Previous Comment Articles

• August 2010
• 31 August 2010
  Embracing the online opportunity - top tips for SMEs
  SMEs must embrace the online opportunities open to them if they are to continue to grow in the months ahead, explains Frank Lord, VP EMEA, ATG. ...more
• July 2010
• 22 July 2010
  Trading Intelligence: Examining eCommerce Performance and Prioritising for Success
  A successful retail CEO once told me that he could work out what was going on in his business simply by looking at like-for-like sales. This single data point per store allowed him to differentiate between a bad manager, a bad location or a... ...more
• June 2010
• 24 June 2010
  Getting the Edge in E-Retail with Site Search and Analytics
  A few years ago leading IT research house Gartner mentioned in its annual ‘Technology Trends’ predictions the importance which search was going to gain in the online business space of the future. At the time Google was already the search... ...more
• May 2010
• 25 May 2010
  mCommerce – Changing the Face of Online Retail
  Andy Murray, head of Saatchi X: The need for mobility is the primary driving force behind mCommerce. With the rapid increase in smartphone penetration across the globe, mobile commerce or mCommerce has gained increasing acceptance amongst... ...more
• April 2010
• 27 April 2010
  Meeting The Multichannel Challenge
  How we shop has radically changed over the last ten years. Back then, when you wanted to buy, say, a new TV you waited until Saturday morning, made your way to the high street and bought what they had on offer. Now we scout around the... ...more
• March 2010
• 26 March 2010
  Fueling your growth rate with cross-border payments
  Even in the current economic climate, online retailing continues to be one of the fastest growing markets in Europe. A study carried out in 2009 by Kelkoo revealed that European online sales grew by 22% or €22.7 billion in 2009 to reach a... ...more
• February 2010
• 23 February 2010
  Learning to Participate in Loyalty
  Like me I am sure you are tired with the human need to continually invent new words to complicate what I think is a quite well established concept in today’s retail marketplace. Cross-channel, omni-channel, integrated channel and of course the... ...more
• January 2010
• 25 January 2010
  Keeping Up With The Consumers
  There is an early Rowan Atkinson sketch in which Sir Marcus Browning MP advises, “Life is uncertain. My life certainly has a certain uncertainty about it, and I’m certain yours does too. So with your uncertainty, and my uncertainty, there’s... ...more