Insiders: A Weekly Newsletter for eCommerce and DTC Operators

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Insiders is a weekly newsletter designed to provide the insights you need to shape your future.

A Sonnet: A Brand’s New Infatuation Dissipates Like Early Dew

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On Loyalty and Posthypnotic Suggestion

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Phillip Jackson

Dazed and Confused: Post-Pandemic Puberty

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The Good Friction Opportunity

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Phillip Jackson

Marketing is a Relationship That’s “Til Death Do Us Part”

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Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange

On Sacrificial Lambs, The Guardians, and the Everlane Hype Cycle

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Melissa Lee, with Phillip Jackson and Callen Hutton

The Rising Tide and the Erosive Effect of Digital Platforms

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Phillip Jackson

Rethinking Brand Power Structures

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AdTech and the Cookieless Future

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Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange

Brands and the Snyder Cut

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Phillip Jackson and Brian Lange

So You Think You're a Collector

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Grocery in 2021 Feels More Like 2035

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The Outlier Problem

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Phillip Jackson

Experimentation as Insurance Against Expectation Inflation

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How Platform Maturation Begat Product Innovation

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Phillip Jackson

Embracing Your Brand’s “Unsavory” Provenance

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Mitch C. Olsen, Ph.D.

The Changing of the Guard Signals A Coming Post-Innovation Age

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Phillip Jackson

Vision 2021: Forecasting the Future of Consumerism Shaped By Recent Rapid Shifts in Digital Engagement

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Phillip Jackson

Phenomenological Brands

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In Corporations We Trust

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Phillip Jackson

Proselytize

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Resolution Season: Context is Everything

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Phillip Jackson

Your 2020 Body is a Dataland

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The Comfort Index

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Phillip Jackson

Black Friday Aubade

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On Digital Neighborhoods, Discovery and Virtual Foot Traffic

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Phillip Jackson

A Call to Nurture

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Yet Another Gift Guide

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"The Election Made Me Do It"

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Phillip Jackson

Virtual Influencers Killed the Dead Celebrity

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Phillip Jackson

The DIY Era: Retail Opportunity in the Passion Economy

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Phillip Jackson

The Existential Brand Part 2: Risks Are All We Have Left

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The DIY Economy

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We All Need Some Channel to Lean on

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Ingrid Milman Cordy

An Anecdoted Topography of Brands

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The Existential Brand Part 1: Teleological Progress

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Disruptor, Disrupted: The Rebirth of Payless ShoeSource and the Dawn of the Internet

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Phillip Jackson

Merchandizing the Innovations of Operations

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Kris Gösser - Head of Marketing, Shipium

Build Your Own House

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The Enthusiast Economy

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The New Formal (Education)

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Phillip Jackson

Storytelling is Insufficient

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Checkoff’s Run and Chekhov’s Gun

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Phillip Jackson

Retail is being reborn

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Phillip Jackson

The New Formal

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Phillip Jackson

The New Dada: Absurdism, Maximalism, and the Generational Divide

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The Anti-Design Design Club

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Phillip Jackson

Baby Steps: An Innovation Framework

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How to Do Nothing

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Phillip Jackson

New report details brands that will survive in 2020

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Phillip Jackson

One Brand at a Time

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Phillip Jackson

Nostalgia as a Security Blanket

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Retail Swan Lake

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Phillip Jackson

Home Gardens: A Leading Indicator of Changing Consumer Defaults

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Data is King. Long Live the Queen.

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Ingrid Milman Cordy

Freaky Friday

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Phillip Jackson

Mourning the Loss of Retail Therapy

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The New Abnormal

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We're All Retailers, Now

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Phillip Jackson

When Authentic... Isn't

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From Plows to Swords

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Phillip Jackson

Small-Town USA in March 2020: A Photo Essay

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Late-Stage Retail

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Phillip Jackson

Outdoor Voices: A Vision Statement For A Future Community

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Phillip Jackson

The Terrible Timing & Missed Opportunities of Retail Seasonality

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The Honor System

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Phillip Jackson

The Invisible Social Contract

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"Plussing" in eCommerce

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Phillip Jackson

If you're discounting to keep customers, you've already failed.

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Have we stopped dreaming of the future?

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Phillip Jackson

New Decade, New Boundaries

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Consumerism stinks. But you smell AMAZING.

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Phillip Jackson

Meet CARLY

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Phillip Jackson

Who Lines Up On Black Friday?

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On Rivalries and the Sociology of the Underdog

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Phillip Jackson

The Overkill Economy

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How to Lose a Customer in 10 Days

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Phillip Jackson

On Replica Sneakers and the Value of Art

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Feel-Good Retail

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Phillip Jackson

Merchants Cannot Live By Brand Alone

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"So Close to Being Complete"

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Phillip Jackson

Shop Like It's Your Job

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Local Business: The Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism

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Phillip Jackson

Audience-First Commerce is Your Terroir

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Capitalism: The Atttention Economy Solution

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Phillip Jackson

Not All Friction is Bad

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On the Power of Belief

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Phillip Jackson

The Future, Realized

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Target's Future-Proofing Strategy

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Phillip Jackson

Announcing the Future Commerce Sustainability Initiative

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Phillip Jackson

Future Commerce Needs Future Sustainability

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Phillip Jackson

INSIDERS 001: The Future is What You Make Of It

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Phillip Jackson

Victoria's Biggest Secret: Sustainbility

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Phillip Jackson

Your Body is a Dataland

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