Expanded E-Commerce Management (ECM) Deployment
http://ecnow.com/top10trends2000.htm

ECMgt.com brought to you by ECnow.com
Your Link to Worldwide E-Commerce Developments
February 1, 2000 *3,200 subscribers* Volume 2, Issue 2
ECMgt.com Online: http://ECMgt.com
View this Issue: http://ecmgt.com/Feb2000
Print this Issue: http://ecmgt.com/Feb2000/full.issue.for.printing.htm

ECnow.com 2000 trends: Expanded E-Commerce Management (ECM) Deployment

E-MARKETING NEWS

ToC

• The Internet Retail Revolution

• Amazon.com Tops Shopping Sites

• Online Consumer Spending Growth Slowing

• E-Holiday Sales Peak During 2nd Week of December

• AOL users spend billions over holidays

• Consumables Market Takes Larger Share of E-Commerce

• Would you buy an Old Master online?

• Affiliate Marketing's Last Stand?

• "Dot coms" look to score from Super Bowl ads

• Pet Sites Vie To Be Top Dog

• Virgin Megastores keeps customers in hand

• CyberCash Denies Fault in Security Breach Case

• E-commerce sites target women

----

The Internet Retail Revolution
Although the shape and form of retailing has continued to evolve throughout history, its significance to society in distributing goods and services cannot be understated. To get an idea of how important retailing is to our economy, one need only look at current figures.

• NetCommerce Magazine

• http://www.netcommercemag.com/dec_jan/1.html

Amazon.com Tops Shopping Sites
More than one in four Internet users did part of their holiday shopping online. So how come sales fell short of Ernst & Young's US$15 billion predictions?

• Wired News

• http://www.wired.com/news/business/0%2C1367%2C33415%2C00.html

Online Consumer Spending Growth Slowing
The rate of growth of online spending per person is declining even though total online retail spending is increasing, according to a study by the The Wharton School of Business.

• Cyber Atlas

• http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/retailing/article/0%2C1323%2C6061_271961%2C00.html

E-Holiday Sales Peak During 2nd Week of December
Online shopping reached its peak during the week of December 6th through 12th, according to a Goldman Sachs / PC Data Online survey that was released today. Spending then fell from $1.25 billion to $495 million during Christmas week December 20 - 26 , as online visitors turned to greeting cards and computer game sites.

• ECommerceTimes

• http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles/000103-6.shtml

AOL users spend billions over holidays
Internet giant America Online said members of its service spent $2.5 billion shopping on the Internet during the holiday season, a total that more than doubled from the same period last year.

• CNET

• http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1512216.html 

Consumables Market Takes Larger Share of E-Commerce
Total online retail sales during 1999 are expected to reach $66 billion, according to ActivMedia Research, and the buying of consumable products will lead the way into the next century.

• CyberAtlas

• http://cyberatlas.internet.com/markets/retailing/article/0%2C1323%2C6061_273531%2C00.html

Would you buy an Old Master online?
How about a New Master? Online galleries are hoping to make art lovers -- and buyers -- out of us all, using the power of the Internet.

• ZDNet

• http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0%2C4586%2C2417449%2C00.html

Affiliate Marketing's Last Stand?
Two years ago at this time, affiliate marketing was flying under everyone's radar. Last year at this time, affiliate marketing was a real hot topic. These days, it's mostly under the radar again.

• ClickZ

• http://gt.clickz.com/cgi-bin/gt/vn/ebr/ebr.html?article=1200

"Dot coms" look to score from Super Bowl ads
Super Bowl Sunday may not wind up so super for Internet companies that are spending huge chunks of their marketing budgets on the advertising world's premier showcase.

• CNET

• http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1528922.html 

Pet Sites Vie To Be Top Dog
Startups, chain stores, and venture capitalists alike are all betting big bucks on building the perfect online pet store.

• Upside

• http://www.upside.com/texis/mvm/ebiz/story?id=3884bc6a0

Virgin Megastores keeps customers in hand
Virgin Megastores next month will offer 10,000 preferred customers a free personal digital appliance that they can use to browse the Net--but not before logging on to Virginmega.com.

• CNET

• http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-1513979.html 

CyberCash Denies Fault in Security Breach Case
After coming under heavy scrutiny for an alleged software failure that allowed an unidentified hacker to purloin and publish confidential credit card information on the Internet, CyberCash has issued a terse statement denying that its product contributed in any way to the security breach.

• E-Commerce Times

• http://www.ecommercetimes.com/news/articles2000/000111-2.shtml

E-commerce sites target women
The Web sites with the highest percentage of women viewers last November, the start of the holiday shopping season, were toy retailers, women's portals and greeting card sites, according to a report released on Monday.

• Media Central

• http://www.mediacentral.com/channels//inetecomm/01_16_2000.reutr-story-N1460115.html

###

Back to the main ECMgt.com Site: (http://ECMgt.com)
Back to this issue: (http://ECMgt.com/Feb2000)