Beyond.com Store Ranks as a Top Consumer Electronics Site; Nielson/NetRatings Rankings Show Beyond.com's Continued Success at Attracting Customers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 27, 2000 E-commerce services provider Beyond.com (Nasdaq: BYND) announced today that its flagship eStore www.beyond.com was rated the second most-visited consumer electronics site on the Web, as determined by Nielson/NetRatings for the month of February. The Beyond.com store had a unique audience of 1,115,731 visitors last month, the highest of any non-auction consumer electronics site. Beyond.com attributes much of the traffic to high customer loyalty. The company's affiliates program, with over 65,000 members, is also a key driver of traffic to the site. The Nielson/NetRatings report noted that, "Companies that started selling consumer electronics online early continue to have a distinct advantage over those that came online later...Beyond.com also got in early and enjoys home-based traffic of more than 1 million unique visitors A count of how many different people access a Web site. For example, if a user leaves and comes back to the site five times during the measurement period, that person is counted as one unique visitor, but would count as five "user sessions. per month." As an e-commerce services provider, Beyond.com leverages its expertise in site design and management to build and run eStores for software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs. The Beyond.com store, which sells software and computer related products, is the company's flagship eStore. "We are extremely pleased with our continued ability to attract visitors to our website," said Kendall Fargo, vice president of corporate operations and services for Beyond.com. "We were able to establish ourselves as the preeminent pre·em·i·nent or pre-em·i·nent adj. Superior to or notable above all others; outstanding. See Synonyms at dominant, noted. [Middle English, from Latin prae site for serious software buyers early on, and we continue to see the fruits of those efforts. With tax season upon us we continue to see high traffic, as heavy software buyers frequent our website, and Internet savvy taxpayers choose to prepare and file their taxes electronically, using digitally downloadable software available on Beyond.com." In addition to its own top e-commerce store, Beyond.com runs sites for industry leaders such as CADopia.com, Compaq Computer, Executive Software Inc., IntelliGolf, McAfee.com Inc., Palm Computing computing - computer , Symantec Corp., Systran Software Inc., Telex and Trend Micro. About Beyond.com Beyond.com is an e-commerce services provider that builds and manages Web stores for businesses and sells software and computer related products to the government, corporate and consumer markets. The company's eStore division allows software publishers, hardware manufacturers and systems OEMs to launch a full-featured e-commerce store in a few weeks. Businesses can choose from an array of offerings, including website design and construction, transaction processing Updating the appropriate database records as soon as a transaction (order, payment, etc.) is entered into the computer. It may also imply that confirmations are sent at the same time. Transaction processing systems are the backbone of an organization because they update constantly. , physical and electronic order fulfillment Order fulfillment (in BE also: order fulfilment) is in the most general sense the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Sometimes Order fulfillment , customer support, marketing, and merchandising support and reporting. Customers include CADopia.com, Compaq Computer, Executive Software Inc., IntelliGolf, McAfee.com Inc., Palm Computing, Symantec Corp., Systran Software Inc., Telex and Trend Micro. Beyond.com's government division provides digitally downloadable software and related services to a growing list of government agencies, including the Department of Treasury, Defense Logistics Agency Noun 1. Defense Logistics Agency - a logistics combat support agency in the Department of Defense; provides worldwide support for military missions Defense Department, Department of Defense, DoD, United States Department of Defense, Defense - the federal department (DLA DLA dog leukocyte antigen. ), National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA NIMA National Imagery and Mapping Agency (now National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency; US government) NIMA never in mitosis gene a (molecular biology) NIMA North Idaho Mycological Association ) and Patent and Trademark Office (PTO PTO abbr. 1. Parent Teacher Organization 2. or p.t.o. please turn over 3. power takeoff PTO or pto please turn over Noun 1. ), a division of the Department of Commerce. Beyond.com also operates its own online store http://www.beyond.com/, where customers can find an expansive selection of software and computer related products. Beyond.com Corporation trades on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol ("BYND"). More information on the company can be found in the company's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"). |
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