Father’s Day is quickly approaching, and just as is the case with any holiday, its the merchant that makes gift shopping as easy and stress-free as possible that gets the sale. Holidays are great time for gift-related merchants, but take the stress out of shopping you want to provide your customers with two things: (1) [...]
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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 One Month post immediately came to [...]
Two weeks ago I wrote how holiday-related niches can make an affiliate an annual salary within just one month (however, cheesy this may sound, it’s true). A few days later I blogged about the staggering statistics that out of the 62% of consumers that shop after the holidays 10% don’t even begin shopping until after [...]
The affiliate program support team at Target has tweeted:
So I’ve decided to dig deeper into it.
Target seems to refer to the National Retail Federation’s data quoted by Reuters. On Wednesday (December 16, 2009) in their U.S. consumers fall behind in holiday shopping article Reuters reported:
Consumers on average had completed 46.7 percent of their holiday shopping [...]
The affiliate program support team at Target has tweeted:
So I’ve decided to dig deeper into it.
Target seems to refer to the National Retail Federation’s data quoted by Reuters. On Wednesday (December 16, 2009) in their U.S. consumers fall behind in holiday shopping article Reuters reported:
Consumers on average had completed 46.7 percent of their holiday shopping [...]
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 for the holiday shopping websites.
Yesterday, Shop.org’s [...]
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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 before Thanksgiving, the percentage has dropped [...]
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Believe it or not, but not all online merchants offer their customers with a holiday shipping schedule. If this statement does not apply to you, skip right to the very last paragraph of this post. If, on the other hand, you do not yet have a shipping schedule posted on your website, you want to [...]
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The holiday shopping has really picked on the Black Friday (November 27 this year), and continues to grow. The chart on the right shows an increase of affiliate-referred sales within just one affiliate program.
I have noticed a very similar picture across several affiliate programs: a considerable slowdown in sales on the day before Thanksgiving [...]
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