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2009 Online Holiday Shopping Season Kick Off – A Retrospective and Some Perspective
The retailing community and the vendors that provide supporting roles, like RichRelevance, have spent the better part of this year gearing up for the make-or-break 24-hour marathon: Black Friday. While consumers haven’t completely abandoned the shopping mall experience, it’s clear that based on early results from the kick off of the holiday shopping season, the … Continue Reading
Learning from experience
“There is only one thing more painful than learning from experience and that is not learning from experience.” – Archibald MacLeish This quote aptly describes my objective in writing my most recent article—“Lessons Learned From Amazon”—about my experiences as Amazon.com’s head of data mining and personalization. It was great to review and articulate some of … Continue Reading