by Wayne Kurtzman | Dec 1, 2008 | eCommerce, Marketing
Cyber Monday is the Monday after Black Friday which is the Friday that is after the Thursday that is Thanksgiving in the United States. Got it? Cyber Monday, now five years old, has become a major online shopping day in the U.S. It is when people presumably buy the...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Nov 26, 2008 | Marketing, Social Media
Industry analyst IDC finds more than half of U.S. consumers with Internet access are flocking to Social Networking services – and it’s the numbers are growing. Perhaps more significant is that the study finds these users of Facebook, MySpace and the like...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Nov 25, 2008 | Content, Social Media, Web 2.0
Technology has reached a point where I am no longer looking for the news. The news finds me. Over the years, I’ve been active on news groups, instant messaging, e-mails, text and once even CB radio (but we don’t talk about that any more). Now, my...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Nov 25, 2008 | Analytics, eCommerce
I am fan of some of the information and insight I get from ZDNet. A November 24th, 2008 commentary suggested that leveraging search engine words to develop a text analytics practice would be helpful in determining “Questions and queries, such as ‘How did the...
by Wayne Kurtzman | Nov 24, 2008 | Social Media
Forrester Research, quoted in an October, 2008 AdWeek article states that Social Media has gone mainstream. Several points include: “A consumer poll done in the second quarter found that 75 percent of Internet users participate in some form of social media, up...
