Holiday News Round Up

Since the end of Cyber Weekend, the news has been full of stats on consumer spending, mobile shopping, ecommerce and more. (We’ll have some cool stats as well on Cyber Weekend shortly, so stayed tuned for those.) In the meantime, let’s take a look at some interesting Cyber Weekend stats and other useful news you […]

Keeping Your Customers After the Rush

My sister is a terrific baker; however, her pies have a strange way of disappearing after the holiday guests are gone. It’s odd really. When you leave a pie on the counter the day after Thanksgiving, the pieces begin to quietly “evaporate.” Perfect tall triangles of congealed fruit and crust soon morph into abstract shapes. […]

Shoppers Scaling Back Online Shopping in 2009?

The headline for this article is exactly the type of headline all eRetailers and click and mortar companies are seeking to avoid this time of year. With Black Friday and the increasingly important Cyber Monday creeping closer, the thought of holiday shoppers uses the online channel less this season is worrisome. With less than a […]

Online Retail Trend Breakdown: Cyber Week is Here

Cyber Monday came and went very quickly. A term coined in 2005, Cyber Monday describes the emerging consumer trend of online shopping on the Monday following Thanksgiving. Now Cyber Monday is on the precipice, soon to be swallowed by a week-long retail micro-season: Welcome to Cyber Week. Cyber Monday Reigns Again 2007 and 2008 data […]

Black-Cyber Shopping Weekend

Did you do it? Did you spend ("Black") Friday fighting crowds in parking lots and malls to get the best deals? Did you get to Wal-Mart at an unreasonably early hour to get one of a few outrageously-low priced items? Or, like my daughter's teacher, were you able to declare all your holiday shopping "done" […]

Knotice Might Form A Band

I wrote earlier about our own Ron Williams and his background in rock 'n roll, but that's not the whole rocker story for Knotice. Let's face it. If you can handle the bright lights of the stage, you know a thing or two about promoting your image and reaching your fans (read: customers). That means […]

Pre-Holiday Behavioral Targeting Update

While everyone and their brother is gearing up for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, I'd like to take a quick detour and share a recent development in the behavioral targeting world. Conversions may be at a premium this holiday season, and behavioral targeting technologies enable many legitimate, helpful online marketing strategies that boost sales by […]

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