Monthly Archives: July 2009

Continuing Shop.org’s “Talking With…” series, we reached out to an online retail guru (and an overall really smart guy — you’ll see what I mean below) who recently transitioned from retailer to vendor. This week, get insights from ForeSee Results Vice President Kevin Ertell, who talks about what he’s most proud of from his days [...]

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As a retail member of Shop.org, your company receives one free pass to each of our core events – including the 2009 Annual Summit. Friday August 14th is now the deadline for redeeming your company’s free pass for the Annual Summit. The August 14th deadline is new. Previously retail members could redeem their free pass up until [...]

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The 2009 State of Retailing Online (SORO) Merchandising Report is being released this morning at the Shop.org Merchandising Workshop.  Based on the input of retailers in our first of two SORO surveys earlier this year, it looks like optimizing the basics – not just adding “shiny objects” – is where retailers are prudently focusing this [...]

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The fact that Google has relaxed its policies with respect to trademark protection doesn’t change the law. Indeed, the perils of PPC advertising with respect to trademarks are poorly understood.

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One of the intriguing initial findings of the J.C. Williams Group/Shop.org international e-commerce study is that medium-sized retailers and mid market consumer brands are expanding into international markets ahead of larger retailers. We discussed this finding at the June Internet Retailer show with executives from a number of commerce platforms that primarily work with mid [...]

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