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Category Archives: Email

Reaching affluent post holiday shoppers via email

February 03, 2011

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... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:41 PM | (1) | (0)
In Categories Black Friday | Demographics | Email | Holiday | Retail

Thanksgiving and Black Friday Seasonal Traffic Patterns

November 24, 2009

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... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 05:36 PM | (0)
In Categories Black Friday | Cyber Monday | Email | Holiday | Retail | Search Engines | Shopping and Classifieds | Thanksgiving

Black Friday and Cyber Monday Predictions

November 02, 2009

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... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 06:11 PM | (1) | (0)
In Categories Black Friday | Email | Holiday | Retail | Search Strategies | Shopping and Classifieds | Thanksgiving

CircuitCity.com Returns

June 03, 2009

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... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 10:41 AM | (0)
In Categories Email | Retail

Last Minute Mother’s Day Planning

April 30, 2009

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... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 03:06 PM | (0)
In Categories Email | Mother's Day | Retail | Search Engines | Search Strategies | Shopping and Classifieds

Visits to Gmail surpass YouTube

March 10, 2009

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,... Continue reading...

Posted by Heather Dougherty at 02:16 PM | (3)
In Categories Email | Facebook | Google

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Heather Dougherty

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