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St. Patrick’s Day creates a 63% jump in traffic to e-greeting card sites

Visits to e-greeting card sites jumped 63% from the prior week during the week ended March 20, driven by online users sending more than 5.1 million St. Patrick’s Day cards, according to Nielsen/NetRatings.

Posted 03/31/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Proflowers.com posts record shipments for Valentine’s Day holiday

Provide Commerce Inc.’s Proflowers.com packs up more than 6 million roses, 2 million tulips, and other floral gifts to support 532,000 shipments in the week before Valentine’s Day. That’s up from 409,000 shipments last year and 300,000 in 2003.

Posted 02/16/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Valentine’s Day becomes a major online shopping time

Payments processor and provider of security systems VeriSign Inc. reports that Valentine’s Day online spending increased by 30% this year over last, reaching $3.9 billion from Feb. 1 to Feb. 14.

Posted 02/16/2005Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Valentine’s Day gives a 400%+ boost to Proflowers.com’s February traffic

Proflowers.com’s unique visitors were up 419% to 3.48 million in February from 671,000 in January, making it the fastest growing web site in February, comScore reports.

Posted 03/19/2004Kurt PetersPost a comment

Timing makes for a different kind of Valentine’s Day promotion

Scentsandsprays.com wanted to leverage Valentine’s Day, but its customers don’t buy candles as romantic gifts. The solution: a post-holiday discount that’s a Valentine gift for customers shopping for themselves.

Posted 02/13/2004Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Don’t look for a consumer spending boost in February, Retail Forward says

Retail Forward reports that compared with last February, 29% of households plan to spend less this month while 16% plan to spend more. The most popular Valentine`s Gift? Budget greeting cards.

Posted 02/06/2004Kurt PetersPost a comment

Just like chocolate, online orders can sometimes be too much of good thing

Once swamped with more Valentine’s Day demand than it could handle, chocolate maker CocoaMill.com turns the order crunch around with automated UPS tools. Order fulfillment time is down by 60%.

Posted 02/03/2004Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Proflowers’ Valentine’s Day revenues jump 25%

Units shipped by Proflowers leading up to Valentine’s Day rose 20%, while average order size was up 4% and new customer orders increased 13%.

Posted 03/11/2003Kurt PetersPost a comment

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Nothing frilly about the web at Frederick’s of Hollywood

Internet sales are booming at Frederick`s of Hollywood. Web sales for the lingerie seller for the Valentine`s Day selling period were up 85% over the year before, the company says.

Posted 03/12/2002Kurt PetersPost a comment

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No surprise on Valentine’s Day: Flowers, cards, jewelry, food sites boom

Sales of online flowers for the week ahead of Valentine’s Day totaled $59.3 million, ComScore Networks reports, an increase of 460% over an average week but only 2% greater than the same pre-Valentine’s Day period in 2001.

Posted 02/15/2002Kurt PetersPost a comment