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Patti serves eBusiness & Channel Strategy Professionals. She is a leading expert on multichannel retail strategy with 19 years of diversified experience, expertise in creating customer-centric eCommerce sites, integrating channels effectively, developing innovative marketing initiatives, and ensuring high-standard customer service and order fulfillment operations.
Patti was formerly a research director at JupiterResearch. Before joining JupiterResearch, she held leadership positions with leading internationally known companies like Bloomingdale's and Godiva Chocolatier. Most recently, she was director of shopping services with bloomingdales.com, where she touched on all aspects of the multichannel retail business. Brought on board to create and launch Bloomingdale's Bridal Registry website with WeddingChannel.com, Patti directed all aspects of the business from concept to implementation, including back-end customer service and store integration issues. In her previous capacities at Bloomingdale's, she led the international marketing department and implemented award-winning multiple-media marketing and retention programs. Further, Patti has done project work to develop interactive educational products for adults and children.
Patti has been quoted in major media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune, and Business 2.0, as well as in industry publications such as Internet Retailer and Executive Technology. Patti has also appeared on NBC Nightly News, CNBC, BBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, Fox Business News Network, and BNN.
She has taught eCommerce at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and is also the vice chairman of the board of directors for Shop.org, a membership organization that serves the online and multichannel retail community and a division of the National Retail Federation.
Patti earned a B.A. in business management and studio art from Franklin and Marshall College.
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This report outlines the stakeholder map of the mobile eBusiness playbook, which is designed to drive value through mobile services. This report should be used by eBusiness professionals to plan...
eBusiness and channel strategy professionals are faced with the challenge of an ever more connected consumer. Yet only recently have they begun to set mobile strategies in place. The mobile eBus...
In the large-format mass merchant sector, Wal-Mart and Target have successfully implemented market-leading online retail functionality and connected consumer touchpoints to enhance their custome...
European online buyers still use a mix of electronic and offline payment methods when purchasing on the Internet. Plastic card (e.g., credit and debit card) payment methods dominate online purch...
Sixty-eight percent of the top 50 Internet retailers use video content on their Web sites, compared with 18% in 2008. Online retailers are committed to making product videos central to their mer...
Forrester evaluated the grocery Web sites of the four largest UK grocers — Asda, Sainsbury's, Tesco, and Waitrose — using our Web Site Functionality Benchmark methodology. The result...
Forrester evaluated the transactional websites of five European apparel retailers — Zara, H&M, Promod, Miss Sixty, and Topshop — using our Website Functionality Benchmark methodology...
Online retail sales in Western Europe reached €68 billion in 2009 and are projected to grow to €114 billion by 2014. The European online retail market, which includes the EU-17 ̵...
