Brent W. Peterson
All posts by Brent W. Peterson.
Higher Prices Drive a $737 Holiday Budget as Shoppers Turn to AI for Deals
Accenture's 20th Annual Holiday Shopping Survey of 4,048 US consumers puts the average gift budget at $737, up close to 12% from last year. More than...
Solve It Once and Never Again with Damien Retzinger of Graycore
Graycore founder Damien Retzinger on the Magento 1 to 2 migration that produced Daffodil, why most of his code is now written by a machine and reviewe...
Half of Women With Postpartum Mental Health Challenges Report Little or No Support
The Harris Poll's fourth annual State of Maternal Health in America surveyed 4,154 US adults. Most women who struggled with postpartum mental health s...
A Hawai'i Author Traces Kyoto Food Back to Its Producers
Viola Gaskell and Momoko Nakamura interviewed more than 30 farmers, fishermen, tofu makers and chefs for Kyoto Farm to Table, out from Trope in Novemb...
The Death of the IVR with Michael Klein of Talkdesk
Talkdesk director of industry marketing Michael Klein on what natural language processing did to the phone tree, why he says a deployment cannot run a...
Computers Know When Computers Are Talking with Rotimi Kehinde of Kingdom Branding
Kingdom Branding founder Rotimi Kehinde on the line between AI-powered and AI-supported content, why he thinks content agencies folded and the work ca...
Adobe Hands the CEO Job to the Executive Who Bought Semrush
Anil Chakravarthy becomes Adobe's president and CEO on December 1. He ran the segment that sells to commerce teams. He championed the $1.9 billion Sem...
The Chair Does Not Exist Until You Click Checkout with Benjamin Spiegel of Polywood
Live from eTail Boston, Polywood Chief Digital Officer Benjamin Spiegel on just-in-time manufacturing across 150,000 SKU variations, why this is the b...
An Email That Knows It Is 97 Degrees in Atlanta with Aman Advani of Ministry of Supply
Live from eTail Boston, Ministry of Supply co-founder and CEO Aman Advani on running a vertically built brand on Shopify and Klaviyo, moving email fro...
Own What an AI Cannot Copy with Mark Stanley of Shopware
Live from Shopware Partner Day in Austin, Shopware CPTO Mark Stanley on data sovereignty as the moat worth protecting, why partners are moving from sh...
Same Candy in the Box No Matter Where You Buy with Laura Smith of Sweetwater
Live from eTail Boston, Sweetwater's Laura Smith on why the warehouse never learns which channel an order came from, and why Amazon is an opportunity...
In-Car Payments Are Gaining While Built-In Navigation Loses Ground
The Harris Poll's 2026 AutoTECHCAST study tracked 40 emerging vehicle technologies across 10,000 consumers. In-car payment systems and smart home inte...