Want to Increase your Revenues?

Here at Namaste we’ve been busy creating a way for our partners to raise their revenues, while simultaneously raising awareness for wonderful and conscious products. This is the purpose behind our most recent announcement, the Namaste Affiliate Program. Staying true to our mission, delivering the most sophisticated online solutions and support available to the conscious business markets, Namaste recently partnered with premier affiliate marketing company ShareASale to offer the exciting new program.

For companies who sell products, this program offers a unique opportunity to leverage a network of web sites who would love to help sell your products. For those of you who’d like to offer products at your site, the Namaste Affiliate Network offers you the opportunity to select from great companies and products to easily post and sell at your site…and we’ve selected some great companies for you to choose from.

Our Namaste Affiliate Network launch partners inlcude The Y Catalog, Find Bliss Music Store, Yoga Tribe and Culture, Energy Muse and Organic India.

Imagine…supporting these great companies at your site and getting paid every time your web visitors purchase at product. No inventory, no shipping…just a simple referral to a great product. It’s as easy as that!

Online Holiday Shopping Trends Outlook – Strong!

Great news for small online business… Three out of four holiday shoppers said they plan to shop for holiday gifts online, and 75 percent said they are likely to purchase gifts online from small businesses. Nearly a third of holiday shoppers said that they would do half or more of their holiday shopping online, and nearly two thirds said online specialty, “niche,” or boutique retailers are one of the “best places” to shop for unusual or hard-to-find gifts.

Majority of Holiday Shoppers to Research Products Online

“Cyber Monday” maintains it’s trend as the chosen day for online research a purchases. Click Z is reporting some interesting findings about this years holiday shopping behavior.

Was it a Successful Holiday for Online Retailers?

Though most holiday shoppers made their purchases by December 16th, it turned out to be a big year for online shopping. Here are some of the breakdowns from Click Z.

80% of Shoppers to Shop Online?

More than eight out of ten holiday shoppers (83 percent) said they would shop for holiday gifts online, and a similar number, 80 percent, said they are likely to purchase gifts online from small businesses, according to a new survey commissioned by Yahoo! Small Business.

Asked how they might change, many shoppers indicated they would be on the road less and on the Web more. Here are a few of the trends uncovered:

Fewer shopping outings, better planning to reduce unnecessary use of gas – 45%
Shop online more – 43%
Make fewer shopping trips and spend less in general – 42%

Time to get your holiday emails out!!

Generation Y Likely to Spend More on Socially Responsible Products

Good news for socially responsible companies… the future is green! A recent survey by GMI that gauged the opinions of more than 15,000 online consumers in the U.S. and 16 other countries about their socially conscious business practices, found that future American consumers, between the ages of 18-29, are more likely to buy organic, environmentally-friendly or fair trade products than other age groups.