<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b05c3ff0-2bd5-4004-81ab-33be8d1ad0b3/12287DA9-3EB1-46C3-A994-2CD56D30403D/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/05/online-retailers-expect-15-growth-in-holiday-sales" href="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/05/online-retailers-expect-15-growth-in-holiday-sales" style="font-size: 11px;">www.webpronews.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/05/online-retailers-expect-15-growth-in-holiday-sales"><H2>Online Retailers Expect 15% Growth In Holiday Sales </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/05/online-retailers-expect-15-growth-in-holiday-sales"><P>The holiday season will be challenging for retailers but more than half (56.1%) of online retailers expect to increase sales at least fifteen percent over last year according to a study conducted by Shopzilla for Shop.org.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/05/online-retailers-expect-15-growth-in-holiday-sales"><P>This year, the majority (78%) of online retailers plan to offer free shipping with conditions at some point during the holiday season, consistent with last year's levels. Retailers are making up for increased shipping costs by renegotiating deals with shipping providers (40.4%), closely managing their number of employees (33.3%), and cutting back on other promotions (15.8%).</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2008/11/05/online-retailers-expect-15-growth-in-holiday-sales"><P>In addition, 21.3 percent of retailers say they will require a higher purchase amount for customers to be eligible for free shipping and 10.6 percent will reduce usage of free shipping with no conditions.</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/12287DA9-3EB1-46C3-A994-2CD56D30403D/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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