The Day Ahead: Vicinity Sees Boom In Wireless Services
News Vicinity acts as an application service provider to bricks-and-mortar customers such as Barnes & Noble, Best Buy, Starbucks Coffee, Federal Express and Gap. Vicinity, which provides Internet marketing services and leads to its bricks-and-mortar...
[July 17, 2000, 13:47]
Marks And Sparks To Sell Online
News There would be worries about cannibalising its bricks and mortar business and they would have had to convince directors about the advantage of investing online," he says. They must use their bricks and mortar stores to drive traffic to the online...
[November 8, 1999, 11:23]
Getting Your Business On The Web
News Perhaps the most daunting, but also the most lucrative step in this process is to set up a site that allows your customers to actually make purchases online; your restaurant might sell jars of its world-famous soup to be shipped to customers and...
[September 16, 2005, 17:45]
Netimperative.com Bites The Dust
News Financial analysts and investors are increasingly putting their money on large, traditional "bricks and mortar" companies with Internet strategies, on the more established "pure-play" startups such as Amazon.com, or on companies that focus on...
[May 22, 2000, 11:37]
A Year Ago: Netimperative.com Bites The Dust
News Financial analysts and investors are increasingly putting their money on large, traditional "bricks and mortar" companies with Internet strategies, on the more established "pure-play" startups such as Amazon.com, or on companies that focus on...
[May 22, 2001, 6:28]
Dot-coms Now Closing At One A Day
News There could even be an element of sadism in the lack of acquisition interest from bricks-and-mortar companies, the study found. It might be just more fun for bricks and mortar companies to watch these dot-coms die," one analyst told Webmergers.
[November 20, 2000, 10:50]
Tumbling Market To Calm IT Nerves?
News If confidence in those options realising plummets, staff will be more likely to stay with bricks-and-mortar organisations who are better able to pay large salaries and offer ancillary benefits. Falling values of high-tech stocks are likely to slow...
[April 17, 2000, 13:13]
Quality On The Line: Benchmarks For Success In Internet-Based Distance Education
White Papers Opponents insist that courses taught on the net are incapable of living up to the standards of the traditional bricks and mortar classroom. The public debate over the merits of Internet-based distance learning too often consists of high-pitched...
[April 16, 2005, 0:00]
ELending - Optimized Loan Configuration
White Papers To be truly effective on the World Wide Web, lending institutions must provide service that matches or exceeds that of a call center, a bricks-and-mortar broker, or a branch office. As the Internet matures, many lending organizations are attracted...
[February 4, 2004, 23:00]
Case Study: The Case For VoIP In The Contact Center
White Papers During this Webcast, viewers will learn how the contact center can support corporate global strategy without bricks and mortar; test the VoIP waters without significant infrastructure investment; realize the many benefits of flexible staffing and...
[July 20, 2006, 0:00]
Amazon Takes The Festive Prize
News People are typing in the sites they know," said David Cooperstein, director consumer e-commerce at Forrester Research in Cambridge, Mass.will be the revenge of bricks-and-mortar. Media Metrix termed brick-and-mortar sites "one of the biggest...
[January 4, 2000, 8:39]
Continuing The Legacy Of 'The Long Tail'
News And where bricks and mortar inventories run out, the online inventory keeps going. Even better, from the perspective of consumers, such services meant that there was much greater choice available online than could ever be found in brick-and-mortar...
[July 24, 2006, 16:45]
Online Advertising Starts To Stabilise
News Newman said his definition of a traditional advertiser is a company that's purely bricks and mortar. But although online companies claim they are making strides with traditional advertisers, some analysts disagree with what they are counting as...
[June 7, 2001, 14:41]
Comparison Shopping Gets WAPed
News Thursday sees the launch of the latest UK WAP service that will allow users to instantly compare pricing between bricks-and-mortar and online bookshops. BookBrain.co.uk allows a direct comparison between 11 online bookshops, including Amazon.com...
[March 16, 2000, 13:49]
A Worm Belies Apple's Perfection
Leader Apple's online store, like the bricks and mortar version, offers a wide variety of appropriate goodies from other manufacturers alongside the company's own. As the UK feverishly awaits the opening of Europe's first Apple Store and the inevitable...
[November 5, 2004, 10:58]
Three Million New Net Users In The UK
News Although the figures should help console an industry plagued by high profile failures and stock market apathy, they also show that the Web sites of traditional bricks and mortar retailers like argos.co.uk, comet.co.uk and tesco.com showed the most...
[January 23, 2001, 10:44]
The Day Ahead: Dot-com Homecomings
News The Internet is being viewed as just another sales channel, and clicks and bricks are in. In 1999, brick-and-mortar companies were going bonkers spinning off their Internet properties. And then the dot-coms crashed.
[August 25, 2000, 11:32]
Buy.com Heads For The UK
News Traditional "bricks-and-mortar" shops such as Dixons have been suffering from increased price competition; last week the electronics retail chain suffered its first profits downgrade in two years after warning of increased price deflation.
[January 18, 2000, 10:04]
News Burst: Trading Standards Condemns Internet Shopping
News The Institute concluded that customers would be better advised to stick to bricks-and-mortar. Shopping online has been condemned as too expensive, too slow and too much hassle in a Trading Standards Institute report released Thursday.
[October 12, 2000, 8:11]
Tesco.com Launches Music Service
News Tesco is already one of the largest music vendors in the UK and is making a move into the download space as part of its strategy to give its customers an online version of all its bricks-and-mortar services and a desire to get involved in the...
[November 8, 2004, 13:08]

