Walmart Reports Best Black Friday Ever
The retailer saw larger crowds than last year and a huge response to its first ever one-hour guarantee on key electronic items.
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Sears Reports Thanksgiving, Black Friday Trends And Insights
Black Friday kicked off five days early for Sears SHOP YOUR WAY Rewards Members who were able to purchase many Sears doorbusters in advance. More than half of Sears business comes from SHOP YOUR WAY Rewards
Karmaloop Announces Risque and Controversial Cyber-Kam Monday
Karmaloop.com’s Cyber-Monday promo ups the ante; they are launching a first-of-its-kind live e-retail marketing campaign. The company has hired a dozen real “cam girls,” women who usually strip live on webcams for a living, to engage in a one-of-a-kind promotional event on Cyber Monday. The Karmaloop CyberKam girls will chat live for 24 hours titillating customers, offering exclusive deals, on the spot contests, performing live karaoke and other crazy surprises! While driving sales and shocking the timid, Karmaloop’s light-hearted, but racy parody of the worldwide web’s darker corners is breaking new ground.
Rue La La Reports Record Breaking Thanksgiving Day Sales
Rue La La announced today that it recorded record-breaking Thanksgiving Day sales and traffic across online and mobile. The company reported a more than 75% increase in mobile sales over last year, with 50% of mobile sales coming through the iPad. The company projects an over 50% increase in overall sales this holiday weekend over last year.
Mobile Commerce Index Shows Huge Thanksgiving Day Gains
Branding Brand, a mobile commerce platform used by major retailers today announced the results of its Mobile Commerce Index for Thanksgiving Day, which showed substantial increases in consumers shopping on smartphones.
Black Friday Busy but Uneventful Online
Black Friday was remarkably quiet from a performance perspective, according to Compuware, with only a few scattered and minor outages. Response times did spike for some retailers, but, as we have been noting all day, this was driven far more by third-party performance issues rather than issues with the sites themselves.
How B2B Merchants Use Social Media
We know the potential of social media to drive brand awareness, but are B2B merchants using social media to drive demand generation as well? This infographic from Eloqua digs deep into how B2B merchants use social media to promote, engage and sell.
Surveys Show Conflicting Black Friday and Cyber Monday Projections
As Black Friday and Cyber Monday shopping surveys roll across the wires, it