E-Commerce Evolution Seminar at Las Vegas Market

July 26, 2006  by in UnCategorized   

By Home Furnishings Business in Las Vegas on July 2006 According to a recent HFB survey, 36% of furniture retailers have yet to get their own website up and running. A handful of holdouts – 9% - are refusing to even look into having a site of their own. And yet, according to eBay, 69% of American households have internet access. Why does there continue to be such a divide between the industry and the internet?

Jeannie Reeth, eBay’s home & garden category spokesperson will lead a seminar at Las Vegas Market today at 1pm, PST, about online trends and how to get the most about out of the internet for your business.

HFB talked to Reeth, who said, “We’ll be talking to retailers about general e-commerce trends that we see, and share tips and tricks with them. The internet is fascinating, it you look at the charts, the number of businesses that are now using the web that didn’t before is peaking. We hit the hockey stick part of the curve. The conversations I had at high point this past year compared to what’s happening now is so different. Each year you see a real shift, people knew the internet was here, of course, now they’re saying, ‘we’re online!’ I hope we can help them be as successful as they want to be.”