August 2011
20 posts
“Reality check: E-commerce is still less than 5% of retail sales. The growth...”
– – SplatF
Fab.com Further Integrates Social Commerce With...
Hot on the heels of yesterday’s news that Fab.com is the fastest growing flash sale website on the planet, growing 800% the past 2 months, we’re launching a new social offensive today with Version 2 of the Fab.com Inspiration Wall.
If you haven’t seen it yet, I encourage you to check out this video released last night, in which I discuss how we launched the Fab.com Inspiration...
Fab.com is #11 Flash Sale Site in U.S. in It's 1st...
Not bad at all.
In just our first month of business, July 2011, Fab.com achieved the #11 spot for most visited Flash Sale site in the U.S. with 1.86M visits in July, as compared with Hitwise data released today. (Hitwise didn’t include Fab (yet) as they didn’t even know to be tracking us yet we’re so new, but you can see the numbers for yourself. Fab.com Google Analytics Data:
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“Fab.com — is the most engaging of the daily-deal-email startups by a mile...”
– AdAge
The Fab.com Social Design Commerce Index: July...
Here at Fab.com we’re compiling some awesome data on the design industry and consumers’ tastes and interests with regards to design.
Our goal over time is to publish a regular “Fab.com Social Design Commerce Index” with data on what’s trending.
Here’s a manual version as a first step towards that.
TOP SELLING DESIGN CATEGORIES BY REVENUE - JULY 2011
Art was...
How's that Google Plus Doing? (and other Fab.com...
Almost a week ago we added the Google Plus +1 button to Fab.com.
Here’s a quick report on how it’s doing.
On the positive side, it’s already the #11 source of traffic.
On the challenging side, it has a long way to go to break into the top 5.
Also notable:
Our email list is driving 64% of visits.
Another 15% is coming from direct traffic (people typing www.fab.com into their...
“The only long-term way out of this economic mess is to create private sector...”
– betashop
“We don’t have jobs at Fab.com. We develop careers.”
– Bradford
“Smile like you mean it.”
– The Killers
“Deion Sanders Hall of Fame Speech: “If your dream aint bigger than you...”
– Deion Sanders
Google Plus + Fab.com: +1
Will Google Plus be the next big social sharing site? We’re not sure. But early indications are that Google is highly committed to making G+ a big something. What that something is, is still to be seen. We’re betting they figure it out.
My own person hope for G+ is that Google carves out a new space in social vs. trying to be an alternative to Facebook. Google shouldn’t do...
Stop doing stupid shit →
There’s so much truth to this. Doing awesome is as much about not making stupid moves as it is about making smarter moves. Unfortunately, when you take chances you are bound to have some misses from time to time. But, willingness to try and make mistakes helps you get stronger, so long as you learn from the mistakes.
“I can’t stress enough how important it is to write bad songs. There’s a lot of...”
– John Mayer 2011 Clinic – “Manage the Temptation to Publish Yourself” – Berklee Blogs
One Thing
If I’ve learned anything in business the last 20 years it’s this:
The most important concept for any company to get right is to know your One Thing.
Your One Thing is the One Thing your company does best. It’s the One Thing your company’s brand represents. It’s your promise to your customers, partners, shareholders, and employees. I’ve written about this...
Fab.com Celebrity Blastoff: Ashton Kutcher vs....
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Last week we enabled Ashton Kutcher (7,309,684 Twitter followers) and Kevin Rose (1,261,376 Twitter followers) to each blast out to their followers a special invite link to Fab.com: http://fab.com/aplusk and http://fab.com/kr.
Each link provided for $10 instant credit for anyone who signed up using the link.
Both links went out on July 26 and were only valid until the end of...
Resilience: The Hidden Characteristic of an... →
