My day-to-day is much like Nathan’s. It’s hard to connect with other small internet retailers just to get an idea of where you stand, in terms of spend, what works, what doesn’t, etc.

I was hoping to bump into like-minded companies at SES last week, but I found the programming dominated by big agencies and their gripes. Though I did meet Colin from Become (the only comparison engine there, as far as I could tell), and he was very nice