cyber tuesday
We experienced a legitimate trial by fire on Cyber Monday, with our free 4 hour shipping offer attracting a number of shoppers who wanted their stuff delivered right away. [1]
?It takes more than a little wind to shut us down,? said Dr. Nick Trombetta, CEO of PA Cyber Charter School. [2]
Sales were higher than last year’s biggest online holiday shopping day and they arrived even earlier in the holiday season. [3]
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. [1]
The holiday shopping season actually just started. [4]
To follow up on the success of Black Friday, the start of holiday shopping season for American consumers, and Cyber Monday, the day when we surf online for the deals we missed at the mall, a mobile marketing firm called Mobigosee is planning to launch “Mobile Tuesday” on December 2nd of this year. [5]
Employees returning to work on Monday are busy trolling through the e-mail that has accumulated in their inboxes over the holidays, leaving more free time to shop on Tuesday, he added, characterizing the day as Cyber Tuesday. [3]
Today we have for you the highlights of Walmart’s (Cyber) Tuesday deals. [4]
Unfortunately, the system outage occurred at one of the worst possible times, and despite our concerted efforts to fix the problem as it emerged on Monday, we know that we let our merchant partners and their customers down. [6]
Strong online sales had been anticipated for “Cyber Monday,” the day shoppers returned to work after the Thanksgiving holiday and used their employers’ high-speed Internet connections to make online purchases. [3]
The good news is that our systems are now operating normally, and our merchants are able to accept orders from their customers. [...] In fact, I seem to remember receiving an email from Yahoo! Merchant Solutions prior to the holiday season ensuring us that new server upgrades would result in a faster and more glitch-free shopping experience for our customers. [6]
It looks like other e-tailers experienced similar phenomena, as well, reporting that Cyber Monday is not actually their busiest shopping day. [1]
At Yahoo! Small Business, we know that our success and our customers? success are interdependent, and yesterday?s issue reminds us that we need to continue to work even harder in the future. [6]
Several hundred PA Cyber employees based in Midland - including teachers, instructional supervisors, technical support staff, call center operators, administrators, warehouse staff and others ? were told to work from home if possible Monday and Tuesday because of an electrical power outage and critically low municipal water supplies in Midland. [2]
Sources:
[1] Cyber…Tuesday? ” The 2 Minute Drill (licketyship.wordpress.com/2006/11/
[2] PA Cyber - Current News (www.pacyber.org/news/ike.aspx)
[3] Cyber Monday exceeds last year’s holiday sales peak - CNET News (news.cnet.com/
[4] I4U News - Cyber Tuesday Deals on Walmart (www.i4u.com/article13112.html)
[5] Black Friday, Cyber Monday…Mobile Tuesday? - ReadWriteWeb (readwriteweb.com/archives/
[6] Yodel Anecdotal ” Blog Archive ” Cyber Monday into Resolution Tuesday (ycorpblog.com/2007/11/27/