E-Retailers are better at satisfying customers

Forsee resuts recently published the quarterly ACSI(American Consumer Satisfaction Index) e-commerce benchmark report for Q4 2006, According to which - not surprisingly, E-retailers are offering much better customer service than those retailing offline. The overall score for E-commerce on the index was 80 out of 100 while offline retail measured considerably lesser at 74.4.

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Offer your blog’s readers instant SMS alerts and make money.

TechCrunch, my preferred source for Web 2.0 news has just reported the launch of a widget from Textmarks that lets bloggers offer readers to subscribe to SMS alerts at a subscription fee - of which, however, bloggers get to keep only two thirds for themselves, the rest goes to textmarks and mobile carriers.

The service is currently only available to U.S. cell phone users who use Cingular, Verizon, Sprint or Alltel services. Bloggers can send out as many as 100 alerts per month to paid subscribers.

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Innovative new social network - AffiliateMarketingFriends.com

Jim Kural has just launched a social network with a cause - AffiliateMarketingFriends.com.

The website, built as a social network for those in the Affiliate Marketing Industry, is selling blocks on pixels on it’s home page worth $10 each - which are linked to the members’ websites or blogs, similar to the Million dollar homepage. All the proceeds from the pixels sold will go to charity.

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Attentio - a way to track your buzz marketing campaigns

Belgium based Attentio, has created and just launched version 2.0 of a potentially fantastic product called the Brand Dashboard.

Brand Dashboard lets marketers track how much buzz a brand is generating around the blogosphere and in various social media.

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Google Reader will now report number of feed readers

Finally!

TechCrunch reported sometime ago that google has begun to report the number of subscribers that use the Google reader and Google’s personalized homepage to read syndication feeds from blogs and other content sources that publish feeds.

Google also recently added sort of an FAQ page for that feed publishers can refer to.

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Google Recommends RSS to webmasters

I’ve been talking too much about Google lately, Aren’t I? Anyway, There’s a new post on Google’s Inside Adsense Blog, Titled Feeds for Thought.

Nothing really worth expanding on about the blog entry, Just that it gives me a feeling that google might be coming up with some sort of an “in-feed advertising” solution, silmilar to Text-Link-Ads.com’s Feedvertising product, for websites with RSS feeds very soon.

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Google to Buy Adscape for $23 Million

Adscape is a video game advertising company whose AdverPlay product lets developers place dynamic ads right inside the game and Real Virtual Gateway product enables two-way text, audio and video communication via SMS Text or eMail.

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Gmail no longer invitation only!

Starting today - After almost three years since it was first launched, Anyone who wants a new Gmail account will be able to get one, without having to be invited by someone first.

This new link can be seen on the Gmail.com page now

Google already removed the invitation restriction for it’s European users a week before it did for North America. A set of new features have also been introduced today.

Even after all these recent changes, Gmail’s logo still proudly trumpets a Beta badge.

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Happy Valentines Day, Affiliate Marketing!

Shawn Collins put together this awesome video today, valentines day, as a tribute to the affiliate marketing industry.

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New Google Checkout badge on Adwords ads

Google is once again trying to force e-retailers to use their payment processing service - the mighty Google Checkout. This time, with an all new badge on adwords ads. The badge is also going live on all Adsense ads.

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