- 5 places where e-business owners can find cost savings
With the global economy getting worse by the day, even those businesses that felt confident going into the downturn are getting ready to batten down the hatches as a nuclear winter sets in.
- Q&A: Gareth Williams, CEO of Skyscanner
Skyscanner is a website that allows users to search for flights by price and location; according to Hitwise, it has an 11.34% share of the UK travel search market.
Recently, Skyscanner has been making a few changes to its website, aimed at improving the user experience.
We have been talking to CEO Gareth Williams about the changes and finding out more about the site...
- Q&A: Philip James, CEO of wine comparison site Snooth
Snooth, launched in the US last year, is a social wine recommendation and price comparison site which aims to be the world's largest wine site.
In the same way that music sites like Last.fm help you discover new music, Snooth recommends wine to users based on the bottles that users with similar tastes enjoy.
We caught up with
Snooth CEO Philip James to talk about the site...
- Q&A: Kristofer Arwin of review site TestFreaks
TestFreaks, launched at the end of last year, is a consumer review site that aggregates technical information and opinions about a range of products.
It was founded by Kristofer Arwin, Magnus Wiberg and Martin Alexanderson, all of whom previously founded PriceRunner back in 1999.
We talked to Kristofer about his plans for the TestFreaks, and how he aims to make it into the world's biggest product review site...
- Etailers look set to weather credit crunch
While the effects of the worsening economic climate will reduce overall consumer spending, e-commerce looks to be in a good position to weather the storm, according to a new survey.
While 64% of respondents said that the economic climate would force them to reduce their overall spending, 56% said that they would continue to shop online as much as they are already, while some will even spend more.
- Q&A: MORE TH>N's Roberto Hortal Munoz on comparison sites
Roberto Hortal Munoz is the head of e-Business at insurance company
MORE TH>N
, as well as being a very well received speaker at our recent
Future of Digital Marketing
event.
Here, we ask him about his use of comparison sites amid growing concerns in the sector over their value to brands.
We also dig into the challenge of sales attribution across different channels and the company's various efforts around online communities.
- Site review: Like.com
Like.com launched back in November 2006, with a shopping comparison site that enabled users to search for clothing and other fashion items by using both text and images as queries.
Since then, it has been redesigned completely, so we've taken a look to see how it has developed...
- Is the downturn leading to greater use of e-commerce?
Evidence suggests that as more people are feeling the pinch of higher fuel and household bills, they are seeking savings online.
Could greater use of e-commerce be a silver lining to the cloud of the Credit Crunch?
- Q&A: Vicky Smith of Travel.co.uk
Travel.co.uk is the latest entrant into the travel comparison market, having launched last week with a website that compares package holidays from some of the UK's top tour operators and travel agents.
We talked to Travel.co.uk's Marketing Manager Vicky Smith about the site...
- Site review: Travel.co.uk
Travel.co.uk launched a package holiday comparison site last week, with a focus on providing a better user experience than existing competitors.
We have taken a look to see how it measures up...
- Future of Digital Marketing: today's technology for tomorrow's marketing
At E-consultancys Future of Digital Marketing conference last week, leading industry experts took a pragmatic approach to predicting future trends.
Rather than gazing mistily into the crystal ball 20 years into the future, the conference focused on right here, right now, talking about how marketers can leverage existing technologies to be more innovative.
- Q&A: Dabs.coms Jonathan Wall on e-commerce
Jonathan Wall is the marketing director at Dabs.com, the online technology retailer bought by BT in 2006.
Here, we ask him about the companys latest efforts around acquisition, conversion and retention, including a current project to digitise its print catalogues.
He also gives us some interesting thoughts on cashback affiliates and shopping comparison sites, as well as the good stuff IT manufacturers are doing to support retailers like Dabs.
- How to reduce shopping cart abandonment
A recent survey says the rate of shopping cart abandonment for US online retailers has increased slightly year on year, reaching 59.4% in Q1 2008.
So why do customers abandon their shopping carts and what can be done about it?
- The Web Week in Review: Microsoft Edition
Microsoft was all over the news this week and its CEO was on the move - in more ways than one.
Thus, this week's Web Week in Review is dedicated to the software company everybody loves to hate.
- Comparison engines upbeat despite slowdown
New research published by E-consultancy this week reveals that the comparison engines sector continues to flourish despite challenges presented by the economic downturn and the increased cost of buying search engine traffic.
- Are you coping with Universal Search?
Google has evolved its search results to include images, news, recent blog posts, videos and related links.
Let's build a quick to-do list to spruce up your site for Universal Search.
- Will Vertical Search threaten Google?
Vertical search is the new breed of Search Engines that more intelligently mine data, from searching for keywords in audio files to focusing on specific industry sectors.
The landscape of Search is changing and I recently noticed three vertical search applications, which may end up threatening Googles position.
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