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> <channel><title>John Pope &#187; online sales</title> <atom:link href="http://www.johnpopes.com/tag/online-sales/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.johnpopes.com</link> <description>Gadgets, Build a Website, Computer Tips and Tricks</description> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:32:15 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1</generator> <item><title>I know what you did last Black Friday</title><link>http://www.johnpopes.com/business/i-know-what-you-did-last-black-friday-379/</link> <comments>http://www.johnpopes.com/business/i-know-what-you-did-last-black-friday-379/#comments</comments> <pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:25:35 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>John Pope</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Business]]></category> <category><![CDATA[black friday]]></category> <category><![CDATA[offers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[online sales]]></category> <guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.johnpopes.com/?p=379</guid> <description><![CDATA[Everybody is talking these days about the financial cryis, that affects us all, but is it like this when it comes to special shopping events like Black Friday deals, Cyber Monday sales and such? An easy way to see what happened in tha past years is to use google trends, which I did. You can [...]<p><div
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href="http://www.johnpopes.com/business/i-know-what-you-did-last-black-friday-379/">I know what you did last Black Friday</a> is an article from <a
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title="black friday shopping deals" href="http://www.black-friday-sales.org/" target="_blank">Black Friday deals</a>, <a
rel="nofollow" href="http://www.cybermonday.com/" target="_blank">Cyber Monday sales</a> and such?</p><p>An easy way to see what happened in tha past years is to use google trends, which I did. You can see what I&#8217;ve found by looking at the picture below:</p><p><img
class="size-full wp-image-383" title="google trends black friday" src="http://www.johnpopes.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/google-trends-black-friday.jpg" alt="google trends black friday" width="500" height="253" /></p><p>It&#8217;s pretty obvious that the crysis is affecting Black Friday Sales, but at a less level than how it affects daily online sales. Now the tricky part is to guess how sales will go this year. My take on this is that if the crysis begins to end sales will go up a notch, but if not expect another 20-30 % decrease during Black Friday.</p><p><div
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