Ecommerce

A pair of surveys released this month indicate that social media is becoming a must for online retailers

The high-flying coffee chain Starbucks has taken quite a tumble in 2008, thanks to the declining economy and growing competition from fast food giant McDonald

Mobile marketers will be thrilled this holiday season as iPhone 3Gs fly off shelves. Why?

By all accounts, the 2008 holiday shopping season is poised to be one the most challenging in recent memory. But perhaps the silver lining in this cloud is the fact

Is your site set for the holiday season? It better be, because the spike in traffic is going to come sooner than you think, at least according to a survey released today by digital marketer Oneupweb.

Google announced last December that Webkinz was second in its top-ten fastest rising search terms of 2007. Not bad for a children

Multichannel merchants are getting good at identifying the many relevant keywords that drive their business for pay-per-click. But what about targeting those terms for organic results where perhaps 95% of searchers actually click?

Consumers

Even store customers are getting more Web savvy. The number of U.S. consumers using the Web to research items before buying them in a store has risen 10% since 2006, according to a study released last week by Vertis Communications.

When writing Website copy, thinking like a search engine is usually a good thing. Go too far with it, though, and you can end up with spam-flavored Web