Released on = August 25, 2007, 1:28 am

Press Release Author = Elan Stores International LLC.

Industry = Real Estate

Press Release Summary = Online Data feed creation for Comparison Shopping Engines
made. Manual creation and preparation is tedious and this has been solved by this
automated service. Try it FREE.

Press Release Body = Beaverton (OR) 08/25/07. As an online merchant it is absolutely
critical to get listed in the comparison shopping engines.

Comparison Shopping is vital for online retailers growth. Preparing data feed files
in text format is one of the major problem. This has been solved now by creating the
data feed online at http://www.pdqdeals.com/shopping-feed-management

This is an online process where you load your latest data feed of any of the
following Comparison Shopping Engine like Shopping, Shopzilla, Nextag, Become and
Pronto.com. This will be converted to other Shopping Engines format as required by
those Engines. This saves lots of time and money for online retailers.

Holiday shoppers are expected to spend $32 billion online this season, with
purchases happening well past ground shipping cutoff dates. That\'s according to
\"Online Retail Holiday Forecast, 2006,\" a report from Jupiter Research.

As an online merchant it is absolutely critical to get listed in the comparison
shopping engines.These sites most often require complete text files or automated
feeds of your product lines. Compiling these files can be tedious. You may want to
consult a service that handles the product feeds for you. If you are a do it
yourselfer there are several software programs that automate the feed building
process. One such automated data feed file creation is done online for
Shopping/Shopzilla/Become/Nextag and Pronto.com. Free trials of 5 feeds at
http://www.pdqdeals.com/shopping-feed-management

Be prepared to resubmit your product line at least once every 30 days so your
products stay in the comparison sites.

USA census report dated August 16 2007.

The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce announced today that the estimate of
U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second quarter of 2007, adjusted for seasonal
variation and holiday and trading-day differences, but not for price changes, was
$33.6 billion, an increase of 6.4 percent (±0.8%) from the first quarter of 2007.

Total retail sales for the second quarter of 2007 were estimated at $1,012.6
billion, an increase of 1.3 percent (±0.3%) from the first quarter of 2007. The
second quarter 2007
e-commerce estimate increased 20.8 percent (±4.6%) from the second quarter of 2006
while total retail sales increased 3.8 percent (±0.5%) in the same period.

E-commerce sales in the second quarter of 2007 accounted for 3.3 percent of total
sales.
On a not adjusted basis, the estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the second
quarter of 2007 totaled $31.8 billion, an increase of 3.9 percent (±0.8%) from the
first quarter of 2007.

The second quarter 2007 e-commerce estimate increased 20.7
percent (±4.6%) from the second quarter of 2006 while total retail sales increased
3.8 percent (±0.5%) in the same period. Ecommerce sales in the second quarter of
2007 accounted for 3.1 percent of total sales.

http://www.census.gov/mrts/www/ecomm.html
http://www.census.gov/mrts/www/data/pdf/07Q2.pdf

That number is incredible. Online stores that can offer, excellent prices, superior
shipping, brand name awareness are going to cash in.



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Contact Details = Contact:
Megala Kanniappan, director of public relations
Elan Stores International LLC
703-879-1785
http://www.pdqdeals.com
support@pdqdeals.com