ADVISORY/Experts Available to Discuss Study Predicting More Consumers Will Shop Online This Season.Business Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) TOPIC: A study conducted by Jupiter Research predicts online shopping will increase 20 percent and the average consumer will spend an estimated $265 on online purchases this season, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. an article by San Antonio Express-News The San Antonio Express-News is the daily newspaper of San Antonio, Texas. It is ranked as the third-largest daily newspaper in the state of Texas in terms of circulation, and is one of the leading news sources of South Texas, with offices in Austin, Brownsville, Laredo, and . Experts say some consumers prefer online shopping because it saves time, they can avoid crowded stores and find products easier online as opposed to visiting several stores. The National Retail Federation claims that although online shopping only makes up 4.5 percent of all retail sales, it is the most rapid-growing category. EXPERTS: ExpertSource can offer several highly qualified experts to comment on this story: Ahmet Can is vice president of product development at WhenU, Inc. and an expert on online shopping behavior. WhenU is one of the world's largest desktop advertising networks with over 30 million active users. He can offer significant insight into online shopping patterns and behavior and year-over-year analysis. He can also offer tips and tricks for consumers on everything from finding the best deal to protecting their privacy during the holiday shopping season. Every year, people's online shopping habits are evolving considerably. In response, the approaches of online retailers are changing as well. Among the trends appearing for shopping season 2003: shorter duration coupons (as short as one day,) more aggressive discounts for signing up for marketing materials, and discounts that are only available when a retailer's affinity credit card is used. Additionally, some deals were unheard of Not heard of; of which there are no tidings. Unknown to fame; obscure. - Glanvill. See also: Unheard Unheard in '02: $39 DVD players A stand-alone device that plays DVDs. It contains a DVD drive and the electronics to decode the digital video. The device may play only manufactured DVDs, or it may be able to play DVD-R, DVD-RW and DVD+RW discs. DVD players are cabled to a TV or home theater system for display. , $399 computer desktops, and $79 digital cameras. 212-239-0000 x539, acan@whenu.com, PR Contact: Anthony Citrano, 617-758-4140, anthony@famapr.com Dr. Wendy Moe, of the University of Texas, Austin, McCombs School of Business The Red McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin is one of the most distinguished business schools in the United States. The McCombs School includes about 4,500 undergraduates and was founded in 1922. , is a marketing modeler/statistician. She specializes in analyzing and interpreting large data sets. Because of the vast amounts of data available online, a lot of her recent work has focused on Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the shopping. She has also built a lot of forecasting models for music products. These models are based on sales data obtained at the retail level as well as online. But regardless of the context, she builds her models around fundamental consumer behavior frequently based on the consumer psychology involved in the shopping process. 512-232-2793 Professor Sandipa Dublish, of Fairleigh Dickinson University Fairleigh Dickinson University, at Florham-Madison and Teaneck-Hackensack, N.J.; coeducational; incorporated and opened 1942 as a junior college, became a four-year college in 1948 and a university in 1956. , has almost 15 years of experience in the field of marketing. Dublish can discuss mass-media advertising and consumer behavior to examine the implications of Internet for marketing. Dublish can address how websites will create customer loyalty in an environment of shopping bots A program that searches the Web for the best price for a particular item you wish to purchase. See bot. that facilitate product comparisons with minimal search costs Search costs Costs associated with locating a counterparty to a trade, including explicit costs (such as advertising) and implicit costs (such as the value of time). Related: Information costs. and effort. 201-692-7225 ExpertSource cannot guarantee the immediate availability of these experts or their familiarity with this specific issue. ExpertSource provides academic and industry experts to the media at no charge. Journalists are encouraged to submit queries to ExpertSource when seeking experts on specific subjects. An online registration form is available at http://www.businesswire.com/. |
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