Window2India, an exclusive one-stop shop portal for overseas NRIs has announced its new promo ‘Gold Circle Privileges’. This promo is specially designed for the year-end festive season of Christmas and New Year. This offer entitles the customer to avail discounts on each purchase with an array of gifts to choose from and the discounts keep increasing with subsequent purchases. NRIs can make their choice from a plethora of gifting products like gift vouchers from leading brands, photo gifts, Flowers, Jewelry, Handicrafts, gadgets, Toys and games to name a few.
Details of the offer:
• On the first gift purchase through Window2India, customer becomes entitled to a discount of Rs.100 .This offer is valid till December 14, 2008.
• On the second purchase a customer gets a discount of Rs.150 flat and the offer is valid from December 15—31st.
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Window2India has designed a special shopping catalogue online, to provide the customers a wide range of gifts to select from. The customer can select the gifts from ‘Gift Store” which is customized for the festival season. This includes gadgets, cakes n chocolates, hampers, kids store, diaries and calendars, gifts from Satya Paul to name a few.
Windows2India Gift store offerings geared for this festive season for Christmas and New Year include Mobile phones, Gadgets, Gift vouchers from brands like Shoppers Stop, Big Bazaar, Pantaloons, Joy Alukkas and Titan, Cosmetic packages, chocolates, cakes and cookies, watches, etc.
For more online money transfer options Remit2India, the flagship brand of Times of Money, a global one stop destination for money transfers for NRIs across the world. Remit2India.com is the only portal to be adjudged the “World's No. 1 Independent Online Money Transfer Portal for NRIs” by ACNielsen ORG Marg.
View the Remit2India.com television commercial (TVC) on YouTube at this [link]
Top gifting trends this season
Gifts, this year are more utility based and depend on the functional value to the user.
Compared to last year where top gift categories were accessories and cosmetics the trend this year is more towards spa /holiday packages and electronic gadgets.
Top ten gift categories this season are: Mobile phones and electronic gadgets, holiday and Spa packages, gift vouchers, Apparels, Cosmetic packages, chocolates, cakes & cookies and watches.
A change in the shopping behavior of the customers was also noticed this year. Earlier when shops would be flocked with people trying to pick a suitable gift for their loved ones, this year online gifting portals have become more popular. Online shopping is a convenient and safe mode of shopping.
With a click of mouse and credit card details, these sites make shopping easy. Another method is use of payment gateways, which do not require any credit card details and thus safety of transaction is ensured.
For more Christmas gifting ideas visit the following crowd sourced online platforms
Christmas Gifting ideas (ww.digg.com, http://ww.delicious.com) [Link]
Reddit.com [Link]
Top 10 gifting ideas for NRI kids [Link]
Search trends 2008: Gifting patterns from US to India
Based on search volumes derived from Google trends
Google trends search trends show some surprising results.
New Jersey and Connecticut are the top two states followed by Massachusetts and Illinois in 2008 which have the maximum search volumes for ‘gift India’. The rest of the states as per overall search trends are as follows:
So if you have relatives or friends in these areas expect something special this holiday season of Christmas and New Year.
About Window2India.com
Window2India is an exclusive one-stop shop portal for overseas NRIs from TimesofMoney. The service is positioned to be a symbolic window into India, building a virtual bond for NRIs and helps them relate to their loved ones both emotionally as well as socially- all in a single 'window'. It's pinned on 4 C's - connect, content, commerce and community.
The service is a comprehensive web portal with exclusive NRI content, a facility for NRIs to send gifts to their loved ones or simply shop online. Window2India also aims to provide exclusive healthcare packages and showcase top property projects from leading builders across the country. This portal already has 600,000 NRI customers already registered with them and has strategic alliance with U.A.E Exchange giving access to 50 branches and 25,000 NRI walk-ins every day.
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