Provide Commerce Buys Personal Creations

| Jim Tierney

In a deal that will expand its offering of personalized gifts, Provide Commerce has acquired Personal Creations from Creative Catalogs Corp.

Merchants Are Antisocial With Marketing Spend: Most Goes to Search

| Tim Parry

Did social media jumped the shark before it could make inroads with merchants? Maybe not, but the results of Shop.org’s The State of Retailing Online 2010 conducted by Forrester Research show why marketers spend much more on search than social.

SEO: The link economy

| Stephan Spencer

Links have long been the currency of the Web, thanks in no small part to Google and its PageRank algorithm (named after Larry Page, cofounder of Google).

SHARPER IMAGE CATALOG RETURNS

| Jim Tierney

Relaunched Gifts and Gadgets Merchant The Sharper Image in June mailed a 68-page gifts catalog. The company plans a total of five catalog mailings for

MCM 100: The List is In

| Melissa Dowling

The Largest Multichannel Merchant companies got a little smaller in 2009. No real surprise, given that it was one of the worst retail years on record,

Merchants are Answering Mobile’s Call

| Tim Parry

You know you’re supposed to be gearing up for the mobile commerce revolution the one that everybody keeps saying is coming. The thing is, it’s already