He holds many professional titles, including best-selling business book author (each of his 13 published books have been best-sellers and collectively have been translated into more than 30 languages), professional speaker (he was named one of the top 21 speakers for the 21st century by Successful Meetings Magazine ) and entrepreneur (Godin was the founder of interactive marketing company Yoyodyne, which Yahoo acquired in 1998). On top of that, the publishing industry thinks that the customer is the buyer at the big chain retailer and not the reader. yahoo. Hardly. oprah. MORE >>

via  Yahoo. Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley spoke to AdWeek last month about retailers’ perception of Foursquare’s user numbers: “I wouldn’t say scale is an issue. The #RLTM Scoreboard:  Social Networking Stats for the Week. Facebook: 1 billion active users. via  Facebook. Twitter: over 500 million users. via  Twopcharts. Qzone: 599 million monthly active users. via  TechCrunch. Sina Weibo: over 400 million users. Renren: over 170 million users. via  iResearch iUser Tracker. LinkedIn: 187 million active users. via  LinkedIn. via  Google. Tumblr: 83 million blogs. MORE >>

Back then, the majority of people still used one of the major ISPs and portals as their destination (think AOL , Yahoo or whatever). By opening retail stores, they get consumers at the first stage of the purchase cycle and they keep them through the purchase, support (Genius Bar) and even the content that goes on the devices (think iTunes ). yahoo. Once upon a time. It's humbling to think of just how quickly the Internet and digitization of the publishing industry changed everything. When business gets involved, everything changes. Aren't we more open than ever before? MORE >>

Along with selling one of his first companies, Yoyodyne, to Yahoo! The idea here is that the many choices we now have in market, and the ability for an online retailer to offer a unlimited array of choices (because they're no longer limited by the shelf-space in a physical store), we're able to uncover that one hundred smaller products may cumulatively sell more than a top ten product on its own. yahoo. Here Comes The Weirdoes. In one generation. Pop record sales have gone from a million copies a week to just 43,000 in twenty years. More choice, less mass. Boom, it's gone." MORE >>

The retail experience has changed forever now that people rely on their mobile devices for product information while they shop. Interestingly, Yahoo has released insights that confirm my findings and help us better understand the impact of mobile Internet on mobile shopping and purchases. Yahoo teamed up with Nielsen to interview 8,384 U.S. Yahoo findings indicate mobile is at the center of the in-store action, making mobile devices a great advertising vehicle for retailers. The result (as I point out in my own blog ) is profound impact on sales and loyalty. MORE >>