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	Shopping Spree Description: Online retailers have great expectations for holiday traffic and sales
	Chain Reaction Description: Large Retailers Scramble to Sell Online
	Harder sell, softer landing Description: Web retailers are building out site features and planning heavy promotions to connect with online Christmas shoppers
	Where`s wireless? Description: FTD.com, a member of the AT&T Wireless Services shopping channel, launched a wireless retailing program just in time for Mothers Day. Customers could use web-enabled cell phones to read text messages about floral arrangements and specialty gifts for Mothers Day. FTD customers could also qualify for a 10% discount if they used a cell phone to complete the purchase.
	The Top 400 Guide Description: Online retailing continues to be a significant merchandising channel, with e-retailing operations growing in sales, average ticket, conversion rates and more
	An orderly process Description: Retailers make fulfillment speedy and profitable
	Working together Description: A special report on the top application suppliers and service providers to The Top 500
	10 Ways to Boost Site Performance Description: In online retailing, a $61 billon a year market, customers expect fast-loading pages and links that take them quickly to the products they want. Internet shoppers have high expectations for performance and customer service. They wont put up with broken links, time-out errors and shopping carts that take too long to complete transactions. They know that if one retailers site doesnt perform up to their expectations, a more satisfying shopping experience is only a click away.
	Improving performance Description: Slow pages and site crashes still hurt many retail sites
	Site Sleuths Description: The new breed of analytics digs into problems that hide below the surface
	Is time running out for store mannequins? Description: Online apparel sales are big--and are only going to get bigger
	New Wave Description: Ever-changing requirements in the e-commerce job market keep recruiters nimble
	Speed Dialing Description: Faster, smarter, easier: How the web is boosting call center performance
	What A Difference A Year Makes Description: When it comes to hiring e-retailing staff, what a difference a year makes.
	One Platform, Many Faces Description: In an age of retail supersizing, niche marketing works for Home DÈcor Products
	Estate Sale Today Description: The assets of defunct dot-coms prove a treasure trove for othersbut when loading up on technology and equipment, its buyer beware.
	Packed for success Description: Denver, Colo.
	The balancing act in affiliate management Description: Where is the tipping point between DIY and hiring outside muscle?
	Never one to watch opportunity pass by, Description: Last years Razor scooter craze looked like a good opportunity for retailers as it picked up steam with the approach of the Holiday shopping season, and after 50 years as a merchandiser, Lillian Vernon knows how to pick a winner. But she also knows that todays rocket can become tomorrows dud all too quickly; its all in the timing.
	Whose customer is it, anyway? Description: A battle over affiliate relationships heats up as shopping technology and online ads get more aggressiveand why online retailers should care
	Talking it up Description: But coming on too strong poses risks for e-retailers as well. When visitors enter an online community in an information-seeking mode, pop-up ads and click-to-buy buttons can annoy rather than entice. Push too hard, and sales efforts can backfire, says Steve Glenn, president of PeopleLink, Santa Monica, Calif., which builds and manages online communities for e-businesses. The community is amorphous, without a collective intelligence, Glenn says. But its remarkable how sensitive it is. When people get the sense that the community is too engineered or too censored they stop participating and go elsewhere.
	Eternal vigilance is the price of success--especially at retailers` web sites Description: Before Uzi Nitsan founded web performance monitoring software company Vertain Software two and a half years ago, he ran an online hotel reservations start-up. One day, after booking a new customer, Nitsan departed for a trade show in London. He returned to discover that his siteand his businesshad been down all weekend.
	A Bright Idea Description: Shining a light into the kiosk market; how one retailer made kiosks work
	How tighter cross-channel integration will redefine the measure of web site ROI Description: As the e-retail marketplace evolves, so does the thinking on which metrics define a successful web site. Traffic and page views provide data on upward or downward trends, and theyre still critical to ad-driven sites. But as the retail environment became tougher and tougher, retailers concluded that traffic doesnt necessarily mean sales. And so sales and, even more so, profitstraditional measures of success in the offline worldbecame the goal for retail sites.
	Right This Way Description: Successful search engine marketing no longer stops at a retail sites front doorit carries shoppers deep into the store.
	Hanover Direct turns a page, leveraging catalog expertise into a fulfillment factory Description: It had been a dismal few years for Hanover Direct Inc. when Rakesh Kaul arrived as CEO in March 1996. The Weehawken, N.J.-based catalog company, whose properties include The Company Store, Improvements and Silhouettes, had last posted a profitable quarter two years earlier. A number of catalogs acquired in the early 90s drained capital without producing profits. Supply lines were squeezed as disgruntled vendors began to withhold merchandise shipments. Fill rates dropped and back orders rose, compounded by problems at the warehouse.
	Looking Ahead Description: Industry icon Bernie Brennan moves into retails boom town: the web
	Gaining Ground Description: With studied improvements, Yahoo and MSN narrow the gap on Google. What`s next?
	Lose the Floor Plan Description: On the web, merchandising no longer follows rules developed in other channels
	The shoot-out over spyware Description: Two sides are facing off in the battle of ad-pop-up softwareand its often retailer against retailer
	Come together Description: ShopNBC is pursuing two separate but linked programming initiatives to grow sales among its existing customer base and bring in new customers. One approach aggregates merchandise under celebrity names seeking to leverage their cachet in the e-commerce realm. The celebrity hosts endorsement of merchandise selected for presentation on his or her show, in effect, is the brand. Examples of such programming on the network include the Star Jones Show, hosted by Jones, a fixture on ABC daytime TVs high-profile talk show, The View. A similar deal with garden writer and syndicated garden-show host Rebecca Kolls is in the works.
	Stand Still! Description: The lightning pace of e-commerce business developments forces retailers to hit moving targets at budget time
	Clicking on all cylinders Description: A new generation of site design probes deep into the consumer mind - and deeper into web pages
	How retailers are using web auctions to let customers help them set prices Description: Its a long road a toaster may travel between the time it hits the store shelf at a 100% mark-up to the day it shows up in the bargain bin as the shopkeeper makes way for new models. That toasters price drops at sales honoring everything from Bastille Day to Halloween, until dollar stores and bulk goods brokers offer the only remaining chance for retailers to recoup any of their cost. This has been the likely end of useable but unsold merchandise ranging from stereos to sweaters as they near the end of their value cycle. But now the web is writing a different end to the story with online auctions.
	Web Sales R Us Description: ToysRUs.com has learned a lot in four years on the web; now its doing things that Toys R Us cant
	Rewarding Experience Description: Drugstore.coms marketers keep trying til they get loyalty programs that will lure customers
	Managing E-Commerce Description: As the channel grows, so grows the job: Five e-commerce chiefs steer a course through shifting terrain
	Cyber Pass Description: Retailers already know that customers dont want to walk into an empty store and swipe a card when they leave; they want human help. It stands to reason, say consultants, that the same need exists for customer support on the Internet. And as opportunity grows with increasing demand, queries to Clevelands firm from India-based call center companies, entrepreneurs who want to start call centers in India, and venture capital firms that want to invest in them have grown threefold to fivefold in the past year.
	The Green Light Description: Richard Blunck has Kmart.com ready for successthe rest is up to Kmart
	Personalization Description: The web opens new ways for consumers to express their individuality with an online purchase
	Follow that margin Description: eBay`s the big dog--but with retail seller opportunities elsewhere, competition nips at its heels
	When it comes to managing digital images, the web creates the problemthen solves it Description: Consumer products manufacturers are happy to provide pictures of their products to the retailers who sell them. After all, thats one of the ways retailers let consumers know they have the products for sale. And who better than the manufacturer itself will make sure retailers use the best quality photos of each product?
	Behind the success of 1-800-Flowers.com is a willingness to try new things Description: But the rosy predictions for 1-800-Flowers.com arent immune to marketplace pests, and buried in a blooming business are some potential thorns. It has to move into gifts but this is something that hasnt proven out yet, says Eric Beder, equity analyst at Ladenburg Thalmann. Theyve spent 20-some years teaching people that 1-800-Flowers is flowers, and now theyre going to try to teach them that it means gifts in two and a half to three years. Do gifts have as much potential to draw customers as flowers do? The jury is still out on that.
	Missing the Mark Description: Why did so many analysts miss the dot-com crashes of 2000?
	Rx for E-drugstores Description: With plenty of upside for online pharmacies, strategys the key to carving out a share
	Blue Streak Description: That segment reaches deep into the customer base of the discount chains. As traditional brick and mortar retailers, they see the growth of the Internet, and they dont want to lose their core consumers, says one insider. Free or low-cost ISPs can add value to retail brands, helping drive traffic and build loyalty. And if it works, analysts say cobranded access could spark a wave of similar retail-portal partnerships, plus a round of spin-offs to speed them to market.
	Designing by the Numbers Description: Its the little things that customers do that tell the story about site design
	The Big Production Description: Moving pictures grab a bigger role on marketers` sites as rich media steps out of the wings
	Are We There Yet? Description: How online maps are helping to put the multi-channel in multi-channel retailing
	Bright Ideas Description: Online shoppers want more power to choosethe web invents new ways to serve it up.