It’s coming! Are you ready? The 1st Cyber Monday is less than a week away. I can almost hear affiliates scurry around making last minute site tweaks and hunting for deals and coupon codes!

Cyber Monday typically refers to the Monday immediately following Black Friday, the kick-off of the offline holiday shopping season. However as you see in the graph below every Monday between Thanksgiving and Christmas has a serious spike in sales. This year we have one extra Monday for last minute sales too.

Hopefully all of you are ready for the big rush and your marketing efforts are all beefed up. But in case you need a little help, Search Engine Land has a good article on preparing for Cyber Mondays and offers some last-minute online optimization tips for local store sites and etailers: Forget Black Friday! Are You Ready For Holiday Season’s Cyber Mondays?

Cyber Monday Sales Spikes
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The graph above is from the DoubleClick Performics Blog about Holiday Peak Day Planning. The first vertical bar is “Black Friday” and the other bars are the four Cyber Mondays.

Tune in to my CYBER MONDAY SONG! ;-)