Fresh holiday ecommerce data reveals that non-travel related online shopping has generated sales reaching $12.42 billion during the period November 1 to December 3 this year; an increase of 25 percent over the same period last year.
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Getting email newsletters and marketing blurbs through to subscribers is becoming an increasing challenge. Aside from asking your subscribers to have your email address whitelisted, here’s a couple of other simple tips to help you prescreen your copy before a live mailout to determine if you may need to make changes.
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It’s appeared again - I just received my first email notification for the season from the “IRS” stating I had a tax refund coming. I’m an Australian living in Australia and have never filed a tax return in the USA :).

Yes, it’s tax return phishing scam time again.
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In the last 24 hours or so, the search box on MySpace has begun displaying the Google logo and searches are returning Google results.
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A recent report states that due to fear regarding the security of the Internet and online transactions, nearly $2 billion in U.S. ecommerce sales will be lost during 2006.

The good news is that there are simple things that online businesses can do to foster trust, decrease site and shopping cart abandonment - and some of the strategies cost very little to implement.
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