A recent Federation of Small Businesses article reports two main hurdles to companies wanting to sell online – postage charges for businesses based in rural areas, and the Distance Selling Regulations. Postage Costs For rural businesses, getting a good rate on postage can be more difficult than for businesses in town and cities. On top [...]
26
Mar
Preparing eCommerce Product Images – Part 2
One of the main things to ensure when getting your images sorted for your ecommerce website is that the images are at the highest quality and that they are all of a uniform size. Retaining quality You need to use JPG format images on your shop as they are compressed to speed up loading time [...]
21
Mar
Preparing eCommerce Product Images – Part 1
If you are running an online shop, you will spend a fair amount of time working with product images. Time spent getting your images looking good will pay off handsomely, as they are most noticeable on your ecommerce website and can be a great selling point. Image sources You may be able to get a [...]
10
Oct
Building customer trust on your eCommerce website
Building customer trust on your ecommerce website is important to make as many sales as possible. There are lots of ecommerce sites out there and it can be hard to tell which are reputable businesses and which are fly-by-night or untrustworthy. Here are some basics for increasing customer trust in your website: Make sure your [...]
15
Aug
New eCommerce website projects underway
We are currently working on a couple of new eCommerce website projects. First up is an existing online shop for a company selling performance parts for motorcross bikes. Their site is running a modified CubeCart system, but was not optimised for search engines and does not convert visitors to customers due to confusing layout and [...]
22
Jul
UK’s ecommerce workforce set to double by 2015
The UK’s ecommerce industry will more than double its workforce in the next four years, employing 1.5 million people by 2015, according to new research.
11
Jul
Starting an eCommerce business – Part 3
Now you’ve had a good think about what’s involved in running your own eCommerce website, it’s time to get started. This article covers the things that you’ll need as part of your eCommerce website.
20
Jun
Starting an eCommerce business – Part 2
This is part two of a FREE six part series on starting an eCommerce business. Now you’ve done your market research, it’s time to decide how to approach your new business.
20
Jun
Starting an eCommerce business – part 1
This is part one of a FREE six part series on starting an ecommerce business. The author owns a business that builds ecommerce websites for clients – so you can benefit from the combined experience of all these online shopkeepers!
