Archive for the ‘Online Retail’ Category
Monday, December 20th, 2010
Groupon is really catching on like wildfire, despite doomsayers' claims of low barriers to entry, and unsustainable business model (like New Yorker's column by James Surowiecki). The Groupon team has hit such a sweet spot of viral customer acquisition and high-margin revenue that it felt comfortable rejecting Google's $6 billion ...
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Saturday, May 15th, 2010
Google has just announced that it is pulling the plug on their Nexus One web store and web-only distribution model.
The lack of distribution arrangement with a tier-one network - in terms of subsidies, network compatibility and cross-channel distribution - kind of cornered the Nexus One into a rather small ...
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Forrester’s Sucharita Mulpuru (@smulpuru) has a new research report out with interesting findings about emerging trends in mobile and multi-channel retail. Overall, the report confirms that the mobile web is on the cusp of becoming a game-changer for both web and brick-and-mortar retailers. Smartphone users are becoming as likely to ...
Posted in Comparison shopping, Mobile Retail, Online Retail, Personalization | 9 Comments »
Sunday, February 1st, 2009
Amazon’s results this week were in sharp contrast with the overall health of the retail sector. As highlighted during the holiday seasons, Amazon ruthlessly grabbed market share in an overall down retail market and turned a respectable profit on its very solid execution.
Amazon’s success builds on
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Thursday, December 4th, 2008
ComScore’s numbers are in: Cyber Monday sales grew 15% year over year, making last Monday the second biggest single day on record for ecommerce. However, this performance hides a fair share of rebalancing, as shown by the chart below, as consumers held off on purchases until Monday this year.
The overall ...
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Monday, December 1st, 2008
Historically, online sales on cyber Monday have been a good indicator of ecommerce’s year over year growth for the Holiday season.
ComScore reports that online sales for this year’s Black Friday grew a measly 2% year over year. “Early reports suggest that Black Friday sales in retail stores were slightly ...
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Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Pandora, Last.fm, and iLike have broadened the appeal of recommendation algorithms and social discovery and sharing. Despite a challenging – even hostile - business environment, passionate entrepreneurs and music lovers are bringing to market new ways to explore and discover new music.
Mufin has gathered the most attention so ...
Posted in collaborative filtering, Content analysis, Media recommendation, Online Retail, Personalization, Recommendation, UGC, Wish list | 6 Comments »
Friday, November 21st, 2008
Yahoo! sold Kelkoo today for a mere €100M – a fifth of what it paid in 2004 to acquire it (€475M). Beyond Yahoo’s internal issues and ability to absorb a large entity, a few fundamental issues have plagued Kelkoo and its likes (Shopping.com, PriceGrabber.com, etc.).
Kelkoo and other first-generation ...
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Friday, October 31st, 2008
Buy.ology is a captivating read that presents Martin Lindstrom’s foray into neuromarketing – using neuroscience experiments, such as MRI scans, to determine what drives our consumer and shopping habits. Some results are quite thought provoking, such as the fact that consumer warnings on cigarette packs seem to not only fail ...
Posted in Online Retail, UGC, Uncategorized | 2 Comments »
Friday, October 3rd, 2008
The State of Retailing Online report for 2008 is an in-depth look at the top online retailers’ priorities and opportunities to strengthen and differentiate their websites.
According to Sucharita Mulpuru, Senior Retail Analyst from Forrester Research, who wrote the report, “online retailers are finding that their best investment efforts are ...
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