• Amazon's $4 Billion E-Commerce War Chest

    Forrester Research senior analyst Andy Hoar delivered a fascinating keynote at the Rakuten Linkshare Symposium last week.  His theme was the continuing ... Read Article

    Let's Get Personal

    Imagine that you are shopping at a department store and you ask a salesperson for men’s summer sandals and he takes you ... Read Article

    Online Is Sweet

    Food has recently been called everything from the new theater to the new porn. Regardless of how you think about food, you ... Read Article

    Special Order

    News of the death of the catalog is greatly exaggerated. It's no secret that the catalog retail universe is a big one. ... Read Article

    Big Brands Believe

    TV commercials and print ads aren't dead yet. Major brands still believe in traditional media. After all, a blockbuster commercial with a ... Read Article

    eBay: What's in Store

    Describing eBay as a commerce website is like saying Elvis was a singer. The 11-year-old company that began as a virtual flea ... Read Article

    Community Commerce

    Until now online shopping has been a lonely endeavor. Think Sandra Bullock in "The Net," the 1995 film where she works from ... Read Article

    Denied

    On a cold Minnesota afternoon, affiliate marketer Connie Berg checks her email fearing the worst: a message from a dream merchant saying ... Read Article

    The Overstock Obsession

    Every so often, there's a company, a person or a philosophy that attracts such a rabid following it can be only be ... Read Article

    The Craze Of Holidaze

    Amin Mirza is nervous about the holidays."I'm not going anywhere," says Mirza, an affiliate who started PhatDeal.com in his home this May. ... Read Article

    Blair's Flair For Affiliate Marketing

    How did a 93-year-old company that got its start selling black raincoats to funeral directors by mail wind up as a big ... Read Article