online sales

REPORT: Local Businesses Turn To Facebook Over Google

Last week, a survey of 8,000 small businesses about the adoption of various marketing products showed that more are using Facebook than Google for promotions.The statistic for some reason went overlooked, as the Financial Times... more »

iSend Worldwide Payment Services Offers New Elektra International Gift Card to US-based Mexicans for Friends and Family Back Home

WATERTOWN, Conn., Feb. 8, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Worldwide payment services leader iSend LLC has partnered with Mexican retail group Elektra to offer international gift cards to US-based Mexicans. Individuals purchase the Elektra Gift Card in... more »

Is Online Shopping Killing Traditional Retail?

The recent National Retail Federation (NRF) report about holiday shopping asked a question that is on everyone's mind: is online shopping killing the traditional retail store? The NRF provided the following answer to this question:Retailers... more »

From the barn to the Web

The signs once posted on the fence beside the yellow tobacco barn on N.C. 55 where the cousins Netta Broughton and Judy Humphries started an art and gift store about three years ago have been... more »

Shopping Scientist Paco Underhill Tackles Online Retail

Paco Underhill, CEO of Envirosell and a renowned scholar of consumer culture, has a message for retailers: It's no longer the early 20th century.Too many retailers, he said in a recent interview with this blog,... more »

The web took a larger share of retail sales as e-commerce picked up in the 4th quarter

In a down year for the U.S. economy, online retailers took market share from offline retailers, according to the Census Bureau of the U.S. Department of Commerce.Online retail sales in the fourth quarter grew 14.4%... more »

This holiday season, Web sales are retailers’ biggest gift

Consumers spent a little more than anticipated during the holiday season, according to a report out on Monday, and a significant e-tail threshold may have been crossed on Christmas Day at Amazon, the online bookseller.For... more »

Forrester predicts online retail sales will grow 8% this holiday season

Online holiday retail sales will grow 8% this year to $44.7 billion, predicts Forrester Research Inc. That would represent a continued shift of shopping to the web, as the National Retail Federation has forecast total... more »