January 2009
27 posts
“I am going to be Twittering live during episodes as they air. (It’ll be...”
– Diablo Cody
December 2008
46 posts
Why Front End Performance Matters to Everyone, Not... →
“The 2008 online holiday shopping season has declined 3 percent versus year ago,...”
– ComScore Chairman Gian Fulgoni
correction
I was cited today in an Internet Retailer piece on the Social Web and Ecommerce as follows:
Online communities can run the gamut from simple forums and blogs to entire sections within a site to microsites where users can chat, share content and participate in contests. And, if done right, any of these versions can reap many rewards, says Dayna Bateman senior strategic analyst for e-commerce...
Wunderbloc | New York →
Bored of Southsea (blog incorporated into home... →
S&P 500 Retailing Index →
“The Standard & Poor’s 500 Retailing Index shed 34 percent this year before...”
– Bloomberg.com
Fresh survey shows gloomy U.S. retail sales
Mary Delik, a director in the retail practice at consulting firm Deloitte LLP, was quoted by The Wall Street Journal as saying this year will go down as “one of the worst holiday sales seasons on record. Retailers went from ‘Ho-ho’ to ‘Uh-oh’ to ‘Oh-no.’ “
—MarketWatch
Battered Economy Not the Only Reason for...
“It appears that it is not the department store business model that’s broken, it’s the current execution,” said John Rittenhouse, chairman of Cavallino Capital, sponsor of the study. “The issues are directly related to management not following customers’ ‘rules.’ Shopping at stores that carry overpriced branded merchandise, use hi-lo pricing, coupons and loyalty programs have limited appeal...
Nike targets young women through interactive video...
According to Agency.com, the challenge of the campaign was how to show a wide variety of products in one rich-media execution. The way they tackled this was to create the interactive video featuring a woman running, walking and exercising in various environments representing different aspects of winter weather to the tune of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Jordan’s version of “Baby,...
“To the relief of the testers, Pizza Hut’s application doesn’t notify...”
– Ordering Made Easy As Pie
NYTimes.com Preps 'Instant Op-Ed' for January... →
“To become part of your consumer’s social graph you need to dedicate...”
– Comcast Strategy Director Andrea Harrison in ClickZ
“Even though footfall has increased, it has come at the expense of very large...”
– Jonathan de Mello, director of Experian’s retail consultancy, in the Times Online
a matter of perspective
Compared to weekends after Thanksgiving (four), online spending this past weekend (Dec. 20 and 21) was down 17%, comScore Inc reports. But compared to the weekend before Christmas last year, sales are up 98%, comScore says. Online sales were $677 million for Dec. 20 and 21, 2008.
Four weekends after Thanksgiving last year, sales totaled $811 million. The weekend before Christmas last year (Dec....
State of the Twittersphere - Q4 2008 Report →
“Bloggers collectively create nearly one million blog posts each day.”
– Mainstream Blogging: Integral to Media Ecosystem - MarketingVOX
kmart elevates its share-of-voice rank via blogger...
Kmart kick-started a social networking campaign by giving six well-known bloggers $500 gift certificates to go on a shopping spree in a Kmart store — then share the experience with readers.
The bloggers could write anything at all, positive or negative, and all of them clearly disclosed the arrangement in their posts.
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The SMI system is a daily share-of-voice index that shows the...
Text-message spam on the rise
U.S. consumers are expected to receive about 1.5 billion spam text messages this year, up from 1.1 billion last year and 800 million in 2006, according to Ferris Research, a San Francisco market-research firm. Those are conservative figures; some estimates are far higher. Verizon Wireless said it blocks more than 200 million spam text messages every month, and cellphone companies are ramping up...
“The mobile device will be the primary connection tool to the internet for most...”
– Pew Internet: Future of the Internet
“These Indians on the Pacific coast of British Columbia are famous for their...”
– Tips From the Potlatch, Where Giving Knows No Slump - NYTimes.com
Create Your Own Rainbow | Site for Radiohead's... →
Social Network Diseases - NYTimes.com →
YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money - NYTimes.com →
WatchFORA.tv - Stewart Butterfield Remembers How Flickr Began
“People like the anonymity of the Web. No one can see you coming out of Neiman...”
– Ricky Serbin of Ricky’s Exceptional Treasures on eBay in Luxury Shoppers Turn to Covert Consumption - NYTimes.com
popotame
Have you met the Hippopotamus who was allergic to magic? Have you heard Capucine tell the story? Then I don’t need to tell you why you need this shirt. (via detritus)
PeopleBrowsr →
What warnings are required to be posted on a...
Section 24(a) of the Federal Hazardous Substances Act (FHSA) prescribes cautionary labeling requirements on the packaging of toys or games intended for use by children from 3 to 6 years old containing small parts. Section 24(b) of the FHSA prescribes cautionary labeling requirements on the packaging for balloons, small balls, and marbles intended for children 3 years and older, or the packaging of...
“Sixty percent off is the new black.”
– Patricia Marx in the NY Times