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Hitachi recently commissioned a study on consumers interest in flat-panel TVs. The study showed that 71% either owned (19%) or wanted (52%) a flat panel television. 78% of the respondants wanted their next TV to have HDTV and 64% wanted a larger television than they have now. 37% wanted 50″ or larger, 23% wanted a 42″ and 35% wanted 35″ or smalller. The most important factors when selecting a new television were picture quality, brand and screen size.

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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Hitwise: Shopping, Search, and MySpace
eMarketer: Search Fueling Retail Site Traffic

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

Your Electroinc Warehouse of Quincy has been named Monster Product’s Most Monsterous E-Commerce Retailer of the Year . Listen Now: WTAD News MP3 Clip

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LAS VEGAS, NV/BUSINESS WIRE/January 10, 2007 — Recently, Your Electronic Warehouse received the Most Monsterous E-Commerce Retailer of the Year Award from Monster Cable Products, Inc. The award was presented at the Monster Retailer Awards Program during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada, honoring the most monsterous retailers of 2006. The awards ceremony was followed by a world-class concert performed by music legends George Benson and Al Jarreau. (more…)