Cyber Monday is the online equivalent of Black Friday, celebrated on the Monday after the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States. Cyber Monday is often perceived as Black Friday’s less-interesting sibling, but that’s unfair, as the deals from online vendors are as generous as the Black Friday ones. In fact, many online stores offer the same deal between Black Friday and Cyber Monday, so it’s rather the “Black Friday Weekend” or “Cyber Monday Weekend”.
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Cyber Monday term was first introduced in e-commerce in 2005, by Ellen Davis, Senior Vice President of the National Retail Federation. The head of Shop.org, Scott Silverman says the term was invented after 2004 when a research concluded that “one of the biggest online shopping days of the year” was the Monday after Thanksgiving. The New York Times quote:
“The name Cyber Monday grew out of the observation that millions of otherwise productive working Americans, fresh off a Thanksgiving weekend of window shopping, were returning to high-speed Internet connections at work Monday and buying what they liked.”
Sure, this quote brings a smile now but back then people had really slow Internet connections at home.
This is how Cyber Monday has become an global marketing term used by online retailers across the world wide web.
You can see how Cyber Monday’s popularity grows yearly by sales:
| Day | Year | Sales (millions of USD) | % Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| November 27 | 2006 | $610 | N/A |
| November 26 | 2007 | $730 | +20% |
| December 1 | 2008 | $846 | +16% |
| November 30 | 2009 | $887 | +5% |
| November 29 | 2010 | $1,028 | +16% |
| November 28 | 2011 | $1,251 | +22% |
| November 26 | 2012 | $1,465 | +17% |
| December 2 | 2013 | $1,735 | +18% |
| December 1 | 2014 | $2,038 | +17% |
| November 30 | 2015 | $2,280 | +12% |
| November 28 | 2016 | $3,450 | +12% |
| November 27 | 2017 | - | - |
Cyber Monday Deals in WordPress
As the trend shown in the table above, the Web Design & Development community also embraces Cyber Monday more and more. From HTML Templates to WordPress themes, plugins, hosting services, companies have already made big discount announcements, bundles, deals, offers. After Black Friday, coupons are still active and running! So, this is a last chance to grab the best deals on the web stuff related you’ve been meaning to purchase for your work or learning projects.
Whether you’re based in the US or anywhere else, on Cyber Monday you’ll still find the best web related offers of the year. Being the most popular platform for website owners, we’ve decided to focus on the best Cyber Monday deals in WordPress for now. Some great website authors, which we are thankful to, have already worked hard weeks before to collect as many WordPress deals as possible in a single list, so we’d like to credit them here:
- WowThemes
- WP Leaders
- WP Black Friday Deals
- Template Monster
- My Template Storage
- ThimPress
- IsitWP
- WPulsar
- WP Beginner
- CodeInWP
- WPExplorer
- AThemes
- WPArena
- BrainStormForce
- CreateandCode
- ShoutmeOutLoud
- Cloudways
- WPLift
- WPSmackDown
- ThemeGrill
- ThemeIsle
- WPCrafter
- AccessPressThemes
- WinningWP
- WPNewsify
Cyber Monday in 2018
In 2018, Cyber Monday will be celebrated on Monday, November 26. Running a Cyber Monday Deal 2018? Submit it here.
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