E-commerce quotes of the day

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."
Mark Twain

"Many disruptive consumer brands eventually expand into retailers in order to reach broader scale, and fast-moving retailers can accelerate this process and so excite their customers as well as enjoy a more fragmented supplier base."
Paul Cook on using e-commerce tools to build disruptive consumer brands

"We're looking for passionate individuals across our all of our divisions and in particular are hiring data scientists, data analysts, software engineers - and other numerically oriented minds."
Devin Sinclair on Mr D Food's digital turnaround

"Sites that can satisfy customers and build a stronger attachment (loyalty), characterised by customers who are less price-sensitive, by repeat purchases, and by customers' advocacy of the online store to family and friends via positive word-of-mouth communication."
Dr Thabang Mofokeng on how SA's online stores can manage the 'deadweight loss of Christmas'

"As a professor of marketing, having conducted research on online retailing and analysed hundreds of cases, I believe that Amazon's future, like shoppers' and the society's future, is inextricably linked to the rise of artificial intelligence."
Venkatesh Shankar looks at Amazon's future

"We all know that mom knows best but sometimes mom isn't actually keeping up with the new trends and technology."
Shanèy Vijendranath on how MomSays gives moms and mompreneurs a voice

"Global brick-and-mortar retail sales experienced a decline between 2013 and 2018, while e-commerce more than doubled to reach over $1.7 trillion in 2018 with an expectation to double again to $3.4 trillion by 2023."
Euromonitor International's new report on e-commerce data

"One of the most important considerations in a retailer's data strategy should be how they unify a number of disparate data warehouses into a single format and structure."
Simon Shaw on why data analytics can give retailers the edge

"Some things are so unexpected that no one is prepared for them."
Leo Rosten

"Eloquence is a painting of the thoughts."
Blaise Pascal

"What happens when you combine blogs, Google and millions of dissatisfied customers? An e-mob. (via warc)"
Bob Garfield

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