The Official Free Shipping Day Blog

Thank You to All!

Dec 19, 2008 | Add a Comment

We’d like to thank everybody that was involved in the first annual Free Shipping Day. Thanks to the over 250 merchants that participated in Free Shipping Day.

Thanks to all the blogs and websites, newspapers, radio stations and tv stations that helped spread the word about Free Shipping Day. Without you only our close friends and relatives would have known about it.

Thanks to the procrastinators who chose to do their online shopping on Free Shipping Day. You have all helped to make this an amazing shopping holiday that we hope will grow into being the next Cyber Monday or Black Friday.

A few highlights:

• More than 250 merchants participated.
• Hundreds of websites, newspapers, radio stations and TV stations helped spread the word about Free Shipping Day.
• Over 100,000 visitors to www.FreeShippingDay.com on Free Shipping Day.
• Over 250,000 visitors to www.FreeShippingDay.com since the site went online December 8th.

We were amazed with the positive response merchants had to the idea of Free Shipping Day. They could see that we were trying to extend online shopping later into December and were quick to get on board with Free Shipping Day. For some merchants, Free Shipping Day was the biggest day of the year for them.

Below are a few quotes from merchants who participated in the event.

“I’m the owner of Charm Boutique, one of the merchants who took part in free shipping day. I just wanted to let you know that we had our highest visitors ever on the site yesterday which resulted in great online sales as well.”
-Kari Kraichely of Charm Boutique

“My affiliation with Free Shipping Day has brought tremendous exposure to OhToy.com.”
-Jonathan of OhToy.com

“Wow! We tripled our business yesterday! It’s 7pm Eastern time and my
entire staff is still here trying to get all the orders processed and
packed.”
- Julie Swatek of ScrapYourTrip.com

Have a merry Christmas!

- Luke Knowles