Ask3 - New customer survey widget launched

Justaskthem.com - on online customer satisfaction survey company today launched ASK3 - an alternative to the bizrate popup on your checkout success page.

ASK3 employs an inline method of delivering survey questions to website visitors; a full length survey presents only 3 questions at a time. with no popups or any other surprises. As the customer answers, the ASK3 box simply changes to a “Thank You” message. Customers never leave your online shop.
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Valentine’s day - an online shopping mega event (just bragging)

Only a couple of weeks after the 2006 shopping season officially got over, Online spending hasn’t stopped, I can tell from my own gift store’s data that the sales are at least as many as during the shopping season if not more :D.

The Internet has been responsible for nearly $300 billion in consumer spending in the last year. Not only do more people make more of their purchases online, but consumers are also researching products online before they buy them at physical stores, (according to the findings from a survey conducted by the Dieringer Research Group in Milwaukee) - we built a special valentines day theme gift ideas blog which went live early january, which I guess may have helped quite a bit.

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Google Base / Froogle - New product upload requirements

Google sent out an email to all listed merchants today that they must submit atleast five additional attributes along with the basic ones already present. If you don’t, your data will no longer show on froogle and google base starting the 28th of february.

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Wordtracker goes free (just a bit)

Wordtracker, the favorite place for internet marketers to pick up popular keywords for their PPC and SEO campaigns has launched the free Keyword suggestion tool.

“There is a gap in the market for this type of tool and as Wordtracker provides the most popular paid-for keyword service on the web it made sense to create this service,” Said Mike Mindel, CTO and co-founder of Wordtracker.
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Your customers - your creative team

Stumbled across a brilliant new concept a while ago. Hartford, CT based startup Adkafe.com lets your customers create ads for you and get paid to do that. They call this a “first of its kind consumer generated advertisement service”.
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Product Datafeeds that sell

If you are an e-retail merchant with an affiliate program or an affiliate who promotes online retailers, you probably already use datafeeds to drive targeted traffic and sales to your business.

Over the past few years, datafeeds have become a very important sales channel for online merchants and affiliates.

Affililates use these tab (or comma or pipe) delimited text files to fill up their websites with products from merchants they promote. While the more technically inclined affiliates parse datafeeds with their own scripts, even relatively non-techie affiliates make good use of datafeeds using applications such as Webmerge. It is essential for merchants to provide affiliates with what I am going call a “Good Datafeed” for them to be able to make the fullest use of it as what can literally be a sales manufacturing machine.
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CRE loaded introduces digital media shopping cart addon

Popular oscommerce shopping cart distribution, CRE loaded announced the release of File Distribution Management System (FDMS) designed to help storeowners professionally manage the sale and distribution of downloadable media and files.

While oscommerce and CRE loaded are already used by many to sell downloadable media, The new addon will make managing the sales much easier.
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The Top 100 Alternative Search Engines

We all know and use Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, and Ask. But here’s a list of 100 more that add their own unique slants to organizing the Web for you. You might find one or a few that improve your search life.

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Microsoft to launch paypal/Google checkout competitor?

Bill Gates announced today in Davos, Switzerland at the World economic forum that M$ is planning to launch a brand new online payment system. This system, apparently will be “cheaper than credit card transactions”

From the sound of it, looks like this is the biggest thing Microsoft is entering into after windows 95. As noted before, unlike paypal and google checkout, this is not simply a credit card transactions facilitator that they are planning to come up with but an alternate system to credit cards for doing transactions online.

“If you want to charge somebody $0.10 or $1 a month, that will just be a click…you won’t have to manage some funny thing or pay some big credit charge, where half of it goes to the clearing,” Gates said

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Digg 101

Here’s a nice video about “how to use digg” I stumbled upon just now. It’s a sort of a “for dummies” video for those who haven’t used digg yet. the video seems to have a lot in common with this post I wrote a while ago.

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