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A $399 iPad by Christmas?

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This mornings post seems even more justified now that Amazon has unleashed the $199 Kindle Fire. They should have called it the Kindle Storm because it will take the world by storm.

Apple cutting back on supply orders for the iPad may be a sign that they are expecting a battle. Given the rapid sell out [...]

4 Reasons for a Tablet Strategy Now!

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With today’s announcement of the Amazon Fire tablet, you can be sure that tablet sales for the 2011 holiday season will go through the roof. If you’re still relying on your regular website to deliver you site to tablets, your missing the boat.  As mentioned in this month’s Website Magazine,

“What’s the big appeal? [...]

eCommerce & Digital Marketing 9 Week Holiday Planning Calendar

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We’re almost in October and the leaves in the Northeast are already starting to change. That means the holiday season is upon us. My friends at NetElixer, one of my favorite Paid Search partners, sent out this great email with a 9 week holiday planning calendar in it. 

I like the NetElixer Calendar. Below I’ve added [...]

Choosing the Right Digital Marketing Mix

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In a recent post I discussed the difficulty in picking a digital marketing strategy without having first looked at your analytics.  But once you know the numbers, what do you do?

Which Digital Marketing Channel Should You Lead With?

It may be painfully obvious but you will surely want to go with the channel that gets the [...]

Resume Infographic

Infographic Resume of Nick Valente - Digital Marketing and ECommerce Expert

With all the noise out there and the pending automated infographic services about to come on online I thought I’d get a head start and try my hand at creating a infographic resume. It is still a work in progress as I’ve thought of a few more things to add,  but I hope it gets [...]

Total Customer eCommerce

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Are you marketing to your entire customer or just to the part that wants your specific product?

Holistic Digital Marketing & eCommerce

Like you, your customer is multi-dimensional. Customers have different interests and reasons for buying and remaining loyal to a brand or website. Knowing those interests is key to successfully marketing and selling to your customer.

Make an [...]

Site of the Week - Bed, Bath & Beyond

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Bed Bath & Beyond is the lone home goods retailer since Linen’s and Thing’s folded a while back. They have a great selection of products, sometimes at fantastic prices. I’ve always thought the stores were a bit crowded in an old fashioned hardware store kind of way. Not that this is a bad thing. Just [...]

5 Easy Ways to Improve Your ECommerce Site

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There are 173 days till Christmas & the holidays. What have you done to fix nagging problems with your eCommerce website?

Many of the problems your eCommerce site has are longer term projects that may take major projects to fix. But making incremental but substantial improvements to your site, that will increase conversions and reduce cart [...]

Site of the Week - Giggle.com

I only do a site of the week when I see something I really like, or is a real disaster. This week it is a site that I really like. It does almost everything right. Giggle.com is a small national chain of baby product stores whose online presence is well thought out, and offers a [...]

Your Biggest E-Commerce Problem for 2011

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Does your e-commerce system present a problem for the 2011 holiday season? It’s almost July, but depending on the size of your company and e-commerce efforts it may not be too late to upgrade your e-commerce platform.

Top providers

Website Magazine posted the top 100 e-commerce platforms based up on traffic to their sites. The list includes [...]