online retail

7 Ways Social Media Influences Purchase

Social media is emerging as an important marketing channel driven by increased consumer adoption of social media technologies and the exponential growth in digital word-of-mouth that is occurring over this medium. Before deploying the right social media strategy for your business, it’s important to understand first how social media influences people’s purchase: Reading a consumer [...]

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Reasons & Facts Why you Should Engage Consumers in Social Media Now

It’s a strange world. Yesterday, someone asked me for social network marketing strategies; and, today another “convincingly” told me (probably convinced by himself) that social networking sites are not for business at all. Are Consumers Spending A Lot of Time on Social Media? When it comes to social networking, more consumers are doing it and [...]

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Everything You Get to Know Cyber Monday

Dec 1 is Cyber Monday for 2008 if you haven’t known yet. comScore reported last year the heaviest online spending day of the season was Cyber Monday (November 26 2007) with $733 million in sales. What is Cyber Monday? The term Cyber Monday refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the ceremonial kick-off of [...]

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Weekly Online Marketing Resources Dec-09-07

News Dell has selected WPP Group to co-create a stand-alone agency [PRWeek] Dell to form agency with WPP to handle all marketing; will invest $4.5 billion over three years Compete Inc released Behavior Matchâ„¢ [Compete via BizReport] The platform uses behavioral targeting to determine which websites are the best bet for marketers based on the [...]

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9 Tips from NCSA and FTC For Online Retailers

They are originally these tips from shop.org for buyers. Here we go: Be trustworthy. Make sure the phone number on the website is working and make sure someone would pick up the phone and give a good impression over the phone. Use Google Alerts to monitor the buzz. List your privacy policy on the website [...]

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