An Open Letter to All Retail Leaders: Today’s Q4 earnings announcement by Amazon was simply amazing.  Their Q4 sales grew 18%.  It would have been 24% if the dollar hadn’t gained strength against foreign currencies over the past few months. For those of you sitting in your proverbial basements weathering the economic storm, the noise that sounds like a [...]

I just stepped into the way-back machine and realized that this the 12th event where I have helped plan content for Shop.org events.  Even though every event is special in it’s own way, I may be the most excited about the agenda at the upcoming Strategy and Innovation Forum.   Artemis and I have worked hard [...]

Next week will be the first event I’ll be attending as a member of the Shop.org team, at the Strategy and Innovation Forum in lovely Orlando.  Which, at the moment, is roughly 50 degrees warmer than Washington, DC. Two things I’m most looking forward to are the great content (which Larry will be posting about) [...]

The backdrop for the 98th NRF Annual Convention, which concluded yesterday, is a retail economy that many industry veterans describe as the most turbulent they’ve ever seen.  Reinforcing this point, the last day of the event happened to be the same day the Commerce Department released its December retail sales report estimating that sales dropped 2.7 percent.  To say that this was [...]

Shop.org and Digital Retailing take center stage this week at the NRF 98th Annual Convention & EXPO in New York City. Shop.org has worked with our parent company, the National Retail Federation, to bring some of the best and brightest ecommerce industry experts to over 16,000 attendees at Retail’s Big Show. Some powerful sessions around [...]