Localized Sales Help Fuel Digi-Key’s 2014 European Sales Growth

| Tim Parry

Digi-Key attributes this 26% sales growth to its continued global expansion of local sales and support resources and the strength of its next generation, hybrid distribution model which combines ecommerce savvy with personalized value-add services. Here’s a look at how Digi-Key’s global growth is driven.

Halloween Ecommerce Data: Frozen Freezes Out Ninja Turtles

| Tim Parry

Data released by SLI Systems found consumers conducted over 1 million site searches this Halloween season for Frozen-related queen, princess and snowman characters, making it the most-searched category in the study. Here’s a look at the Top 15 most-searched costume themes of 2014.

5 Revolutions That Will Shape the Future of Marketing

| Owen Shapiro

The press is full of trendy terms—Big Data, the Internet of Things, Digital Natives, Globalization, Social Media, etc.—that attempt to describe the complex technological and social changes that the world is currently experiencing. However, there is a danger in reducing complex social dynamics down to a few catchy buzzwords – trendy terms can act as intellectual shortcuts that fool people into thinking they understand these ideas when they really don’t.