1st In Video – Music World, Inc.

1ST IN VIDEO-MUSIC WORLD, Inc. LAUNCHES NEW WEBSITES
Your Electronic Warehouse and Discount Golf World websites get make over.

Quincy, IL – 1st in Video – Music World, inc. launched new websites this past week for their subsidiaries Your Electronic Warehouse and Discount Golf World. The new designs give a fresh look and feel to the websites, but not just for cosmetic purposes. With the last major overhaul to the two sites being almost 5 years ago, the new website launch offers new features that will also provide a more enjoyable user experience.

Within both sites, 4Electronicwarehouse.com and DiscountGolfWorld.com, customers can now easily browse the product offerings in a much more organized and efficient manner. With tie-ins to social sites such as Facebook and Twitter, users on the sites will now easily be able to share their finds with their friends. Users of the sites will now have easier access to the Electronics Guru and The Modern Golfer blog sections as well. “It has been a long time coming,” says Dennis Boudreau, company CEO. “The new design of our sites will hopefully give us the flexibility to continue to grow into the future and adapt more easily to our customers needs”.

About 1st in Video – Music World, Inc.
1st in Video – Music World, Inc. was founded in 1976 and currently operates Your Electronic Warehouse (www.4ElectronicWarehouse.com), Discount Golf World (www.DiscountGolfWorld.com), 4Luggage (www.4DiscountTravel.com.
The company was recently recognized on INC Magazine’s list of fastest growing companies. Internet Retailer Magazine has also listed the company on the HOT 100 Best Retail Websites and was named as the 27th fastest growing e-Retailer of the Internet Retailer Top 500. The company operates retail stores in Quincy, IL and manages several golf courses’ pro-shops in the Midwest.

For more news and information about 1st in Video – Music World, Inc., please visit our corporate website at www.1stInVideoMusicWorld.com

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The study also found that in 45% of households, women are responsible for researching consumer electronics purchases, but that 73% of women are confused by the options of buying a flat-panel TV (i.e. DLP, LCD, Plasma, 720p, 1080i, 1080p).

See Your Electronic Warehouse’s selection of Pioneer Plasma TVs
Source: Hitachi Charts Flat-Panel Demand – 6/18/2007 – TWICE

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

A recent Hitwise report showed that search engines account for 25% of visits to US shopping sites. Google alone accounts for almost 16% of visits to US shopping sites. In the Internet Retailer Top 500 Guide, Hitwise has Your Electronic Warehouse receiving 46% of it’s traffic from search engines. MySpace’s partnership with Google seems to be working well. MySpace accounted for 3.2% of visits to shopping sites.

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