UK Online Spending Tops £5bn During November
Figures just released by IMRG reveal that UK consumer spending for November 2009 was up by a quarter compared to the previous month and by 11% against 2008.
This news comes just after the BBC reports of critisism levied by the consumer advisory group Which?, who claim that many online retailers are breaking the law when [...]
Summer’s Over! Get Ready for Christmas!
I’ve been away for the last couple of weeks or so on a “Staycation” and despite getting all excited about a “Barbecue Summer” as promised by those bods at the Met Office before I went; the British Summer once again did not fail to disappoint in its performance when it came to the weather.
So [...]
Back in November 2006 Sage™, the well known accountancy and CRM software company; bought out the UK merchant services provider Protx for twenty million quid.
Protx was established in 2001 and provides online payment services for small and medium businesses (SMEs) in the UK, with a customer base of over 10,000 businesses. Protx online payment gateways [...]
How the Internet Ruined a Business
Over the last few months I’ve been witness to the demise of a client’s business purely because of negative chatter on the web.
If you run your own business you’ll be acutely aware that a positive word-of-mouth endorsement for your company or its products is worth its weight in gold when it comes to generating a [...]
In the world of bricks and mortar retail shopping the location of a shop is quite often the key to its success if it’s going to benefit from passing footfall.
Similarly some types of businesses such as factories and distribution centres, understand it is essential to locate themselves close to a motorway junction in order [...]
Build it and they will come! Or will they?
In its latest report on the matter the UK National Statistics office states that based on non-seasonally adjusted data, the average weekly value of internet retail sales in March 2009, as a percentage of total retail sales, increased by 14 per cent compared with a year earlier.
That works out at an average of £171.9 million [...]
How I Hijacked a Google Adwords Account
Now before you start getting too excited by reaching for your gun expecting a capture reward after having read that headline, there’s no need to panic!
Nothing illegal went on here, however technically, I did hijack a Google Adwords™ account and take it away from its top level Administrator and give it back to its [...]
The Top 7 Mistakes Small Retailers Make On-line
As more and more people turn to the web to buy goods and services, the power and popularity of trading on-line becomes even more evident as it establishes itself within the make up of today’s retailing sector.
Consequently the need to trade on-line with an effective e-commerce strategy is now a real ‘must have’ for [...]
If you run an e-commerce site that sells products to the consumer then if you haven’t done so already, you should now be gearing up for Valentine’s Day by preparing your site to feature offers that will attract the prospective Valentine’s Day purchaser.
That’s right; we’re nearly into another “selling season”. Why not make the most [...]
