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What got us here, won't get us there. The UK retail Top500 break down.
#eCommerce The UKTop500 from RetailX is always stacked. Thank you Ian Jindal and all your contributors for another bountiful piece of...
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Vinny O'Brien
- Oct 5, 2023
- 7 min
It was the best of times. It was the blurst of times. Why did we hire those monkeys.
When life imitates art. Or the Simpsons at least. But then the Simpsons predicts everything. From Groening, to groaning. Life in...
Vinny O'Brien
- Oct 5, 2023
- 8 min
Blame it on the weather, man.
We rely on the weather for so many things, but at it's simplest, and for most people, we wake up hoping for sunshine. It just makes life...
vinny655
- Oct 5, 2023
- 6 min
Insomnia. Inception. Larceny. Following. eCommerce and the Christopher Nolan effect.
2023 has been a blur. In this week alone, in my world, "How quickly it's gone" has replaced the Irish small talk go to of the weather by...
Vinny O'Brien
- Sep 21, 2022
- 2 min
Amazon has the key to unlocking ecommerce in Ireland - at scale
#ecommerce Why is Amazon in the news in Ireland? Attached is the why, courtesy of our partner Aidan Duffy - a report put together for...
vinny655
- Sep 16, 2022
- 2 min
Are you Data Driven?
#eCommerce Free download # 3 Metrics that matter -for #DTC #marketplaces and #retailmedia Another guide built by Colin Lewis and I with...
Vinny O'Brien
- Aug 23, 2022
- 4 min
eCommerce analytics are not only skin deep - Just ask MikMak
I have struggled to find things of use or interest to write recently. Also, I was on vacation and have COVID through my family ! Heck of...
Vinny O'Brien
- Jun 7, 2022
- 6 min
Making sense of it all | I get by with a little help from my | LinkedIn | Friends. Kinda
Amidst the struggle for survival, we have to be asking ourselves challenging questions. It is not prudent to inwardly focus on survival...
Vinny O'Brien
- Jun 1, 2022
- 6 min
Abandoning Tactics for Strategies - to fuel, Strategy - Confused? We have to get real.
We can’t continue to be seduced by the short term What is your strategy? Right now there are forces beyond our control. Accept that...
Vinny O'Brien
- May 18, 2022
- 2 min
eCommerce Everywhere - From trends to shifts
eCommerce will become passive. People free check outs. In home devices. Retail media networks pretty much everywhere - in TV AR...
Vinny O'Brien
- May 10, 2022
- 6 min
eCommerce, The Retail Apocalypse and The third industrial Revolution.
Context: I wrote this in Feb 2019. Have things changed that much? I will be sharing the DTC landscape next week for those who dont pick...
Vinny O'Brien
- Apr 29, 2022
- 3 min
This is not a Johnny Cash song - Time to Trade: The Challenges and Opportunities of eCommerce
in a New World - What I learned at #eCommLive Even without the vacuum of the company that was the last 2 years, the first steps into the...
Vinny O'Brien
- Apr 26, 2022
- 4 min
Engage us a bit below warp speed Mr Sulu​ - an ecommerce state of mind
#ecommerce As I look forward to the #ecomlive event in Belfast over the next 2 days, I thought I would pen a few, loose words. In Ireland...
Vinny O'Brien
- Apr 5, 2020
- 2 min
Is Sky the next Nokia?
Over the last few weeks, we have seen many services go to free. One of the most used, indeed one that put pressure on the bandwidth of...
Vinny O'Brien
- Feb 28, 2019
- 6 min
eCommerce, The Retail Apocalypse and The third industrial Revolution
We urgently need to reframe how we think about #ecommerce. There is enough fear now to suggest that the stationary will react. It has...
Vinny O'Brien
- Jul 12, 2017
- 1 min
UK courier-express-delivery-market-hits-10-1-billion
The UK market for courier and express delivery hit £10.1 billion last year with Brits sending 2.8 billion packages. Representing a 10%...
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