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As reported on the BBC News website yesterday, the the internet trade body IMRG predicted that Monday 9th December was likely to be the busiest day ever for online sales.

Here at Shopfitter we can confirm that was the case, we saw our largest ever volume of sales through our online system, in fact it was more than double that of the same day last year.

I remember writing a piece earlier this year stating that I thought that shoppers still want to buy but that their behaviour seemed to be changing.

That certainly seems to have been demonstrated to be true throughout 2008. The online sales sector has continued to grow and the webshops powered by Shopfitter, especially the more established sites, have seen revenues increase by up to nearly 100%.

Many of the newer sites are doing very well too, although it does take a few months for them to become established. However, sites that went live in the first half of this year are doing quite nicely now and will continue to improve as time goes by.

One thing is for sure, the sooner you get your webshop online the better able you are to take advantage of the burgeoning online sales market more quickly.