Posted on August 10, 2008 by Asi Erenberg Filed Under Niche Success Stories | Leave a Comment
In recent years, niche online retailers have posted some of the fastest growth rates among the Internet Retailer’s Top 500 biggest web businesses (measured in annual revenue). 2007 was no exception. Among those Top 500 companies earning at least 30% growth in revenue year over year, around 3 in 4 were specialty stores or specialty store conglomerates. Read more
Posted on August 1, 2008 by Asi Erenberg Filed Under The Near Future | 1 Comment
A lot of wild and wonderful predictions are being made about how computer-use is going to totally transform the shopping experience. Totally transformative changes have happened already – not least the way that customers looking for goods or services now automatically turn in their masses to a search engine (usually Google) to find them. The use of the Search function is leaping upward at the phenomenal rate of 20% a year, and it’s brand-new users who mostly account for that growth. Existing users, for their part, are boosting their use by 25% year. Read more