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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sorry for the rant at the start of this topic (see Part 1) However we are always a nation of wrong priorities...Anyway Part 2 - is here!Let’s start with a brief history..Filesharing among kids, adults, boys, girls, mums and dads etc.. everyone does it. There is technology coming that will actually make it easier to share files better, smarter, ...

Please welcome the new King - 360° Retail!Just as Web2.0 was a buzz word for a seismic change in the way users interacted and used the internet, the Web2.0 term was over used and wrongly interpreted by both retailers and their internal processes and decision makers that would influence their web strategies. So we (in the consultancy trade) moved ...

In the second part of our journey with NDM (Non-Digital Man) it was time to track him down and speak to him face to face and see if we can get to the bottom of why he has not adopted a digital lifestyle and see if there is anyway to make sure that he doesn't have a shortened life span by needlessly worrying about stuff that really isn't that ...

...TO LATE!!! As most (hopefully ALL) retailers know Easter is the second most important trading time after Christmas! However - how many retailers were ready for this Easter ?? - because this Easter is going to be tough ride... Most retailers will have planned Xmas >> Winter Sale >> Easter - roughly in that order - base their ...

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 ...

In my last blog I talked about the apparent "worth" of the internet to advertisers and marketing people - and also touched on a forthcoming blog around Google's Video Ads (which would be this one..) and the future of this space moving forward. To begin let's go back to a time (if you are old enough to remember) when UK ...

The internet - don't you just love it! You can find anything that you want, when you want and wherever you are - you can connect via your iPod, laptop, cell phone, tv or fridge! If you've watched the web grow from it's humble beginnings to where it is now and just how it has become a seamless part of everyone's lives - it's been one hell of a ...