Are We Killing eCommerce?

It's not just government trying to control and place tax burdens on eCommerce companies that seem to be making buisness as usual a bit more difficult in 2012. It is eCommerce sites themselves and the multitude of affiliate programs causing a shake up in actual online ordering due to drop ship fulfillment situations.  These affiliates really do not care about a shopper's experience and worse it seems nor do the parent company and dropshippers.  Collectively, these retail relationships can cause customer satisfaction levels to drop significantly.
 In fact, in this blogger's opinion, affiliate programs themselves are doing harm to Internet retailers in such a way as to effectively remove any sense of social responsibility while furthering the growing demand for customer support services at the same turn. Here's is an example:  After spending three hours shopping for the perfect flower arrangement for Mother's Day, and attempting to place an order on three different floral sites, I realized it was becoming utterly unproductive to continue in vain.
Except for one popup support offer, I had no one and no where to turn to ask questions about why a particular item was not able to be delivered in mom's zip code.  After trying to make a total of five actual purchases the pre-Mother's Day week I finally called it quits.
Now, I am complaining aloud via a blog about the sorry state of affairs eCommerce has become.

 So what sites did I attempt to make purchases:

1800Flowers.com 

ProFlorist.com 

TeleFlora.com 

FTD.com 

 To score each site would be unreasonable and a bit unfair so let's just score the entire retail floral shopping experience a D- for good measure and suggest to anyone reading actions of this nature really place a tarnish on the whole Online shopping experience and eCommerce sites in particular those with affiliate order and drop shipping mechanisms.

AdSense Turns Winter Green

Ever wonder what months are the best time to advertise? Winter months, of course, humans are indoors trying to remain warm and burning up their keyboards in search of anything and everything. These are also the months with highest advertising expense for marketers and highest revenues for those monetizing their websites with Google's AdSense program. December, January, February are what we consider winter months, just so you know. Visit our sister blog located at http://WordFashionista.com

YouTube: Do You Share or Are you a Spectator?

Watching videos is a favorite past time for many Internet users -

Are you one of them?

More importantly, are you a spectator or a participant in online activities?

For instance, do you like sharing video clips? Is your curiosity peaked by interesting statistics of how others use the Internet?

If you answered, yes to any of the above questions - you likely will find this YouTube video rather entertaining. Or perhaps you will think it is utterly stupid and a perfectly wasted one minute of your life. You be the judge.