1st In Video – Music World, Inc.

Customers Can Trade In Their iPod Earphones and Receive $20 Towards a Future Purchase. (more…)

Internet Retailer featured DiscountGolfWorld.com in the IRNewsLink Top 500 Watch Email on September 5, 2007.  The story highlighted the conversion rate increase that Akamai was able to give to our product pages with rich content.

Read Story: Content tech tools drive up DiscountGolfWorld.com conversions 210% – InternetRetailer.com

NEW YORK, August 27, 2007 – 1st in Video – Music World, Inc., the parent company of Your Electronic Warehouse and DiscountGolfWorld.com, was ranked on the first-ever Inc. 5,000 list of the fastest-growing privately held companies in the country. The Inc. 5,000, an extension of Inc. Magazine’s annual Inc. 500 list, ranks companies based on their sales growth over a three year period. The expanded list incorporates many businesses that are too big to grow at the pace required to make the Inc. 500. Taken as a whole, the companies on the Inc. 5,000 represent the backbone of the U.S. economy. (more…)

Quincy, IL / Business Wire / July 2, 2007 – DiscountGolfWorld.com was recently named one of Cleveland^® Golf Company’s 14 Internet Authorized Dealers. Along with being Internet authorized, DiscountGolfWorld.com has become Cleveland Golf’s first Internet Authorized Dealer approved to sell on eBay. The management team of DiscountGolfWorld.com brings over 10 years of experience working with manufacturers to not only sell, promote and merchandise products online, but also how to effectively distribute their products on eBay.

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Internet Retailer used the data from the Akamai press release to highlight Your Electronic Warehouse’s and Discount Golf World’s increase in conversions.

Read Story: InternetRetailer.com – Faster dynamic site interactions boost sales for Your Electronic Warehouse

Quincy, IL (June 19, 2007) – In the 2007 edition of Internet Retailer’s Top 500 Guide, Your Electronic Warehouse has been ranked the 27th Fastest Growing E-Retailer. The Fastest Growing E-Retailers are ranked by their overall sales growth from the previous year. Other companies that share this honor include: Aeropostale Inc, Under Armour Inc, the National Hockey League, Zale Corp and Blockbuster Inc.

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Your Electronic Warehouse and DiscountGolfWorld.com were recently featured in an Akamai press release. Akamai is the leading global service provider for accelerating content and applications online. Your Electronic Warehouse and DiscountGolfWorld.com use Akamai to speed up and improve their customer’s shopping experience. In the first month of using Akamai, Your Electronic Warehouse’s conversion rate increased 42% while DiscountGolfWorld’s conversion rate increased 210%. DiscountGolfWorld.com had a higher increase due to the fact that most of its products have multiple styles and images that increase the download time of the page. By using Akamai, this content is cached in data centers around the world. When a customer pulls an image off one of our websites, they are actually pulling that image off the Akamai server that is closest to their geographical location. Akamai is able to reduce the hits to our websever and pull the content from an Akamai sever 84% of the time. Akamai is also able to route around “traffic jams” on the Internet to increase the performance of dynamically created pages. An alternate, optimized route is taken for 79% of our delivered content. This provides an enhanced end-user experience through accelerated, more reliable delivery of our dynamic Web site content, resulting in our higher conversion rates.

Read Press Release: June 18, 2007 – Retailers Drive Conversion Rates And Revenues With Dynamic Transaction Acceleration

Dennis Boudreau was recently featured along with other successful Illinois businesses who have grown their business on the Internet. Crain’s set a photographer down from Chicago to take the pictures. The coolest picture taken was featured for awhile on their front page, but is no longer on the site. The photographer had Dennis sitting on top of a stack of Pioneer plama TVs surrounded by Bose Sounddocks. It was a great picture. Read the story at Crain’s Chicago Business: The Web Convert

Internet Retailer Magazine featured several of the 2006 web site projects on 4ElectronicWarehouse.com. These projects helped sales increase 82%.

Read Story: Internet Retailer – Tech tools help Your Electronic Warehouse grow web sales by 82%

Here’s the story (with video) that WGEM News did on Your Electronic Warehouse winning Monster Cable’s E-Commerce Retailer of the Year. Read/Watch: “Monster” of an Award