Author Archives: Jason Billingsley

John Squire, Chief Strategy Officer of Coremetrics posed a couple of rhetorical questions to the audience to launch the session. Is this downturn an isolated event? How important are benchmarks and what can they tell us? Coremetrics has collected data across its customer base in aggregate and created a free benchmark report for retailers to [...]

Put Lauren Freedman of the e-tailing group on stage moderating a discussion with three retailers and you get a bunch of real world scenarios, practical advice, and a realistic set of expectations. Here are some snippets of ecommerce advice from each of the panelists: Peter Cobb, Co-Founder, Senior Vice President, eBags Optimize with current point [...]

Hung LeHong of Gartner had one overarching question to consider: Is there opportunity for retailers despite the economic adversity being faced? Over the last couple years there have been lots of questions around Web 2.0. At first it was ‘what is Web 2.0?’ Lately it has shifted to ‘Is Web 2.0 dead?’ The reality is [...]