Top500Guide.com® is part of the Internet Retailer family of products, which includes Internet Retailer magazine, InternetRetailer.com, IRNewsLink, the Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition, the Internet Retailer Web Design Conference, The Top 500 Guide®, The Guide to E-Commerce Technology, The Guide to Search Marketing and The Guide to Retail Web Site Design and Usability.

Internet Retailer is a monthly national business magazine, first published in March 1999. Its 43,000+ subscribers are senior executives primarily from retail chains, independent stores, catalogs, virtual merchants and brand-name manufacturers and wholesalers/distributors. Internet Retailer’s circulation represents the largest multichannel readership base of any retailing magazine.

InternetRetailer.com is the largest web site serving the retailing industry, with more than 800,000 visits a month from 250,000+ unique visitors. It features daily news and press releases, the online Buyers Guide and complete contents of Internet Retailer going back to the first issue.

IRNewsLink is a 4-times-a-week e-mail newsletter with 38,000 opt-in subscribers that provides synopses of and links to the latest news and press releases at InternetRetailer.com.

The Internet Retailer Conference & Exhibition is the largest trade show in e-retailing. It featured 144 speakers in 77 sessions and 328 exhibitors in 130,000 square feet of exhibit space at McCormick Place West in Chicago in 2008. More than 5,200 e-retailing professionals attended the show.

The Internet Retailer Web Design Conference focuses on web site design and usability and features free, one-on-one consultations for attendees with design professionals on retail site design.

The Top 500 Guide® ranks the largest e-retailers in the U.S. and Canada based on annual online sales and includes data on number of unique visitors to the site, total visits, conversion rates, number of SKUs online, and data on site performance, e-mail marketing programs, search engine marketing programs and vendors that provide services to each retailer. It also includes names of executives and URLs that each retailer uses.

The Guide to E-Commerce Technology profiles 700 providers of goods and services to the e-retail industry and provides information about pricing, names of representative customers and details about each company’s offerings.

The Guide to Retail Web Site Design and Usability reports the latest strategies, tactics and techniques to creating retail web sites that engage and sell and includes case studies of successful redesigns, listings of the features and functions at the Top 500 sites, and information about design services providers.

The Guide to Search Marketing In 2009, Internet Retailer expands to four the number of its annual directories on e-retailing with the new Guide to Search Marketing, a 300-page directory analyzing all apsects of the use of search marketing in the e-retailing industry, including search engine optimization, paid search and site search.
 

The Internet Retailer family of products is owned by Vertical Web Media LLC, a privately held company based in Chicago.