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What are people really buying online? Which websites get the most transactions? More business happens on the web than you may realize. The categories are separated into clothing, electronics, furniture, office supplies and books and magazine sell more often online, overall the majority of U.S. purchases still take place in brick-and-mortar stores, but the gap is closing quickly.

The categories with the highest online buying percentage. These retail segments had higher online purchased in aggregate dollars than from brick and mortar stores. Percentages show e-commerce sales as a percent of total sales.
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Zappos.com shoe seller has fanatical employees that live for customer service. They have a company manifesto to put the customer first, something rarely seen in the e-commerce world. I remember Nordstrom having fanatical service and went to extraordinary lengths to keep customers satisfied.

One legendary Nordstrom story is when a long time customer wanted to return a set of automobile tires. Nordstrom is a clothing company that doesn’t sell tires, but to keep this man happy the sales staff cheerfully accepted the car tires and issued an in store credit. When you have lifetime customers, this is a small price to pay for loyalty.
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Video interview with Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora. Tim has built an extremely successful online startup and he discusses the story of how he came to start this revolutionary music company.

He is inspirational and bases most of his success on his never say die attitude.

Tim tells the story of flying back from New York City after pitching 10 different venture capitalists and returning with no money. He took a 2 flight trip via Southwest Airlines, which was the cheapest available. Read the rest of this entry »

We don’t have a paid post program on this blog, but it is safe to assume that most bloggers have been paid for writing about other companies, this is how online journalism allows small bloggers to be successful.

Below is an email sent by a large advertising agency to an A list blogger asking them to participate in a pay-for-post program:
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In the book “Zen And The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert Pirsig a father tries to teach his son the basics of life, which also happens to coincide with the basics of business.

People who do more than the basics and actively listen and help people will succeed. Companies that do more than only what is required are rewarded with happier customers, more referrals and better profits.

A few pleasant surprises
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There’s two ways to increase the effectiveness of your marketing campaigns. You can either increase your workload or you can work smarter.

What would a marketing genius choose? They would choose the second option, as should you.

There’s four distinct ways that you can seem like a marketing genius without increasing the amount of work you do.
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Earl Nightingale has a great monologue about success, work and beliefs.

Albert Schweitzer was asked whats wrong with men today. His response: Men Don’t Think.

He continues with the definition of success: The progressive realization of a worthy ideal.

The opposite of courage is not cowardice- its conformity.

Listen to this great 10 minute clip by Earl Nightingale.
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In proper web performance monitoring, its very first and, perhaps, most critical role is to keep an eye on the website externally. What this simply means is that its primary objective must be to closely monitor the user experience in exactly how an end user experiences. Being able to know the fundamental cause is certainly a good thing; however, such analysis has to be performed as early and as quickly as possible – this is the main difference that separates an ordinary web monitoring service to that of an ideal one.

A fast website will get a better search engine ranking, so you should be continually monitoring your server performance to ensure there are no problems that could affect indexing and ranking.
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This coupon code for TCA is good through 2011 and is a good baseline for any SEO or blogger looking to get a jumpstart on content generation, and increase their speed in generating new posts.

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