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It is officially time to start questioning whether the folks over at the normally reliable firm Forrester Research have it out for the social shopping movement. For the second time in less than a month, a report tied to Forrester has emerged challenging the notion that incorporating social media as part of a broader retail [...]

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We’re not ones to stifle opposing views or even reject a healthy debate on some of the topics we cover here on Junkie, but sometimes we come across information from so called industry “experts” that is simply mind-boggling and necessitates a response. Case in point:  Forrester Research analyst Sucharita Mulpuru has authored a report due [...]

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Just as the retail world has changed over the past decade or so with the advent, and gradual rise in popularity, of online shopping, so too has the marketing industry.  These days, marketing professionals must rely on and incorporate so many more resources than their predecessors of just a few decades ago.  Technology in particular [...]

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If you’re an e-tailer, what do you do to build on an enormously successful year in 2010?  You boost investment in your technology infrastructure, at least according to a new survey from Forrester Research. According to Forrester’s 2011 Online Retail Technology Investment Outlook, 62 percent of e-tailers intend to either increase, or significantly increase, their [...]

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It’s hard to believe that come April, it will be a full year since Apple unleashed the iPad on the world.   Since then, the device has mostly lived up to expectations, rolling up impressive sales totals and spurring competitors to launch their own versions of the tablet computer to keep up. While tablet computers [...]

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We keep hearing how m-commerce is growing by leaps and bounds but it’s not often we come across hard data that supports all the talk. Forrester Research just put out a new study however that proves just how much traction mobile commerce is gaining with consumers and the numbers are pretty impressive. The study, “The [...]

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A critical ingredient to ensuring your long-term sustainability and success as a retailer is understanding the consumer climate not only here in the United States, but around the world as well.  Obviously online shopping is increasingly becoming more and more popular with Internet users everywhere but in order to stay competitive, it helps to have [...]

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Shoppers who rely on the web to research products and then use the results to shop in-store are decidedly more satisfied with the experience than those consumers who work in the reverse order and shop online after in-store research, according to new survey data from Forrester Research. The survey of 4,723 U.S. consumers conducted last [...]

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There are lots of reasons to look back at 2009 from an economic point of view and cringe. Unemployment was up, consumer confidence was down and many Americans found themselves devising new ways simply to get by.  Despite all of that though, e-commerce overcame a recession that dragged down the rest of the retail industry [...]

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