Cyber Monday: Mobile shopping or shopping for mobile
Monday, November 26th, 2012 Karen Ambrose Hickey, Editor
Cyber Monday is upon us. Not only are shoppers looking for mobile deals, but they are out in force shopping via mobile devices.
According to IBM’s Digital Analytics Benchmark in Cyber Monday Sales Are Already Up 24 Percent; iPhone Driving Most Traffic To Retail Sites, there is a 24.1 percent jump in online sales from for this same time period over Cyber Monday 2011. Also:
“Mobile shopping is also performing well with the current number of consumers using a mobile device to visit a retailer’s site at 22.4 percent. The number of consumers using their mobile device to make a purchase is at 12 percent.
By device, the iPhone is driving more retail shopping than any other device with traffic reaching 8.7 percent versus 7.2 percent and 6.3 percent for iPad and Android respectively. Shoppers referred from Social Networks have generated .2 percent of all online sales on Cyber Monday.”
More articles on tech/mobile deals:
Cyber Monday Deals From Around the Web – WSJ
Best Buy Tablet and Smartphone deals
Top 10 Cyber Monday Tech Deals – Laptop Magazine
12 Sweet Cyber Monday Tech Deals – NetworkWorld
Cool Mom Tech – deals still going on
And finally, an app for making returns easier, from CoolMomTech.
May your connections be full of deals!
Tags: mobile device, smartphone, tablet
