First off, many thanks to you if you participated in last week’s Shop.org and Forrester joint survey of holiday season results.  In all, 84 companies repsonded to our anonymous follow up survey of how topline sales fared this holiday season vs.  last.
We were happy to see that, contrary to the prevailing rather gloomy impression out [...]

There are some great blogs featuring different data and points of view on the 2008 online holiday season and this week’s Cyber Monday activity.  Check them out below.  If you have written or seen a good post on these topics - I’m sure there are many that I missed - please share them in the comments. 
Rimm-Kaufman Group [...]

Of course, “good” is a relative term.  Forrester Research is predicting that online sales in November and December will increase 12%. They describe this as a “significant slowdown.” Yes, it’s a slowdown from years’ past. But, compared to the 2.2% growth NRF forecasts for overall retail it’s pretty good.
And, earlier this week, Amazon provided their [...]