Monthly Archives: January 2009

Jan29

Hunker Down at Your Own Peril

By Scott Silverman | Published: January 29, 2009
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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 [...]

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Jan27

Strategy and Innovation Content — Opportunity From Adversity

By Larry Joseloff, VP, Content, Shop.org | Published: January 27, 2009
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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 [...]

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Jan27

Networking at the Strategy and Innovation Forum

By Josh Greene | Published: January 27, 2009
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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) [...]

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Jan15

Shop.org’s Digital Footprint at the NRF Big Show

By Scott Silverman | Published: January 15, 2009
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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 [...]

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Jan13

Digital Retailing at NRF Annual Convention

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: January 13, 2009
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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 [...]

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