Ken Cassar
Ken Cassar
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These startups are really just a virtual shelf. You have to wonder about their value. They don't even have a customer base.
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This is the opposite of the recent Levi online situation. Levi was seen as cutting out its retail partners to get to their customers directly online,
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...As consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.
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There are two types of online searchers that type a Web site's URL into a search engine rather than into the browser's address bar. Those inexperienced enough not to appreciate the difference between the two, and those that are so experienced they have become habituated to using the search engine as their portal to the Internet.
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In my mind, the overriding story is that the sponsored links business is growing pretty nicely.
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I don't think they can do it. In order for Buy.com to make any money off of this, their order size has to be two units per order. There's no incentive in the offer to drive the order that high.
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I don't think either of them knows if it's going to work out economically or not. The only way to know is to try.
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Consumers seem to increasingly see search as their starting point when they go online.
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It means you don't have to hand off each purchase and pray that some other guy is going to deliver it properly.
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It's not necessarily a dot.com play, but seems like an effort to get into publishing,
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It's clear that this event will shake up the search/portal space.
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These two sites offer the same features and functionalities.
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Skeptical retailers eyeing fluctuations in the financial market and the increasing failure rates of Internet companies are often blind to the most important issue - specifically, the degree to which their online efforts will affect their off-line business. Online consumers are a very powerful audience and tend to be channel-agnostic. And as consumers increase their use of the Internet, the opportunity for the Web to influence their online and off-line shopping behavior grows. Simply put, businesses must integrate across channels.
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The growth of search and the role of search in usage of the Internet has been astounding. When you look at search penetration, it's near 80 percent. The number of searches each person generates, it's high. It would be intuitive to say the numbers can't get any bigger than they are, but they've continued nonetheless.