A BILLION REASONS!

Wow, is all I can say when I heard the news reporting sales on Cyber Monday rose 16% to $1.028 billion from $887 million on the same day in 2009, prompted by heavier promotions from retailers this year.

The Monday after Thanksgiving was dubbed Cyber Monday after retailers noticed spikes in their online sales that day after people returned to work. And nearly half, or 49% of dollars spent online Monday were from work computers. That is down by 3.8% from last year. [Detroit Free Press]

I've noticed in my own online shopping purchases, FREE Shipping is becoming more and more prevelant.  Websites are tauting FREE shipping as well, a welcomed trend!

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You Just Cannot Ignore This Data!

What a great time to be involved with MyShoppingGenie! Take a look at the following information:






Opportunities and Obstacles


In just a two-year period, undaunted by economic conditions, the online population that makes
purchases on the Web increased by nine percentage points. In research conducted for the Pew
Internet & American Life Project in 2007, results showed 66% of the online population had made a purchase online. In the same survey question repeated in April 2009, 75% of online adults reported having purchased a product online. This increase follows years of fairly steady increases since March 2000, when the Pew Internet research of online shopping began. At that time, about half of all online adults (48%) had ever purchased a product online. The opportunity is clear. As the percentage of adults online that visit websites applies to a larger number of people year after year, the percentage of shoppers buying online increases simultaneously.






79% of Internet users say they are confident they will “make the right purchase decision” while going online to look for information in buying a product.






78% of Internet users agree, “Shopping online is convenient.”

Your Coupons are now ready!

So I received this email which had “Your June Coupons Are Now Ready” as the subject line. Now I have signed up for coupons before, so I thought, “Wow, this is great!” Only to discover that when I opened the email I had 3 small boxes. I chose to click on one of them. When I did, it then asked me for my zip code to “Check For Availability”. What?!? The email just told me I had coupons ready ~ now I have to see if I really have any available?

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