Category Archives: Part 2: Ownership, Strategy Mix, Online, Nontraditional

This sub-category encompasses retail institutions by ownership type, retail institutions by store-based strategy mix, and Web, nonstore-based, and other nontraditional forms of retailing.

Devising Better Pins for Pinterest

As more retailers utilize Pinterest, they need to understand what make excellent business pins. Take a look at “The Perfect Marketing Pins for Pinterest,” a slideshow from Nivida Web Solution.      

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How Superior Retail Web Sites Get Designed

We can learn a lot from how the best Web sites get designed. As Austin Knight writes for HubSpot: “Style guides have always been a staple of design, with some print versions dating back to over 100 years ago. But as design for … Continue reading

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Esty: A New “B”usiness Model

As we’ve written before, Etsy is an innovative retailer. Its company philosophy is described at its Web site: “Etsy is a marketplace where people around the world connect, both online and offline, to make, sell, and buy unique goods, The heart and soul … Continue reading

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