Category Archives: E-commerce

The Direct-to-Retail model is fading away

Posted on July 17, 2018 by markkolier

If you know anything about direct response marketing, you know that it’s been around for awhile, is currently the rage, and looks and behaves little like it did just ten years ago. In 2008 direct mail had already taken several … Continue reading →

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Why won’t Amazon give up on hardware?

Posted on September 10, 2015 by markkolier

Since Apple had their big fall announcement yesterday regarding the new iPad and iPhone updates/features, as usual the hardware news belongs to Apple and not Amazon. In a recent report Amazon did sort of not announce that this holiday season … Continue reading →

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Alibaba’s U.S. based online shops site 11main.com hangs in there. Why?

Posted on May 28, 2015 by markkolier

Not only do I have deep interest in all things Chinese, (or at least a lot of things Chinese) I also have a soft spot for a once and former client Alibaba.com. My experience with Alibaba was in helping them … Continue reading →

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