French Court Slaps eBay With $63M Judgment
Auctions of fake Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessey (LVMH) goods that a French tribunal believed eBay should have prevented resulted in a verdict against the online marketplace.
24 Ways to Get a Customer and Keep a Customer
Let’s start with the bad news, and there’s kind of a lot of it, before we move on the good news of how to fix it. About three-quarters of online shoppers are unsatisfied with their online shopping experience. The other quarter are, flatly, satisfied, in that even bad pizza is good pizza kind of way. Sort of anticlimactic, isn’t it? The good news is there’s a lot of opportunity for satisfying customers, even making them very, very happy.
TV Web Sites Attracting Online Viewers
Even with the growing popularity of watching television content online, the majority (94%) of adults still prefer to watch television on traditional TV sets, according to research from Nielsen for the Cable & Telecommunications Association for Marketing (CTAM).
Report: Online Advertising Strong As Ever
The advertising industry as a whole isn’t looking so great. Yet ZenithOptimedia found that, in comparison to traditional competitors, online advertising appears to be healthy and growing.
Internet Has Almost Double The Influence Of TV
In the UK, Germany, and France the Internet has about double the influence of television when it comes to consumer decision making according to the Digital Influence Index, a study done by Fleishman-Hillard and Harris Interactive.The study found that consumers use the Internet in a number of ways to make decisions. Consumers are more likely to seek opinions of others by visiting social media and product rating sites when making choices that have a major personal impact.
Yahoo: Icahn’s Slate is Not the Right Answer
Yahoo’s annual shareholder meeting in August should be a fiery one. The company filed a presentation today imploring stockholders to support Yahoo’s Board of Director nominees. As has been the pattern for communication between Yahoo executives and Carl Icahn, the presentation is blunt and clear in how CEO Jerry Yang and company feel about Icahn’s proposals. They might as well have written, "Tell Carl to eff off, will ya?"
eBay Fined $61 Million By French Court
A Paris court has ordered eBay to pay $61 million (38.6 million euros) to luxury goods designer LVMH for allowing counterfeit merchandise to be sold on the auction site.The decision comes about a month after a French court ordered eBay to pay $30,000 to luxury goods maker Hermes for its role in the sale of fake handbags.
Time Inc. Setting Up Netflix-Like Magazine Site
Magazine subscriptions are strong commitments of a sort; after forking over a few bucks, you’re locked into receiving a single publication for a year (or more) or your life. Time Inc. aims to loosen things up by launching a Netflix-style site for magazines called Maghound.
A Beginners Guide To Link Building
Link building is an essential ingredient in ranking your website highly on the major search engines.
The Transaction of a “Lifetime”
eCommerce has come a long way over the years. You can buy or sell just about anything online. You can buy DVDs, cars, digital music, real estate, and brides. You can sell televisions, cosmetics, hand-made crafts, and even your skin as ad-space. You can apparently even sell your entire life – in a manner of speaking anyway.A 44-year-old man by the name of Ian Usher recently put his up on the auction block via eBay (the only way to go to unload your history).