Whether you call it 11.11, Double-11 or Singles’ Day, Alibaba’s big event Saturday (officially called the ‘11.11 Global Shopping Festival’) is nearly impossible to overhype. We’ve been previewing this year’s sale from a marketer and agency point of view this week, and this reporter will live-blogging from the epicenter Saturday. Before the virtual cash registers … Read More →
There’s always a bit of worry attached to online shopping, which escalates quite a lot when shopping from a site that’s from China. We’ve all heard of horror stories about ‘Chinese maal’, and then there’s the matter of shipping, which takes longer than what we’re used to from Indian e-commerce sites. Thankfully sites like Ali … Read More →