Finally, Google has entered the world of ecommerce. Yesterday, Google unveiled Commerce Search which promises to make e-commerce searching as easy as using Google.com.
The release is timed perfectly for the holiday season rush, which happens to be online retailing’s busiest time of the year.
Google Commerce Search is a new enterprise product which allows website owners [...]
Welcome to Friday’s version of surveys, research and statistics to ponder. Of course, how and what you ponder always has more to do with the source of the statistics and your mood which makes the numbers kinda funky but ‘Hey!’, if we didn’t have stats what would we do with our days?
This latest statistical ‘he [...]
Just a reminder here that one of two of the busiest holiday shopping days of the season is fast approaching. The season officially kicks off with Black Friday. This day traditionally marks the start of the holiday shopping season and has long been known for great sales, stores opening extra early and pure customer mayhem.
Wanted to post a quick note here to remind any store owners that want to take advantage of Cyber Monday (the Monday after Thanksgiving) that it is quickly approaching. If you want to take advantage of it make sure you got your “best promo” ready to run for the day and begin promoting that “sale” [...]
Do you ever notice that you have very little sales from your web store, but always seem to be answering questions from your customers asking you “how they can buy”, or asking questions about your store policies, or maybe it’s a question about a single product?
Your answer is probably “No, I don’t?”
Do you know why [...]
This Monday Google launched a new face for Google Base called Google Merchant Center which allows ecommerce businesses to upload product feeds to Google so individual products are searchable via Google Product Search (once known as Froogle).
I am not sure what drove the reasoning behind this transition but the new name definitely makes more sense [...]
The New York Times and Techflash are leading news this morning about Amazon and how it looks like it will become the Wal-Mart of the internet. The question is, is anyone ready to follow or take on Amazon on its own turf.
All ecommerce companies should be looking at what Amazon is doing right now [...]