If Black Friday is not your idea of a fun way to spend a day off, then warm
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up your mouse and keyboard and get ready for Cyber Monday 2012…
A little history lesson:
Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after Black Friday, the Friday following Thanksgiving in the United States, created by companies to persuade people to shop online. The term made its debut on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled “‘Cyber Monday’ Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year”
In 2006, Shop.org announced that it launched the CyberMonday.com portal, a one-stop shop for Cyber Monday deals. Cyber Monday has become an international marketing term used by online retailers in Canada, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Germany and Chile.
The term “Cyber Monday” was invented by Shop.org. It was first used within the ecommerce community during the 2005 holiday season. According to Scott Silverman, the head of Shop.org, the term was coined based on 2004 research showing “one of the biggest online shopping days of the year” was the Monday after Thanksgiving (12th-biggest day historically). In late November 2005, the New York Times reported that “The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what they liked.
Previous years “Cyber Monday” sales results:
2006 – $610 Million
2007 – $730 million
2008 – 846 million
2009 – $887 million
2010 – $1.028 billion
2011 – $1.251 billion
2012 – $2 billion anticipated
Visit the following sites for all the info and bargains:
Shop.org
http://www.cybermonday.com
Cyber Monday Savings Cente
http://www.offers.com/cyber-monday
