E-Business Library: October 2005 Archives

E-Business Library > October 31, 2005

Upgraded TypePad Trial

[Redwood Asylum (emeritus)] Re-worked the TypePad test site several times, dumping the earlier partial import and loading the full 1700 post file. TypePad isn't nearly as flexible as Movable Type, but I don't think I need extensive customization.

Path analysis quiz

[Coffee, Sun & Analytics] Here is a screenshot from Fireclick’s Site Explorer (browser overlay) today. Percentage labels indicate click-throughs on the...

Posted at 09:10 AM

October 31, 2005

Upgraded TypePad Trial

Posted at 09:12 AM

Path analysis quiz

[Coffee, Sun & Analytics] Here is a screenshot from Fireclick’s Site Explorer (browser overlay) today. Percentage labels indicate click-throughs on the...

Posted at 09:10 AM

Professional Blogging - A Review Part I - Don't Give Up

[BlogSpinner - A How-To Guide To Spinning Blogs] I'm only speculating, but sites with shorter posts that do not provide all the information that readers are looking for might be likely to induce readers to click on links, particularly ad links. I'm hoping this isn't true, as I tend to write longer, hopefully informative posts and loathe publishing a blog site where every post is a summary of someone else's blog post or article.

Posted at 09:02 AM

October 30, 2005

Professional Blogging - A Review Part II - Time Is One Your Side

[BlogSpinner - A How-To Guide To Spinning Blogs] Here is part I.) Essentially, if you want to eventually succeed in blogging, you have to love writing, have to want to do it, regardless of how you feel about your current writing and incoming traffic. If you write often and regularly, preferably daily, your writing will improve - provided you follow the time-honoured processes of becoming a better writer.

Posted at 01:08 PM

Getting your ecommerce site ready for holidays

[Stephan Spencer's Scatterings: Web Marketing Blog] Getting your ecommerce site ready for holidays 37 Signals offers some great holiday ecommerce tips to make your online retail site just that much more...

Posted at 01:00 PM

Sonntag: Vorgezogene Teamsitzung. Anschliessend Eilpost zu Mingels und Rückbesinnung auf einen Grabbesuch in Berlin

[Paperholic] Traktandum der vorgezogenen Teamsitzung - Erhöhung der Krankenkassen-Prämien - war kaum eröffnet, da erfolgte bereits ein Ordnungsruf. Unser jüngstes Teammitglied beharrte darauf, das folgende Gedicht von Bertolt Brecht zu verlesen:

Posted at 12:59 PM

October 29, 2005

Occam's Razor Applied - Or Why Is My Blog Traffic and Ad Impression/Pageview Count Down?

[BlogSpinner - A How-To Guide To Spinning Blogs] Occam's Razor says that there's a simple explanation for this, whether you find the actual answer or not. It might be a holiday in some countries, a time of traditional festivals, or some big movie or sporting event might be taking place that has captured national attention.

Posted at 01:26 PM

Latest Google Adsense News

[blogvp] Google recently acquired Urchin”¦you guessed it a Site Analytics company. Could it be that they realize customers will start asking how paid search clicks convert, against organic search traffic and how this compares to clicks from online advertising campaigns, customer retention email, and partner promotions and so on?

Posted at 01:25 PM

What Does Harry S. Truman Know About eBay?

[eBay Marketing QW] "Advertising has induced progress in the use by manufacturers of new materials, new tools, and new processes of manufacture by calling their attention...

Posted at 01:14 PM

October 28, 2005

Blog “Worth”

[ D’Arcy Norman Dot Net] Well, my blog wouldn’t feed me for long but my real question is “who is buying?” Things don’t have worth (in a monetary sense) unless there is someone willing to pay.

Read related posts for „Blog “Worth”“.

Posted at 11:17 AM

eCommerce Analytics and SEO

[Marketing Gorilla] I found several well-prepared white papers on search engine optimization and ecommerce analytics at WebTrends.com. Sign up for their newsletter and...

Posted at 11:16 AM

Slow Progress Is Still Progress

[Taking My Time Back] I’m going to do some journalling on my fears so that by Saturday I will be totally positive about the whole thing. I switch very quickly on these things.

Posted at 11:05 AM

October 27, 2005

And We’re Off

[Taking My Time Back] I have an e-commerce site in the preliminary planning stages now with a friend so I will be looking here to find out what to do. Hopefully, you will also tell us the things not to do as well.

Read related posts for „And We’re Off“.

Posted at 06:19 PM

Amazon Associate

[Eamonn's Home] I don't plan to ever make any money at all on this blog, so I'll probably drop the "associates" program now, and donate that 79p to something. Or maybe keep it and always donate the money.

Posted at 06:17 PM

Hoffman Joins Thompson Group as E-Commerce Marketing Manager

[Marketing Gorilla] My month-long journey to find the next greatest job came to a soft and smooth landing this morning when The Thompson Group made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I am joining their team on Monday as E-Commerce Marketing Manager.

Posted at 06:16 PM

October 25, 2005

Holiday Online Shoppers Expected

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] Permalink] Year-End Tax Tips for Online Sellers October 24, 2005 - auctionbytes.com - How has 2005 been for your online...

Posted at 01:40 PM

What Is It?

[To A Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit. Tips & resources to enrich every aspects of your life...including your business :: Main Pa] Is It A Randomizer? Is It A Traffic Exchange? Is It A Membership Only Download Site? Is It An Internet ..

Read related posts for „What Is It?“.

Posted at 01:39 PM

Blogs in the e-Administration and the diffusion of the knowledge on e-Government

[K-Government Blog (english)] K - Government Blog is a Carlos Guadián Orta's initiative, in order to to share and transmitte information and knowledge on all what implies the application of the Information Technologies and the Communication (ICT) to political, social and administrative processes.

Posted at 01:32 PM

October 24, 2005

Full circle

[Coffee, Sun & Analytics] The top paths reports were the cool feature in the late 90’s, since they provided some insight on what users “were doing on the site”. But they quickly became the least used of all reports, because they were difficult to analyze and customers were asking for more detail.

Read related posts for „Full circle“.

Posted at 01:11 PM

Provide Quick Email Mailing List Removal

[ » Return Customer] But if you’re sending newsletters out to people who didn’t ask for them or don’t trust you (like 1-800-Flowers apparently), you need to rethink your whole operation, because you’re more likely just to end up on spam blacklists.

Posted at 01:09 PM

We do not invent, we adapt

[K-Government Blog (english)] We do not invent, we adapt As a result of having read an article in BaquÃa about Digital Darwinism minted by Evan Schwartz , I realize that the evolutionary process of the society obliges us to adapting to the new characteristics of our environment. CiberSociety, obliges us as citizens, as administration, as government to carry out a series of changes to survive.

Posted at 12:53 PM

October 23, 2005

Mini-point on A|B tests

[Coffee, Sun & Analytics] A|B tests have a margin of error, which you can roughly estimate by keeping a small control group (A|B|A’, 50/40/10%, A’ being the control group with same experience as the A group). This isn’t statistically the right way to do it but it does give you some indication.

Posted at 02:10 AM

Setting Delivery Expectations

[ » Return Customer] On the flip side, when another DVD ships to me, Netflix will email and tell me it is on its way and the estimated delivery date. So far, their estimate has been on the mark about 95% of the time.

Posted at 02:08 AM

How to Analyze a Competitor’s Website

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] October 21, 2005 - informingwomen.com - Competitors' websites, if analyzed properly, can give you all sorts of information that you can use to increase the traffic and the popularity of your site. Here is an article on how to analyze a competitor's website.

Posted at 02:06 AM

October 22, 2005

Amazon would like you to”¦

[CoFactors] Most of us in the business of designing or developing online products have this experience on a daily basis. You’re going about your business, walking...

Posted at 09:01 PM

Using Your e-Products To Create Joint Ventures

[Small Business Marketing & Resource Articles | Small Business Brief] Now that you know what e-products are you should now realize the benefit from them and how you can use them to gain exposure on other webmasters site. Webmasters are always looking to add new content to their websites which includes finding products that fill a void that their client base is missing.

Posted at 09:00 PM

There's Five Points To A Star!

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] A symbol of ultimate success, what everyone wants to attain. Remember when you were in grade school and you completed your task successfully?

Posted at 08:58 PM

October 21, 2005

Introduction To Ecommerce

[Small Business Marketing & Resource Articles | Small Business Brief] Many people new to websites and/or ecommerce are confused at the in and outs of ecommerce. Even many people who are fairly adept at scripting can set up a store using some popular package such as OSCommerce and then are left stumped by the idea of making it work with a payment gateway to actually collect money and put it into their account.

Posted at 01:12 PM

When Sites Make it Hard to Shop

[SearchViews - Dispatches and Discussions on the Search Engine Industry. Brought to you by Reprise Media] Back in 2002 the gang at 37 Signals took a look at the homepages of 10 popular retailers and found most lacking when it came to came to a user's ability to buy products located on the home page.

Posted at 01:10 PM

Blether, New Government Blog

[Nick Mudge’s Technology and Government Weblog] Today he writes about Clackmannanshire's website ClacksWeb, accessibility, and usability testing. I wonder how much usability testing like he says in his post is done in general for websites.

Posted at 01:07 PM

October 20, 2005

Be Original When Starting Your Own E-Business

[Dane Carlson's Business Opportunities Weblog - Opportunities, news, and links for small business entrepreneurs] Is there anything that really distinguishes your site from similar online merchants? If you’re merely going to sell widgets like the 14 other well-established widget sites do, your ‘me-too’

Posted at 12:31 PM

Ensure Contacts Never Lose Track of You

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] October 19, 2005 - clickz.com - Consider creating an e-mail paper trail so your prospects can locate you years in the future, and link your e-mail to your Web site to keep everyone updated on your capabilities right now.

Posted at 12:30 PM

EarningsCast-eBay-2005-Q3-EBAY

[EarningsCast!] EarningsCast-eBay-2005-Q3-EBAY EarningsCast MP3 here In their own words: “eBAY INC. ANNOUNCES THIRD QUARTER 2005 FINANCIAL RESULTS - Company Reports Record Q3 Net Revenues of $1.106 Billion - - Achieves Q3 GAAP Diluted EPS of $0.18 and Pro Forma Diluted EPS of $0.20 - - Raises 2005 Net Revenues Guidance and Issues 2006 Guidance - San Jose, CA, October 19, 2005 ”” eBay Inc.

Posted at 12:29 PM

Ebay/Paypal to buy Verisign

[raudel.net] Currently, Paypal does not provide authentication for websites when using their Merchant services, so a third party such Authorize.net or Verisign must be used. In my opinion, Paypal is definitly buying out Verisign to implement Verisign’s SSL and payment services into Paypal’s new Merchant services.

Posted at 12:08 AM

Why Links are Important

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] October 19, 2005 - allbusiness.com - If your home-based business has an e-commerce website, there are few things more important than gaining inbound links (aka 'Back Links' or 'One Way Links'). Why are these so important?

Posted at 12:03 AM

Niels Bjergstrom on national ID systems

[The Identity Corner] With regard to the UK bill I am not going to argue with it here although - technical issues aside - it certainly is an obnoxious piece of legislation, moving the relationship between state and citizen several hundred years back, introducing important components of a totalitarian state by stealth - the ID card part is in a way the least important. It is a piece of legislation that does not belong in a democratic country (which of course, given the role of the unelected House of Lords, the UK isn’t anyway).

Posted at 12:02 AM

October 19, 2005

Holiday Prep: Getting Your Site Ready

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] October 18, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - Forrester Research predicts that online sales will increase 22 percent to $172 billion in 2005. Much of that growth will take place in the season we're now entering.

Posted at 01:04 PM

The growing market for slightly used books

[Media by Sistrunk] The Internet is creating a new and fast-growing category in the book-selling market -- the barely-used book. An increasing number of consumers are snapping up used volumes online at invitingly cheap prices.

Posted at 01:03 PM

It's The New Craze

[To A Healthy Mind, Body, and Spirit. Tips & resources to enrich every aspects of your life...including your business :: Main Pa] Copyright 2005 All Rights Reserved by Dawn Marie Gray and "To A Healthy Mind Body and Spirit" http://blogsmarketing4me.blogharbor.com

Posted at 01:01 PM

October 18, 2005

Too Old to Read About Movies, Too Young to Die

[loose wire] I love the Internet Movie Database but have been somewhat irritated by the need to register to read comments. I didn’t do it for a while but finally did today.

Posted at 01:16 PM

The Web T-shirt Contest

[alarm:clock] We have covered the eCommerce sites that hawk customized t-shirts and let people set-up storefront from custom-printed gear. The sales growth for these companies is impressive.

Posted at 01:14 PM

American Political Science Annual Conference Papers - 79 papers

[Steven Clift’s Notes - Democracies Online] Search the APSA 2005 papers database here. Be sure to go to the full search tab … the quick search form will cut off the end of the keywords when pasted.

Posted at 01:12 PM

October 17, 2005

10 Years of Ecommerce

[Traders Trade -- For People Who Buy, Sell and Trade Online] A Post-Gazette.com article looks back at the ten year history of ecommerce and tells how consumers refused to give up on ecommerce websites despite...

Posted at 05:33 PM

Done: Attention-Mining del.icio.us

[Nivi] a new web service for collecting and ranking the sources of your delicious bookmarks. Could be useful for identifying your own top sources of info.quote Nivi - Done: Attention-Mining del.icio.us I recently offered a bounty

Posted at 05:32 PM

There are No Barriers for Small Business IT Outsourcing

[Java Entrepreneur - Java Application Development & Entrepreneurship - There are No Barriers for Small Business IT Outsourcing] I had thought that only large companies could take advantage of offshore outsourcing. For some reason I had thought that small to medium sized businesses could never afford the expense of finding and then executing on a project using programmers overseas.

Posted at 05:31 PM

October 16, 2005

High Gas Prices May Boost Online Holiday Sales

[Traders Trade -- For People Who Buy, Sell and Trade Online] A survey of 1,622 consumers by Shopzilla/BizRate as prices were cresting showed that 40% of consumers plan to do more Christmas shopping online this year as a way to reduce their spending on gasoline. 15% said they will shop online "a lot more" to avoid burning gasoline going to stores and 25% said "somewhat more." The balance -- 60% -- said their shopping habits will not change.

Posted at 11:27 AM

SquareTrade Debuts Another Shopping Toolbar

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] October 13, 2005 - ecommerce-guide.com - It looks like the newest trend in e-commerce is comparison shopping toolbars as yet another product is ready to share your browser and find you deals online. The free SquareTrade SideBar becomes available today, just in time for the hectic holiday shopping season.

Posted at 11:26 AM

Customers are Pricess to Payless Shoes

[SearchViews - Dispatches and Discussions on the Search Engine Industry. Brought to you by Reprise Media] Payless was one of only two retailers (the other was CVS) that achieved a score of "excellent" on the Customer Respect Index (CRI) - a set of criteria that takes into account email response time, helpfulness and confidentiality of consumer data along with several other factors.

Posted at 11:24 AM

October 14, 2005

Credit Where Skype Credit's Due

[loose wire] I feel I need to add a footnote to my outburst about the difficulties of buying Skype credits in far-flung countries which may not have great reputations for handling fraud but which do maintain impressively high international call charges. One reader in the Philippines, John Richards, told me he’d had success using Moneybookers by transferring money there and using that to buy Skype credit while another, Vietnamese resident Duc Le, said he had used the same service via credit card with no success at all:

Posted at 12:38 PM

GAO Examines Program to Create Governmentwide E-Rulemaking System

[FreedomSight] "The E-Government Act of 2002 requires regulatory agencies, to the extent practicable, to ensure there is a Web site the public can use to comment on the numerous proposed regulations that affect them. To accomplish this, the Office of Management and Budget named the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the managing partner for developing a governmentwide e-Rulemaking system that the public can use for these purposes."

Posted at 12:35 PM

October 11, 2005

Online Retailers Tip Ad Strategies

[Much Ado About Marketing] MarketingVOX reports that 92% of pure-play, online retailers plan to advertise offline this year. This information comes from a BizRate Research study.

Posted at 11:44 PM

Web Site Strategies that Work!!

[Small Business Resources, Articles, News & Weekly Newsletter | Small Business Brief] October 11, 2005 - smallbusinessadvocate.com - Have you taken a good look at your Web site strategy recently? Here are some key questions to help you maximize it's effectiveness.

Posted at 11:42 PM

Do you really need a blog?

[Stephan Spencer's Scatterings: Web Marketing Blog] These questions and much more are covered in a recent article published by Patsi Krakoff and Denise Wakeman, Top Ten Reasons to Publish an Ezine AND a Blog. Not only are blogs the hottest thing when it comes to marketing on the Internet, a blog is a way of delivering your messages to clients.

Posted at 11:32 AM

Federal Depository Library Program Selection Proposals

[FreedomSight] Depository Selection Mechanisms: New Model for the Selection of Online Titles proposes new mechanisms for the selection of online titles. Depository Selection Mechanisms: New Model for the Selection of Tangible Publications proposes new mechanisms to support a more flexible model for selection and distribution of tangible publications." [FDLP Desktop]

Posted at 11:31 AM

Web 2.0, The Live Web

[Nick Mudges Technology and Government Weblog] With Web 2.0 it's evolving more and more towards the more generic idea of streams of information. A Web page is only one format, one way of displaying an information stream, but there can be many different representations, formats, and relations of streams of information, and the way they interact.

Posted at 11:12 AM

October 09, 2005

Blogging Business

[Blog Smart Resources] Online marketing expert and fellow blogger John Jantsch offers a great blog full of resources for those who are or who are wanting to use blogs for business purposes. The name of his blog is simply Blogging Business and can be found at http://www.bloggingbusiness.com/.

Posted at 08:20 PM

Mamma.com - A Smart Metasearch Engine

[APlaza Network DS] Instead of returning every possible result that contains your search term, metasearch will return the most trusted results on the Internet for your search. Metasearch engines also allow you to compare what kinds of results are available on different engine types (indexes, directories, pay-for-placement, etc), or to verify that you haven’t missed a great resource provided by another site, other than your favourite search engine (acting as a backup).

Posted at 08:18 PM

Secure E-Gov Site for First Responders Dealing With Hazmat Issues

[FreedomSight] "E-Plan is a highly reliable, highly secure, Internet accessible repository of facility, and hazardous material information. E-Plan system was designed, built and implemented specifically for first responders through a cooperative agreement between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), and The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD).

Posted at 08:16 PM

October 07, 2005

Do not respond to this email!

[ » Return Customer] While their timely reminders were helpful, I had one grievance with their email content. Near the end of the message they state (emphasis is mine):

Posted at 08:33 PM

Customs Rulings Online Search System

[FreedomSight] "Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS is a searchable database of CBP rulings that can be retrieved based on simple..

Posted at 08:28 PM

Judgement Day

[Gotzeblogged] While this is consistent with Danish traditions of public management, many people interviewed for this review felt that more mandatory e-government requirements would help achieve even stronger results - especially in relation to adoption of the Danish "enterprise architecture" and related technical standards. Government-wide adoption of the enterprise architecture and standards for such things as ICT system and data interoperability is now widely acknowledged by OECD countries as being leading-edge e-government practice, supporting objectives such as increased efficiency, collaborative services delivery, and increased competitiveness of ICT industries.

Read related posts for „Judgement Day“.

Posted at 08:27 PM

October 06, 2005

Web-Based Desktop Apps

[Phil Windley's Technometria] I know people who have switched to Gmail, Bloglines, and Del.icio.us for mail, feedreading, and bookmarks in a calculated attempt to free themselves as much as possible from the desktop and any specific OS. There’s some appeal in that idea to me.

Posted at 10:08 AM

E-Business Library > October 31, 2005

Upgraded TypePad Trial

Path analysis quiz

October 31, 2005

Upgraded TypePad Trial

Path analysis quiz

Professional Blogging - A Review Part I - Don't Give Up

October 30, 2005

Professional Blogging - A Review Part II - Time Is One Your Side

Getting your ecommerce site ready for holidays

Sonntag: Vorgezogene Teamsitzung. Anschliessend Eilpost zu Mingels und Rückbesinnung auf einen Grabbesuch in Berlin

October 29, 2005

Occam's Razor Applied - Or Why Is My Blog Traffic and Ad Impression/Pageview Count Down?

Latest Google Adsense News

What Does Harry S. Truman Know About eBay?

October 28, 2005

Blog “Worth”

eCommerce Analytics and SEO

Slow Progress Is Still Progress

October 27, 2005

And We’re Off

Amazon Associate

Hoffman Joins Thompson Group as E-Commerce Marketing Manager

October 25, 2005

Holiday Online Shoppers Expected

What Is It?

Blogs in the e-Administration and the diffusion of the knowledge on e-Government

October 24, 2005

Full circle

Provide Quick Email Mailing List Removal

We do not invent, we adapt

October 23, 2005

Mini-point on A|B tests

Setting Delivery Expectations

How to Analyze a Competitor’s Website

October 22, 2005

Amazon would like you to”¦

Using Your e-Products To Create Joint Ventures

There's Five Points To A Star!

October 21, 2005

Introduction To Ecommerce

When Sites Make it Hard to Shop

Blether, New Government Blog

October 20, 2005

Be Original When Starting Your Own E-Business

Ensure Contacts Never Lose Track of You

EarningsCast-eBay-2005-Q3-EBAY

Ebay/Paypal to buy Verisign

Why Links are Important

Niels Bjergstrom on national ID systems

October 19, 2005

Holiday Prep: Getting Your Site Ready

The growing market for slightly used books

It's The New Craze

October 18, 2005

Too Old to Read About Movies, Too Young to Die

The Web T-shirt Contest

American Political Science Annual Conference Papers - 79 papers

October 17, 2005

10 Years of Ecommerce

Done: Attention-Mining del.icio.us

There are No Barriers for Small Business IT Outsourcing

October 16, 2005

High Gas Prices May Boost Online Holiday Sales

SquareTrade Debuts Another Shopping Toolbar

Customers are Pricess to Payless Shoes

October 14, 2005

Credit Where Skype Credit's Due

GAO Examines Program to Create Governmentwide E-Rulemaking System

October 11, 2005

Online Retailers Tip Ad Strategies

Web Site Strategies that Work!!

Do you really need a blog?

Federal Depository Library Program Selection Proposals

Web 2.0, The Live Web

October 09, 2005

Blogging Business

Mamma.com - A Smart Metasearch Engine

Secure E-Gov Site for First Responders Dealing With Hazmat Issues

October 07, 2005

Blog “Worth”