Holiday Analytics – Five KPIs to Watch This Season
The record-setting online sales during Thanksgiving week have the e-commerce industry poised for its best holiday season in years. For individual retailers, how they react to the events of Black Friday and Cyber Monday will go a long way in determining just how good it can be. Whether your own business lived up to expectations […]
Cyber Monday Yields Highest Online Sales Ever
The 2010 holiday season continues to break records and exceed expectations. Passing the billion-dollar mark for the first time, Cyber Monday has been crowned history’s busiest online spending day by comScore. In the U.S., total online sales for…(read more) [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and […]
Holiday Spending On the Rise at Online Retailers [STATS]
More numbers are trickling in for the start of the holiday shopping season, specifically as it pertains to online retailers. Specifically, comScore reported on Sunday that online retail spending is up 13 percent in the first 26 days of November…
Record Web Sales in the Holiday Forecast
The 2010 holiday shopping season has already produced vigorous spending in the U.S., according to several reports. And the forecast for the next four weeks is even better, with comScore predicting online holiday sales to be the highest on record. The research firm’s data shows that consumers spent more than $9 billion during the first […]
Affiliate Alert: Feast on These Holiday Promotions
The official start to the 2010 holiday season is finally upon us. Black Friday is only hours away and Cyber Monday just a few days off. But that can be a virtual lifetime for Web marketers, which means there’s still plenty of time to find great holiday deals to promote on your website. Below are […]
Smartphones Will Get a Workout from Holiday Shoppers
Nearly half of the consumers polled in an IDC survey said they will use their smartphones to compare prices while shopping this holiday season. Another 32 percent said they also plan on accessing online reviews from their mobile devices. In a separate study, Yahoo! found that two-thirds of all mobile users intend to use their […]
The Motion Control Video Game War Has Only Just Begun
Nintendo may have started the motion controller phenomenon with the Wii, but Microsoft and Sony are taking the console wars to a new level. This holiday season,…