Cyber Monday

So what are you selling on this Cyber Monday? If you’re not pushing some sort of item this Monday after thanksgiving you are missing out. Like Black Friday, Cyber Monday is the holy grail for online vendors. All the turkey laden geeks and people too afraid to fight crazy people in holiday lines are going to work today, and they all have itchy trigger fingers looking to find that hot bargain on the internet while they are really supposed to be working on something important for their company.

So again, I say to you, what are you selling on this Cyber Monday? If you have a website or blog you should at least have some sort of affiliate marketing plan for this day, and the following twenty five days or so until Christmas. Even if its something small, it will have a greater chance of being bought in the next month.

I’ve listed some of the books that I will be reading over the holiday season, which I think you might like as well. See below.

Out brains are so hardwired to buy, buy, buy in the month of December people can’t help themselves. Put a semi delicious deal in front of them and they’ll reach for the good old trusty credit cards. The ease of buying something online has many advantages over waiting in line at a store, here is a list of reasons you should shop online and not in a store:

1) You can shop in your underwear or completely nude for that matter. If you were to try this at your local store you’d most likely end up with mall security trying to run you down as you skip merrily through the hallmark store in all your Yuletide glory.

2) Shopping online is a no kid screaming zone. We’ve all been there, standing in line waiting patiently for our turn at the cash register, trying not to notice the kid in front of us who is still screaming his head off because his parents are apparently deaf, when in reality people in China are wearing ear muffs because of the screaming child.

3) No holiday greeters. For the love of God and anything else you hold sacred – please do not run at me or shout holiday greetings with a WAY too cheerful attitude. The last thing you want is some Meth addict in a holiday outfit complete with green tights hawking the latest Hillshire Farms meat products three inches away from your face.

4) You don’t have to smell the perfume. The last thing I want to do while I’m Christmas shopping is get sprayed with some whale throw up – yeh you read that right, go look it up.

5) Shopping online there is no line or strollers blocking your path. There is no question that when you attempt to shop in a store this holiday season you will be blocked at all possible routes by a stroller containing a kid who does not want to be shopping, and a mother or father who is not paying any attention to anything other then the shiny item in front of them at that given time.

And if those aren’t reason enough for you to be selling and buying online I’m not sure what else to tell you. But if you have a website and you aren’t selling something this holiday season you are missing a golden opportunity to cash in on the modern day gold rush that happens once a year for about a month.

So get out there and get promoting that hot holiday item you’ve been reading about and make some coin for yourself and you’re family. I mean after all, you do need to get that 72″ hi def television this year right?