Ecommerce

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  Coming Soon?

  You can watch David Beckham score goals in Los Angeles, but if you want him on your mobile phone reminding you to say goodbye, you’ll have to go to Hong

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  The Web Suits Them

  Stop, look and listen is good advice when arriving at a railroad crossing. It’s also sound thinking when trying to build a relationship with an underserved

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  WORKER’S PARADISE

  Tony Hsieh, CEO of online shoe merchant Zappos.com, asks each employee to write a 100- to 500-word description of the company’s culture every year for

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  Bazaarvoice Gets the Word Out

  For Sam Decker, the epiphany came when he was struggling with a volcano of slime. More specifically, it was a HotWheels Slimecano racing set, bought on Amazon.com as a Christmas present for his children, and it was a bear to put together on Christmas Eve. The pieces wouldn’t fit properly, and the river of slime refused to ooze. “I tried everything I could, both with and without the directions, and it just wouldn’t work,” Decker says. “Finally I slammed it back in the box and went to Amazon to write a bad review. And I found that there were already 77 negative reviews on that site, all giving it one star out of five. And Amazon was still selling it.”

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  Security Leads Global IT Priorities

  What are corporate decision-makers focusing on in information technology? Online security and data protection first, followed at some distance by online

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  Down to Earth

  MOBILE MARKETING is on the way, and it will usher in a Golden Age. Soon we’ll all be receiving rich-media ads over our Internet phones, being enticed

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  Newegg Speaks Geek

  THOSE OF US WHO SEND up a flare for the help desk when our computers develop hiccups may never have heard of Newegg.com. But it’s a fast-rising retail

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  SEO Helps Build DMer’s Business

  Mark Zoske has turned a passion for salt into a $3.5 million-a-year online business, largely by using search engine optimization. His firm, SaltWorks,

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  Lowering Sales Pressure

  Medical instrument manufacturer Medwave is hoping a new Web-based tool will boost sales by at least 10% and lower the cost of its prospecting visits,

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  Put Up or Shut Up

  AOL and a little-known company called Goodmail caused a firestorm last month when they announced that AOL would implement Goodmail’s certified e-mail