comScore released their anxiously awaited numbers today on online Holiday spending this season. It was good news and consistent with the early returns.
When you look at the numbers for Thanksgiving Day through Cyber Monday (Nov 27th to Dec 1st) overall spending was up 12% over 2007 levels. Cyber Monday itself was up over 15%.
Ok, let’s look [...]
Mercent Corporation today released an analysis of their retail client’s year over year (2007 to 2008) sales growth numbers for Cyber Monday and the seven days prior. Mercent reported that its retailer’s comparison shopping and online marketplace sales were up 29.3% for Cyber Monday, and 25.6% for the previous 7 days.
For the 2007 base [...]
I want to tip the hat to the ultra cool adCenter Add-in Beta for Excel 2007. Initially released in January 2008 it is maturing as a tool and in my opinion sets a direction that native and 3rd party search engine management / optimization tools should follow.
It is so powerful to be able to have [...]
Cyber Monday is a bit too late to consider improving your web site performance… but the effects will likely not be felt greater than today.
Performance Points to Ponder
With most shoppers using broadband connections is site performance that important anymore?
How big of a factor is web site performance in the overall customer experience?
Here’s InstantROI’s take on [...]
Ecommerce Merchandising?
The purpose of this post is to kick off the topic of ecommerce merchandising planning. For me, retail ecommerce merchandising refers to the entire process of inventory planning and management in an ecommerce group.
Superior merchandising is fundamental to ecommerce success. Getting the merchandising right is arguably more important than marketing the assortment. The one [...]
As predicted, Microsoft Live Cash Back and eBay / PayPal are teaming up to offer perhaps the best discounts for Cyber Monday 2008.
Cyber Monday will be an online bargain hunters dream in many areas… and in cases like this it is writing a new page in the thin tome of the history of ecommerce.
On November [...]
Pricegrabber.com has a fresh new Web 2.0 look… though it is only skin deep and extends just to the home page. You can see the new Pricegrabber home page here and the PG “Classic” comparison shopping home page format here.
As a product manager (and a user), I do like the new design. [...]