Monthly Archives: November 2009

Surprising retail data from Black Friday weekend 2009

Two reports surfaced on Sunday/Monday about the start of the 2009 holiday shopping season: Coremetrics data revealed that online shopping was strong: the average online order grew to $170.12 or a rise of more than 35%. The National Retail Federation’s BIGresearch revealed that the average …

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November AiMA Recap: Mobile Marketing

November’s AiMA event, “Mobile Marketing: How mobile is more than texting, tweeting, and talking,” was the first I’ve been able to attend. The event certainly was more than texting, tweeting, and talking (although there was a lot of texting and tweeting happening in the crowd); …

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C’mon. You’re already on Twitter, reel me in!

I read an article on Adweek today about how some brands are “socializing” their holiday sweeps through Twitter. They profiled Sephora (@sephora), Microsoft ‘s Windows Server “R2″  (@R2Haiku) and Comcast Sports (@comcastsports). All have launched sweepstakes on Twitter; signaling what could be the beginning of …

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The future of our digital world – SixthSense Technology

Wow, after watching this video my perception of the future just dramatically changed. I know we all say we live in a digital world; everyone is connected to the internet, we all have cell phones, and pretty much everyone I know is connected to a …

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