Category Archives: International

Mar12

Retail across borders: 6 considerations for international expansion

By Vicki Cantrell, SVP, Communities, NRF and Executive Director, Shop.org | Published: March 12, 2012
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At Retail’s BIG Show this January, I spoke about a number of the most prevalent themes in the evolving world of retail today including globalization. Many retailers are looking to grow their businesses by expanding their borders, both with physical brick and mortar stores and with e-commerce operations. While that presents incredible opportunity, it also [...]

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Jan16

Brazil and China: Emerging online retail powerhouses

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: January 16, 2012
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Take a guess: Which are the five largest markets today in terms of online users? The US? The UK? Germany? Actually, try China, in first place with 369 million online users, followed by the U.S. (253 million), then India (133 million), Japan (104 million) and Brazil (91 million). And, as Zia Daniell Widger of Forrester [...]

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Dec22

Maximize post-holiday sales with search and social media

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: December 22, 2011
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Online consumers have been shopping up a storm this holiday season, which is certainly cause for online retailers to rejoice. As the Google Retail Blog pointed out this week, however, retailers need to make sure they’re not “turning off the lights” next week for customers who are ready to spend their gift cards, return and exchange those [...]

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Jan11

Missed a webinar? Here’s our top three ‘must not miss’ list from 2010

By Artemis Berry, Senior Director of Content and Community, Shop.org | Published: January 11, 2011
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It’s January and time for your first Shop.org “Best” list for 2010. This year at Shop.org we delivered 13 webinars (eight regular webinars and five for May is Marketing Month) as an additional member benefit and more than 1,200 of you registered! After every one of our webinars we asked attendees for feedback, which we [...]

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Sep28

Research: SORO 2010 – Key Metrics, Multichannel & Global Strategies

By Fiona Swerdlow, Head of Research, Shop.org | Published: September 28, 2010
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It’s the first day of the Annual Summit – which means it’s also time to release The State of Retailing Online 2010 Key Metrics, Multichannel & Global Strategies report to Shop.org members. Conducted in partnership with Forrester Research, we’re excited about the findings from this latest SORO report for a number of reasons: KPIs. Always important [...]

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