| More choices with new web tools for Jetstar.com
Jetstar customers now have greater flexibility and choice when it comes to planning and booking Jetstar holidays with a number of new product innovations now live on Jetstar.com. The new tools are designed to allow consumers better customisation of their holiday experience through a growing number of "choice" options, extracting even greater value from their holiday and travel dollar. In one of the value based carrier’s largest website upgrades, Jetstar.com, the principal vehicle for over 80 per cent of Jetstar fare bookings, is evolving into a traveller’s one-stop outlet for passengers. The website now receives 2.4 million visits per month and is the third most visited travel website in Australia (Neilsen Netratings). Unique browsers to Jetstar.com from 1 July 2006 number approximately 15.5 million, with high traffic volumes to the site commercially supporting these enhancements.
Online Priority: Dealership, Brand or Price?
Zag's CEO discusses how dealers can adapt their online presence to keep up with the ever-changing media landscape. Here's the truth that no automotive dealer likes to admit: the car has become a commodity. We've all heard the numbers. J.D. Power and Associates says that more than two-thirds of new-vehicle buyers use the internet in their vehicle shopping process. But what's changed over the past few years is the level and nature of the research that consumers can find online. Buyers have used the web for several years now to learn about the various makes and models, get detailed specs, research safety features and compare feedback from other buyers, mostly anecdotal product information. But today some services -- and some competing dealers -- go beyond informational tools to provide detailed price comparisons side-by-side with invoice, MSRP and Kelley Blue Book's New Car Blue Book value, which reveal what people actually are paying for a new car.
Kismet has a chance on Web site
Remember those missed opportunities: A knight in a shining white Escalade passes you on the freeway and waves; a stranger helps carry your dry cleaning to the car; a friendly grocery shopper gives you a tip on selecting avocados; a chivalrous driver lets you take the parking space you both approached simultaneously. You're kicking yourself because you didn't get a business card, or a phone number, or an e-mail address? Such chance meetings are called kismet, meaning fate or destiny. Now an enterprising businessman from Los Angeles is capitalizing on these brief, anonymous encounters by providing a vehicle to maybe, just maybe, follow up on missed moments. Mark Jaffe, 32, created a Web site called Kizmeet – "first glances, second chances" – and added San Diego to his list of cities last month.
Elsewhere on SFGate
After the first signup in 2005, the flow of unwanted telemarketing calls came to a welcome halt. But Harmer signed up second time, just weeks ago, in a desperate attempt to stem a recent surge in telemarketing calls, even though her original registration was supposed to be good for five years. "I've noticed a huge spike in the last two months. I can't figure out what's causing the increase because it's nothing I've initiated," said Harmer, 41-year-old San Ramon mother of four. "They say the Do Not Call Registry is good for five years, but I'm not so sure anymore." Overall, the federal Do Not Call Registry, with 143 million registered numbers since its inception in 2003, has worked to curb the number of telemarketing calls. A Harris Interactive poll last year found that 76 percent of respondents had signed up for the Federal Trade Commission's call registry and that nine out of 10 said they were receiving fewer unsolicited calls.
Bridgeton Police Blotter
Charmaine Myers, 37, of Atlantic Street, was arrested Friday night for disorderly conduct, accused of yelling at police who had been dispatched to her home for a complaint that a woman was screaming inside. She was released on her own recognizance. Rufino Velasco, 25, of Cedar Street, was arrested Friday on three failure to appear warrants, and was lodged in the county jail in lieu of $3,294 bail. A North Pearl Street resident reported late Friday night that he observed a male breaking out the windows to a vehicle parked behind a Walnut Street home with a car jack while he was on Bank Street. The vehicle's temporary, non-resident registration tag indicated the vehicle is registered to a resident of the home where it was parked when vandalized.
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