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Thought Leaders in Mobile and Social: David Stone, CEO of CashStar (Part 4)

Posted on Monday, Jan 16th

SM: Oh, I see. So, the electronic gift card can be used at a store. DS: Exactly. We’re connecting the online and physical world. In fact, most of the cards – and there are millions that we’ve done – can be used in the physical world. It has a bar code on it, and you

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Carefully Folded Business Plan: What We Can Learn From Gap’s Failures

Posted on Saturday, May 3rd

By Richard Laermer, Guest Author I was watching an old TV show from last year –gosh, my TiVo has so much stored it could have been from two years ago– and found myself gawking at a super-colorful Sarah J Parker dancing and carousing to “I Just Love Being a Girl” in a really horrible ad

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Gap’s Turnaround Strategy

Posted on Thursday, May 24th

Visualize the Banana Republic store. It has a few floors of merchandise. When you walk into this store, very little of this applies to you. You are a size 4 woman, dark haired, brown-eyed, olive-skinned. Your style is rather more professional and clean-cut, than much of the frills and laces that you look around and

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Online Clothing: No. 1 Retail Category

Posted on Wednesday, May 23rd

Sales of clothing have surpassed sales of computer hardware and software for the first time in the ten years of online retailing, according to a new report by Forrester Research for Shop.org. Online sales are forecast to increase 18% this year to $259 billion. In 2006, clothing and accessories, including shoes, totaled $18.3 billion against

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