Random Facts

The following is from my e-mail this week. Click on the title of this post to get more information.

Volume 2 Issue 26 - June 18, 2007

1. 31% of people wait to have sex on Saturdays, according to advertising agency BBDO.
2. Bedding is purchased by 33% of furniture store buyers, followed by stationary sofas (29%), occasional tables (24%), and dining room or master bedroom (21% each), reports Furniture Today.
3. Marketers distributed approximately 280 million discount coupons in 2006; shoppers redeemed about 34 million of them, averaging various industry sources.
4. Cars and light trucks are the most heavily advertised products on network television, with manufacturers spending approximately $2.75 billion dollars on the category; prescription drugs are in the #2 slot, with spending 40% lower than on cars/trucks, according to TNS Media Intelligence.
5. Apparel is expected to hold the #2 slot in online sales for the second year in a row in 2007. Travel was and continues to be #1, says Shop.org.

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