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Interview: Steven Roth Talks About Channel Intelligence Data Feed Services 2008-05-07 17:49:33 This interview marks the second of two we have conducted with the folks over at Channel
Intelligence. For more insights into the company and their services be sure to check out the first interview we did with Vik Murty about SellPath.
As a core part of their solution, Channel Intelligence offers industry leading comparison shopping [...] Read more:Steven
, Services
Interview: Gary MacDougall Talks About ChannelBrain Data Feed Services 2008-04-27 18:18:13 ChannelBrain is Freeportway’s (parent company) service for eCommerce merchants looking to market or sell within Online marketing channels such as comparison shopping engines (CSE’s) and shopping portals. ChannelBrain’s solution is designed to help and facilitate the process of syndicating various products offered by merchants and eTailers to numerous CSE’s all from one, simple to [...] Read more:Services
Bigger BIG Thanks: eCommerce Blog Supporters (01/21/08 to 04/18/08) 2008-04-18 11:00:21 It’s been awhile since we last posted a fresh BIG Thanks
article, so I thought it would be nice to makeup for the ones I missed from end of January up until now. Since I have recently ‘slacklogged‘, many of you haven’t been given the proper thanks you deserve for adding our site to [...] Read more:Supporters
Google Testing New Universal Shopping/Product Results Displays 2008-04-09 10:42:49 While conducting some research last night I accidentally stumbled across what appears to be new GoogleUniversal
testing within organic search results. I noticed the new look and layout on several universal searches I queried such as seattle, wa (featuring both book and news universal results), 10,000 bc (featuring video universal results), ecommerce (featuring [...] Read more:Testing
, Shopping
, Displays
eCopt Back In The Blogging Game On eCommerce Optimization 2008-04-07 14:54:26 So, it’s probably no secret to most of you who are regular readers here that I have been on a break for about the past two months. The beginning of the year is typically my busiest time (from January until taxes are done), hence I felt the need for a little break from blogging [...] Read more:Blogging
, Optimization
Interview: Stuart Larkins Talks About DoubleClick Performics Data Feed Marketing 2008-04-06 18:33:26 We have recently added a new section to our comparison shopping guide dedicated to the top data feed companies that currently offer comparison shopping engine listing services including feed generation, submission, distribution, management and tracking. Some merchants find it difficult to setup, manage and track their individual CSE campaigns and sometimes they just don’t [...] Read more:Stuart
, Marketing
JetBlue Airways Now Accepting PayPal Payments For Online Ticket Purchases 2008-04-03 10:50:24 JetBlue Airways
announced today that they will now be accepting PayPal
payments for passengers who wish to make ticket purchases off of their website, JetBlue.com. Todays partnership between JetBlue and PayPal makes for the fifth major airline to begin accepting PayPal as a website payment option for ticket transactions.
Related Articles:AirTran Airways Now Accepting PayPal [...] Read more:JetBlue
, Ticket
Interview: Anand Jagannathan Discusses iStorez Personalized Shopping 2008-01-30 01:01:48 Today Kriyari, Inc., a Web 2.0 storefront network creator, launched their latest Online retail project, a unique personalized shopping service, called iStorez. Earlier this week I was able to get together with Kriyari’s CEO, Anand
Jagannathan, to discuss iStorez in more detail. In addition, I took advantage of the special site launch preview [...] Read more:Shopping
, Personalized
Yahoo Store Merchants, Get Practical Ecommerce Magazine FREE For One Year 2008-01-29 12:39:17 Practial Ecommerce (PE) and Yahoo
Small Business have teamed up for an excellent offer going on right now where Yahoo Store
merchants can get a full one year subscription to Practical
Ecommerce’s annual print magazine, complete with all 6 issues for FREE (magazine printed bi-monthly). Yes, I said FREE for a year compliments of [...] Read more:Magazine
BIG Thanks: Latest Weekly eCommerce Blog Supporters (01/14/07 to 01/18/07) 2008-01-18 12:50:05 Time again for yet another eCommerce Optimization BIG Thanks
shout out to this weeks blog supporters. We do this regularly to personally reach out and thank (through links and text snippets) other bloggers, authors and sites that either mention us, mention our content, link to us or add us to their blogroll. I really [...] Read more:Supporters
, Weekly
eCommerce Ideas: Using Live Product Links Within Videos & Product Demos 2008-01-14 13:20:56 I came upon an interesting new service for Online sellers the other day and I wanted to share it with all our readers as an eCommerce Idea article. It’s really unique, useful and right in line with current eCommerce trends.
Before we get into the new service I wanted to briefly mention our last eCommerce [...] Read more:Demos
BIG Thanks: Weekly eCommerce Blog Supporters (01/07/08 to 01/11/08) 2008-01-11 14:56:38 Friday again already, wow. Can’t believe how fast this week went by for me. If you’re a regular reader here, you know about our BIG Thanks
articles. For those of you who are not already familiar with the series, it’s basically a way for us to personally thank and link to sites, blogs and [...] Read more:Supporters
, Weekly
New eCommerce Trends Tool: Get Google Checkout Merchant Trend Data 2008-01-11 11:54:36 Caught this announcement on the GoogleCheckout
Blog yesterday and it also appeared on Search Engine Land today. It looks as though Google has added another Trends
tool to their arsenal that caters to eCommerce sellers, shoppers and even eTail professionals and search engine marketers.
The new eCommerce trends tool is called Google Checkout Trends. [...]
eCommerce Ideas: Using Creative Linkbait & Engaging Customers At The Same Time 2008-01-10 12:48:53 It’s always interesting to see the new and innovative ways that Online retailers are coming up with to generate buzz, links and customer interaction on their eCommerce sites in an attempt to boost rankings, visitors, conversions, average orders or sales. Recently, I came across a great example of one retailer who uses creative ideas [...] Read more:Engaging
New Guide Released: Local Search Engines & Business Portals 2008-01-09 13:57:03 I am pleased to announce the release of a new featured guide here on eCommerce Optimization. The guide features a categorized listing of popular local search engines and business portals that can be used by merchants to list, display and syndicate their business information or corporate data into different local/business listing services including Google [...] Read more:Guide
, Local
, Search
, Business
, Portals
, Local Search
Applications Make Unsubscribing From Catalogs Easier: Is Catalog Marketing Done For? 2008-01-07 12:20:42 If you’re like any other person on Earth you have probably subscribed to one or more print catalogs in the past and currently receive them via your mailbox each month. Personally, I receive about 3 -4 paper catalogs each month from companies including Cabelas, Land’s End, Victoria Secret, Business 2.0 and many even a [...] Read more:Marketing
, Applications
, Catalogs
PriceGrabber Gets A Fresh Homepage Design, Much Needed Improvements 2008-01-01 13:04:26 It looks like the folks over at PriceGrabber have rolled out a fresh new look for the comparison shopping sites homepage. There were some initial reports from around the blogoshere that they have been testing it for about a month now, and it looks like they are pleased with it, as the new design [...] Read more:Homepage
Interview: Mel Ronick Spotlights StacksandStacks.com 2007-12-31 12:02:47 It’s time for another Store Spotlight everyone! I have got to say, this is one of the most fun blog series we have done here at eCommerce Optimization. Already I can tell that we will all learn so much from the top 100 retailers who choose to participate in this interview style QandA. The [...] Read more:Spotlights
BIG Thanks: More eCommerce Blog Supporters (12/24/07 to 12/28/07) 2007-12-28 11:22:32 We have a few new sites, blogs or authors to mention in our BIG Thanks
article this week. BIG Thanks is a weekly series we do on Fridays to personally reach out and thank our site supporters and other sites or blogs that link to our articles, mention us or add us to their [...] Read more:Supporters
Comparison Engines Blog By Brian Smith Has A New Look 2007-12-24 13:15:54 Last night I was browsing my Technorati reaction links and spotted a recent one from BrianSmith
’s blog, ComparisonEngines.com. If you’re not already familiar with Brian’s blog, it’s all about comparison shopping engines and understanding the inner workings of them. It also includes comparison shopping tips, news, specifics about data feeds and much, much [...]
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