Monthly Archives: February 2012

Feb15

Retailers: What’s your Pinterest strategy?

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: February 15, 2012
7 Comments | Posted in Retail Companies, Social Media

We have a fresh niche social site to talk about, and its making a huge splash. Last week, we saw reports that Pinterest has hit 10 million unique monthly U.S. visits. Reports for the week of January 16, 2012 monitored the site traffic as high as 17 million unique monthly U.S. visits. It’s addicting, it’s social, and [...]

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Feb09

Online shoppers to tap smartphones, tablets for Valentine’s Day shopping

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: February 9, 2012
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Valentine’s Day presents a smart opportunity to boost Q1 sales, and the signs from consumers are encouraging. According to NRF’s 2012 Valentine’s Day survey by BIGinsight, almost two-thirds (62.2%) of U.S. online shoppers plan to celebrate the holiday, dishing out treats such as candy, cards and flowers to everyone from their spouse or significant other to family members, [...]

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Feb07

Talking with…Forrester Research VP and Principal Analyst Brian Walker

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: February 7, 2012
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A retailer’s thinking these days can be dominated by smartphones, tablet devices, social media, social commerce, new payment systems and numerous other emerging technologies. However, much of that activity ultimately directly impacts the website itself, so retailers cannot afford to overlook fundamentals of running their online business, such as site maintenance, load testing, and replatforming. I talked [...]

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Feb01

How digital will impact the next generation of in-store shopping

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: February 1, 2012
3 Comments | Posted in Marketing, Mobile, Retail Companies

Bryan Eisenberg always provides fresh insight, and his bold opening during the “Future Shopper” session at Shop.org’s First Look Track proved no different as he started, “The future is here – it’s just not widely distributed yet.” While most of us have an inkling that the next generation of consumers is growing up with high [...]

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