Online Shopping Profits More Than Just Retailers 9/28/99, Andrea Orr, Reuters. If Consumer Reports, the magazine, has for years been the undisputed authority for product reviews and brand comparisons in the offline world, the Internet has changed all that. Online shoppers now have a number of places - including bizrate.com deja.com, epinions.com and productopia.com - where they can go not just to buy but to decide what to buy. news.excite.com/news/r/990928/01/net-tech-shopping?printstory=1
Online Merchant Uses Old School Tactics 9/27/99, Gregory Crawford, Reuters. A recent report from Internet analysts at Bear Stearns introduced the concept of the metamediary -- a business that brings buyers and sellers together in a central marketplace and provides transaction services such as financial settlement and quality assurance -- almost a definition of VirtualSellers.com. news.excite.com/news/r/990927/11/net-retail-virtualsellers?printstory=1
Citigroup Opens Internet Portal For Entrepreneurs 9/27/99, Reuters. The portal, called Bizzed.com and located at www.bizzed.com, provides electronic commerce capabilities, payroll and electronic banking, credit card processing, postal services and financial services like insurance and retirement plans and marketing and advertising support, the company said. news.excite.com/news/r/990927/11/net-financial-citigroup?printstory=1
IBM to offer e-commerce security standard 9/27/99, Joe Wilcox, CNET News.com. IBM is betting a new embedded security chip will increase PC sales to companies wary of the risks associated with e-commerce. news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-202-201240.html
Consumer E-Commerce Revenues to Hit $18 Billion in 1999 9/20/99, CyberAtlas. According to the report, business-to-consumer e-commerce in the US accounts for almost one-quarter of total e-commerce worldwide today. cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/retailing/print/0,1323,6061_203381,00.html
IBM to launch e-biz security chip 9/27/99, Derek Caney, Reuters. Embedded chip will give a verifiable digital signature for electronic commerce activities. www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2341719,00.html
Web Is No. 2 Ad and Promo Medium in Tech-Savvy Markets 6/21/99, The Kelsey Group. Based on extensive surveys of businesses in 14 major and secondary U.S. markets, The Local Commerce Monitor shows that the Web has surpassed direct mail as an advertising and promotion medium for businesses, and is closing in on newspaper usage. www.kelseygroup.com/pr990621.htm
Pixels And Brick 5/28/99, Frank Catalano, ClickZ. What's the next frontier for online marketing? Immersive VRML ads? Tastefully personalized Spam? How about something really daring --like moving the entire marketing and sales effort… offline? www.searchz.com/Articles/0528992.shtml
How To Give Your Product Away For Free And Still Make A Fortune! 5/29/99, Sell It!. What is the secret of business success? You may think it is to sell your product at the highest price to the most people. Think again - you can actually make more money by giving your product away! sellitontheweb.com/ezine/opinion033.shtml
