Weekly Intel Report
Headline: Preliminary online Holiday shopping numbers are in!
Details: The Mercent Black Friday 2009 Online Retail Sales outlines some nice trends for online merchants (and we assume their affiliate programs!). The link to the full article is HERE. Make sure your offer portfolio includes items from the categories folks will continue to spend in (health, home entertainment, BizOpp)
Some highlights from the report:
1. For Thanksgiving Day 2009, reports same-seller online retail gross merchandise value (GMV) grew 33% relative to Thanksgiving Day 2008.
2. For the 24 hours of Black Friday 2009, Mercent reports overall same-seller online retail gross merchandise value (GMV grew) 41% on Black Friday relative to 2008.
3. On Thanksgiving Day, same-seller GMV of Mercent clients participating in Amazon’s “Selling on Amazon” third-party marketplace program increased by 78% relative to Thanksgiving Day 2008.
4. On Black Friday, same-seller GMV of Mercent clients participating in Amazon’s “Selling on Amazon” third-party marketplace program increased by 56% on Black Friday relative to 2008.
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affiliatesprout
Weekly Intel Report http://bit.ly/65933d
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Dec 1st, 2009
Trip Foster
More data coming in this morning from CoreMetrics: “By 6:30 p.m. Eastern time on so-called Cyber Monday, Web shoppers had spent, in total, 11% more than they did a year ago at that time, according to Coremetrics Inc.” Full article here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703300504574567883001657224.html
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Dec 1st, 2009
mediatrust
How are people spending their dollars this holiday season?: http://ping.fm/ouUzg
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Dec 1st, 2009
mediatrustpete
Weekly Internet Marketing Intel Report http://tinyurl.com/yfoyedo Holiday #ecommerce numbers are in and up over last year #in
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Dec 3rd, 2009
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