Archive for category: Industry News

Get Excited for…Live Streaming @ eTail West (including Guy Kawasaki)!

Get Excited for…Live Streaming @ eTail West (including Guy Kawasaki)!

0 Kelly Hushin / January 25, 2012 2:48 pm

For the second year in a row, eTail will be live streaming some of its super informative and engaging sessions as they take place in Palm Springs. (At the JW Marriott, Palm Desert, to be exact.) We first tried this [...]

New Series Alert: 5-Year Old Conceives (Charitable!) E-Commerce Site

New Series Alert: 5-Year Old Conceives (Charitable!) E-Commerce Site

2 Kelly Hushin / January 23, 2012 9:50 am

You know the tide of commerce is turning when a six-year old can come up with an e-business idea and it’s, well, good. Bethany Sawyer was your average five-year-old (now six) who loved to draw, when she came up with [...]

Last Minute Online Shoppers? Tips to Snag (us) Procrastinators!

Last Minute Online Shoppers? Tips to Snag (us) Procrastinators!

0 Kelly Hushin / December 21, 2011 12:39 pm

It is scary to even type this but there are three days until Christmas. Gulp. You probably feel this same numb panic/guilt/stress – call it what you may – if you’re anything like me and have, oh, most of your [...]

Barnes & Noble’s 2 Questions to Ask about Loyalty Programs

Barnes & Noble’s 2 Questions to Ask about Loyalty Programs

0 Kelly Hushin / December 15, 2011 4:42 pm

The average American household today belongs to about 14 loyalty programs. FOURTEEN. Can you guess how many of those are active? On average: six. This is according to Marc Parrish, VP, Membership and Loyalty at Barnes & Noble. Amid such [...]

New Drop-in Store Builder Widget Coming to Silicon Valley, London

New Drop-in Store Builder Widget Coming to Silicon Valley, London

0 Kelly Hushin / December 15, 2011 1:01 pm

As more and more companies look to sell products online, a demand for software solutions that easily turn their sites into stores, is on the rise. Hence the recent success of Ecwid, a Russian E-Commerce software platform that just completed [...]

Q&A with Peter Cobb: The Keys to eBags’ Holiday Success

Q&A with Peter Cobb: The Keys to eBags’ Holiday Success

0 Kelly Hushin / December 13, 2011 4:32 pm

by Melissa Campanelli, Editor-in-Chief, Retail Online Integration Special to the eTail Blog eBags’ holiday sales were up 33 year-over-year through Dec. 6, more than doubling comScore’s 15 percent holiday estimate. Here are a few more highlights from eBags this holiday [...]

Retailers too Ambitious this Holiday – or just Staying Competitive?

Retailers too Ambitious this Holiday – or just Staying Competitive?

0 Kelly Hushin / November 15, 2011 12:38 pm

There’s been lots of fuss about the holiday hours at major US retailers this year. Much of that fuss is coming from the employees who may not get their normal Thanksgiving holiday break, while the rest is an intense questioning [...]

Macy’s, Nordstrom, ANN INC., Coach: Retailers to Watch this Holiday, Part 1

Macy’s, Nordstrom, ANN INC., Coach: Retailers to Watch this Holiday, Part 1

0 Kelly Hushin / November 7, 2011 4:22 pm

By Melissa Campanelli Special to the eTail Blog Christmas ’11: The Retail Forecast, a half-day conference presented by the Retail Marketing Society on Nov. 1, in New York City, showcased Morgan Stanley analysts naming eight cross-channel retailers they’re betting on [...]

Jack Kiefer’s “One Thing I Can’t Live Without” is All About Technology

Jack Kiefer’s “One Thing I Can’t Live Without” is All About Technology

0 Kelly Hushin / November 3, 2011 6:06 pm

We are back with another round of our new series, “One thing I can’t live without.” This week, we bring you Jack Kiefer, Founder & President, Babyage.com. His opinions on technology are clear: it’s a necessity. And if you don’t [...]

Mobile Shopping Fall: A Wrap Up (Including our Award Winners!)

Mobile Shopping Fall: A Wrap Up (Including our Award Winners!)

0 Kelly Hushin / October 28, 2011 9:40 am

Mobile Shopping Fall took place in New York City last week and we’re happy to report it was a hit! Following opening remarks from Chairperson Marci Troutman, CEO of Siteminis; Kelly Shoenfelt, Manager of Online Customer Experience for Southwest Airlines [...]