Amazon: Searching For Stuff
The most surprising statistic that I have heard in a while: a significant number of shoppers start at Amazon before Google. The Economist reports: Some experts think Amazon also poses a threat in this...
View ArticleGifting: Show Me the Money
Whether it is because of the economy or it marks an even more interesting permanent change in customer gifting behavior and gift-receiving preferences, gift cards apparently were the thing last holiday...
View ArticlePurchasing Intent and History Coming Together
I previously noted that 30% of shoppers start their searches for products on Amazon. Now Amazon is jumping into that business in an even bigger way by offering targeted ads on its websites, Kindle e...
View ArticleGoogle Glasses and Retail
The law of e-commerce: Things seem to get worse for retail and better for e-commerce (i.e., Amazon) the less friction there is between computing power and shoppers, e.g. smartphones versus going home...
View ArticleNarrow Passages, Blind Alleys, and Broad Avenues
Jeff Bezos’s latest shareholder letter — a guide to proactively disrupting yourself: One advantage – perhaps a somewhat subtle one – of a customer-driven focus is that it aids a certain type of...
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Search for Shopping
I blogged previously that a surprising number of people started searches for product directly on Amazon and Google. The corollary to that — to Jeff Bezos’s business anywhere mind — is to sell stuff...
View ArticleOffline SEO
I am not sure if this is sui generis, if it’s even accurate, but this discussion in the Economist does raise an interesting question: Britain’s brick-burdened retailers may be heartened, though, by the...
View ArticleIs Google’s Last Mile Plan Uber?
Weird and fascinating. Recall Google needs a last mile solution to combat Amazon. This is TechCrunch: According to one source, the deal was brought in by Google Ventures Partner Kevin Rose and led by...
View ArticleUber versus AmazonFresh
Potentially like with Uber, with Amazon, it’s “something else” that provides the economics to enable same-day delivery. In Amazon’s case, it’s groceries. From Fast Company: AmazonFresh is actually a...
View ArticleJoey Chestnut
Brilliant piece about Amazon, including as to (1) why Jeff Bezos is the one laughing at the analysts and armchair analysts laughing at him and (2) why not breaking out your business to the outside...
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The New War For the Physical Last Mile
Few things fascinate me more than bringing digital immediacy into physical. As I have blogged about, I was an early and frequent customers of Kozmo in NY and DC and am fascinated by Amazon’s ability to...
View ArticleJoey Chestnut
Brilliant piece about Amazon, including as to (1) why Jeff Bezos is the one laughing at the analysts and armchair analysts laughing at him and (2) why not breaking out your business to the outside...
View ArticleMore Groupon
The Economist also has an overview of Groupon. One thing that jumped out at me, aside from the quickly growing revenues and profits, is the sheer administrative brilliance of scaling from 120 to 4000...
View ArticleWalmart’s Shopping List
Walmart is buying a “social media firm” called Kosmix for $300 million. Many folks are scratching their heads as to what Kosmix brings (something called “social genome” technology) and how it fits...
View ArticleFacebook/GroupOn Valuation: Putting Each Other to the Test With Facebook Places
Facebook launched its GroupOn/LivingSocial daily deals competitive offering in a few markets. This is going to help answer two questions at the heart of two of the dominant models on the Internet...
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Groupon S1 (IPO) (Marketing Spend: Subscriber Acquisition Cost or Priming the...
Following up on the previous post about Groupon’s costs, Looking more closely at the marketing line of Groupon’s financials, one wonders whether Google, Facebook, and Microsoft are better off letting...
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