Over my 11 plus years with NRF and Shop.org, I’ve had the opportunity to develop relationships with so many amazing and inspiring people in this great industry.  The decision to leave Shop.org and join an internet start-up is bittersweet. As anyone who leaves a great job for a new opportunity can attest, this new adventure [...]

Most of us – myself definitely included – have a love/hate relationship with email. On the one hand, it makes things so easy – doesn’t it? On the other hand, well…don’t get me started. So I was particularly fascinated by the title of one of Shop.org’s webinars, “Is Email Marketing Dead?” and decided to go [...]

At this year’s Online Merchandising Workshop, Shop.org has the cure for what ails you!  One of the most popular aspects of our Annual Summit in recent years has been our Doctor Is In one-on-one website critique sessions.   This program allows retailer attendees to make 20 minute individual appointments with usability experts to who will critique [...]

Greetings I am very excited to announce that Marketing Month has officially begun!  Throughout the month of May Shop.org will be featuring weekly webinars, daily updated video marketing tips, 11 regional dinners (Shop.org is coming to a city near you), and other Shop.org-produced marketing-related activities that facilitate networking, education, and thought leadership.   I encourage all of our [...]

The economy. Mobile. The “new” consumer. Social media. And they’re all brought together by another hot topic in retail: customer ratings and reviews. So for our next Talking With…, we reached out to entrepreneur Brett Hurt, CEO of BazaarVoice, a social commerce technology company that boasts 50 of the top 100 retailers as clients. The [...]