Sad Ending for Smith & Hawken

| Tim Parry

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. is Pulling the Plug on Smith & Hawken. The catalog and Website of the high-end home and garden merchant stopped taking orders

DineWise Acquires Home Bistro

| Tim Parry

Gourmet Foods Merchant Home Bistro Foods is Back in Business: Rival prepared-foods merchant DineWise bought the company out of Chapter 11 on June 11.

Bookish Buyers Back Off

| Tim Parry

The books, music and video market totaled 3.5 million active names in the first quarter of 2009, according to list brokerage services firm ParadyszMatera.

Zappos.com Fits For Amazon

| Tim Parry

If the shoe fits, wear it. That’s a big reason Amazon.com decided to spend more than $850 million in a non-cash deal to acquire online shoe and apparel giant Zappos.com.

Takeaways and Tips to Improve SEO

| Tim Parry

What you do with your SEO may not be visible to the naked eye, but it’s picked up by the search engines. And the better you do SEO, the greater the chance a consumer will find your e-commerce site via Google, Yahoo, MSN and the rest of the search engines. And increased traffic equals more revenue.

Smith & Hawken Facing Liquidation

| Tim Parry

The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. has not found a buyer for its struggling Smith & Hawken division, and may be liquidating the high-end home and garden merchant by week’s end.

Data cards come to life with video

| Tim Parry

It’s lights, camera, action for data cards, now that direct marketing tool provider NextMark is giving its list firm clients the option to add video to