Interesting article in yesterday’s New York Times about blogs which combine “shop the look” with celebrity photos. + Read more
MySears keeps doing great work with respect to the convergence of content, community and commerce. Take this holiday promotion, for example: + Read more
Today I am focusing my post on ecommerce blogs talking about the ecommerce platform Magento by Varien. + Read more
Here is a snapshot of my favorite ecommerce blogs from this past week. I look forward to your comments and hope these links prove informative and useful. + Read more
This week's collection of ecommerce blog posts, I have found some compelling voices from the Shop.Org conference with an interview with the CEO of Gilt Groupe and a recap of Sucharita Mulpuru's keynote presentation. Enjoy the blogs. + Read more
Many of you will be attending the Shop.Org Annual Summit in Las Vegas later this month for what should be a gathering of some of the most forward thinking leaders in ecommerce today. With this in mind, I thought I would dedicate this week's ecommerce blogroll to articles and information about the event. Have fun and make this a productive event! + Read more
I trust all of you are making plans for a fun weekend. Especially my friends in the United States, who are celebrating Labor Day and are able to enjoy that last long weekend of summer. As you know, I have been creating my ecommerce blog around the top articles found in the blogosphere on the trends and statistics around ecommerce. I hope you enjoy this week's ecommerce blogroll that includes tips for successful site-to-store service for the multichannel retailer, powerful results from a recent study on effects of PPC to the brick-and-mortar, and a review of the new Crocs site. + Read more
Crocs has launched a new site (http://www.crocs.com/) and I thought it would be interesting to take a look and talk a bit about what an ecommerce site looks like in 2009. Crocs is also a direct-to-consumer brand, and there is a lot of action in D2C ecommerce right now, so looking at this site with a D2C perspective adds an added layer of relevance to this site. I welcome your input of the assessment and look forward to hearing what you think of this or other new sites. + Read more
Are you feeling the buzz building as we get closer to September? I do and I am reading all sorts of good commentary on Twitter and in the ecommerce blogs. For this week's ecommerce blogroll, I have picked the top ecommerce blogs for the past week. These articles offer guidance to the brand or retailer around the future of ecommerce, offers some considerations around the positive impact by offering free shipping this holiday season, and hopefully gives you a chance to increase your SEO IQ. Happy reading and I hope to hear what you are reading on ecommerce. + Read more
Shop.Org Annual Summit in Las Vegas is just around the corner, and we are pleased to share that Adam Michelson, our Director of Ecommerce Practice has been invited to participate in the popular Doctor Is In website critiques. Adam will be offering a session 20 to Social, which will offer retailers a simple process to decide what social features to implement for maximum impact. Take a look at all of the great tutorials offered by the consultants for a 1:1 session that will last 20 minutes - what could be better! + Read more
Soon you will all be back to your offices after what I hope was a good summer (vacation) and putting your plans in gear for the upcoming holiday season. As you are focus on implementing your ecommerce strategies for a historically busy time of year, I have been busy compiling some fresh ecommerce blog posts, giving you the pulse on ecommerce trends and statistics that are being discussed in the blogosphere. I hope you find this useful, and as always I look forward to any comments or suggestions for blog posts that you are reading to add to my ecommerce weekly blogroll. + Read more
I was excited last month to see a blog post on ReadWriteWeb about Sears and Kmart adopting OpenID. In that post, Frederic Lardinois writes: + Read more
In my ecommerce blogroll this week, I found people writing blog posts about the coming reality of sales tax online, the social power of Zappos and plans for the coming Holiday season. Please let me know what you are reading this week in your favorite ecommerce blogs, and what you think are the key trends in online retailing.Nothing is Certain Except Death and (Online) Sales Tax (?) or Is It? [Forrester Blog] + Read more
This week’s blogroll is filled with ecommerce life experience from Borders, facts on conversion rates, and some fantastic examples of how retailers are using Facebook to connect with their fans and customers. Take a look, and please share on Twitter @vnoreen, your thoughts on these ecommerce blog posts.Talking with…Kevin Ertell, ForeSee Results VP [Shop.Org Blog] + Read more
This week I wanted to see if I could find a blog that focused on social shopping and was pleased to stumble across the post from Evan Schuman in the Storefrontbacktalk blog. I hope this article, along with other posts I suggest you read below, offer some new insight for you this week. Feel free to follow me on Twitter at @vnoreen and share with me the blog posts that you are finding of value around conversations on ecommerce. + Read more
