| Newsletter Archive: 2008 |
Make The Most of This Holiday With Cart Optimization Tips Helpful hints for maximizing your business budget Rackspace® Hosting is the realistic way to cut back on costs without cutting back on the results. You immediately reduce your hardware expenditures and payroll expenses with one smart decision. No more owning and maintaining your hardware or hiring the experts to run it for you in-house. Date: 2008-12-08 Experience the Rackspace difference Customer Link Building with Promo Codes Build Sales Documents With BigMachines Applications BigMachines, Inc. announced that it is developing a new native application on the Force.com platform from salesforce.com. The announcement was made today at Dreamforce '08, salesforce.com's User and Developer Conference. Date: 2008-11-04 The True Value of a Hosting Provider A Managed Rackspace Server is a single, affordable line item in your budget that gives you more value than a list of costly hardware expenditures and payroll expenses. You don't have to worry about upfront and on-going capital expenditures because we own and manage the servers, devices and network for you. Date: 2008-10-13 How Do Online Customers Feel? IT Solutions that Provide Peace of Mind When your company depends on its web site to be online all the time, managed hosting from Rackspace® Hosting is the smart and cost-effective solution. We provide 100% network uptime, responsiveness, technical expertise and a secure, high-end infrastructure. Date: 2008-09-15 PR For Your Online Business eCommerce Gets a Wake Up Call All the way back in 2006, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Target could be sued over their site not being accessible to the blind. Now over half way through 2008, Target has reached a settlement with regards to the class action lawsuit that ensued. Date: 2008-08-29 Experience Hosting at It's Best Our Toolbox simplifies PCI compliance by handling the long list of technical requirements for you. Date: 2008-08-14 No Credit Card? No Problem. eBay-Buy.com Link Upsets Sellers Leaving aside the issue of whether the company deserves one or not, it seems that eBay can't catch a break. The latest thing making CEO John Donahoe's life harder is some coverage of eBay's deal with Buy.com. Date: 2008-07-14 IT Solutions That Free You Up For What's Really Important Managed hosting is the smart and cost-effective solution for those needing 100% network uptime, responsiveness, technical expertise and a secure, high-end infrastructure. Date: 2008-07-10 Video Influence On eCommerce The Battle Between Fixed Prices And Auctions Very interesting post from Nick Carr re. eBay's auctions vs. fixed price selling. Date: 2008-06-06 EBay's Lawsuit Against Craigslist The public version of eBay's lawsuit against craigslist was filed this week, with a number of redactions (legal for 'censored bits') removed from the official filing, at the request of craigslist (which include the exact number of shares that eBay owns, the exact proportions of shares that others hold, etc. Date: 2008-05-02 Rackspace: Hosting At A Price You Can Manage Every provider will tell you how great their servers, support, uptime, expertise and guarantees are. Take a close look. What they're really offering you is nothing close to what Rackspace does. See for yourself. Date: 2008-04-24 Wal-Mart Pulls SonyBMG & WMG Downloads Top Online Retailers In January Following the holiday bonanza, January can be a dead month for many retailers. Recent numbers from Nielsen revealed the ten companies that best survived (in terms of online conversion rates) the quiet time. Date: 2008-03-14 Online Shoppers Read Several Reviews User reviews are all the rage in online retail. And now a recent study shows that online shoppers typically read multiple reviews before making a purchase online. Research by PowerReviews and the e-tailing group shows that 68% of online shoppers read 4 or more reviews before making a purchase. Date: 2008-02-22 Get The First Experience Right I found some stunning figures on the Marketingcharts.com web site regarding Ecommerce, seriously, I always knew the internet was going to be big, but these numbers are mind-boggling. More than 85% of the world's online population has used the internet to make a purchase - increasing the market for online shopping by 40% in the past two years - according to the latest Nielsen Global Online Survey on internet shopping habits. Date: 2008-02-01 Google Checkout Trends Not Ready For Prime Time Google has created a version of its Trends search comparison tool that allows people to look at Google Checkout and what people buy with it. Since all of the information provided in Google Checkout Trends has been anonymized, as it is in Google Trends, it can provide only general results. Date: 2008-01-11
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