A major lesson from China's Singles Day online shopping craze
Alibaba, the Chinese biggest e-commerce company pocketed US$17.79 billion (120.7 billion yuan ) during 24-hour online shopping craze. The Chinese made up holiday which falls on 11/11 (November) is a mega online shopping event that gets hundreds of millions of people to purchase online.
The main story is not that 120.000 payment transactions were processed per second by Alibaba's online payment system on Nov 11th. Neither that 175.000 orders were processed per second by Alibaba cloud at peak moments.
The main story is not even an increase in sales of 32 percent from 2015.
The main story
The main story is that four fifths, or 82.07 percent of all sales were transacted on mobile devices.
We need to ensure our websites are mobile friendly because this trend won't go away. As you may know, recently mobile usage exceeded desktop for the first time:
https://my.wealthyaffiliate.com/mudrem/blog/it-happened-mobile-usage-exceeds-desktop-for-first-time
Hope you know how to make your website mobile friendly. Have a great day!
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We have indeed gone way beyond those communicators from the original Star Trek TV series. And back then, we used to think that technology would never come to be, in our own lifetimes.
I see where you're coming from. Many gadgets from movies and TV series seemed impossible. Now many seem outdated.
Definitely.
By the way, you wrote "fights" rather than "fifths". I thought you were saying that the main news story way that some fights broke out during the event.
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No, I don't know how to ensure I'm mobile friendly but I'll probably find it in the trainings.