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November 16, 2005 -- (WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- European online marketing and sales solutions provider TradeDoubler (tradedoubler.com) announced on Wednesday that the results of a recent survey reveal that Europeans plan to do nearly 20 percent more of their holiday shopping online than last year. The increase can be mostly attributed to the convenience and time savings found online, as well as the competitive online prices and bypassing annoying crowds.
The survey showed that 56 percent of European respondents plan to do at least a quarter of their Christmas shopping online this year. Meanwhile, the number of people who plan to do at least half of their Christmas shopping online has doubled, when compared to last Christmas results.
The survey also revealed that while the number of online shoppers has increased, overall holiday spending is expected to stay the same, suggesting that a greater portion of total holiday spending will go towards online businesses this year.
High-purchase items for online Christmas shoppers are likely to be gifts, followed by holiday travel arrangements. Seventy percent of survey participants admitted that they can be easily distracted while Christmas shopping in retail stores, and often end up buying items for themselves. Sixteen percent of respondents said they are more likely to shop around and treat themselves when shopping online.
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One of the interesting luxuries of working on a project like the printed WHIR magazine is that it allows us to play with things like our point of view from one issue to the next. In recent months we've been giving added attention to the kind of practical and applicable advice aimed at smaller hosts and resellers. This issue carries on with that point of view, asking, in our cover story, "what am I worth?" It's a complicated question without a clear-cut answer.
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May 2009 - The Blueprint for a Small Web Host
I was a little surprised by how difficult it became to see this idea through. We set out to assemble a blueprint for a small hosting business, but butted up pretty quickly against the general impossibility of covering all the territory that was out there to be covered. The basic constraints of a printed magazine, and the less-than-infinite amount of time we had available forced us to face the fact that we could never produce an exhaustive guide to starting a hosting company.
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