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The Ecommerce Blogroll: The Weekly Report for June 24
Posted 24 Jun 2009 by Noreen Vincent | Tags: Ecommerce, Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, Facebook, Facebook Connect, multi-channel, Retail, Shopping, social shopping

It's time for the weekly blogroll!  Here's a look at my favorite ecommerce blog posts from this week.  I've covered concepts such as social / community, store locators, blogs, and a link to a blog on the results from a recent survey of online shoppers that looks at what triggers drive their purchase behavior. Read more ...

Top 5 Ecommerce Blogs for Top 500 Retailers
Posted 19 May 2009 by Adam Michelson | Tags: Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Magento

My retail clients often ask me which blogs I follow.  So, I thought it would be helpful to share with everyone the blogs that I find most useful to stay current.  There are a significant number of blogs that are helpful to eBay merchants, and a large number of news repeaters, but a surprisingly few number that provide true insight into the needs of larger retailers. I will leave you with my list I and welcome you to share your Top Ecommerce Blogs in the comment section below.  I'm hoping that you will help me find a few that may change my top 5. Read more ...

The Shop Exchange: $40 Million for US Shopping Club Gilt Groupe
Posted 02 Jul 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Former Doubleclick founder Kevin Ryan has raised a record $40 million of growth capital for his shopping club Gilt Groupe (“Gilt Groupe Raising $40 Million At A Huge Valuation”): Read more ...

The Shop Exchange: Net-a-Porter Grows 48% to $134 Million
Posted 01 Jul 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

The British luxury online fashion merchant Net-a-Porter has raised their revenues in 2008 to the level of 81.5 million pounds ($134 million). Read more ...

Overview of the European Live Shopping Market
Posted 29 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

iBOOD, the European market leader in live shopping is according to Google Trends enjoying more popularity in Poland than in Germany. Read more ...

The Shop Exchange: How The Russian KupiVIP Profits from Otto
Posted 29 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

For enterprises on the lookout for opportunities, Russia counts nowadays along with Turkey as one of the most attractive emerging markets for (electronic) mail order sales. Read more ...

ShowRoomPrive Makes Number 2 Spot in France’s Private Shopping Club Scene
Posted 26 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

As Vente-Privée has dominated an estimated 80-90% of the French market, it’s pretty hard to figure out which of the approximately 70 private shopping clubs comes in second place.From a traffic perspective it’s surely AchatVIP, but looking at revenues it may very well be ShowRoomPrive who has taken the “top” spot last year. Read more ...

EBay 09: eBay Merchants in Germany Turnover 3.1 Billion Euros
Posted 24 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

eBay Germany released for the first time last week their revenue numbers for their professional merchants.From the German press release, from April 2008 to March 2009, 159,000 professional merchants in Germany turned over 3.1 billion euro worth of transactions. The product categories producing the most volume during this period were (in descending order), automobiles, auto-parts, clothing and accessories, sport and then business and industry. Read more ...

Ecommerce Interview: Adding Community for Maximum Return an Interview with Adam Michelson
Posted 23 Jun 2009 by Noreen Vincent | Tags: Community, Ecommerce, Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, Facebook, Facebook Connect

We recently had some time to talk to Adam Michelson, Director of Ecommerce at Optaros, to hear what he is seeing with large retail clients and how they are experiencing the impact (increased traffic, conversion rates and order size) of adding community to their existing online stores. We hope you find this interview interesting and offers ideas around how you could add community to your online store. Here is a quick recap on what is covered in our interview with Adam: Read more ...

Planet Sports / Clubsale at the Social Commerce Forum
Posted 23 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

It’s always been a big exception when established merchants experiment with new business models. Last week at the second Social Commerce Forum, Sven Schlager (Head of E-commerce) and Michael Kuhlmann (Head of Clubsale) from the Primondo spin-off Planet Sports reported on their experiences with Clubsale. Read more ...

Emerging Markets: The Best Turkish Links for the Non-Turkish
Posted 22 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Murat Icer from Deutschland klickt had a few good links to share which should help as an introduction to the Turkish web scene.In English: StartupsInTurkey Read more ...

Emerging Markets: Turkey Firing On All Cylinders
Posted 22 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

According to population, Turkey is after Germany the second largest market compared against all its European neighbours. With respect to number of online users, Turkey has gained impressive ground and currently ranks with its 26.5 million users Number 4 after Germany, the UK and France (and notably ahead of Italy and Spain): Read more ...

Design Atelier: Otto Manager Brings MyFab To Germany
Posted 19 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Jesper Wahrendorf, former head of Business Development New Media at Otto steps up to the plate as German CEO of MyFab and has the goal to bring the online furniture shop to the land of beer and bratwurst. Read more ...

System Swap: Globetrotter Wants to Switch to Magento
Posted 18 Jun 2009 by Jochen Krisch | Tags: Ecommerce solutions, ecommerce Strategy, social shopping

Globetrotter, one of the biggest German online shops wants to wean off its in-house built shop system and in the next year completely switch to Magento. This was reported by the German language periodical t3n-Magazin. Read more ...

Ecommerce Blogroll: The Weekly Report for June 17
Posted 17 Jun 2009 by Noreen Vincent | Tags: Blogs, Cloud, Ecommerce, ecommerce Strategy, Re-platforming, Retail, Shopping, Social Networking, social shopping

You know how bloggers have a blogroll on one of their sidebars, giving you a little insight into what bloggers deem to have a voice of authority?  Well, I have been keeping an eye on some of the blogs that my favorite bloggers recommend, and decided to share my thoughts on the posts from these voices of authority I found most interesting this week. Things that made me go "hmmm..." The Weekly Report:  Ecommerce Blog(s) Roll 1.      Father's Day Online Shoppers Ready to Buy Read more ...

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