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Digital Nutshell: Issue 4 – MidemNet 2009 Special ~ Digital Music 2.0 Next stop after Las Vegas (as well as a brief stop over in Gibraltar – full analysis of the Online Gaming industry coming soon…) was onto Cannes and the MidemNet digital Music conference – and what could be classed as the Music industrys defining year such as the web was 2 ...

Well it was very close… and there are a few towns and small cities that will never be the same as the vicious cycle continues on the high street and shopping malls up and down the country. As lots and units become vacant, especially larger ones such left by Woolworths, MFI, Adams, Zavvi etc… and no one to fill them -  the landlords will try ...

In a slightly changed format for my Blog and something that I will continue to do bi-weekly is give, in a nutshell, a round up of some of the key stories and developments within the world of Digital Media, Entertainment Retail as well as the Music & Movie industry... So without further a do lets crack on with the very first DMN...   ...

Retail readiness... Retail is in the detail... Christmas is coming..READY?? For retailers that have checked, double checked, reviewed, written post-Christmas documents around key learning’s from the past year – and how to ensure that next Christmas is even more successful that the one just passed. The teams then go into overdrive ...

I have talked enough about this topic in various blogs, presentations and events. Sometimes I try to be explicit in the reasoning and other times I add it as a point of reference... So The Long Tail - as described throughout by Chris Anderson and others talks about  - and here I am talking about the digital media Long Tail where unlimited ...

What the hell has happened!! I realised that it has been a month since my last blog post on here at least  ;) and suddenly in that time the world is on the brink of its Minsky Moment with a full on meltdown, our very own Guy gets ready to get rid of that greedy American woman (and hopefully sends her back to NYC) As well as in the digital ...

Continuing the 360° Retail theme that I started in July this is the next instalment - that when completed you will have the fundamentals of a 360° Retail Guide. Staff & Operations In retail one of the biggest assets is of course the staff. These are the customer facing element of the retail business. They hold such value that ...

With the 2008 Retail Week Conference coming to London next week (which Conchango is one of the key Sponsors)- I thought that an objective view of the traditional high street was in order to see how in this e-commerce focused age how retailers are coping in the 21st Century and what (if any..) new initiatives and learnings from the digital age have ...