From the category archives:

e-commerce

Millesima.com, on the way up to Web 2.0?

October 9, 2009

Videos, Google-style search engine, blog, Facebook page – Millesima.com, one of the leading e-commerce site, is gearing up towards Web 2.0 level and entering the age of social media. Millesima.com is positioned as a very high-end e-commerce site. It sells only 12-bottle cases of Bordeaux classified Growths, Burgundy or Rhone Valley wines. Their customers are [...]

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Looking for a… book

August 25, 2009

I didn’t think that trying to buy a book in a bookstore could become such a frustrating experience. The book I was seeking is Chris Brogan and Julien Smith‘s Trust Agents. Yesterday I heard this long-awaited book was available in Borders and Barnes and Noble bookstores all over the country. I rushed to the nearest [...]

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Selling wine on line

October 8, 2008

Selling wine on line is not a novelty. Wine.com was one of the pioneers and, after many ups and downs, became the major wine store on line we now know. Nowadays on line wine stores are more and more numerous, inversing what’s happening in the brick and mortar world. Thirty years ago, there were 12,000 [...]

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Meeting with Prof. Gregory Bressolles in Bordeaux

February 25, 2008

Today I had the pleasure of meeting Prof. Gregory Bressolles at the Bordeaux management School. Prof. Bressolles conducted a very interesting study on the French and international e-commerce sites in the wine business. He presented this study at the last Vinexpo in June 2007 and I was lucky enough to have a preview of this [...]

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