
Rumor: Google Creating Amazon Prime Competitor Including Same Day Delivery
TechCrunch says the new service will be called “Google Shopping Express.” Apparently stores like Wal-Mart and Target are some of the...

Google Shopping: New Revenue Stream Or More Of The Same?
The ad community loves free products, and if those products are effective at meeting goals, it’s only right to eventually pay for them....

Report: Worldwide Online Sales Topped $1 Trillion For First Time In 2012
new eMarketer estimate out today. The research firm estimates that B2C online sales grew 21.1 percent last year to $1.097 trillion....

Big Data: Amazon Set To Sell Advertisers On Its Trove Of Consumer Buying Data
reports that after relying on third-party technology and ad exchanges over the past year, Amazon has developed its own in-house...

Study: M-Commerce Ticket Sales Less Than 10 Percent Of Total
Retention Science found in analyzing roughly $40 million of US sports and concert ticket sales during the first eight months of 2012. The...

Cyber Monday Generates $1.46 E-Commerce Haul, Mobile Responsible For More Than $750 Million Over Fiv
projections. Over the the four day extended holiday weekend US e-commerce sales were about $2.86 billion. Cyber Monday online sales were...

‘Amazon Pages’ Let Brands To Express Themselves & Enhance Their Amazon Presence
Marketing on Amazon just became a whole lot more appealing for brands. New, customizable, pages are coming for brands that not only allow...

Seven Best Practices For Black Friday & Cyber Monday
While affiliate marketing strategies should be firmly in place by now, there’s still time to tweak your content and promotions to make...

Cash-Strapped Euro Governments Look To Online Giants For Additional Tax Revenues
criticized and investigated for what several European governments consider to be tax avoidance. In the UK and France in particular Google...

iPad Mini A Great 7-Inch Tablet, But Price A Success Barrier
launch event I had a chance to play with the smaller Apple tablet for about 10 minutes. It initially did look and feel to me, contrary to...

The Tablet Pricing Spectrum: Kindle Fire To Nexus 7 To iPad Mini
Apple announced its new iPad Mini today. One of the key areas being watched was pricing. For the seriously price conscious, the iPad Mini...

Blogging For E-Commerce: Driving Revenue And Traffic
Creating a blog on an e-commerce site for the purpose of revenue generation and branding is a complicated idea. For starters, it’s a...

Schmidt’s Choice: He’d Take Apple CEO Spot Over Amazon & Facebook
Once CEO of Google, now executive chairman, if Eric Schmidt could become CEO of Apple, Amazon or Facebook, which would he choose? Asked...

Report: Fewer Than 1% Of Sales Can Be Tracked Back To Social Media
Forrester suggests that the low numbers could be due to measurement periods required (a 30-day attribution model was used in this report)...

Kindle Ads: The Amazon Bait & Switch
Purchasers of those devices were given the opportunity to buy out of the ads by paying the difference in price between the ad-supported...

Upgraded Kindle Fire Now $159, New “HD” Tablets Also Aggressively Priced
event just concluded without a smartphone announcement. But there were a bunch of new tablets introduced. I’m not going to go through all...

Amazon Introduces “Paperwhite” Kindles & Three Versions Of Kindle Fire HD
Today Amazon announced new “Paperwhite” models of its Kindle ebook reader as well as a new Kindle Fire HD edition of its tablet, a...

Holiday Shopping In August? For Merchants, Now’s The Time To Prepare
There’s no snow on the horizon yet, but ecommerce retailers are plotting and finalizing their holiday marketing strategies,...

7 Big Mistakes New Affiliate Marketers Make
When I first started in affiliate marketing, all I wanted was to just make money. Off I ran in every direction, trying everything, with...
























