Posted in Editorial on Feb 20th, 2008
As an online retailer, this survey is good news. The biggest promise of online shopping is convenience, allowing consumers to purchase items quickly and easily from the comfort of home or office. Flags Bay wasn’t part of their survey, but you can be sure we measure up to the companies profiled in the article.
http://jewishworldreview.com/0208/better_online.php3
Online retailers [...]
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Posted in Information on Dec 28th, 2007
The Galleria, Houston TX
Flickr Photo courtesy “mlsnp”
November 2007
Christmas sales are over and the After-Christmas sales are underway, but the news is already out for online sales. It’s a good news—bad news story.
Good News
The good news is that online sales increased to $29.5 billion, a 19% increase from last year. I haven’t seen any breakdowns on [...]
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Posted in Information on Aug 29th, 2007
I have noticed since beginning this series on “the future,” that others are writing on the same topic, but from different perspectives.
Here are five articles well worth reading, reinforcing the Internet to The Future of …
Brian Clark at copyblogger wrote a great piece titled How to Become a Heroic Business Blogger.
Marguerite Reardon at c|net [...]
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Posted in Information on Aug 24th, 2007
This installment in The Future of … series is about eCommerce. Because Flags Bay is an online only store—selling American and state flags—the future of eCommerce is of particular interest to me, and I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about it.
As with blogging (yesterday’s topic), eCommerce is in its infancy. Online retailers are still determining [...]
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Posted in Information on Aug 22nd, 2007
Over the last few days, I’ve had lots of time to think, although being sick isn’t conducive to clear thinking.
Now that I am better, it’s time to review my drug-induced ideas to see which ones are worth exploring further, and which ones I should just drop.
So what did I think about while horizontal? Was it valuable [...]
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