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		<title>Mobile Shopping Perils &amp; Promises</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160;Powered by Max Banner Ads&#160;Smart retailers, in New Zealand as well as elsewhere, are resorting to a low-tech solution to (at least in part) combat the latest high-tech challenge: mobile phone scanners that allows customer to scan bar codes on merchandise and then find the cheapest prices elsewhere. The low-tech solution? Print price labels with the [...]


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		<link>http://ecommerce.org.nz/2010/03/mobile-shopping-perils-and-promises/</link>
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		<title>Afraid of Customer Reviews? A Word of Advice.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you hesitant about implementing ratings and reviews on your website because you&#8217;re concerned about negative comments? It&#8217;s a common complaint. The US National Retail Federation&#8217;s Ellen Davis spoke about the issue to Brett Hurt, CEO of BazaarVoice, a social commerce technology company that powers ratings and reviews for 50 of the top 100 US retailers. Here&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>Is  Customer Loyalty Even Possible Online?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How does a brand create loyalty when shoppers can easily switch to other brands they see on the Internet? David Selinger, CEO of Rich Relevance, a San Francisco company that makes personalization and product recommendation tools for eCommerce sites, such as Sears, WestLaw and Patagonia, shared his insights in a recent Forbes article. Creating and [...]


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		<title>Coupons and/or Promotional Codes: Now is the Hour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s never been a better time to offer coupons and/or promotional codes than right now, in the current economic conditions. Consumers have started to rediscover &#8216;The Joy of Coupons&#8217;, with US coupon usage rising in 2009 for the first time since 1992. That&#8217;s according to Inmar, a leading promotion transaction settlement provider. US coupon distribution [...]


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		<title>The State of Online Retailing: US 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The average customer service cost per online order for American retailers surveyed in mid-2009 was US$4.30. That stat comes from Shop.org&#8217;s The State of Retailing Online 2009: Merchandising Report, conducted by Forrester Research amongst 119 US retailers. Based on that research, it seems that optimizing the basics – not just adding “shiny objects” – is [...]


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		<link>http://ecommerce.org.nz/2010/02/the-state-of-online-retailing-us-2009/</link>
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		<title>Where &#8220;stylish young Kiwi professionals&#8221; shop online</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Recession? What recession? Not everyone has bought into the notion of doom and gloom and economic downturn that&#8217;s been afflicting the chattering classes around here. An Experian Hitwise study (the New Zealand Lifestyle Mosaic Report) compiled by Senior Analyst Sandra Hanchard explores the online behaviour of this lucrative segment, which it dubs &#8220;Urban Intelligence&#8221;: Urban [...]


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		<link>http://ecommerce.org.nz/2010/02/where-stylish-young-kiwi-professionals-shop-online/</link>
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		<title>Top Ten Tips to stop eCommerce becoming eChaos</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The best investment you can make in any eCommerce project, according to UK e-commerce and marketing consultant James Gurd? Spend the time and money required to scope the project comprehensively BEFORE you invite any organisations to bid on the project. That may seem obvious, but (as Mr Gurd observes in his article on the Econsultancy [...]


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		<link>http://ecommerce.org.nz/2010/02/top-ten-tips-to-stop-ecommerce-becoming-echaos/</link>
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		<title>Australian &#8220;Catch of the Day&#8221; site launches in NZ</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Catch of the Day online shopping operator has been operating in Australia for more than three years, offering &#8220;one deal a day, every day&#8221;. Today it arrived in New Zealand. From midday, the CatchOfTheDayNZ site has gone live. The first deal on offer: Two Hoyts Movie Passes for a combined total of just $9.95 [...]


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		<link>http://ecommerce.org.nz/2010/02/australian-catch-of-the-day-site-launches-in-nz/</link>
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		<title>Facebook to add eCommerce capabilities?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Internet advertising news site Adotas is speculating that Facebook may be adding ecommerce capabilities to its site. According to the report (based on a Job Ads classified placed by Facebook): Facebook is building a “payments operation” team and looking for a strategist and a payment and risks specialist. The payment operations team will monitor and [...]


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		<link>http://ecommerce.org.nz/2010/01/facebook-to-add-ecommerce-capabilities/</link>
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		<title>Following FTC eCommerce Guidelines</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Federal Trade Commission (FTC)—the US consumer protection agency —offers consumers a number of useful eCommerce guidelines that should also guide organisations looking to offer eCommerce. The FTC recommends: Know who you’re dealing with. Confirm the online seller’s physical address and phone number so you can contact them if you have questions or problems. If [...]


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