Whew!  Yesterday was another crazy Cyber Monday for the online retail industry.  E-commerce servers lighting up, continuous news coverage and deals, deals and more deals. I have a few observations and comments. First, congratulations to the many retailers who experienced a strong kick off to their online holiday season.  Based on the reports I’m seeing, many [...]

I’m working with Lauren Freedman of the E-Tailing Group to track 100 of the top retail websites.  I posted screenshots of the 100 sites for Black Friday and Cyber Monday on my blog at http://thisweekinetail.blogspot.com/2008/12/cyber-monday-black-friday-roundup.html Using PowerPoint, GoogleDocs or Picasa make it much faster for you to fly through 100 sites than if you were [...]

The Thanksgiving weekend is less than four weeks away. There are many things you can do to drive increased revenue this holiday season. To see what your competitors did last year see the slide shows at the end of this post. Thanksgiving weekend is traditionally very promotional – especially on Cyber Monday. Almost all retailers [...]