For eCommerce entrepreneurs and executives who want to sell more
Lack of convenience with delivery is often cited as one of the reasons that online shoppers abandon their carts before sale. When entrepreneur Tom Allason realised this he decided to do something about it and one of London’s most successful new start-ups was born – Shutl.
How your customers view your business doesn’t stop with your website and product range; their first impressions start on your website and ends with them receiving the goods they ordered. The quality of your courier is as important as the quality of your products.
Returns are the bete noire of any retailer but the nature of ecommerce makes returns a real possibility with every sale. There’s even an unofficial “Returns Day”, 3 January – which according to UPS, has the highest level of sales returns of any other day on the year.
Without customers, you don’t have a business. How can you make your customers love your brand and become repeat buyers?
New research by Royal Mail shows that people in Chelmsford bought more Christmas gifts than any other UK town during the Christmas rush period last year.
Over the last few years, retailers have benefited from a boom in Halloween sales. According to Plant Retail, sales increased by 12.5% over the Halloween period in 2011, amounting to a staggering £315 million. This makes Halloween the third busiest sales period after Christmas and Easter, even putting it ahead of Valentine’s Day – now that’s scary!
With Christmas just around the corner you’re no doubt busy rushing round sourcing new stock, refining product lines and preparing special promotions for what is set to be the busiest quarter of 2012, Christmas!
ONLINE shoppers want flexible delivery hours and quality service when buying food over the internet, a new survey reveals.
Driss de Love of Katoen Natie talks at Jumpstart: International and Cross-Border Retailing, about how businesses can improve their operations and logistics delivering across Europe.
James Beard, head of sales and business development at Sage Pay and their partner Juan Ignacio de Paul, CEO, eBizMarts, explain how, working with Magento, they are looking to revolutionise POS systems for SMEs
Roger Wilcocks, Director of ScreenPages, explains how he revamped Micro-Scooters’ website and how Magento played a key role in its redevelopment
PayPal’s Head of Developer Relations, John Lunn, explains how working with Magento the company is bringing a whole new low cost way of doing POS that can be empowered with all the fun of the web… a must see for any retailer small, medium or large
