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Over lunch at a recent conference, a marketer complained about her design team. Their revamped web site was very well designed – perhaps too well. Highly interactive, thoughtfully scripted and artfully presented, the team relied heavily on Flash to achieve what was, to their eyes, a compelling online experience.
The marketer was concerned that the site’s […]

Among the slew of analysts looking back to the 2008 holiday season, comScore has estimated that online sales from November 1 through December 23 were actually down 3% from the year before. Apparel was one of the bright spots, with an online increase of 4%, compared to a 19-21% decrease in the category overall sales. […]

Leaving user generated videos and the world of YouTube aside, video over the web is, by most accounts, either:

the next biggest thing that’s about to break or
the thing that’s most broken or
that which has broken the most hearts or
all of the above

In spite of the sorry state of commercial video distribution over the web, the […]

The initial numbers for the holiday season are already coming in. Comscore reports a 19% increase in online revenue for the 2007 holiday season (November 1-December 27), to $28 billion. Spending for the peak holiday season (Black Friday - Christmas Eve) increased by 21% over the same period, although an extra day between Thanksgiving […]

A list of the best marketing books I’ve had the pleasure of reading during the past year. There were others that were professionally important but overly technical, more that made the effort but not the grade. Each of these combines a fresh approach to thinking about eComm with clear and often entertaining writing skills.
Have […]