Archive for Online Retailing Trends
The Merchant Risk Council (MRC), a merchant-led trade association focused on electronic commerce risk and payment strategies, announced on March 10, 2010, the results of their annual Merchant Fraud Survey. The survey was conducted by surveying their top platinum members (200+ of the largest online retailers), so as you look at the survey findings, keep in mind that many of the these companies have pretty sophisticated fraud monitoring tools.
Key Survey Findings: Read more... (221 words, estimated 53 secs reading time)
ComScore Inc. recently announced their its Q4 2009 U.S. retail e-commerce sales estimates which totaled approximately 39 Billion for fourth quarter 2009. This was up 3% over Q4 of the previous year. Total retail e-commerce spending reached $129.8 billion for all of 2009, which was slightly below the previous year’s total of $130.1 billion. Read more... (226 words, estimated 54 secs reading time)
ComScore today released data showing that nearly 178 million U.S. Internet users watched online video during the month of December 2009. Online video viewing continued to reach record levels in December, with 33.2 billion videos viewed during the month.
From the report: Read more... (279 words, estimated 1:07 mins reading time)
Today’s post is not an ecommerce business tip or how-to. Its about where ecommerce is today as an industry and the potential of where it can go. What’s the next big evolution in our industry? For example, mobile ecommerce is rapidly growing and the availability of portable phones, PDAs and devices like the new Apple iPad are creating a significant shift for the web to those delivery platforms. That is happening as we speak. But whats next? What will we see 5-10 years from now? Today’s post came more from the result of daydreaming than it was premeditated on a specific tip. (we are getting slammed with snow today so I find myself looking out the window more than I should be). Read more... (793 words, estimated 3:10 mins reading time)
