Forrester Research projects that non-travel online sales will rise 11% in 2009, down slightly from 2008’s 13%. Online is also predicted to grow to 7% of overall retail, versus 6%.
Personally, even though 16% is an awful big on-year jump already, I think that online will make up more than 7% by the end of the [...]
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Forrester says everything’s gonna be alright
February 3rd, 2009 No Comments
Tags: online performance · retail · win
5 reasons why the GDrive is not the end of PCs
January 27th, 2009 No Comments
Google’s gonna render PCs useless? Fat chance. This is pure hype, probably to bolster a flagging stock price (now’s the time to buy, btw) and you should not get sucked into it for even a moment.
Trust Sergey and Larry implicitly? Thinking of giving the kool-aid a little taste? Here’s why the standalone machine isn’t going anywhere and/or why a [...]
Tags: fail · Google · Google sucks
Book review: The Numerati
January 26th, 2009 No Comments
The Numerati by Stephen Baker
Anyone who’s heavy into online marketing knows that numbers and analysis rule the world. Even before I ever got started in PPC ad SEO, I was a data freak who always wanted more information to add to the stack, convinced that I was going to be able to ferret out some deeper meaning. [...]
Tags: book reviews
Yahoo is getting destroyed
January 12th, 2009 No Comments
Word is that Yahoo’s share of the search market dropped from 30.4% in September to 19.4% in December. In this same span of time, MSN rose up to 16.4%. Google’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 112% as usual.
I’m not sure if this is because MSN’s improving or if Yahoo’s bi-monthly giant algorithm changes of doom [...]
Tags: fail · MSN · MSN sucks · PPC news · Search News · Yahoo · Yahoo sucks
