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February 6, 2012

Black Friday Facebook Fun(ds)

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Here’s an idea for making this Friday more fun and fruitful. In addition to doing your own Christmas shopping online, give your Facebook friends and family good reasons to do likewise. The screenshot below shows a Facebook status update about reading Ken Follett’s “Fall of Giants” on my iPad, and how Ed was enjoying his [...]

Bad, BAD Affiliates!

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Bad, BAD affiliates! You KNOW better than to risk being trampled at a brick and mortar store on Black Friday! Set the good example, will ya? You should be shopping online — like you want your readers and site visitors to do. Surely you could have found better bargains online WITH free shipping; which would [...]

10 Ways to Sell More this Christmas Season

Is your site ready for Christmas shoppers? An Accenture survey forecasts that folks will be shopping for Christmas earlier this year, with 69 percent planning to complete the bulk of their holiday shopping by Dec. 7th. Too, consumers are more deal-oriented than ever before, with 25% of them expecting at least 50 percent discounts before [...]

Cyber Monday 2008: Second Biggest Online Spending Day Ever

In a December 3rd press release, Comscore resported that Cyber Monday saw $846 million in online spending. Although spending over the holiday season to date ($12.03 billion) is down by 2% from last year, Cyber Monday’s online sales were up by a whopping 15% over 2007 sales. Take a look at the following screenshot where [...]

Merry Meltdown: Online Black Friday Spending Up Over 2007

Although it was suggested that my rosey outlook for online spending this holiday season was overly optimistic and perhaps even quite naive, early results indicate that Black Friday shoppers have seen the light – opting to stay home and shop online instead. (Not to mention that they also saved time, energy, verhicle wear & tear, [...]

eDay: The New Cyber Monday

First there’s Black Friday, then Cyber Monday and on Linda Buquet’s blog today, I learned about yet another day in the holiday season: eDay. eDay is a term coined by Coremetrics™ as the top sales day of the Christmas season. San Mateo, Calif.—November 6 , 2006—Coremetrics™, the leading provider of on-demand web analytics and precision [...]