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Is your website ready for the holiday spending?

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

Is your website ready for the holiday rush? With Black Friday over, it’s interesting to see how this year is stacking up over last year.

According to Comscore Black Friday sees $531 million in online retail spending, which is up 22 percent over the same time period last year.

Cyber Monday was expected to surpass the $700 million  mark in online spending, making it the heaviest spending day on record.

People are out there buying. Are you ready for them?

Internet statistics - what in the world are we doing online?

Monday, August 6th, 2007

The number of people online, using the Internet worldwide has doubled over the past 6 years, making the total people online just over 1.1 billion users.

In 2006, over $108 billion was purchased in the online arena.

91 percent of adult Internet users between the ages of 18 and 64 send and receive email, according to a recent Pew Internet & American Life Project survey.

According to a recent Direct Marketing Association study, email driven sales in the U.S. will show a compound annual growth rate of 14.9% between 2006 and 2011.

What does all this mean for you the business owner?

Now is the best time to get involved with your online marketing strategy, understand what your website can do for you - and make it work!

Lori

Create your own plan with my

http://www.visionbusinessconcepts.com/do-it-yourself-strategy.htm The more you understand, the easier it will be to create sales online.



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