Ken Cassar
Ken Cassar
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The online toy market is as competitive as they come. There are several well-capitalized players and they're all vying for online customers.
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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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These two sites offer the same features and functionalities.
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It's not clear-cut if it's really less costly.
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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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In my mind, the overriding story is that the sponsored links business is growing pretty nicely.
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Web users are conducting more searches not because they can't find what they're looking for, but because search as a utility has become deeply ingrained into people's everyday lives.
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It's clear that this event will shake up the search/portal space.
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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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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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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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E-commerce last year, revenues totaled about $3 billion, ... We anticipate they'll total about $7 billion in 1998. And the forecast for 2002 is $41.1 billion.
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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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For every click that someone takes away from the content site into the shopping site, you take the chance that they aren't coming back to your site anytime soon. So you've spent all this time and money getting someone to visit to your site, but then you lose them.