November 2008

Tweet Top 50 online retailers for the month of October 2008. Higlights are rises in event tickets, fashion, groceries and computers, while travel falls lower than usual. Amazon.co.uk (1), Argos (2), Play.com (3) and Tesco (4) lead the field as usual. M&S makes it into the top five for the first time and John Lewis [Read more]

Tweet We’re delighted for Thorntons that it has been singled out as one of the “Top 5 winter winners” by Conchango, commended “for a beautifully balanced price and quality proposition supported by a trusted brand.”

Tweet Shop.org has posted some valuable pre-christmas research which should help most retailers inform their plans.

Tweet I just received an email from Bella di Notte promoting its “Bond Vest” – an ultra fine organza silk vest, knitted in Como, Italy, with an intricately sewn double satin edge. I was delighted at the…

Tweet 72% of the Fortune 500 companies barely showed up at all in the first 100 search results on terms that those companies bid on for paid search placement.

Tweet If you are stuck with a colour and have no idea what complementary colours will look good, check this site out COLOURLovers.com. It’s a resource that monitors and influences colortrends. COLOURlovers gives the people who use colour – whether for websites, ad campaigns, product design, or in architectural specification -a place to check out [Read more]

Tweet We’re very excited about the latest version of Google Analytics which has a number of great new tools in it for online retailers. See Google’s anaytics blog for a summary.

Tweet We were asked what our views were on the best day to email & guessed (well, more opined based on anecdotal evidence) and said “Thursday”. I nearly added “lunchtime”. I was asked why and felt iffy about revealing anecdotal material.

Tweet We can all be amused by the concept of the “magic buy button”. Enjoy the video…