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Black Friday and Cyber Monday are now over -- here are the main takeaways from this year and tips for marketing effectively in 2014.
It's common knowledge: Black Friday deals hardly are, Cyber Monday deals are outdone by the upcoming holiday sales, and so on... and yet sales reached record levels again this year. Mobile browsing and shopping are evidently on the rise as social referrals bloom too.
Here's everything you need to remember to prepare for next year. Yes, already.
Work on Your Mobile Conversions
This year, if anything, confirms the rise of mobile traffic and sales.
According to the IBM Digital Analytics Benchmark, online sales rose 19.7 percent on Thanksgiving day from a year earlier. On Black Friday, online sales increased 18.9 percent year-on-year, but the uptick remains somewhat softer than on Thanksgiving day, with the proportion of mobile sales also lower than on "turkey day," culminating at 21.8 percent of total sales versus 25.8 percent the day before.
Figures for Cyber Monday confirm that despite being the fifth straight day of official shopping debauchery, it still is the strongest: online sales grew 20.6 percent compared to the same period in 2012. Mobile traffic accounted for 29.7 percent of all traffic, up a whopping 58 percent from last year, converting into 17 percent of total online sales, up 55.4 percent from a year ago.
It's easier, faster and so much more convenient for consumers to shop from their smartphones or tablets. So optimize your site for mobile consumption, pay extra attention to your mobile user experience, don't hesitate to use mobile as your main channel for communication for those days.
Get Proper Facebook Creds for Your Brand and Pin Away
This is a no-brainer, but worth emphasizing. The network confidence factor – read: friends and network recommendations – seems to have played a huge role in traffic referral and conversion, according to IBM.
Comparing Pinterest and Facebook, Zuckerberg's platform wins the conversion battle, hands down. Although its referrals drove higher order values both on Thanksgiving Day ($109.40 vs $106.35) and Black Friday ($92.51 vs $52.30), conversions from Pinterest were significantly lower: Facebook converted at twice Pinterest's rate on Thanksgiving day and four times (that's a whole four times!) more than Pinterest on Black Friday.
Cyber Monday saw an interesting twist in the average order value, with Facebook taking the lead at $97.81 and Pinterest weakening to $92.40 a pop. Facebook referral conversions climbed at a 38 percent higher rate than those from Pinterest.
Suffice it to say you need to be on both platforms but getting the consumers to interact, not just with your brand but with their peers, will be the key to boosting the confidence factor towards buying your products.
Advance Warning Plus Timing are Key
Why are consumers buying more eagerly on Thanksgiving than on the historically dedicated Black Friday or the more recently declared Cyber Monday?
The holiday sales start on Thanksgiving day and continue well beyond Cyber Monday, until after Christmas. Online sales and digital are definitely mitigating those dates, said Holly Pavlika, SVP of Brand Strategy at Collective Bias, the social shopper media company. Buyers no longer have to wait for that specific week to get deals: they are savvy and do their research online. Purchases on a date like Black Friday are often driven by the thrill of competition, as offers don't last and there is only a limited amount available.
Both online and offline, Black Friday is a full commando operation: consumers compare multiple sites ahead of time, they set up email alerts for the best offers and go for the kill to get the deal before anyone else does.
Give your audience all the information well ahead of time if you want to be part of the hunting game, online and offline. And please, remember that Cyber Friday buyers are still very much relying on email marketing, as evidenced by Wanderful's survey. Since we all get swamped by emails, the timing is key.
Retailers: Please Outsmart the Crowd
Which leads us to the fun part, creativity.
Dare to Set Yourself Apart From Your Own Crowd
It's easier said than done, but try to run your campaign in the opposite direction it's supposed to go.
Not just for the sake of it: make it coincide with a grand vision and values that will echo with your core audience. For example, Patagonia this year perpetuated their green stance by advocating for less consumption in favor of using and patching what consumers already possess, with their #WornWear campaign.
It may be confusing at first glance but it provides them with a high-value credibility capital with their target audience of adventurous, mostly well off, young, environmentally-minded consumers. Take a look at the video.
Let's bet that in the end, the non-buy advice will yield higher sales of apparel with the brand, which will have "proved" its vision.
You're set, now you have 364 days to get ready again. If you have other tips, we'd like to hear them so please feel free to share them with us.
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Multiple sources told ESPN.com that Dwight Howard will become a Laker -- and, just like that, a new NBA superpower is born.
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Nuggets get: Andre Iguodala
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The Nets were hopeful to put a foursome like that together featuring D-12, Deron Williams, Joe Johnson and Gerald Wallace. But when it came down to it, the Magic clearly didn't want Brook Lopez (plus Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks and four future No. 1 picks). They knew they weren't going to get dollar-for-dollar value for their superstar center, but they didn't even end up with an All-Star in this deal.
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UB's 50 materials science researchers are working on exciting innovations with broad applications, such as smart windows designed for energy efficiency; new techniques for rust-proofing steel; longer-lasting and safer hip implants; and shape-shifting materials research funded by the United States Air Force. Below are just four examples of this ground-breaking research.
Liesl Folks, PhD, MBA, became dean of UB's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) in January 2013. She joined the university from the hard disk drive industry, having worked at IBM and HGST in Silicon Valley for the past 15 years. An expert in nanotechnology and magnetism who holds 14 U.S. patents, Folks has been active in the research and development of new magnetic recording technologies.
Folks brings a unique blend of academic and industry experience,
as well as an ability to build partnerships with key federal
agencies and national research centers, all of which will serve UB
well as the university develops new technologies and innovations
through basic and applied research.
Venu Govindaraju, PhD, SUNY Distinguished Professor of computer science and engineering, is an expert in pattern recognition and machine learning, with a focus on their applications in materials discovery, text and image analytics, and biometrics. Machine learning techniques are fundamental to advances in understanding and optimizing materials properties, correlating structure and function of existing materials, and discovering new compositions.
Govindaraju's seminal work in handwriting recognition was
at the core of the first handwritten address interpretation system
used by the U.S. Postal Service, saving the agency several hundred
million dollars. His contributions have been recognized with the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Technical
Achievement Award, indicating the breadth and the level of
practical impact of his research that has few parallels in
academia. He is founding director of the Center for Unified
Biometrics and Sensors (CUBS) and associate director of the Center
of Excellence for Document Analysis and Recognition, both at
CMI co-director Mark Swihart, PhD, professor of chemical and
biological engineering and director of UB's Strategic
Strength in Integrated Nanostructured Systems, works with a team to
study the synthesis and application of nanoparticles, focusing on
gaining a fundamental understanding of the particles and improving
the processes by which they are prepared. These nanomaterials are
being applied in a range of new technologies, from combined imaging
and targeted drug delivery for cancer treatment to new, low-cost
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It's a picture of my dog, a mis-marked Boston Terrier named Georgia (I wanted to name her Boudica but my wife would have none of that).
I like it because the expression on her face is one of piercing skepticism, a quality I think lacking in many as of late (yes, she's a dog, I know, but you get the idea).
My "Polish Pistol*" shall return in either spectacular celebration of the defeat of the current gun control measures, or from unknown depths of despondency that I shall endure in the wake of passage of the same.
* If you are Polish, and you are offended by this term, lighten up.


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Los Angeles Soccer: Roberto Mariscal
LOCALS: HUFC waits for Open Cup ruling
May, 17, 2011
By Scott French | ESPNLosAngeles.com
Hollywood United FC is awaiting word on a National Premier Soccer League rival's appeal of sanctions for fielding an ineligible player to find out, for sure, that it is headed to the U.S. Open Cup.
The Hitmen are set to take one of four NPSL slots in the annual competition after the San Diego Flash, an ambitious club led by former English pro and current Fox Soccer analyst Warren Barton, forfeited two games for using an ineligible player, Englishman Lee Underwood.
Early-season games in the NPSL double as qualifiers for the Open Cup, which dates to 1914 and features clubs from all strata of American soccer -- amateur to Major League Soccer -- and the forfeits gave the Flash's berth to HUFC. First-round games are slated for June 14.
It's all pending appeal, but the Hitmen's record becomes 7-0-1 after a 3-1 loss to San Diego (now 5-2-0) in their opener was changed to a 3-0 victory. The winless Bay Area Ambassadors also picked up a win.
HUFC's five-game winning streak was stopped Saturday in a 1-1 draw with visiting Sacramento Gold.
Elsewhere in the NPSL:
- Santa Ana Winds (5-1-0) won their fifth in a row, beating San Diego Boca, 3-1, on goals by Chong Yong Park, Torrance's Diego Turoldo (North Torrance HS/Cal State Dominguez Hills) and Carlos Godinez. That puts them on top in the Southwest Flight, because, it turns out, Hollywood United is in the Northwest Flight. That's according to HUFC, who learned of it only on Monday. The Hitmen were listed in the Southwest on the league's website until last week.
- Thousand Oaks' FC Hasental (2-4-1) toppled Boca, 3-1, the day after a wild, 5-4 loss loss to Sonoma County Sol. Los Conejos let a 4-2 lead slip away in the last half-hour.
- Lancaster's Rattlers FC won its first NPSL game, winning, 2-1, at Real San Jose on an 82nd-minute goal by Roberto Mariscal (Palmdale/Palmdale HS). Miguel Guillen (Rosamond/Rosamond HS) also scored for the Snakes.
PDL: Defending Southwest Division champ Ventura County Fusion (3-0-1) grabbed first place with shutout victories over L.A. Blues 23 and Southern California Seahorses in the USL Premier Development League. Former UC Santa Barbara standout David Walker (Orange/Villa Park HS), a 2010 Houston Dynamo draft pick, scored and set up two more goals in Friday's 4-0 romp over the Blues, then assisted UCLA's Reed Williams (Newport Beach/Corona del Mar HS) to start Sunday's 2-0 win against the Seahorses.


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She said create the world, so I did. I made it dark and dusty, coughed up from my own black lungs. I gave the trees an ashen hue and the ground a color to match the starless sky. The creatures were murmuring oozes, globs of drying acrylic that inked across the orb of my bubbling imagination.
Repulsing, it was in fact the product of an industrial mind. I was born from man's smog goddess and, if memory serves me, her breath was laced in exhaust which I inhaled nightly with her songs. She was soothing and complacent, her voice smokey like a hazy bar. No one could deny her features were hideous beyond belief. Her skin dripped pollution like morphine into veins, into deep red rivers to turn them ebony and clogged. Her eyes glistened obsidian, sharp and cold if you didn't know her at all. I knew she was lost and ashamed, as her mother, my grandmother, would often remind her of the destruction her presence caused. I loved her like grandmother nature never could.
Grandmother was ,indeed, a grand mother; full of herself, and rightfully so, she was beautiful. Shoulder blades smooth as sand dunes, hair blue and ever-moving. Her voice was a harmony of every heartbreaking, lovemaking bird song. The first time I laid eyes on her I wanted nothing more than banishment to the darkest corners of space - her beauty thundered and eroded my significance to an awful pebble. My mother was nothing more than a shadow come alive and grandmother nature wanted her suffocating daughter gone - swept away like cigarette smoke.
So mother and I gathered our clouds up into our lungs, soaked up chemicals we sweated in our separate stratospheric rooms and the air was clear for the first time. Man rejoiced, their hallelujahs pounding rejection onto my eardrums. Mother held my hand tight as cancerous cells and wept acid rain to dispel their unashamed disregard for our leaving. They settled, shrugged and raising their umbrellas went about their day. Still, the time for moving on was now. Mother bent down to my level, eyes glassy and black, "Sweetheart, create a world for you and me. Make a place where we will be loved for our horrid condition."
The taste of metal always on our tongue, carbon monoxide seeping through our pores, bathing in the radiation of our black hole sun; dank and disturbed is where we are loved.


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text: Montréal based George Stamos is known for performance that is physically dynamic, witty and thought provoking. Over the past fifteen years his works GoGo Condition, Schatje, White Man Dancing, Monday, croque monsieur, Reservoir- Pneumatic, Husk, Liklik Pik have received the acclaim of audiences and critics alike across North America. George is also known as a writer and educator in Montreal Universities. Many articles and reviews by Stamos have been published online and in print for Canada's leading dance magazine The Dance Current.