Forrester Forecast: Online Retail Sales Will Grow To $250 Billion By 2014. Online retail sales aren’t growing at the torrid pace they once were, but they continue to grow steadily. Forrester Research put out a new five-year forecast today predicting that e-commerce sales in the U.S. will keep growing at a 10 percent compound annual growth rate through 2014. It forecasts online retail sales in the U.S. will be nearly $250 billion, up from $155 billion in 2009. Last year, online retail sales were up 11 percent, compared to 2.5 percent for all retail sales. In Western Europe, Forrester expects a slightly faster 11 percent growth rate for online retail sales, going from $93 billion (68 billion Euros) in 2009 to $156 billion (114.5 billion Euros) in 2014.
Forrester’s estimates exclude online sales of autos, travel, and prescription drugs. Some other stats from the U.S. forecast: While $155 billion worth of consumer goods were bought online last year, a far larger portion of offline sales were influenced by online research. Create Beautiful 3D Graphs and Charts in Illustrator. I love graphs. There is something gorgeous in aesthetically pleasing, visual representation of data. In this tutorial I’ll show you how to put some style into graphs generated in Adobe Illustrator.
Step 1: The Column Graph Not a lot of people are aware of the fact that Illustrator has a tool for generating graphs. But let me first introduce you to the basics of this tool. As you can seethere is a pretty big list of graphs you can generate. So now, please select the Column Graph Tool and draw your first graph. Step 1.1 After drawing the graph you’ll be greeted with a window that resembles a spreadsheet. Step 1.2 We’ve got our first graph on the screen, now it’s time to give it some style. Close the spreadsheet and hide the layer with the graph, you won’t need it right now. Copy the square, and double click on the shear tool (you’ll find it under the pencil and rotate tool) to shear the object 55 degrees horizontally.
Position it like in the picture below. Duplicate the pointy shape. Step 1.3. Presentation: Bootstrapping to Seven Figures by BigCommerce Co-Founder Mitchell Harper. Brick-and-Mortar Retailers Moving Business Online as Foot Traffic Declines. Online sales in August were up for a 13th straight month, rising 7.2% from July compared to a 1.5% gain the same month in 2009, according to MasterCard's SpendingPulse data. " People are just shifting their dollars to the Web, " said Sucharita Mulpuru, vice president and principal analyst for Forrester Research Inc. (Nasdaq: FORR ). "The Web is definitely a channel where people are able to find better prices and better values. " Online retail sales will grow 10% a year for the next five years, accounting for 53% of all U.S. retail sales by 2014, according to Forrester Research. Paradigm shifts like this create new winners, those that can stay ahead of the trend and in tune with consumer needs to beat the competition, even when consumer spending is struggling.
The undisputed online winner is Amazon.com Inc. Since then, discount chains and department stores have embraced the Internet to stay competitive, with big names like Wal-Mart Stores Inc. But companies are starting to come around. Industry Strategies for Online Merchants.