http://blog.vialogix.com/articles/2006/11/08/sell-more-this-holiday-season en-us 40 <p>People are buying more online every year and annual ecommerce is expected to top $200 billion for 2006. And <a href="http://www.forrester.com/">Forrester</a> predicts that holiday sales will top $27 billion. With all those potential online dollars, are you doing the right things to improve your online sales?</p> <p>Vialogix has long held that the user experience improves ecommerce (<a href="http://progress.vialogix.com/clients/case_studies/creatas/">Creatas</a>, <a href="http://progress.vialogix.com/clients/case_studies/picturequest/">Picturequest</a>, <a href="http://progress.vialogix.com/clients/case_studies/hinrichs/">Hinrichs</a> case study examples). Recent collaboration between <a href="http://www.akamai.com/html/about/press/releases/2006/press_110606.html">Akamai</a> and JupiterResearch shows that the average time an online customer will wait is 4 seconds! More than one-third of shoppers will abandon the site with a poor experience. And 75% were not likely to ever shop on that site again! Those are pretty hefty penalties for bad design.</p> Wed, 08 Nov 2006 14:10:00 -0500 urn:uuid:d7657bed-30af-4cce-9f07-daf6b6d7e676 Rob http://blog.vialogix.com/articles/2006/11/08/sell-more-this-holiday-season business design user interface web