There are a number of reasons why more people are buying stuff online. One of the biggest is price. You can afford to sell your goods at cheaper prices on the Internet because you’re free of the usual operating expenses like rent, electricity, and staff salaries. That should translate to some nice savings, right?
Top 3 Reasons To Get Into Multi-Channel Retail
Multi-channel retail, which nowadays understandably includes online channels, is something you just have to do this year. Every single day you put off doing it, the competition gobbles up market share that should have been yours. There are a number of reasons why even successful retailers are now going into multi-channel retailing. Here’s three of the most important ones.
5 Numbers Showing Why the Time to Invest in eCommerce in the UK is Now
A decade or two ago, you might have already had the urge to invest in eCommerce. But astute as you are, you must have decided to wait for the right time and perhaps the right place to do it. That time has come. And the right place to do it? Try the United Kingdom.
Making Click-and-Collect click
In my previous post, I introduced you to integrated e-commerce and explained why it is the right way to extend your business online. If you already have a brick-and-mortar retailing business and you’re looking to improve your online presence, you could start offering a click-and-collect service.
Integrated e-commerce – The right way to do extend your business online
With more people spending more time on the Web, now is the perfect time to start selling your products and services online. And if you think those people are only busy posting status updates on Facebook and Twitter but avoid all other websites, think again. Many are actually buying stuff online. E-commerce has never been bigger. In the UK, it was already worth £100 Billion two years ago.
Web Design and Development
The first few seconds of a first-time website visitor is very crucial. If he doesn’t like what he sees or if he thinks it takes too long just to load what he’s supposed to see, chances are, that would be the last time you’d ever catch him on your site.
Web Analytics
There’s a vast ocean of raw customer data on the Web. Ever thought of the implications if somehow you could harness all that data and transform it into useful information?
SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
With search engine optimization, you can drive visitors to your site without sending out a single invitation.
Convert visits to sales to repeat purchases
The moment you start seeing more than a thousand unique visitors in just one day, we won’t be surprised if you’d be grinning ear to ear the entire week. But when weeks turn into months, you’ll then remember why you started off on this venture in the first place … and it wasn’t about just owning an immensely popular website.