Start Your Free Shipping Offers Earlier

| Jim Tierney

Multichannel merchants should start free shipping promotions earlier in November, instead of waiting until the week of Black Friday, according to research released by eDataSource

Huge Weekend For FurnitureCrate.com

| Jim Tierney

Although FurnitureCrate.com has only been around since October 2008, it has made huge strides during that period. Consider the numbers the three-year-old company generated from Black Friday

IBM: Mobile Drove 14.3% of Black Friday Online Retail Traffic

| MCM staff

U.S. shoppers took advantage of early sales this holiday driving a 39.3% increase in online Thanksgiving Day spending while setting the stage for 24.3% online growth on Black Friday compared to the same period last year, according to cloud-based analytics findings by IBM.