The Future of E-commerce and Mary Meeker’s 2014 Trends – Thinks Out Loud Episode 74

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The Future of E-commerce and Mary Meeker’s 2014 Trends Headlines and Show Notes

• The internet of things via Benedict Evans
• Importance of email marketing. How to Improve Your Email Marketing in Just 5 Minutes
• What Expedia’s Leaders Can Teach You About Digital Strategy Travel Tuesday post
• How Walmart Uses Receipts to Personalize Mobile Marketing:
• Physical assets underpin mobile’s next phase of in-store growth from Mobile Commerce Daily
• Your Customer, Tomorrow
• What customers expect from mobile and e-commerce in 2014
• Mary Meeker mentions AGFAM… sort of. Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, but no Microsoft. Replaced by Tencent (Chinese company), with eBay (yep!), Priceline (yep!), Baidu, Yahoo, and Salesforce.com rounding out her top 10.
• Amazon confirms its fight with publishing giant Hachette is real, and it’s far from over via The Verge
• When E-commerce Giants Attack – Thinks Out Loud Episode 73
• Mary Meeker’s Interent Trends 2014 presentation (also embedded below)

Plus, as promised, here are my slides from the “Digital Marketing Directions – Exploit the Trends that Shape Travel Marketing” presentation I discussed during the show:

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Technical details: Recorded using an Audio-Technica AT2035 studio condenser microphone through a Mackie Onyx Blackjack USB recording interface into Logic Express 9 for the Mac.

Running time: 19m 04s

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