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New Life Event | Ecommerce & Marketing Webinar Today
Hi, just a quick note that today the New Life Event is happening right now! The event is hosted by Shawna Fennell (CEO of 1 Choice 4 Your Store.com) and has been going on all weekend long with 30 Free Live Webinars from various industry experts in ecommerce, search, social media and more! You can Register for [...]
Coupons Change Buyer Behavior @Staples
Coupons have been around for ages and wanted to share my thoughts on how it changed my buying behavior in 24 hours! Recently I returned from Affiliate Summit and now have a large stack of business cards on my desk. The fact that the business card pile is here is good but the fact that [...]
52 Ecommerce Holiday Tips | Vastplanet.com
I prepared a list of the top 52 holiday tips for e-commerce store owners and broke them up into sections; Web Design, Customer Service / Operations, Gift Services, Promotions / Social Media, Advertising / Search and Opportunities / Partnerships. The current economic forces will test online retailers in many ways and the sooner you plan [...]
Trust Agents & Cocktails @ Affiliate Summit Recap 2
The day began with an interesting keynote from Chris Brogan & Julien Smith. As co-authors of the book Trust Agents they described the concept briefly and sparked some ideas from the discussion. The takeaway is to discover who the Trust Agent is in your space and if one doesn’t exist become that influential voice. Got [...]
HOW TO: 7 Ways to Survive in Internet Retailing
I wanted to summarize some of the key strategies an e-commerce merchant can do to survive in today’s economy . The changes in consumer and business online spending, new learning technologies and the rise of social media all means you have to embrace the changes or consider the alternative. I recently attended Internet Retailer 2009 [...]
Social Media Marketing – Have a Personal Guide?
I was reading the highlights from the Social Media Marketing 2009 study by Marketingsherpa and as an active internet marketer I make a point to learn every single day. Social Media is an ever changing animal and just when you think you caught up you didn’t. It is with that thought that I recommend to [...]
Vastplanet clients in TheFind.com 100 favorite online stores
I am pleased to say that we have some exceptional Yahoo Store e-commerce clients on the top 100 favorite online stores by the thefind.com. TheFind discovers the top 100 retailers among 16 main shopping categories and chooses from over 500,000 online stores. From the 500,000 sites they choose 1600 stores. We wanted to say congratulations [...]
Chinese Online Shopping Trends – Taobao, Alibaba, Baidu
According to iResearch the Chinese are really shopping online and companies are investing as well. Alibaba is investing 5 billion Yuan (US$ 725 million) in Taobao.com the online shopping site. Taoboa is China’s #1 auction site by sales volume. Yahoo is an investor in Alibaba and they compete with the search giant Baidu.com which Google [...]
Zappos Facebook Integration into E-Commerce Design
On Zappos today I purchased some shoes and as always was a great shopping experience.
I liked the final part of the shopping experience when they confirmed the order because they take the integration of social networking into e-commerce to heart and I believe it pays off for Zappos. I am always consulting at vastplanet with [...]
Human Behavior in Search Results – plural vs. singular matters
I spend a lot of time learning how people search for things on the Internet. Sometimes you can be very surprised at what you think is the obvious answer and what isn’t.
Q. How do people search for oil painting or oil paintings?
Results 1 – 10 of about 12,200,000 for oil painting
Results 1 – 10 of [...]
PopShops – Automatic Merchandiser for Affiliate Marketing
I originally posted a how to guide on using Popshops in the AffSpot.com Affiliate Marketing forum and and wanted to share with you on the blog as well.
PopShops & Grooming Lounge – Easy Merchandising Tips with datafeeds
We are huge fans of what PopShops.com is doing these days and wanted to make sure you know all [...]
My SEO Secrets by Wil Reynolds of Seer
I was at a great SEO session at Affiliate Summit with Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive. His slides from the presentation are now available and thought I would pass them on as they are excellent.
Wil covered the following and very good at SEO:
- What is Google Knol – what are the advantages of Google [...]
