Like a lot of retailers, overstockart.com started their promotions for Cyber Weekend a day early and it proved to be successful. In this video, Amitai Sasson, vice-president of marketing and development talks about the weekend and the holiday season.
Silver Star brands was very busy during Cyber Weekend. Ian MacDonald, ecommerce manager for Silver Star Brands talks to Multichannel Merchant about how they survived one of the busiest shopping weekends of the year.
Mobile commerce has arrived, and proved to be a game-changer this Cyber Weekend. Here’s a look at what drove shoppers to their smart phone, and a look at some retailers’ mobile commerce success stories.
Mobile commerce has arrived, and proved to be a game-changer over Cyber Weekend. From Thanksgiving through Cyber Monday, the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark showed that overall online sales increased 12.6%, with mobile sales up 27.2% compared to the same period in 2013.
In the two days before Thanksgiving, MarketLive merchants grew revenue an average of 20%, as compared to an industry average of 11% growth in pre holiday spending reported by ComScore.
On Cyber Monday, the biggest online shopping day of the year, Amazon revealed its newest generation fulfillment center using robotics, vision systems and high-end technology to speed up order delivery times for customers. Take a look at the Kiva Robots in action.
Rue La La has a leadership in mobile penetration because of the very nature of its flash sales business. In this video, Rue La La CEO Steve Davis talks about why Thanksgiving shows the ongoing adoption of that channel by consumers, and why retailers need to step up to the plate.
Cyber Monday 2014 posts a 17% annual gain in online desktop sales, while weekend buying increased 26%. Cyber Weekend grows 24%.
Bluefly said it had its best cyber weekend ever. Sales for Bluefly increased 36% year-over-year, and Bluefly’s Marketplace had its highest selling days in its history.
Thanksgiving was a great day for eBags, and so was Black Friday. But eBags President and COO Rob Cassidy says Cyber Monday is still the king of cyber holidays. In this video, Cassidy talks about how eBags did this Cyber Weekend, and how he predicts the rest of the 2014 holiday season playing out.