Posts Tagged ‘ Email ’
Throughout the holiday season, email is always a key driver of traffic to retail websites used to communicate products and promotions both online and in-stores. The daily downstream traffic from web-based email to the Retail 500 throughout the holiday season shows an interesting pattern where clear peaks emerge, highlighting the most important (and cluttered) days [...][ READ MORE ]
When you start hearing about doorbuster sales and stores opening at 5 am, it can mean only one thing – Thanksgiving and Black Friday are almost upon us again! Retailers started to promote pre-Black Friday sales as early as late October and have been running sales for much of the month of November, but Friday [...][ READ MORE ]
Holiday projections are out and many are predicting a gloomy holiday season for retailers. The NRF forecasts a 1% decline growth in total retail sales for the 2009 holiday season, totaling $437.6 billion. The online channel is poised to fare somewhat better, with Forrester Research projecting an increase of 8% to $44.7 billion. The official [...][ READ MORE ]
After shutting down operations in January, CircuitCity.com is back after Systemax purchased the brand and domain at bankruptcy auction for $14 million. Systemax also owns TigerDirect.com and acquired CompUSA last year. CircuitCity.com was quickly relaunched last week to capitalize on the remaining brand strength and traffic to the website. The relaunch caused an immediate spike [...][ READ MORE ]
The countdown is on for retailers looking to capture Mother’s Day spending with 10 shopping days left (11 if you are the same-day delivery type, if so – buy online, pick-up in-store is for you). According to the National Retail Federation, spending on Mother’s Day gifts is expected to be lower this year due to [...][ READ MORE ]
For the past two weeks, the market share of US Internet visits to Gmail has been higher than visits to YouTube. Previously, YouTube consistently ranked 10th among all websites by market share of visits until the week ending Jan. 10, 2009, where Gmail moved up one rank to reach #10. The websites have been swapping [...][ READ MORE ]
