Today I have come across an interesting study by McKinsey & Company where they stress the benefits and importance of multichannel retailing (paying a special attention to e-commerce, in particular), pointing out that at present very “few retailers actually get it right”. Referencing the US Census Bureau, McKinsey points out […]
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The 2009 list of industry’s conferences has had great popularity, and the time has come to compile our 2010 list. Below you will find a comprehensive list of affiliate marketing conferences, conventions and symposiums to choose from in the year 2010. If I have missed an event that must be
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Yesterday I blogged about the adoption of the new technological developments by Americans. This morning we called my wife’s grandmother who has turned 90 (yes, ninety!) on the Christmas Day. My mother-in-law brought her laptop to “babushka Polina” (by the way, “babushka” has nothing to do with nesting dolls; it’s
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In the course of the past week I have come across a Pew Research Center study that examined the current decade in light of people’s opinion on various subjects, technological advances and new Internet and mobile developments included. Speaking of “the major technological and communications advances” Pew stressed that the
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Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King; Let every heart prepare him room, And heaven and nature sing… Wishing you a very Merry Christmas! May the wonder of this very special celebration fill your heart with joy, your house with laughter of your loved
Not sure how many of you are following @GoogleRetail on Twitter, and saw their below tweet, and the post it is linked to, but I believe it is an extremely important one to miss: The blog post that appeared on Google Retail Blog earlier this month (and the one that
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Interesting observations have been published by comScore just two days ago. Having analyzed the U.S. online sales data during the first 48 days of the November – December in 2009 versus the same time period in 2008, they have arrived at statistics which mean that Cyber Monday is no longer
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The affiliate program support team at Target has tweeted: So I’ve decided to dig deeper into it. Target seems to refer to the National Retail Federation’s data quoted by Reuters. On Wednesday (December 16, 2009) in their U.S. consumers fall behind in holiday shopping article Reuters reported: Consumers on average
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There are different ways to look at the snowfall we’ve had in Northern Virginia between 18th and 19th December 2009. Some are attributing deaths in car crashes to it (makes me wonder if they’d do the same had it happened in a Virginia heavy autumn rain so typical of this
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Back in July in my Global Advertising to Shrink, Online Marketing to Grow post I quoted Forrester’s report on US Interactive Marketing Spend which projects a substantial growth of digital marketing in the course of the next 4 years. As this year is coming to an end, it seems appropriate
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