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Online Sales to rise by 15% 0 Comments

Julian Sharpe | 4:56 pm | November 10, 2008 | Affiliate Marketing, Events, Google, Jobs, MIVA, MSN, Mobile, News, Online Media Planning (OMP), Pay-Per-Click (PPC), Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Social Media, Tracking, Viral, aol, yahoo

With the Credit crunch still biting it is predicted that Christmas shoppers will turn to the Internet pushing sales up by 15 per cent from last year. Online sales for the final 3 months of this year are forecasted to be around 13.16 billion.

December the 8th has be ear marked as the biggest online shopping day, so let’s see if the statistics agree on the 9th.


Miva reports loss for 2nd quarter 0 Comments

Julian Sharpe | 9:02 am | August 13, 2008 | MIVA, News, Pay-Per-Click (PPC)

Miva has announced a further loss of 6.3 million dollars (£3.3m) in Q2, this is in the week that it rejected a takeover proposal from video search specialist Blinkx.

This is now the second consecutive quarter that the MIVA network had suffered a loss, being down by 5 million dollars (£2.6m) for Q1 2008 Revenues were at 30.2 million dollars (£15.8m) for the quarter, down from 32.7 million dollars (£17.1m) year on year.

Quote:

Peter Corrao, Miva CEO and president, said, “The most recent quarter has been a transitional one for our business. We’re encouraged by the results of the growth initiatives that we’ve been working towards, such as the continued rollout of our Alot toolbar and home page brand and the continued growth of destination sites like Spill.com.”


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