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OverstockArt.com reports record breaking Black Friday sales thanks to mobile

12/02/201112/02/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

OverstockArt.com, has announced the result of its Black Friday online sales – including those purchases made via mobile device – which broke all of its previous one-day records. This year, the popular online gallery’s sales from the Thanksgiving weekend were 74 percent higher than they were in 2010. Moreover, the sales in the month of November also beat out the month-to-month figures for 2010 by over 25 percent. November 2011 has managed to break the previous overstockArt.com record for best sales month, which had been December of last year. OverstockArt.com…

OverstockArt.com sees an almost 270 percent increase in m-commerce sales with new mobile site

10/24/201110/23/2011 Sam Lambert

OverstockArt.com has announced the results of its mobile commerce for the third quarter of 2011, following the soft launch of its mobile site in August and its official launch in September. The transactional website has been mobile optimized and has now been in operation for two months. It offers the user the company’s entire range of products and has already succeeded well beyond the initial predictions for its performance. So far, the results for the mobile site include: • An increase in mobile sales by 300 percent • A boost…

OverstockArt.com announces its mobile website’s official launch

09/19/2011 Jorge Gonzalez

OverstockArt.com has announced that it has officially launched m.overstockArt.com, its new mobile website. This is the latest in the company’s moves to maintain its current position as a top site in the online home décor industry. With the addition of this new mobile site, customers of overstockArt.com are able to access the complete collection of over 60,000 decorative ceramic tiles and oil painting reproductions using their mobile devices with smaller screens. According to overstockArt.com’s CEO, David Sasson, the company was responding to statistics such as the July 2011 Nielson report,…

Your next interior designer might just be your phone

06/07/201106/07/2011 John Montgallo

Augmented reality can be used for more than marketing or games. OverstockArt.com, a website that sells museum quality, hand painted canvas art, has released a new mobile application for the iPhone and iPod which uses augmented reality to help shoppers envision art on their walls at home. The company is looking to enhance customer’s experience and help them make informed purchasing decisions by allowing them to take art for a “test run” via the application. The application allows smart phone users to browse through art and then superimpose their favorite…