Retailers need to know what they do best if they're going to survive. The Internet has already created many upheavals for them, and it's still causing...
View articleWanna know the real reason e-commerce is going to change the way we shop? It's not the 24X7 instant access to products - anyone with a telephone and a...
View articleWeb technology makes it very easy to communicate quickly with so many people that it's easy to forget the overriding purpose of creating a powerful we...
View articleA seismic shift is underway as consumers turn from the traditional atoms and ink news world to digital media on the web. While daily newspapers still ...
View articleJust what e-tailers want for the holidays: Following the promise of discounts and customer service, three million people will buy online for the first...
View articleNearly two-thirds of Internet users have researched products over the Internet but are reluctant to buy online. The Intermarket Group examines what is...
View articleJean-Pierre Bazinet has a Movie-List web site that links to almost 1000 movie trailers. Sounds good for movie fans and movie studios alike, right? But...
View articleOnce upon a time there were two web sites, each selling genuine Turkish carpets. The first site, PatsCarpets.com does everything right, 'forcing the n...
View articleIn its relatively short life, the web has seen too many trends to count. These trends ebb and flow on the whim of the media that cover them and the ve...
View articleRemember "Leave it To Beaver"? When Dad used to go to work and come home at 5:00 p.m. to see Wally and the Beve? Well, no one works 9 to 5 now. The In...
View articleFirst, an apology. This is yet another article about the (sigh) Y2K thing. Maher agrees that everything that could possibly be written about it has al...
View articleFirms that use traditional marketing techniques rather than Internet strategies are known as "bricks-and-mortars." And they've been dubbed the true lo...
View articleThe global sporting goods category is ripe for transition to the Internet, according to an industry report by Hambrecht & Quist, which predicts $4 bil...
View articleWhile the Internet has shown some performance improvements in recent years, the Web remains slow for conducting serious transactional business, accord...
View articleAre your customers satisfied? You may not actually know. While every site inevitably has its share of disgruntled surfers who seem to be on a mission ...
View articleThe worldwide business-to-consumer e-commerce market will reach $31.2 billion in 1999, up from $11.2 billion in 1998, according to GartnerGroup's Data...
View articleNPD Online found that most pet owners buying their supplies over the Internet are very satisfied with their experience, the problem is the online stor...
View articleGrowth in web usage has led to growing traffic, and sometimes growing revenues. But, high growth in overall use of the web can hide important informat...
View articleLately, the term "viral marketing" seems to have infected many conversations about Internet marketing. Most of us realize that it's not about cooties....
View articleElectronic marketplaces will propel online energy sales to $266 billion by bringing about higher levels of efficiency in wholesale markets, according ...
View articleImproving technologies and an increasing number of Internet users bode well for the future of online gambling, despite debates over its legal status, ...
View articleA couple of weeks back Nick wrote an article under the title, "I'll Kiss You Unless You Tell Me Not To." And he got a bit of feedback on that. A few p...
View articleAfter two days in fabulous Fiji on the South Pacific, Mike's tying up two days of client meetings. Yep, he's got it rough. And as he looks out at the ...
View articleWe get so caught up with revolution that we forget about the forces of evolution. Not long after the arrival of the web browser, many online marketing...
View articleInternet retailing shook off its summer slumber and looks ready for the holiday shopping bonanza, according to the September E-retailing Report from P...
View articleThe role of the brand will change dramatically in the next couple of years. Try to imagine a world where products talk together, coordinate their acti...
View articleSean's been on vacation, tooling around Northern California over routes 1 and 101 near San Francisco, looking at a lot of billboards. They aren't much...
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