a piece about the evolution of communication technology, chronicling the rise and alleged fall of email to social media. "Email no longer rules," the title reads.Do you agree that email no longer rules? Tell us why or why not."We all still use email, of course,"...
- News items 2009-10-13
- w w w / URLs "r" us - plans for new domain names - Brief Article
- A new Web site is born every five seconds. So it's no surprise that the ".com," ".net" and ".org" domains can't accommodate the population explosion. Early next year the Internet Corp. for Assigned Names and Numbers Icann will begin assigning sites to new domains to expand the range of...
- Research articles 2000-11-01
- Understanding Mail-Order Sales
- Mail-order sales continue to flourish, in part because companies can attract customers without incurring overhead costs such as retail space and related expenses. Specialty catalogers — particularly those that sell niche items like hand-made apparel, kitchen equipment, luxury items, and organic foods — have enjoyed considerable success. This article looks...
- Articles 2007-11-09
- Federal Farm Payouts Go Public.
- By Russ Keen, American News, Aberdeen, S.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Nov. 18--The topic's as hot as the coffee these days at the Gettysburg coffee shop, and presumably at all such hangouts in rural America. Tongues are wagging about how many...
- Research articles 2001-11-18
- Obtaining Insurance Coverage for a Business
- Every business needs insurance against risks that might threaten its profitability, including theft and work-related injuries. A small business is more vulnerable to the consequences of these incidents, since it rarely has the resources to cover sudden and unexpected expenditures.This article explains what insurance your business is legally required to...
- Articles 2007-10-23
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