Sarah Stambler's Marketing with Technology News articles from December 2000

Sarah Stambler's Marketing with Technology News archives from December 2000

Year end Review: E-Commerce in the Year 2000; IDC'S Report Card For E-Business In 2000.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... International Data Corp.'s (IDC) end-of-year review of the e-business industry says that, while the marketplace got off to an excellent start, the p-word (profit) caused more than a few problems. In its weekly B-Business Trends newsletter,...

Holiday Shopping Revenue Doubles Online.(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
December 1, 2000... Although the forecast for many online retailers this winter includes flurries of pink slips, consumers braved turbulent times for dot-coins and handed out more than double what they spent online last year, reports suggest. An ongoing...

E-tailers Look For Customers In All The Wrong Places.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The standard marketing plan for an e-commerce Web site is well established: spend large sums of money on advertising to drive "eyeballs" to Web pages -- those, preferably, are the eyeballs of young, trendy Internet surfers. But a new study...

Offline Shoppers "Influenced" By Web, Study Says.(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... As the Internet becomes more a part of daily life in America, it plays an increasing role in shopping in traditional stores, according to a new study released today by Andersen Consulting. "The Internet is evolving from a purchasing channel...

SpamCop. (Sites).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... SpamCop is a free service that will take your spam e-mail, and notify the offender's Internet service provider that she/he is abusing their e-mail privileges by engaging in spam. Once it receives the complaint an ISP can kick the person off...

Learn all about SMS. (Sites).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... To accompany the launch of its V.box clamshell-style mobile phone with SMS (short message system) keypad, Motorola has opened this new site, which is full of content aimed as fueling the huge growth in the SMS market. Despite not having been...

Monitor Offers Free Research. (Sites).(Brief Article)
December 1, 2000... The Internet Monitor consists of two bi-annually conducted research projects: an online survey, conducted last month among more than 350,000 Internet users worldwide; and a telephone study among samples of approximately 1,000 inhabitants, aged...

The Web's Whimisicality May Do US All In. (Editor's Corner).(Brief Article)(Editorial)
December 1, 2000... Before beginning to write this editorial I went to Webster.com to check on the definition of whimsical. The second listed definition read "subject to erratic behavior or unpredictable change." Whimsical is the right way to describe the web. Hot...