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Egghead lays off 77

Egghead.com laid off 77 of its employees-12% of its work force-earlier this week in an effort to trim costs.

Posted 03/06/2001Internet RetailerPost a comment

/ Marketing

Attractive e-mails entice customer to shop, Egghead.com says

As e-mail becomes more sophisticated and interesting, with HTML content and color graphics, customer response rates go up, says Jeffrey Sheahan, CEO of Egghead.com.

Posted 02/28/2001Internet RetailerPost a comment

/ Marketing

Egghead pushing sales

In the first five months of use, Yopa Push Platform, which informs customers when out of stocks items arrive, increases Egghead.com sales by $1.25 million.

Posted 02/08/2001Internet RetailerPost a comment

E*Trade, Egghead Cook Up Deal

Online brokerage firm E*Trade Group Inc., Menlo Park, Calif., has formed a marketing alliance with Internet-based computer products retailer Egghead.com that will give Egghead.com visitors who open a new E*Trade account a $100 gift certificate good toward any Egghead.com purchase. Beginning in February 2000, the offer will be accessible through promotional advertising banners on both the Egghead.com Web site and on Egghead.com customer emails,...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Whoopi For Flooz, Egghead & Amazon

Internet-only Visa issuer NextCard Inc. released a list of the top 10 electronic-commerce sites for the holiday shopping period of November 15 through December 31. NextCard ranks sites based on its cardholdersâ transaction volume. There were no big surprises, as Seattle-based Amazon .com Inc.; Aliso Viejo, Calif.-based Buy.com Inc.; and New York City-based Barnesandnoble.com Inc. rounded out the top three. San Francisco-based NextCard also...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

/ Marketing

Egghead.com Emphasizes B2B

Egghead.com Inc. has revamped its web site to better address the needs of its core small- to medium-sized business customers. Changes range from adding a streamlined masthead and a simpler design to adding new category functions such as "networking" and "accessories" and direct links to Egghead's business solutions center. Egghead.com also has consolidated all of its non-auction consumer-oriented products into a single "after work" category to...

Posted 01/19/2001Don DavisPost a comment

Buy gets bought; Egghead gets Fry-ed

Buy.com Inc. and Egghead.com Inc., two teetering pure-play online retailers, both found buyers last month.

Posted 08/30/2001Internet RetailerPost a comment

After grounding brick & mortar model, Egghead takes flight as dot-com

After cracking under the weight of its bricks-and-mortar store, Egghead hatched a plan to salvage the company as a pure-play. The 16-year-old company that once tried to be everything to everyone is now zeroing in on business-to-business sales. And with a new strategy and a new partner, Egghead.com is ready to cross the profit threshold. Seated in the front car of Egghead’s decade-and-a-half-long roller-coaster ride is George Orban. Orban began...

Posted 12/26/2000Don DavisPost a comment