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Study: Prime Week to outpace Cyber Week in 2021
There may be a new sheriff in town when it comes to online shopping - and it s not holiday-specific. While Cyber Week has traditionally been a week when most retailers see a huge boost in conversions and revenue, researchers with Bluecore believe Prime Week is now set out outpace Cyber Week in terms of sales.
Researchers note that in 2020, despite merchants and brands sending 65% more emails during Cyber Week than Prime Week, Prime Week still saw conversions increase slightly over Cyber Week. Overall conversion rates for both weeks were about 2.5%. However, during Prime Week brands personalized email open rates were about 1% higher (27.9% vs. 26.9%) than during Cyber Week.
Expert: How to improve email connection with shoppers
At the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic many businesses pushed heavily into their email lists in an effort to connect with their shopping base. According to reports email volume increased aby about 25% in those initial weeks, and even months later many brands continue to send additional communications with their customer base. Here s how to keep those email campaigns fresh.
Kristina: At the beginning of the pandemic, many businesses had to shift to 100% digital marketing and communication efforts. What affects have you seen from this, and what are the most effective ways of doing this?
when we were a very, very young company and we started with our e-mails, we needed someone to do mail trends and code the e-mails and nobody was stepping up and i was like, okay, i ll do it. doug was like, do you know anything about it? and i was like, nope, not a bit. and called a friend who had a company and he came over and sat down with me and it was about a three-had hour lesson. so for the first four or five months win did all the of the e-mails. i coded the e-mails. i did the pictures. all of it. and you have to really be ready to get your hands dirty and do whatever it is, whether its was cleaning the office or testing products or figuring out recipes or coding e-mails. it might be a while until you see sayre are ra michelle geller back on the screen. the entrepreneurial life has her full attention, at least for now. this is my day job, my night job, my weekend job at the moment. you know, my goal probably is that when the business is really up and running and i don t need