Hopefully, you had a fantastic holiday weekend with family and friends, I know I did! Following the Thanksgiving holidays are a few important shopping dates; Black Friday, Small Business Saturday and today…Cyber Monday!
Today is known as the busiest online shopping day of the year. Retailers use it to extend Black Friday deals and shoppers take advantage of it since many of them are still on vacation and wish to get a jump on…or finish, their holiday shopping.
According to Wikipedia, Cyber Monday is a marketing term for the Monday after Black Friday, created by companies to persuade consumers to shop online. The term was first used on November 28, 2005 in a Shop.org press release entitled “‘Cyber Monday’ Quickly Becoming One of the Biggest Online Shopping Days of the Year“.
In 2010, comScore reported that consumers spent $1.028 Billion online on Cyber Monday and it was the highest spending day of 2010. While most products purchased on this day are clothing and electronics, everything is up for grabs and usually at a significant discount.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ALWAYS in search of a good bargain and you can rest assured that I will be online shopping after work today.
Target and Best Buy are not the only places to find good deals today, you can also score by shopping with Teltek! If you need Avaya or NEC office phones, but are short on cash, we can help you secure financing or perhaps the style of phone you need is available in a refurbished model.
Comcast has a terriffic deal right now that is in effect until December 23rd. For $599, you get a full PRI and 4600 long distance/toll free minutes to use along with propriety call routing, disaster recovery and 20 free DIDs.
There are also significant tax benefits to purchasing equipment before the end of the year. If your your business would benefit from accelerated depreciation for the 2012 tax year, including the provisions of Section 179 that allow qualified businesses to fully depreciate purchases, it would be in your best interest to purchase the equipment and place it into service by December 31, 2012.
Another option for saving money is Teltek’s Total Care Assurance offering. This allows you to bundle support of your telephones, IT equipment, cabling, carrier service and helpdesk support into one low price! Call Teltek today for a FREE site survey to evaluate your systems.
Don’t let these great deals slip away…happy shopping!