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Cyber Monday is real, I guess

December 15th, 2008

Last week I posted an article on Cyber Monday. More data is coming out to back up it’s growing importance.

techcrunch
Article excerpt and link:
E-Commerce Sales Since Cyber Monday Up 9% from LY
For the five days beginning with December 1 (Cyber Monday), the kick-off to the heaviest part of the online shopping season, sales totaled $3.74 [...]

Week of 12.08.08/Top Stories

December 10th, 2008

GenerationsOnline/Cyber Monday?/MobileShopping/SocialAndAds
Generational differences in digital: Millenials, GenX, and Boomers
How and what they access is different, but all generations use digital to gather shopping information.

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Do marketers have the wrong Cyber Monday? (And Black Friday is hot online, too, by the way)
Cyber Monday is a created phenomenon. But maybe it’s catching on?

Atlas
Mobile Shopping - changing the [...]

Other good articles this past week / 12.01.08

December 10th, 2008

Issues of Interest
2009 to Be Transition Year for TV
Sports Fans Make Great Mobile Targets
Digital Marketing News
Widgets Are Made for Marketing, So Why Aren’t More Advertisers Using Them?
Digital News and Trends
Online Video Viewer Demographics
Retail and Products
What’s Next For Retail In ‘09
Stores become more creative to get shoppers to buy
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Do marketers have the wrong Cyber Monday? (And Black Friday is hot online, too, by the way)

December 10th, 2008

Cyber Monday is a created phenomenon. But maybe it’s catching on?

Atlas Solutions
Article links:
E-Retailers Step Up Deals
Black Friday vs. Cyber Monday Shopping Differs by Generation
An Online Sales Boom That May Not Last
The Monday after Thanksgiving was better than expected, retailers say
Musing:
Ok - someone in the media just has to get over the fact that Black [...]

Mobile Shopping – changing the shopping landscape

December 10th, 2008

Barcode and merchandise scanning applications are going to be adopted at faster and faster rates. And Amazon’s iPhone app sets a new bar for mobile shopping.

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Article links:
Stores Clueless About Mobile Barcode Scanning Applications?
Amazon.com lets iPhone users search its site by taking a picture
Musing:
WhileTarget gets slammed a bit in the first article, it’s [...]

Week of 12.01.08/Top Stories

December 2nd, 2008

SocialOverinfluence/OnlineBargains/GoogleTV/18-24YearOlds
Trying something new this week - putting articles together in themes and offering my thoughts on the implications.
How do we listen to customers via social without being overly influenced by the voice of the few?
People freaking out about Motrin advertising and the brand’s response begs the question - does listening to chatter give too much [...]

Other good articles the past two weeks / 11.24.08

December 2nd, 2008

Issues of Interest
The TV Channel Is Changing emarketer
Behind the Numbers: MySpace and Facebook emarketer
Multicultural Marketing Hot, Success Not emarketer
 
Digital Marketing News
Marketers to Up Spending in Cable, Online, Mobile in Next 6 Months Ad Age
Report: Web Still Growing Despite Recession media week
What the Semantic Web — or Web 3.0 — Can Do for Marketers Ad Age
P&G Digital [...]

Online shoppers still looking for a bargain

December 2nd, 2008

The good news? Although slowing, ecommerce continues to grow even in a down economy. The bad news? It’s really hard to get shoppers to look past online as being a cheap place to shop.

bp2 blogger
Article links:
Web shoppers will shop a bit more online, but less at stores, studies show
Online Buyers [...]

Social’s influence on shopping is real, and savvy retailers are enabling it

December 2nd, 2008

More and more retailers are taking advantage of the power of social not just to listen to what customers are saying, but to provide improved customer service, communicate with them on a different level, and understand better how they buy.

innovation factory
Article links:
Can Social Networks Predict What You’ll Buy?
GOT 2 HAVE IT
How to [...]

That complicated young consumer

December 2nd, 2008

Ok, we know they are online a lot, but so what? How do we use that information to reach out to young people and do it more effectively?

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Article links:
Kids and Teens Are Always On
College Student and Teen Web Tastes
Are Young Adults Really Brand-Resistant?
Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Not a Bad Thing
Emerging Media Increasingly Inform Shoppers’ [...]

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