December 12th, 2010

Shopping.com Merchants targeted by Phishing Attempt

It’s worth passing on a warning that we saw earlier today from one of the biggest Comparison Shopping Engines, Shopping.com.
They were alerted today of an email phishing scam targeting some sellers on other Shopping.com markets with the subject line “Important NOTICE: Registration Suspension”.
This email is NOT from Shopping.com. The login page that you are [...]

November 25th, 2010

How will technology for retail evolve in the coming years?

Mobile applications and devices now pivotal in etailer marketing strategies

November 17th, 2010

Making Corporate Shopping Easier

Corporate Gifts offers opportunity in product display advertising

November 2nd, 2010

November is prime time for boosting online sales

November is the most crucial time of year for etailers

July 29th, 2010

Merchant Centre Changes

More is afoot in Google’s recent increase in editorial checks and quality controls in their Merchant Centre…….

July 16th, 2010

Continued Search Marketing Growth

Recent search marketing figures released have indicated worldwide spending on internet marketing will reach £40.6 billion pounds, almost a 12% increase on the previous year, according to figures released by eMarketer.
 
As you may be aware, online advertising has grown to such an extent in recent times that its expenditure outweighs the more traditional forms of [...]

July 9th, 2010

Yahoo Search Marketing And Microsoft Ad Centre Transition

Recently, Microsoft and Yahoo announced their intention to create an ad/sales partnership, involving the transition of advertising customers from Yahoo’s search marketing desktop to Microsoft’s ad centre.
 
As regular users of both search marketing tools, the team at Gillissa believe this will be effective, fundamentally because it will be easier to manage two desktop tools [...]

June 18th, 2010

New Reviews Available From Nextag

Extra oomph given to Nextag product listings…

June 17th, 2010

Tips On Account Security

 
Creating and setting up a meticulously structured Google Adwords account can be a very long process. Ensuring that your keywords, ad groups and campaigns are accurate and relevant to what you want to sell is critical and therefore needs thorough assessment.
 
So, with all this in mind, the prospect of unauthorised personnel obtaining access to [...]

June 16th, 2010

Change to Feeds To Shopping.com

We’ve been advised by Shopping.com that they are changing the number of mandatory fields for products from 3 to 9 with effect from 1st July 2010. These are now all required for a feed:
Image (Minimum size 150 x150 pixel)
MPN or UPC (certain products only)
Brand
Merchant SKU
Description
Product Name
Product URL
Product Price
Shipping
No massive showstoppers for most e-store owners [...]