Ecommerce Reaches Its 18th Year

Ecommerce turns 18 this year, and to celebrate, ‘Internet Retailing’ is to hold the first ever ecommerce Birthday Party Awards. The event will have approximately 350 industry leaders and award winners in its audience and will become an annual occasion, recognizing the industry’s best achievement and the leading innovators.
August 11th …

30 April 2012  No comments

Customers Happy With Online Shopping

Research has shown that retail websites are pleasing customers as never before. Ecommerce sites have shown to be outperforming the rest of the online industry, and their users rate them highly thanks to constant improvements and updates.
A benchmark study asked a panel of mystery shoppers to rate sites on a …

16 March 2012  No comments

Google Wallet Official Launch

 E-commerce,Mobile,Technology       

Google has finally announced the launch of their greatly anticipated mobile app, Google Wallet. It has been launched in collaboration with organisations such as MasterCard and Citibank, and only a few days following the launch, companies such as American Express and Discover are now showing a large interest in being …

11 October 2011  No comments

Social Shoppers Share Local Offers

Daily “Deal Site” usage continues to rapidly increase according to recorded site rankings. These sites rely on consumers buying their greatly discounted local products and then hopefully sharing them with others. According to previous surveys, many web users are said to be doing both these things.
Findings have also showed that …

26 August 2011  No comments

5 Things Every Website Should Have.

When developing and designing a website there are five fundamental things to remember when building your website?
1. Good Website Navigation
The main navigation should be clear, on every page and always at the top above the main content on the website. The website should also have a top level navigation menu …

3 August 2011  No comments

Google Product Search Sees Big Changes

It is important for E-commerce sites that use Google Product Search to list their products, to familiarise themselves with the following information.
As of September 22nd this year, a number of updates to the feed formatting and policies will be implemented. Google announced that it is releasing new feed specifications that …

16 July 2011  No comments

Canadians Number One In Social Media Usage

 E-commerce,SEM,Social Media       

Canada can boast of the world’s highest rates of internet and social networking usage. Canadians happily engage in social network activities on a regular basis, frequently at rates higher than users in the US and our clients are seeing this too.
By the end of last year it was estimated that …

20 January 2011  No comments

Social Shopping Of The Future

 E-commerce,SEM,Social Media       

Social commerce is expected to be big this year, with brands and retailers always exploring new and creative ways to capitalize on its ever increasing popularity. Retailers are going beyond just normal Facebook pages and Twitter profiles with which their customers can follow. Web retailers are adding to this trend …

13 January 2011  No comments

Online Grocery Shopping Set To Double in 5 Years

 Digital Research       

Whether it be technology such a mobile shopping applications, lack of time, ease of convince or simply all of the above the latest IGD Grocery Retail Outlook report predicts that online grocery shopping is set to double by 2015.
Currently the online grocery sector is worth £4.8 billion. The report produced …

29 November 2010  No comments