Welcome to Friday’s version of surveys, research and statistics to ponder. Of course, how and what you ponder always has more to do with the source of the statistics and your mood which makes the numbers kinda funky but ‘Hey!’, if we didn’t have stats what would we do with our days?
This latest statistical ‘he [...]

Over at Marketing Pilgrim I wrote about a study from Forrester Research and Shop.org that said that online shopping was up 11% for Q1 of this year. A vey good number considering the economic climate.
Even a cursory glance at the numbers, however, showed a disturbing development of sorts if you are an online only retailer. [...]

While not a shock considering the way this past quarter has been going for the economy in general, the Wall Street Journal reported online sales declines for ecommerce for the first time ever during this past holiday shopping sales.
The numbers aren’t dramatic but some would say that just the fact that they were negative is [...]

EBay has the “honor” of being in the Wall Street Journal headlines twice today. So what do you want to read about regarding eBay today; trademark infringement or merchants leaving eBay for other smaller niche auction sites ? Looks like eBay may want a little ORM in place to handle this current [...]