Yesterday’s storekeepers wouldn’t recognize the 2012 retail industry, and many marketing professionals argue that since the advent of the Internet, this sector has seen more change than any other. Gone are the majority of Mom-and-Pop shops that were commonplace in the mid-twentieth century, replaced for the most part by out-of-town malls or e-commerce websites where [...]
For the last several years, as the first quarter begins, we have been told that “This is the year of Mobile search!” While mobile search numbers have been on the rise, we have yet to see the explosion that many have predicted. As we move through 2011, these same claims are once again prevalent; however [...]