I’ve started my Christmas shopping online and it is my goal not to step inside a single brick and mortar store this holiday season. I imagine that there are millions of consumers who are going to go the same route. Are we going to find your e-commerce site or are we going to find your [...]

Warning: this is a rant - a rant to small retailers.

It’s called blog marketing people! It’s called search engine optimization! It’s called optimizing for local search!If you small retailers practiced it, finding you would not be akin to finding a needle in a haystack.
Missing in Local Search
I’m looking for unique baby gifts. I have a [...]

I was trying out the new site hosting service called Terapad.com and I was completely bowled over. Now this is a great out of box experience for people who want to have an online shop and a blog at the same time!
Within a minute, I’d selected a template (six to choose from) and opened my [...]

<Shameless plug> I’ll be at two Forrester events later
this month that you (or your colleagues) maybe interested in attending.
Social
Computing Boot Camp: Tapping Into The Power Of Empowered Consumers. This
is a small format (between 20-40 people) where participants learn how to
implement social technologies like blogs, RSS, social networking, and
podcasting within the marketing organization. This day-long [...]