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The well-to-do boosted their online shopping during the holidays

The most affluent increased visits to e-retail web sites the most—households with income of $150,000 or higher increased their visits by 21% compared to a year earlier. Big winners were luxury sites.

Posted 01/29/2010Zak StamborPost a comment

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Direct marketing firm Proclivity hires a technology veteran

Proclivity has hired William Baxter as vice president of technology. He will be in charge of technology development and implementation.

Posted 01/04/2010Zak StamborPost a comment

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Large e-retailers had a larger share of holiday traffic than last year

On Monday alone the top 20 visited retail sites accounted for 57% of all retail visits, compared to 50% a year ago, according to Hitwise, a web-traffic monitoring unit of Experian.

Posted 12/02/2009Zak StamborPost a comment

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Free shipping e-mails work best when planned and segmented, study says

More multichannel retailers used free shipping promotions in the first quarter of this year compared to Q1 of 2008—up from 47% to 55%, according to a new survey from e-mail marketing vendor Experian CheetahMail.

Posted 09/08/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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CheetahMail captures retail veteran for strategic services role

E-mail marketing firm Experian CheetahMail, has named retail executive Yun-Hui Chong vice president of Strategic Services. Chong comes from Spiegel Brands, where she was vice president of e-commerce.

Posted 03/10/2009Katie DeatschPost a comment

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Day after Christmas marked high point for visits to retail sites

Traffic to the top 500 retail web sites based on visits rose sharply on Dec. 26, reversing a daily pattern that had lagged behind the year-ago traffic earlier in the holiday shopping season, Hitwise reports.

Posted 12/31/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment

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E-commerce traffic drops, signaling woes for online and offline merchants

Visits to U.S. retail web sites have declined for eight weeks in a row, Hitwise reports. Given that many consumers begin their research online, the slowdown in web traffic could have a ripple effect in stores, research director Heather Dougherty says.

Posted 10/31/2008Paul DemeryPost a comment

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Whalen to head development of CheetahMail technology

E-mail marketing technology and services provider Experian CheetahMail has named Greg Whalen vice president, development. Whalen will lead the development of the next generation of CheetahMail’s primary application, slated for release later this year.

Posted 04/07/2008Katie DeatschPost a comment