Media and merchandising giant Disney has just announced they’re discontinuing their print catalog business and going 100% e-Commerce to "save money."
Meanwhile, Amazon is going into the print catalog business with offerings in home improvement, kitchen, and electronics.
Who’s right?
What products are people searching for and buying online right now?
No need to guess.
How up are you on what’s happened in eCommerce in 2005?
1. Which product category generated the biggest dollar amount of online sales during the 2005 holiday season?
2. What search engine is responsible for more than 1 out 10 visits to online retail and classifieds sites?
3. How much did advertisers spend on search in 2005?
In Episode 1, we looked at how discussion boards give consumers a chance to comment on the difference between the hype used to sell a particular product and what actually comes in the box.
Sometimes spontaneous forum discussions just aren’t enough. Here are THREE whole web sites dedicated to combatting another kind of hype…
The Internet can be a consumer’s best friend.
Why?
People talk. And on the Internet, they talk in searchable, archived text. It’s a bad faith merchant’s worst nightmare.
Here’s how this works in real life…
On January 8, I published an article on this blog called “The future is here…” about how major US technology companies have been helping the Chinese government censor free speech and persecute Chinese journalists.
Looks like things are starting to change…
I lived in San Francisco from 1990 t0 1998 which spanned the pre-Internet industry days to the heights of dot com mania.
Amazingly, since I moved back east, I’ve only been back twice, both times with a heavy work schedule that precluded fun and games.
Now I’m back for a visit and the third time is a charm…
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