Dec
16
There is a new service that can help make creative productions go viral. Pay With A Tweet is a service that allows producers — the company is targeting mainly creative professionals but it need not be limited to creative — to sell their products or portions of their products to others if the recipient tweets [...]
Dec
06
The week ending December 2 was known as Cyber Week. It’s the week following Thanksgiving, an attempt to piggyback on Black Friday. In 2010 cyber week set a record for online sales within a week. The firm comScore says 2011 saw substantial growth. The 2011 Cyber Week surpassed the 2010 record and even expectations of [...]
Oct
17
YouTube has announced that it will begin selling products besides just real estate for advertisements. The Merch Store will be rolled out over the coming weeks and for now it is limited to musicians. The Merch Store will allow musicians or bands with a YouTube channel to sell branded merchandise, songs and even concert tickets. [...]
Jul
11
Since last year the number of online shoppers using a brand’s FaceBook page has increased 3 percent. That bump moves blogs, forums and review sites into second place. Many FaceBook users, about 35%, are willing to make purchases through widgets and apps on FB’s site and more than half of users, 53%, have reached an [...]
May
24
New data by The E-Tailing Group shows tablets are used much more than smartphones for online shopping. One tenth of all tablet owners use it for daily shopping and one quarter used it for purchasing at least six times in a six month period. Smartphone users pale in comparison. 6% of smartphone users use their [...]
Dec
06
Luxury brands are opening their shops to a new market in China through the use of the Internet, one of the world’s fastest growing markets for luxury brands. Emporio Armani is the first brand to open online sales to China with hopes that this “will open up luxury to the entire nation.” Frederico Marchetti, founder [...]
Nov
29
The day that supposedly makes companies’ balance sheets enter the black for the year came and went. Numbers for brick and mortar vendors shows spending is up almost 3% over last year. That alone is an optimistic sign. The real optimism, however, deals with digital sales. Online vendors were up almost 16% over last year’s [...]