Online Shopping Is About Ready To Rock and Roll!

gas prices, faster computers, a broken economy and hungrymerchants are going to make 2008 the best year ever for online shopping. It nolonger makes sense to drive to a distant mall to do your minor or major shopping.Why spend $50 on gas to buy $100 s worth of merchandise, when you can sit at homeand shop online 24/7. I believe this year s; Spring , Back to School and Holiday sales should rewrite the record books. It is hard to imagine that,according to Pew Research 66% of all online Americans say they have purchased aproduct online. They also go on to report that on any given day 26% of internetusers are doing something online related to e-commerce, with a staggering 93% of allinternet users saying they have used the internet for some e-commerce activity inthe past. With merchants hungry for your business and the economy in a tail spin, the bargainsare going to be all over the internet in the months to come. In fact, there may verywell be a number of merchants who give up on their current shopping mall locationsand put their efforts into their e-commerce websites. The current economicconditions may very well reshape the way many American consumers buy their productsand services for years to come. With food costs soaring, airline travel beyondreason and no one having a crystal ball that will tell us when it is going to getbetter something has to give. There is less money in my wallet and looking for abargain in everything I buy is going to be a fact of life. I really didn tunderstand the power of online shopping until the project I have been working on thepast several months introduced me to the affiliate network of merchants. These are merchants who agree to share a percentage of an online sale with theorganization that referred the shopper to them. They are also merchants who activelypromote online coupons, special discount codes, internet only specials and freeshipping. Their overall objective is to increase their online sales by developing aloyal customer base who will buy from them numerous times. In the world of businessit s not the one purchase a customer makes from you, it s the Life Time Value ofthat customer, that s important. You local grocery store doesn t survive on thatgallon of milk you purchased the other day, they survive on the number of times youhave been in the store to make a variety of purchases. Imagine the dollar value ofthe merchandise you have bought from them over the past 12 months. My Advice -Buckle up! I think the internet is getting ready to Rock & Roll and consumer andbusiness spending habits will be changed forever.Don Hays has been working with businesses on a regular basis for over 25 years as acollege teacher and consultant. Recently he was hired to help develop an affiliatewebsite at captainfundraiser.com which is a shopping site that channels 100% of themoney paid out by the merchant back to the shopper. Then the shopper can keep themoney or donate it to a worthy cause on the site. It s an innovative website with agiving component built on the web 2.0 platform.

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