e-Commerce Category
Social networking site, Facebook, is used by more than 350 million people to share personal and business with friends, colleagues, customers and prospects. The social media giant will soon be turning six and has not ceased to attract members with demographics that could serve e-tailers well in terms of extending market reach and increasing branding.
Clearly, [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on January 28th, 2010
Shopping has now come to Facebook’s live feed offering users a new online shopping experience.
While brands have previously used Facebook to mainly set up product ad campaigns, fan pages as well as promote and sometimes sell products on a separate tab on their fan pages, now they can sell directly off the feed page.
The functionality, [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on January 20th, 2010
In continuation to our intervention in BusinessMedia24’s half-day roundtable session which touched mainly on e-Commerce and the shift in consumption from the offline to the online, here’s the full extract I recently received from Francesco Marino, Business Media’s Publisher, which has also been published on the May issue of Top Trade Informatica.
Text is in Italian, [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on May 19th, 2009
Yesterday, 77 was flattered to participate in a half-day roundtable session held at Il Sole 24 Ore’s publishing division, BusinessMedia 24, where we were invited by Francesco Marino, Business Media’s Publisher, as the only agency amongst a panel of participants which included Managing and General Directors of prominent companies such as Media World, Euronics, Esprinet [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on March 20th, 2009
We can all agree that in time of adversity great ideas can come about and the online industry, as history shows us, can become quite innovative.
Advertising Age’s White Paper presents us with a complete study on recession-time case studies along with some of the most iconic online marketing campaigns that have succeeded during downturns from [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on December 11th, 2008
As Christmas draws near and everyone makes plans for their upcoming vacations, people are also looking into making their Holiday gifts and thoughts, unforgettable ones. Send a Thought, an online gifting service, brings boxes of thought for all occasions to the tip of your fingers.
Not only are we traversing a period where emails, the Internet, [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on December 4th, 2008
TiVo, the provider of technology and services for digital video and Amazon.com have set to introduce a ‘product purchase’ feature today that will bring the idea of home shopping to a different level and redefine the art of watching TV.
Starting now, both TiVo subscribers and Amazon customers will be able to shop for anything they [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on July 22nd, 2008
Today Amazon.com announced the launch of its Video on Demand online store where users will be able to pick over an array of 40,000 movies and television programs right off the bat.
You choose, you order, it streams.
Clearly it’s a lot better than most internet video stores, won’t name call, which require you to chill in [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on July 17th, 2008
Consumers do still not all trust online shopping, reports
MSNBC.com. 77 alerts marketers that this report should shift the focus of advertising from e-commerce newbies to experienced online buyers. The report says that the people who are not shopping online yet, probably never will. E-Commerce will [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on September 8th, 2007
If your site supports e-commerce, this research gives a good overview of what customers want. Sterling Commerce and Deloitte found out what the key points are for customers that order products, whether that is online, via catalog or from a physical store. The most important results [...]
Posted in e-Commerce on August 29th, 2007
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