12/19/2011

The Commonest Promotion Activities for Online Software Vendors in Christmas


Christmas is drawing near, as the traditional selling season, sellers have large amounts of merchandise like electronics, clothes, handbags, digital products, data recovery software, etc. ready for the Christmas sale blitz. This year, the warmer weather combined with the economic climate means that online vendors as well as retailers have an awful lot of stock that they will need to sell through price promotions. What promotion strategy they often use? What trap customers should alert with in the process of purchasing products? Here we collect the commonest promotion methods used by online software vendors in hope that it can help customers get the best deal in this Christmas.

Method one: Discounts
This is the typical method for price promotion. Many websites begin to discount several weeks ago before Christmas. It often begins with discounts from original 20 percent to the later 70 percent, even 80 percent. Therefore, Customers should aware of this, sit back and wait for the best deals to come in.

Method two: time-limited promotion
Online sellers often use time-limited promotion combined with discounts. They may cut down the price of one specific product in certain period. This will largely motivate customer to shop, also won numbers of website fans to shop around again.

Method three: Coupons
Coupon becomes the popular promotion way for online shop these years. Many website allows customers to use coupons to buy products up to 10% discounts. Some vendors give free coupons once you have bought other products. According to the investigation, customers use coupons to shop increased largely as time goes on.

Method four: Freebies and free shipping
Many website offers free products to attack attention. For example, buy any software, get another one free; shop over XX dollars, sellers could offer free shipping. Sometimes, it is not easy to get the free one, you may be asked to share the products on Facebook or Twitter with more than ten friends or do the product survey paper. However, if you are in need of that product, it is worth to do so.

Wanings
1.       Be careful of "offers" - the law regarding them is arcane, and you can still pay over the odds.
2.       Some crafty sellers always put limitation for the usage of discounts and freebies. You have to spend a lost in order to get them. As a result, you buy a lot of things you don’t need. That will waste you large amount of money.
3.       Check the product carefully, sometimes, the discounted products may have quality problem or has function limitation(especially for software, sometimes the freebies products are the original version and have function limitation compared to the standard version )

Software Online Shopping Recommendation:
Data Recovery Software ---- recover lost, deleted or corrupted photos, video, songs, documents from hard disk, memory card, SD card, MMC, USB, pen drive, external hard drive, etc.
Video Converter ---- Convert all popular video formats for portable devices like iPod iPhone, PSP, Macbook, iPad, MP4, MP3,etc.
DVD Ripper ---- Rip DVD to other popular video formats that can be played on computer, TV, portable digital devices, etc.
PDF Converter ---- Convert PDF to Word and Convert Word to PDF inverse.
Video to Flash Converter ---- Convert video and DVD to FLV, F4V, SWF that can be uploaded to personal blog, website, YouTube, Facebook, Google video, Yahoo video, etc.

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