Author Archives: Paul McSweeney

Last chance saloon for the last man standing in bookshops

Amazon has done its level best in recent years to ensure that the middle man in publishing doesn’t get a look in. A decade or so ago, book lovers were venting spleen over the demise of the independent bookstores. Now, … Continue reading

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2012 – multichannel, m-commerce, e-commerce – shopping opportunities galore!

A belated Happy New Year to everybody. While we read about the struggle retailers continue to face on the High St; online retailing is set for another year of bumper growth. According to IMRG, the trade body for internet retailers, … Continue reading

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Twitter to focus more on companies

Earlier this week, Twitter announced that it is to revamp some features of its site in order to give more focus to companies. The company has become increasingly reliant upon advertising revenue, with the main money source currently coming from … Continue reading

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Groupon – the dot com boom (and bust) all over again?

We could not let the working week draw to a close without mentioning the IPO on the New York Stock Exchange of Groupon. The company raised $700 million after increasing the size of its initial public offering, becoming the largest … Continue reading

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Have you honed your SoLoMo strategy?

The key to Apple’s success was that Steve Jobs and his team thought like a customer and not an engineer. The new generation of smartphones has introduced the notion of technology being something personal, and even cool. Elegant cases and different … Continue reading

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The internet – the domain of oligarchs?

I have recently read in a blog post, that Facebook has now become the same size of the Internet in 2004. There have been an inordinate amount of statistics thrown at us about Facebook’s sheer mass and dominance. Rarely a … Continue reading

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Amazon dubbed the Walmart of the Web

Amazon is undoubtedly one of the most successful e-tailers. It seems to effortlessly enter new markets and alter the landscape dramatically in no time at all. Barnes & Noble has gone, and even Apple is looking behind it’s shoulder now. … Continue reading

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The iTunes treatment has come to the book industry

In the first five months of this year, sales of consumer e-books in America overtook those of hardback books. Amazon now sells more e-books than paper books. That really is an incredible statistic. Borders, who not so long ago, could … Continue reading

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Mobile retail – the perfect way to buy

Even though buying things with our phones is still more of a novelty than a way of life, this is changing rapidly. Ocado on the Go, for example, already accounts for more than 12% of the internet retail firm’s sales … Continue reading

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Online retail has definitely come of age:

Not a day goes by when we do not hear of the demise of the High St. Indeed, TV footage showing the empty shops goes to show just how much of an impact the Internet has had over the last … Continue reading

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