Electronic Commerce


E-tailers Losing E-Consumers with Poor Navigation

E-tailers need to shape up their Web sites and improve navigation if they're going to retain customers, according to a recent survey by NetSmart. A...  Read story

Secrets to Wooing Your Online Customers

Wanna know how to keep customers loyal to your e-commerce Web site? Well, NFO Interactive might have the answers you're looking for. According to NFO, con...  Read story

Just Looking

They don't call it a Web browser for nothing. According to a recent survey of 25 top E-commerce sites, conducted by Net Effect Systems, 67% of the merchan...  Read story

Selling on the Internet: How to Get Started and How Much Does it Cost?

For many, the biggest barrier to getting started with doing business on the Internet may very well boil down to two basic questions. How, exactly, do you ...  Read story

Setting Up Shop in Cyberspace

With research firms projecting e-commerce revenues totaling more than $100 billionin 2003, businesses large and small are considering jumping into theelec...  Read story

Is E-Commerce Your Pot of Gold?

E-commerce is hot. More and more small businesses are selling online. Do you think your product or service has what it takes to meet the world market head...  Read story

Test before You Launch

The Internet and E-commerce are maturing at breakneck speed, and the days of getting an E-business started on a wing and a prayer are a diminishing speck ...  Read story

Deliver the Goods or Say Good-Bye

The days of reckless ad spending and haphazard investment are soon to be over as e-commerce pioneers such as CDNow struggle to stay alive and flashy plays...  Read story

The Internet Mini-List: A Subset of the 2000 Inc. 500

This is the year the Internet hit the Inc. 500, Inc. magazine's annual list of the fastest-growing privately held U.S. companies, big ti...  Read story

Everything Old Is New Again

Has the e-commerce bubble burst? If recent reports are to be believed, online business-to-consumer (B2C) businesses are in a slump. Stock prices of many l...  Read story

Retailers Brace for Cyber Monday Surge

More than 60 percent of shoppers say they expect to buy more holiday gifts online this year.  Read story

Will the Grinch Steal Christmas?

Facing grim economic news, many consumers are shortening their holiday shopping lists this year. And store owners across the country are worried. So why are ...  Read story

Business-to-Consumer

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Return Policies

Return policies are the rules retail merchants establish to manage the process by which customers return or exchange unwanted or defective merchandise tha...  Read story

Seller Door

An interview with Glen Meakem, CEO of FreeMarkets OnLine. Meakem explains why Internet commerce increases competition and rewards only the most efficiently r...  Read story

Upstarts: New-Biz Watch

A look at how Toby Lenk founded eToys.com, an online toy retailer that's taking lessons from Amazon.com. Plus, several shorter articles about the unlikely pr...  Read story

Online Consumers Happiest With Google

August 23, 2004 -- A new study says that Americans are increasingly satisfied by the results hauled in by their online search engines - e...  Read story

Hackers Aren't Slackers

Sept. 22, 2004 --According to a new report released Monday, doing business online is becoming increasingly more dangerous, especially for ...  Read story

Congress Votes to Extend Ban on Internet Access Taxes

Congress last week passed legislation that extends by three years the prohibition of states and localities from imposing "discriminatory" taxes on electro...  Read story

Manufacturers Go Online to Boost Business

Jan. 31, 2005 --After wrapping up a healthy year, America's manufacturing sector is looking toward the Internet to keep the party going in...  Read story

Court Ruling Forces Companies to Evaluate Their Website Designs

Sites without an audio component for the blind could be in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act.  Read story

Retailers Start Holiday Promotions Earlier Than Ever

More than a third of consumers say they will begin their shopping by Halloween, according to a new survey.  Read story

Commerce Planet Unveils E-commerce Dashboard

Iventa, Commerce Planet's e-commerce platform and systems provider, is set to launch its new fully integrated e-commerce platform application. Dashboard S...  Read story

Bank of America Offers Online Banking In Spanish

Bank of America (NYSE:BAC) now offers many online banking and financial management features in Spanish, making them more accessible to Hispanic custo...  Read story

Commerce Planet Unveils E-commerce Dashboard

The new applications offer scalability, versatility and data redundancy for small businesses.  Read story

NetSuite Releases Two New Vertical Editions

NetSuite Ecommerce is aimed at retailers looking to expand beyond eBay.  Read story

NetSuite Ecommerce Offers PayPal Express Checkout

The joint solution provides an all-in-one payment platform for online businesses.  Read story

FastCommerce Launches Google E-Commerce Tool

The tool enables small retailers to submit an entire online product catalog.  Read story

Trend Micro Launches Worry-Free Secure Site

The new solution scans sites daily for application vulnerabilities.  Read story

SuiteCommerce Launches NS-BOS Solutions

Features include wish lists and gift registries for smaller online retailers.  Read story

If You Build It, They Will Shop

Tools for creating and souping up an online store  Read story

Survival of the Fastest

Just because you're an Internet business in the digital economy doesn't mean you've got it made in the shade. A panel of E-commerce experts warns of treacher...  Read story

Go Sell It on the Mountain

A look at Blue Mountain Arts' bold plans for turning its popular Web site into an E-commerce moneymaker.  Read story

Are You Ready to Lead the E-Cultural Revolution?

Want to succeed in the new online economy? First, you will need to understand these six fundamental principles that Internet-savvy companies thrive on.  Read story

More and Better Markets

Nobel-prize-winning economist Gary Becker on the next new economy.  Read story

The Next Next Thing

Three entrepreneurs decided they could turn their money-losing brick-and-mortar business into a well-funded dot-com. The question: Will they be able to win S...  Read story

Almost Free E-commerce

Becoming an E-business can be cheap and easy -- if you have the time to do it yourself.  Read story

Own the Code

How to fine-tune your tech.  Read story

The Netty Professor

Marketing professor Bruce Weinberg's study of the online retail experience became something much bigger: a personal obsession with shopping on the Web. Does ...  Read story

Sit! Stay! Make Money! Good Company

Beginning as an information site for dog owners, SitStay.com has turned into a profitable online pet supply store.  Read story