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Social Selling Communities: Shopping parties in the living room have been rediscovered as sales channels in e-commerce

Shopping parties in your own living room. Who doesn´t immediately remember Avon and Tupperware – the pioneers of home shopping? Now direct marketing concepts have emerged again in numerous start-up business plans. They introduce these parties as so called ‘Social Selling Communities’ through a combination of contemporary use of technology, social media and consulting to [...]
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How mobile technology is changing the travel industry

There are a lot of trends in tourism. Travel IT-provider Amadeus in collaboration with the market researchers of Henley Centre Headlight Vision initially names the most important social, geopolitical and economic trends of the travel industry in their survey ‘Future Traveller Tribes 2020’. One of the most important results of the survey: The use of [...]
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Microsoft enters into business with Barnes&Noble and is going to become a retailer of e-books

This cooperation is surprising given that both companies were fighting about licence fees of Android patents in e-book readers from Barnes&Noble. Even though the US book trade chain announced the outsourcing of their e-book business in the beginning of January, no one expected Microsoft, of all companies, to enter into this business. After an announcement [...]
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Case study: IKEA opens the world´s smallest furniture store in a groundbreaking online-campaign

IKEA-marketing is creative, innovative and surprises the end-consumer with every single marketing strategy anew. The Swedish furniture store won its first Cannes-lion eleven years ago –it´s 50 of them by now: In 2010 they got (amongst others) a Titanium Lion for their Facebook Showroom. In 2011 IKEA was elected ‘Advertiser of the Year’ by the [...]
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The latest figures of internet usage: AGOF internet facts 2012-01

AGOF publishes the most important facts about internet usage regularly and thus provides important planning and analysis opportunities for media strategy on the internet. As always, the latest figures can be downloaded on the AGOF-website. These speak for themselves: · 51.40 million German speakers over 14 years old in Germany are online · 85% of [...]
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Google enters the competition of cloud storage services with GDrive

There have been rumours for quite some time, but now Google has actually entered the competition of cloud storage services as well. Google Drive competes for users, who want to save their music collection, holiday photos or data in the cloud and share them with their friends, family or colleagues even on the road. 5 [...]
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Hulu´s Vision, what TV-advertising is supposed to look like in the future

Two million subscribers in one and a half year after it has started. 38 million visitors per month. Thereby Hulu Plus, the fee-based platform of the successful American video portal Hulu, is the strongest growing online video-service in the US. As CEO Jason Kilar stated at this year´s AdAge Digital Conference in New York, the platform [...]
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The Internet as a Shopping Advisor

The importance of the internet for purchase decisions is increasing evermore. More and more people inform themselves on the internet before buying computers, booking flights or trips or awarding jobs to craftsmen: 70% of the German population looks for information about products and services on the internet before the purchase. They get an idea of [...]
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Digital Business Key to Success in China

The below figure compiled by Mashable and Statista impressively underscores why the digital business is the key to success for market operations in China. Despite the fact that the growth of China’s Internet population has seen a slow-down since 2007, today every one out of five Internet users world-wide is Chinese. That is more than [...]
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What is behind the hype surrounding new subscription projects in eCommerce? – Part II

Business concepts involving subscription services might be more interesting for the mainstream market than niche markets or stand-alone businesses. They are not only a perfect tool to enhance customer loyalty, but also a good way to acquire new customers, binding them to a certain platform in the long-run, thus furthering their interest in other products. [...]
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