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Email is making a comeback. Yes, it’s mobile.
Not so long ago email seemed to be losing its edge as an useful communication tool. Spam was increasing year on year. Marketers were overusing their email subscribers database and communication tools...
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Is Facebook’s Graph search meant to take on Google?
Four days ago Facebook unveiled its new Graph Search, currently available “in a very limited beta program for English (US) audiences”. The event didn’t go unnoticed for tech journalists, bloggers and...
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Apple did not invent Planned Obsolescence. It just got great at it.
“I just love this iPhone I bought three years ago”… said no one ever. Any Apple user knows that there is no way to keep an iPhone or iPad for more than 2 or 3 years and still be happy about it. If...
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Top 5 Largest Online Retailers – Who Are These Companies And How Did They...
Here are 5 companies whose combined online sales in 2011 amount to almost $75 Billion, US and Canada only. Let’s also have a look at their background and how did they manage to reach the top 5. The...
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F-Commerce And Why Facebook Can’t Get It Up
Less than a couple of years ago Facebook Commerce seemed to be inevitable. It just seemed one of those things that are just waiting to happen. Yet it didn’t. After a promising start, e-Commerce’s...
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Predictive Analytics and Why Companies Are Stalking Their Customers
Tomorrow is all about Big Data and how best can you handle it. See, companies don’t need more data. Most medium to large companies either have the data or ways to get it easily available. The problem...
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Bridging the gap in multichannel shopping
Online retail is the wonder kid of retail – it is young, energetic, it is growing fast yet it is still in its infancy. Based on 2010 estimates online retail amounted for no more than 7% of total retail...
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5 Reasons Customers Will Shop Online (Other than Price)
When it comes to online retail conventional wisdom states that customers will choose the virtual over brick-and-mortar store mainly because of the price. While this may be true , it’s only partially...
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The Top 7 Most Important Factors in Building (Better) Ecommerce Companies
eCommerce has really picked up pace in the last ten years and is on its way to becoming a really serious competitor to classic retail. Needless to say, many companies jump the ecommerce wagon. Some are...
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What are Flash Sales Sites and How do They Work?
Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 5 years you’ve probably heard about a little thing called flash sales sites. Well … maybe not so little. It seems that, according to Gilt founder and...
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How big are Flash Sales Sites? An Infographic.
We had a look at how flash sales sites work and got into some details regarding their business model. So, just to get a better understanding at their size and growth rate, I’ve prepared an infographic...
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5 Things Online Retailers Could Learn from the Game of Thrones
The Starks. The Lannisters. Dragons. Swords. Power. Blood. Sex. Aaaand violence. I guess this pretty much sums up a slightly superficial yet short description of the Game of Thrones series. Now if...
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Apple’s new iOS 7 is Big News for Mobile Commerce
Apple unveiled its new take on the iOS – the iOS 7. Certainly a big change in terms of design, the iOS 7 is actually a bit more than that – it’s an assault on a couple of yet untapped markets. Let’s...
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Online Stores as Super Heroes: Top 5 Online Super Retailers
There are retailers and then there are super retailers. Here’s a list of some of the bravest and strongest online retailers and their super hero avatar. Let’s start with number 5: 5. Batman Secret...
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Higher Education can’t Keep Up: Online Retailers Need to Hire Experience, not...
It’s pretty hard for anyone to admit it but it’s true: universities can’t keep up with the times. They cannot deliver qualified individuals for the growing online retail segment because there is...
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Three Technologies that are Disrupting (Online) Retail
Retail is changing fast and it’s part due to some new, disrupting technologies that we can see at work with companies such as Amazon, eBay or Walmart. Here are three of these technologies: 1. Print on...
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The Customer is not a Robot. She is Your Wife. 3 Tips on Improving Customer...
David Ogilvy famously said “The customer is not an idiot. She is your wife.” back when advertising was less about media budgets and more about customer understanding and providing ads that use the type...
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Why Gmail’s New Interface is a Direct Hit to Email Marketing?
Gmail has recently switched on its new tab based interface. As a general rule – when the leading email provider changes something so signifiant in its interface, it must be somewhat important. On one...
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Smartwatch Commerce? It Might Happen. Ebay is testing Ecommerce Apps on the...
We all knew it was coming but we kinda expected Apple to be the first one to market the Smartwatch. Although the fifth iPod Nano generation kinda looked like a watch, it was not one. Samsung just...
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Twitter Starts Developing Commerce Operations. Hires Ticketmaster CEO to Lead...
Twitter has recently hired Nathan Hubbard, former Ticketmaster president, to lead the charge on its commerce operations. This move is a part of Twitter’s efforts to pass the $1 billion revenue...
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