‘Private Sales’ posts

TripAdvisor joins the Private Travel Club Club

Posted by John Eckman on 04 Oct 2010

Trip Advisor’s new invite-only travel offering TripAdvisor is joining Jetsetter, Kayak, and TabletHotels (good summary here) to offer a private sales site for hotel accommodations with the interestingly named “snique.” (I realize they’re going for “sneak,” as in “sneak away on a trip” – but I can’t help but read it as a contraction of [...]

Private Sale: How to Use Magento to Develop a New Retail Concept

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 10 May 2010

It seems that there is nothing hotter in the ecommerce world today than private sales. This innovative online retail concept was born in 2001 by vente-privee.com, which translated popular Parisian events during which designers would open their stores and sell overstock merchandise at dramatic discounts, into a similar online experience. Since then, private sale sites | View post »

Private Sales, Flash Sales, Private Events, Timed Events, how to implement

Posted by Marc Osofsky on 08 Mar 2010

Private Sales is one of the hottest online retail concepts with: Rapid revenue growth (Vente-Privee – 0-$1 billion in 6 years, Gilt Groupe 0-$400 million in 3 years) Extremely attractive financials (e.g. extremely low customer acquisition cost due to viral invitations) Larger players buying-in (GSI Commerce acquiring Rue La La for $350 million and perpetual | View post »

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