While retailers are looking to increase sales and average order values, customers are looking for good deals and low prices.

How do Retailers Get Customers to Pay Full Price?
And What Promotions will Payoff When They Won’t?

On Thursday February 11, join eBillme and Lauren Freedman, president of the e-tailing group, for an interactive, live webinar focused on the bottom line:

Getting Your Customers to Pay Full Price.

Topics include:
- Quicker, faster, cheaper. Delivering for today’s demanding customer.
- Promotional ploys that please the customer and the bottom line.
- Creative twists on traditional promotional tactics that inspire purchasing.
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Much has been said and written about social media. What is it, what is the point of it, and should a company invest the time and effort in it, and which sites are worthwhile.

I remember wondering if I should create a social media profile and participate in every one. At one point, I counted over 50 that were “hot” and people were talking about. Then got excited because I found a service called namechk http://namechk.com/ that lets you register your brands at over 100 social media sites. Over 100 sites!!! How could anyone keep track and manage profiles on … Continue Reading

eBillme partner Buxfer has the best online money management solution – and it’s free.

Buxfer makes it easy to manage your money online – to stay in control and stay within budget.

Buxfer gives you a unified view of your finances by automatically downloading and categorizing transactions from your bank and credit cards. Spending reports help keep you in control and within budget, with real-time mobile alerts, projected cash flow, and more.

For students and roommates, Buxfer is ideal to help keep … Continue Reading

Thanksgiving is just a few weeks away and with that comes the unofficial start of the holiday season. Black Friday vs.Cyber Monday, is there a difference anyways? Do teens like one over the other? Do women and men vary in their shopping behavior on Black Friday or Cyber Monday?

New data on online shopping, the economy, holiday shopping, Black Friday deals, Cyber Monday, and much more was collected for Q4 2009 and the results are intriguing.

Join us this Thursday Nov 5th for a webinar to review the results from the eBillme Online Spending Index.

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With a down economy many people have been cutting back the past few months. Others are refusing to cut costs on the things they really enjoy. We surveyed men and women of all ages, and found out, despite the economy, what things they aren’t cutting out of their daily lives.

Here they are in order of the top voted item or activity people aren’t giving up to the least voted on:

1. Dining Out (48%)

2. Travel (33%)

3. Apparel, Clothes (32%)

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