Archive for category: Industry News

eTail 2012′s Best-in-Class Winners Innovate in Social, Mobile, Email & Search

eTail 2012′s Best-in-Class Winners Innovate in Social, Mobile, Email & Search

0 Kelly Hushin / April 3, 2012 9:30 am

eTail West 2012 honored a slew of excellent companies in its second annual eTail Best-in-Class Awards celebration, held at the conference in Palm Springs, Calif. I had the pleasure of speaking with several of the winners, not just about how [...]

Industry Experts & Pubs Weigh in on Key Learnings from eTail West 2012

Industry Experts & Pubs Weigh in on Key Learnings from eTail West 2012

0 Kelly Hushin / March 9, 2012 1:54 pm

It’s officially been one week since coming back from a jam-packed eTail week, where retailers and solution providers alike were abuzz with conversation about where the world of multichannel retail is going. From email marketing to PPC optimization to customer [...]

New Retailer Alert: Little Black Bag ‘First Real Social Commerce,’ says Founder

New Retailer Alert: Little Black Bag ‘First Real Social Commerce,’ says Founder

0 Kelly Hushin / February 23, 2012 2:56 pm

New ecommerce venture, Little Black Bag (LBB), derives inspiration from a Japanese retail sensation that surprisingly, is seldom heard of, nor practiced stateside. In Japan, Fukubukuro is easily as well-known and well-anticipated a retail holiday as Black Friday is in [...]

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 [...]