Bill Hartzer

Chase Paymentech Says 2007 Online Holiday Retail Sales Grew by 29 Percent

Any interesting report is out today from Chase Paymentech, saying that the online holiday retail sales for 2007 grew by a whopping twenty nine percent. The sales volume and the actual number of transactions was gathered at ten of the biggest U.S. online retailer sites during the 2007 holiday shopping season. ...

Top Ten Most Significant eCommerce Developments of the Last Ten Years

The Software & Information Industry Association has come out with what they're calling the top ten most important eCommerce developments of the last decade. Google, launched in September of 1998, ranks amongst the highest. What's disappointing to me is that Google AdWords is on the list. I'm disappointed AdWords is ...

QuikOrder Awarded Patent for One-Click Internet Ordering in E-Commerce Transactions

QuikOrder, Inc. has been awarded U.S. patent no. 7,197,478 for an entry system for the placement of product and service orders via web. This new technology is different than the one-click checkout technology offered at Amazon.com. The QuikOrder technology is called FAVORDER and is the first truly one-click solution for ordering ...

Vertex Internet to Host Maximizing ROI through ECommerce Webinar

Vertex Internet is hosting an interesting ecommerce-related webinar titled "Maximizing ROI through ECommerce". If you're responsible for maximizing ROI with an ecommerce site, you might want to check out this webinar on April 13th. Vertex Internet, a web application development company near Lancaster, Pennsylvania, is hosting a free webinar entitled Maximizing ...

MarketNet Expands E-commerce Services

I'm glad to announce that we're expanding our e-commerce services and hired Matthew Brown to head our e-commerce practice. I'm currently the head of our Search Engine Marketing practice here at Marketnet.com. Matthew Brown, who Mr. Brown has over 12 years e-commerce experience in the domestic and international markets, most recently ...

GoDaddy Offers Extended Validation Certificates

GoDaddy.com(R), largest world's largest registrar, is now offering the new Extended Validation (EV) SSL Certificates. You can use GoDaddy now to purchase them and install them immediately. EV SSLs set a higher standard for secure sites. GoDaddy.com now offers three types of SSL certificates: Go Daddy(R) Turbo SSL(R), High Assurance SSL, ...

Amazon.com Shuts Down Amazon Associates Affiliate Program

Amazon.com has "jumped the gun" so to speak and shut down its affiliate program, the Amazon Associates Program, to associates who live in the State of North Carolina. Amazon.com is taking this unprecedented step of shutting down their affiliate program ahead of what they're calling an "unconstitutional tax collection scheme ...
June 24th 2009
Tags: Word of Mouth Marketing 3 Comments

Zuberance Webinar June 24 Shows How to Turn Word of Mouth into Sales

Zuberance, a Word of Mouth marketing company that provides an on-demand platform that enables B2B and B2C marketers to identify and mobilize their Advocates, generating leads and sales, is hosting a free webinar on June 24th (today) 11 AM Pacific Time about how to turn "word of mouth" into actual ...
June 18th 2009
Tags: Internet Usage 6 Comments

comScore Releases May 2009 Search Engine Rankings

comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), has released its monthly comScore qSearch analysis of the United States search marketplace. In May 2009, Americans conducted 14.3 billion core searches. Google's websites continued to lead the US search market in April 2009 with 65.0 percent of the searches conducted, followed by Yahoo! (20.1 percent), ...
June 17th 2009
Tags: Ask.com, Search Engines 9 Comments

Ask.com Unveils Database of 300 Million Questions and Answers

Got a question? Well, according to Ask.com, they have the answer. Well, apparently they now have the answers to 300 million questions. Ask.com has unveiled a database of 300 million "Q&A pairs". Ask.com used their "proprietary core search technology" launched in the fall of 2008 and came up with 300 million ...
June 8th 2009
Tags: Search Engine Marketing 19 Comments

User Centric Releases Results of Eye Tracking Study: Google Versus Bing

User Centric has released the results of an eye tracking study that compares data between Google and the new Microsoft search engine Bing. What is interesting to note is that sponsored links are attracting more attention than they are on Google. Google users appear to be more aware of the ...

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