Blog Entries tagged 'eCommerce'

Web Entrepreneurial Tips and Resources

larry — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We get asked all the time for web entrepreneurial tips and resources. We hear it so often that it seems we should include a section in our newsletter called "Web Entrepreneurial Tips and Resources". Soooooo, we will, be on the look out for them!

Of course there are jillions (technical term for a bunch) of resources on the web, some free and some not so free - some accurate and some not so accurate, where one can research and understand "what's going on". Well [...]

The Online Retail Bar Has Been Raised

larry — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 00:00:00 +0100

The year end retail numbers are being reported and US online spending during the 2007 holiday season (November and December) totaled $29.2 billion, roughly an 18.5% increase over 2006.

An 18.5% growth is a noticeable drop-off from the prior year's 25% rate and is the lowest online holiday sales growth rate since 2003. It's now clear that retail e-commerce reached an important modulation point in 2003 when increased spending by existing online buyers replaced new on [...]