Earlier this morning Today predicted that “$1.1 billion will be spent online today” during Cyber Monday [source]. In 2011, the day’s online sales were reported at $1.25 billion (or up 22% from Cyber Monday 2010). It is a bit unusual to expect a drop in 2012 — especially that this […]
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Several things — important to affiliates, and affiliate marketing industry as a whole — have happened in the course of the past few days, unfortunately not all good, and today I’d like to draw your attention to the following four: 1. Pennsylvania Enacts Affiliate Nexus Tax law — Late last night
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IBM Coremetrics has just added Cyber Monday 2011 data to their benchmark report I blogged about yesterday. Here are the things that have caught my eye: Cyber Monday 2011 — 5 Noteworthy Facts Overall spending increase — Online sales were up 33% over 2010, 29.3% up over Black Friday 2011,
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According to the calculations of the National Retail Federation last year over 200 million consumers spent some $45 Billion on Black Friday. This year, eMarketer predicts that $47 Billion to be spent online during the holiday season in the U.S. alone. And historically, it so happens that holiday-related sales growth
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According to a ForeSee Results‘ holiday benchmark of shopper satisfaction with online retailers (released last week), the customer satisfaction has gone down since Cyber Monday 2010 (an expected tendency with Cyber Monday shopping incentives going away), but it is higher than it was a year ago during the post-Thanksgiving week:
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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are just around the corner, and consumer interest (which started increasing as early as Summer this year) in both of these days and everything that’s connected with them is quickly growing. Not sure if you know about it or not, but Google has an awesome
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Last week I was reviewing the yearly stats of one of my sites, and was once again struck by how seasonal the interest in some niches can be. Here’s a very illustrative chart of that particular site’s visits: My December 2009 Holiday Niches or How to Make Annual Salary in
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Interesting observations have been published by comScore just two days ago. Having analyzed the U.S. online sales data during the first 48 days of the November – December in 2009 versus the same time period in 2008, they have arrived at statistics which mean that Cyber Monday is no longer
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When we talk about “niche” affiliates, we normally refer to marketers that focus on a product vertical. A number of affiliates have gone beyond verticals only, and realized that there’s also an array of amazing opportunities from holiday shopping to shipping. Today I’d like to briefly look at the demand
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Who said that past the Cyber Monday week there’s not much to fish for in the pond of holiday-oriented consumers? Yesterday Google Retail Blog has published some staggering data: as of Sunday, December 6 2009, 64% of holiday purchases are yet left to be done. Apparently, compared to the week
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