Kevin Eichelberger: Typically, we’d advise our clients about opportunities to improve the mobile and shopping experience, in particular, the checkout experience. There are two events that happened in 2016 that will create lots of opportunities for brands and retailers to make that process more seamless to an end user. By and large, that will be
Cheryl Vedoe:What we have found in surveying students who have an unsuccessful track record is that the programs using it most successfully are actually brick-and-mortar programs where the teacher is in the classroom with the student. Very consistent with the point that you made, we find that those students who need more support and help are
Entrepreneurs are invited to the 344th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable mentoring session on Thursday, March 16, 2017, at 8 a.m. PST/11 a.m. EST/8:30 p.m. India IST. If you are a serious entrepreneur, register to “pitch” and sell your business idea to Sramana Mitra. You’ll gain straightforward feedback, advice on next steps, and she’ll answer any
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down on that. What are some of the key user experience trends in mobile shopping that your customers need to pay attention to? Kevin Eichelberger: One of the metrics that still trail behind is the conversion rate for mobile devices. Yes, it is true that more people shop over a mobile
Online education in K-12 has had very few ventures survive or scale. Apex Learning is one of those rare birds. We first covered their story eight years back. This is a catch up conversation with their CEO Cheryl Vedoe that steps us through the ongoing evolution of the K-12 online education sector. Sramana Mitra: Let’s
TechStars rejects 98% of all applications. Is there a strategy for raising your odds of getting into TechStars? The short answer is yes. Watch this 1 minute 22 second video on how Nevin Shetty, CEO of Blueprint Registry, bootstrapped to validation, traction in fact, before applying.
Did you know that mobile shoppers have a low conversion rate on their devices? People browse on the mobile device, but actually buy on the desktop? Read on more. Sramana Mitra: Let’s introduce our audience to yourself as well as to Blue Acorn. Kevin Eichelberger: I’m the Founder of an e-commerce agency called Blue Acorn.
Gartner Data & Analytics Excellence Awards were announced last month. The winners across the six categories include E.SUN Bank, VenueNext, Ivy Tech Community College, BayCare Health System, glomex, and Barclays Africa Group. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.