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Three Digital Marketing Musts This Holiday Season
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The holiday season is an interesting time to observe marketing tactics, especially when it comes to large businesses. Black Friday (now fading into Gray Thursday), Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday — these are official shopping days that have almost become holidays in and of themselves. It is true that without these named shopping events, retail businesses would likely still rake in the cash during the holiday season – but riding the wave of seasonal excitement ups end of the year revenue. Read on to find out the three digital marketing techniques your small business should be using.
Holiday Spending Delivers Q4 Gifts to E-commerce Sellers
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The 2011 holiday shopping season blur, though hectic, was a welcome event for e-commerce sellers and online retailers. Recording increases from 14 percent on Free Shipping Day to 26 percent on Black Friday, online sellers generated sales from $500 million on Thanksgiving to almost $3 billion during the entire week of Christmas. These results continue the wonderful annual growth trend for e-commerce. For example, in 2009, online sales equaled $129 billion, increasing to $143 billion in 2010, with a projected increase in 2011 to $197 billion. Plus, Forester Research predicts that sales volume will increase to an amazing $279 billion by 2015. Read the remainder of this entry »
