Tag: Etail

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 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

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

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