So what of the holiday shopping season? Sure, I’m late to the game with my assessment of Black Friday and Cyber Monday; what can I say? I wanted to do my due diligence and add some perspective to what’s going on. Key take away is that the season seems to off to a steady start;

eMarketer has a great jump on the holiday shopping season (it isn’t even Halloween yet!) with brilliant perspective on the increasing demands made by online consumers. They expect retail Websites to provide powerful search and navigation, quality product information, simple checkout and cross-channel shopping options—at a minimum. Surprisingly, according to a survey by Retail Systems

Monday’s post about the best online marketing conferences brought to my inbox a few questions about which of those are really worth attending. While, unfortunately, there is no short answer, there is one upon us worth your attention. “Etailers of all sizes are trying to eliminate risk, improve sales volumes, and increase profitability. Online Market

For those of you that have been with me a while, you know that I’m a tremendous advocate of performance based marketing. I firmly believe that online marketing is heavily, certainly predominantly, and almost completely analytics driven when done well. We need not as what ad rates well with focus groups or how effectively a

Happy Festivus everyone! With the annual debate and debacle over the use of “Christmas” and related symbolism, this clip came across my desk as a breath of fresh air. I share it with you not to stimulate that debate of “Holiday” vs. Christmas but to pose interesting Marketing questions that come to mind. First, enjoy:

My favorite CSE, Google Base (I still prefer “Froogle” don’t you?), has made a significant enhancement to the quality of their product engine with the addition of product attributes to the feed specifications. As I hope you know, Google Base allows stores to upload product feeds so that their audience can find, consider, and compare