Commission Junction for sale?
Thursday, 05 October 2006
The rumor has been around for a long time: Valueclick entertaining options to sell itself or a part of the business. This just surfaced suggesting, in this case, CJ is on the market. Any insights?
- Published in eCommerce
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The Kitchen Sink : Part 3 : Manage YOUR feed
Tuesday, 03 October 2006
So here it is, part three of Comparison Shopping optimization… The Kitchen Sink Last Monday, I started at a high level for which most of you have to do some research about your own store before moving forward; that is, Comparison Shopping is not about direct demand gen, users don’t buy immediately after clicking from
Conversion Rate from Paid & Natural Search is equal!?!?
Friday, 29 September 2006
Internet Retailer posted an article today citing research from WebSideStory that argues conversion rate from Paid and Organic Search is about equal.I hope you aren’t misled by the article. Let me be clear first, I’m not going to discuss the difference between paid and organic search; You are being misled in that a 9% difference
- Published in Analytics, Insights / Research, Natural Search / SEO, Paid Search, Search
Shopping.com is French
Wednesday, 27 September 2006
I can’t bring you part three of my Comparison Shopping optimization strategy “The Kitchen Sink” because I am too frustrated with Shopping.comIf you haven’t seen their new design, check it out. It is pretty. As a marketer I’m pleased as it makes advertisers much more prominent but as a comparison shopping manager, I’m not so
- Published in Comparison Shopping
Comparison Shopping Feeds : The Kitchen Sink : Part 2
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
Yesterday, I waxed, perhaps poetically, about how Comparison Shopping is not the high ROI, immediate sale opportunity most marketers expect. It is a part of a customer’s decision making process, research, and consideration so significantly that if you don’t optimize your feeds to promote all products effectively, you do not exist as a store or
- Published in Comparison Shopping
Comparison Shopping is a Catalog – The Kitchen Sink : Part 1
Monday, 25 September 2006
Many new comparison shopping vendors argue in favor of eliminating products from your feed that don’t perform well as the best way to improve your ROI. I say they couldn’t be any more wrong. Research from CMS shows 90% of consumer electronics customers online use comparison shopping yet I’ve found only 33% use it before
- Published in Comparison Shopping, Insights / Research