Tag Archives: holidays

Watching Amazon over the Black Friday Weekend

Though I don’t work at Amazon anymore, I am still a big fan of their business and all of their products. As a proud Amazon Prime member, if I need a single 99 cent black pen tomorrow, I can get it via next day air! This Black Friday weekend, I thought I’d reconnect with my … Continue Reading

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

2008 Holiday, “Awesome!”

We are very fortunate that despite all of the turmoil in the greater market, richrelevance gets to celebrate 2008 as the best year ever. In fact this past holiday season was awesome. Absolutely awesome. All of this is due in no uncertain terms to the hard work and dedication of our team—this note a big … Continue Reading

How richrelevance performed over Black Friday and Cyber Monday

At RichRelevance, we have been planning for the holiday shopping load since early summer. This was our first Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and since we provide recommendations for some big merchants, we knew this was going to be a critical test of our product architecture, infrastructure, and execution.   Now that the weekend is behind … Continue Reading