Focus on creating your webstore: Q&A with I Love Designer

I Love Designer, an online business selling luxury accessories, was founded in 2011 and stocks jewels from Jaipur and leather from Bali. I caught up with co-founder Larry Ojala to find out how he built the site and what the experience has taught him.

Focus on creating your webstore: The options

You’ve decided you want to become an ecommerce retailer – it’s time to start working on your site. Your online store is the portal through which you will get sales, push your brand and interact with your customers.

Creating online marketing places: Loubilou

Online marketplaces are a phenomenon which has taken hold for online retailers. For a long time the sector has been dominated by a number of big players like Amazon and eBay but as the model proves itself, smaller businesses and start-ups, like Loubilou, are entering the scene.

Focus on products: Daniel Footwear

Daniel Footwear started out in 1993 opening stores in the UK selling designer clothing and footwear. It added its ecommerce platform in 2007 and has strengthened the brand through its online store and now has over 30 stores in total. It prides itself on high quality, on-trend pieces at competitive prices.

Focus on products: selecting suppliers

Making firm decisions about the products you will sell is essential but finding suppliers is also key. Finding out where you can source these products is half the battle. Finding suppliers you can trust and work closely with as you grow your business is the other half.

Introduction to ecommerce shop builders

There is a big range of shop builders offering different options at different price points available to UK ecommerce start-ups. But which one do you go for, read our list of seven major suppliers to help you decide.

Profile: Mitch Vidler of Slingshot

Customers don’t want to fill in forms or remember passwords online. Start-up Slingshot helps customers select items from anywhere and they all go into the same basket, meaning customers only have to add details once.

30 more ecommerce Twitter experts to follow

Twitter has proven an extremely useful tool when it comes to ecommerce. It’s a great way to get your message out there and as social commerce advances, it will even become a place to sell your products.

Using keyword research to boost sales

Keywords are one of the most important tools in the eternal battle to master SEO. They are what search engines are based-on and what helps your customers to find you.

Profile: Natalie Brossard of LuxxLab.com

Quitting a high-profile career in the City of London, Natalie Brossard co-founded LuxxLab.com, an online boutique with a twist, along with fellow former-career girl Anouchka Bala. Here Natalie explains why online-only is the way to go.