shop.org - PRNewser http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser Your Daily PR Release Copyright 2013 Sat, 25 May 2013 03:32:22 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Cyber Monday: A Masterpiece of Marketing Hokum?
After watching a few of the hair-pulling, face-punching retail mayhem clips now making their way around the web, we’re amazed to say that we made it through the first wave of the holiday sales season intact.

Hey, don’t relax yet– it’s only just begun.

Every semi-sentient being in our solar system knows that today is “Cyber Monday”, when swarms of online shoppers hungry for deals can make or break retailers looking to boost their year-end revenue totals. Last week we gave you a very brief history of “Black Friday”, a phenomenon several decades in the making that ultimately required the collaborative efforts of America’s political and retail classes. Cyber Monday, on the other hand, is nothing but a marketing scheme—and many would call it a brilliant one.

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]]> Patrick Coffee http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/cyber-monday-a-masterpiece-of-marketing-hokum_b50935#disqus_thread http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/cyber-monday-a-masterpiece-of-marketing-hokum_b50935 http://www.mediabistro.com/prnewser/?p=50935 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 13:09:56 +0000