Cambridge, MA–Apparel and bedding merchant Garnet Hill has sure come a long way. What started out as a flannel-sheets mailer in 1976 in the White Mountains of New Hampshire has grown into a multichannel powerhouse that
The online classified space has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks by a lot of companies taking a lot of different approaches. Oodle.com continues to grow with its business model of bringing buyers to existing ad-seller sites. Google Base is beta-testing its big brand name as a marketing site where users can post whatever content they wish, including retail goods for sale. Even eBay is in the classifieds business, and last week saw the launch of Vast.com, an online classified player that says it has 15 million listings scraped from 50,000 Web sites. Now into this fray steps Microsoft.
At a Search Engine Strategies session in New York earlier this month, Jonathan Mendez, e-marketing director for interactive agency DigitalGrit, started out by asking a packed room if anyone in the audience believed that brand advertising and search marketing couldn
Search is big these days, no doubt– big in ad dollars, big in the size of the segment players, and big in its influence as a doorway to the Web. But Blinkx hopes to make its mark on search by thinking small. To prove it, the San Francisco-based company recently rolled out a search engine that weighs only 1 megabyte but does the heavy lifting of bringing Web content to users without an explicit search.
Cambridge, MA-Paging through the Cuddledown linens and beds catalog, you’d suspect that the Portland, ME-based mailer spends a fortune on location photography. But most of the room shots were taken in a studio and composited into a background photo.
With its newest catalog, Outdoor Living, Atlanta-based Home Depot continues to target a more affluent audience.
Fourth-quarter catalog and Internet net revenue for San Francisco-based Williams-Sonoma increased 14%, to $475.5 million for the three months ended Jan. 29.
Small and new catalogers typically buy their paper from the printer; it makes sense if you
Supply chain and transportation executives are under newly intensified pressure to keep transportation costs down in the face of rate increases and to keep service levels up in the face of capacity constraints.
This week we look at what to consider when buying rack systems.