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| Top Story |  |  | | - Retail's BIG Show: Brazil, China poised to lead online retail
China boasts 369 million online users, making it the world's largest market, and China, Brazil, Mexico and India are among the countries expected to see high double-digit growth in online retail in the coming years, Forrester Research's Zia Daniell Widger told attendees at Retail's BIG Show. Understanding the local markets, cultures, payment systems and logistics are the first steps to finding e-commerce success in these fast-growing global markets, speakers said. Shop.org Blog (1/16)       | The Business Platinum Card® from American Express OPEN
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  | Online Retail Trends | | | | - Booktopia takes on global online booksellers
Former Australian IT programmer Tony Nash founded online bookseller Booktopia in 2004, and today the retailer ships about 1 million books annually. Amazon sells about five or six times as many tomes to Australian consumers, but Nash says Booktopia is growing fast with a focus on Australian authors and direct deals with publishers that allow the company to keep books in stock and ship orders faster. The Sydney Morning Herald (Australia) (1/16) - Online shoppers support smaller merchants
Some online shoppers are shifting away from Amazon and other big players in favor of small, niche Web retailers, in a move similar to "shop local" campaigns that encouraged consumers to eschew big boxes for Main Street merchants, this story says. "Folks are exercising their desire to support local stores where local is not just in their town, but anywhere in the country," said economics professor Michael Walden. The New York Times (tiered subscription model) (1/15) | New Media & Technology | | | | - 10 QR code strategies to enhance the shopping experience
The number of consumers who scan QR codes in ads and point-of-sale materials is small but growing, creating an opportunity for merchants to figure out new ways to use the codes to give customers something they want, writes Intel social media strategist Ekaterina Walter. She shares 10 examples, including Tesco's virtual subway supermarket in Korea and a Verizon competition that boosted mobile phone sales 200%. Mashable (1/14) - PayPal executive talks in-store payment strategy
Don Kingsborough's resume already included stints as founder of Worlds of Wonder Toys and executive roles at Nintendo and Atari when he joined PayPal as vice president in charge of rolling out in-store payment systems last year. The next big payment services winners will be those that are less focused on the nuts and bolts of the technology and more focused on letting consumers make purchases and payments wherever they want to, he said. GigaOm (1/14) | Hot Topics | | | | Top five news stories selected by Shop.org SmartBrief readers in the past week. - Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers.
| Companies in the News | | | | - Totsy.com to sell baby products in China
Online baby products retailer Totsy.com will start selling its wares to consumers in China through MamiBuys.com, a flash-sale site specializing in imported baby products. Chinese consumers spend about $20 billion each year on baby products, and the market is seeing about 17% annual growth, according to Totsy. InternetRetailer.com (1/13) | | | Most Popular Headlines from Last Week Results based on number of times each story was clicked by readers. |
| Interactive Advertising | | | | - Facebook is eyeing 5% online ad mark by year's end
Facebook is on pace to command 5% of the online advertising market by the end of this year, according to an Efficient Frontier report. The social net reached the 2.7% mark in the fourth quarter of 2011 as brands such as Pepsi try to leverage Facebook's fan base. PaidContent.org (1/13) | Legislative & Regulatory | | | | | Shop.org Spotlight | | | | - NRF forecasts retail industry sales growth of 3.4% in 2012
Though stubbornly high unemployment and continued uncertainty over the prospects for job growth will continue to dampen the outlook for industry retail sales growth in 2012, the retail industry will still grow at a rate faster than many other industries. According to NRF, retail industry sales will rise 3.4% to $2.53 trillion in 2012 -- slightly lower than the pace of 2011, in which sales grew 4.7%. Read more. - Shop.org SmartStat: Jan. 16, 2012
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There may be no retailer on Earth more personalized than ModCloth, a women's retailer that uses crowdsourcing to attract "fanatic customers." In a recent Retail's BIG Show session on new merchandising strategies, ModCloth CMO Kerry Cooper described the many ways that the company interacts with its core customer -- a fashion-forward young girl or woman who doesn't want to dress like everybody else. Read more.
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