InternetRetailer.com has launched it's Top500Guide.com® website which is tagged as "The only source of information on the largest e-retailers in the U.S. and Canada and provides multiple years’ worth of sales, performance, product, and vendor data for the largest sites in e-retailing." The Top 500 ranks the largest e-retailers in the U.S. and Canada based on annual online sales
To access the site and data, you must register and be a subscribed user. Yearly rates start at $195 which includes a print copy and online access, with price breaks for the more users that sign up.
Internet Retailer came out with the Top 500 Guide product in 2004 and has been a valuable source of e-retailer ranking information and has become an established publication, sometimes called "the bible of the retail industry". Internet Retailer has a full-time staff of four that gathers data year-round for the Top 500 and calls on extensive sources to ensure the authority and accuracy of the information.
In addition to online sales, the Top 500 Guide® includes data for each retailer on number of unique visitors to the site, total visits, conversion rates, number of SKUs online, site performance, e-mail marketing programs, search engine marketing programs, browser satisfaction and vendors that provide services to each retailer. It includes names of executives and URLs that each retailer uses. Extensive tables in the Top 500 Guide® show how retailers compare to their peers by type of retailer (chain, catalog, web-only, manufacturer) and merchandise category. It also includes tables of fastest growing in percentage terms, most growth in dollars, the proportion of web sales to total sales for the Top 100 and more.
To learn more visit http://www.top500guide.com/.
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