04
Feb

Fab moves beyond email. Direct traffic - especially mobile - on the rise … and Pinterest

Over the past few weeks we’ve seen a dramatic shift in how people get to Fab.

Just 2 months ago — as recent as November 2011 — nearly 50% of Fab’s traffic came via our daily emails to our members.

Fab Visits November

In January 2012 we saw direct visits overtake email-driven visits for the first time.

 

We believe that the rise in direct traffic is because of 3 reasons:

  1. Mobile visits now account for nearly 1/3 of all visits.
  2. More and more people are just typing in www.fab.com into their browser at 11am ET / 8am PT each day instead of waiting to click on our emails.
  3. With 2 million members now, growing by 450,000 in January 2012 alone, we’ve reached a bit of a tipping point in general awareness of Fab.  

Also notable is the rise of Pinterest as a traffic source for Fab.  While still relatively small and accounting for .68% of all visits, Pinterest doubled as a percentage of visits in January and remarkably overtook Twitter links to claim the #7 spot.

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Betashop is the website of Jason Goldberg,
founder & Chief Executive Officer at Fab.com.

Prior to founding Fab, Jason was Chief Product Officer at XING AG and before then he was founder and CEO at socialmedian (sold to XING AG) and Jobster. In a prior life, Jason spent 6 years working 100 hours a week for Bill Clinton in the White House.

Jason is also an investor in and Board Member at RJ Metrics. Notable prior investments: TweetDeck.

Jason is a product guy. He loves to blog, loves transparency, and loves trying to make people smile.

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