Category: ecommerce
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Here’s How Walmart Plans To Beat Amazon
Note: All posts reflect my views and opinions only Part of the fun of I had with Mason Park, the e-commerce startup we had, was the challenge of understanding the players and the market to predict where e-commerce is headed. In the past few years, there has been no shortage of news on the struggles of…
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Building A Marketplace – Adding Value to Sellers and Buyers
With Mason Park, we’re a marketplace of independent retailers that serves a consumer audience. To build our marketplace we needed to provide value to both sides – the businesses on our marketplace, as well as the consumers who would shop on our marketplace. To determine what value we could bring to sellers and buyers, we…
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What’s the Future for E-commerce?
Given all the movement from Amazon lately and through my own experience in ecommerce via Mason Park, I thought it’d be fun to try playing fortune teller a bit – Where can ecommerce be headed in 2-5 yrs? When we conceived the idea for Mason Park, we approached it with the mindset that mobile ecommerce was the…
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How to Stay Relevant in the Age of Amazon
There’s no question that Amazon has, and continues to revolutionize the retail industry and beyond. While many businesses and the media focuses on fighting Amazon, or the damage that Amazon has done to traditional retail, what we’ve learned from our research and experience is that fearing and fighting Amazon is probably the wrong approach for…
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Brick & Mortar Isn’t Dead – Why People Still Go In-Store
The “Retail Apacolypse” continues to strike fear among retailers as more and more traditional retailers struggle or shut down. It’s possible to conclude that the future of brick and mortar is dead. I disagree. With Mason Park, an e-commerce marketplace I co-founded, we feature independent brick and mortar boutiques to help with e-commerce and discovery.…
Tim Kung 