Here are this week’s links of interest in Retail & Travel from the thought leaders on our retail and travel consulting team: YouTube Finally Makes Some Videos ‘Shoppable’ [Mashable] 3 Habits That Set Chinese Online Shoppers Apart From Westerners [Business Insider] eBay links shopping carts across platforms as it updates apps [Internet Retailer] E-Commerce As A Term Will
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No Comments » Here are this week’s links of interest in Retail & Travel from the thought leaders on our retail and travel consulting team: Criminals target the data merchants hold [Internet Retailer] Nordstrom Using Smart Phones To Track Customers Movements [CBS DFW] Game On, Amazon! eBay Rolls Out One-Hour Delivery [Forbes] Senate Passes Online Sales-Tax Legislation [WSJ] These 10 Ideas In
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One of the top stories of this new week so far is that eBay is ramping up its ad exchange in the U.S. The exchange will allow advertisers to target web ads at users based on their eBay history, via an automated real-time bidding platform, Business Insider reports. Squarely challenging the likes of Amazon, which
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On Thursday morning, global commerce platform and payments giant eBay reported revenue for the first quarter ended March 31, 2013. All told, revenue spiked 14% to $3.7 billion, compared to the same period of 2012. Downloads of eBay Inc.’s suite of mobile apps expanded the company’s overall commerce footprint, surpassing 162 million since launch in
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Here are this week’s links of interest in Retail & Travel from the thought leaders on our retail and travel consulting team: New technology helps shoppers find products based on their pictures [Internet Retailer] eBay Is Now Sharing Its Customer Data With Marketers [BI Advertising] Businesses Are Losing The Right To Ask For Customer ZIP Codes [BI Advertising]
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Here are this week’s links of interest in Retail & Travel from the thought leaders on our retail and travel consulting team: Why Small Data May Be Bigger Than Big Data [Inc.com] Samsung Decides to Build Its Own Stores — Inside Best Buy [All Things D] Want Better Email Revenue? Send Late at Night [eMarketer] Macy’s, Others Turn
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With the release of BioShock: Infinite and its impressive reviews, there’s never been a better time to rustle up odds and ends from the franchise. Case in point: A ridiculously rare functional BioShock audio diary is currently up for grabs. The eBay auction is slated to close on March 31, so collectors don’t have long
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A former Geeknet Media and eBay veteran will lead Tapjoy’s fast-growing product portfolio, the mobile ad network announced Wednesday. Tapjoy today confirmed the hiring of Jeff Drobick as its new Chief Product Officer. Drobick earned his bachelors of engineering at Illinois Institute of Technology and studied at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business as
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Earlier this week, the Harvard Business Review blog asked, “Did eBay Just Prove that Paid Search Ads Don’t Work?” Apparently the company turned off their AdWords ads in a third of their markets and found no appreciable loss in sales. Much in the same way that Ask Jeeves did back in 2005. So the true
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Here’s this week’s roundup of links of interest in Retail & Travel, from the thought leaders on our retail & travel consulting team: Do consumers want same-day shipping? [Internet Retailer] Some customers questioning whether it’s for real, others not willing to trust their last-minute gifts to same-day shipping, leads some retailers to questions their customers’
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