eCommerce Website Blog
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The difficulty for anyone who has a bricks and mortar shop along side their online shop, all suffer similar issues, including keeping inventory counts in sync, keeping pricing in sync, and giving customers a cohesive experience both online and in store.Posted: Monday 14 August 2017
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When comparing website builders and other ecommerce platforms, you need to consider more than just a pretty landing page.Posted: Thursday 10 August 2017
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Email in 2017 is quite different from email of the past. In the past, anyone could send email from anyone, and often Bill Gates sent you a personal email offering you $10000.Posted: Wednesday 12 July 2017
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Ever been asked if you’re using calls to action and not known what to answer? We'll explain what they are, how to write them and how to use your CTA!Posted: Friday 7 July 2017
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The internet is an amazingly large place full of many different technologies, and it is developed by many different organisations. How can we best support our customers to have an awesome web experience, interacting well with all other systems, while at the same time offering good value.Posted: Friday 9 June 2017
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Ever heard the phrase organic traffic? It’s the visitors to your website which come from search engines. They come to your website because you have website content which ranks high in search results. It is the goal of almost every business website to get a lot of traffic, which is why there is always a lot of chat about SEO or search engine optimisation. The question of the moment would be then, how do I write website content which ranks high in search engines?Posted: Thursday 18 May 2017
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Choosing a domain name for your website is something many business owners struggle with. But with so many variations available and advice being offered, it can be hard to pick just one! So here are our tips on how to choose the right domain name for your website.Posted: Monday 15 May 2017
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When was the last time you gave your website a makeover? If the answer is never or not in the past two years, then listen up! Technology is changing, with larger screens and more mobile devices being used than ever before. These affect the way your website is seen by visitors and in turn, the impression they receive of your business. Different screen sizes impact on where your text and graphics sit on the screen, what they look like, how much content is shown and the navigation of your website. It is easy to correct these problems with some simple DIY website design work, especially when you use a user-friendly platform like Website Builder!Posted: Thursday 23 March 2017
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There are so many ways that email can be setup, so we thought a good blog might help you decide which is best for you.Posted: Thursday 9 March 2017
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More is not necessarily better when it comes to colours for your website design. While it is exciting choosing a colour scheme for your website, going overboard makes your website look cheap, dowdy and unprofessional. However, a well thought out and attractive colour scheme looks professional and is more likely to convert visitors to customers.Posted: Thursday 16 February 2017
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Keeping personal and payment information secure is valued highly by online shoppers. As website owners, you can control what you do with the information once you receive it. But unless your website has a SSL or Secure Sockets Layer certificate, the journey their data takes to get to you is unsecure.Posted: Monday 16 January 2017
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Websites are there to sell your products or services, but they do have a significant disadvantage to a physical store – people can’t see, touch or feel anything – other than emotion. The emotion is what is going to sell your products, so you need to write persuasive web copy. Nielsen research showed that 79% of website visitors actually only read headlines and scan for keywords, which makes it even more important that you pay particular attention to what you put on your pages andPosted: Sunday 15 January 2017
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Images are essential for every website. They help to sell your product or service and make your website look great for your visitors. Unfortunately, they can cause your website loading time to be really slow. Learn how to best optimise your images here!Posted: Thursday 15 December 2016
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To push more websites to implement encryption and to better protect users, Google will start flagging plain HTTP connections as insecure in its popular Chrome browser.
The plan will go into effect in January 2017 with the release of Chrome 56Posted: Tuesday 15 November 2016 -
Finding great content can be tricky, which is why many businesses create their content to share on Facebook and other social media sites. But if you are not feeling creative, here are 8 places where you can find ideas for your Facebook or
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Changing all our websites to SSL is not as straightforward as we hoped. Many websites include custom styles, scripts, iframes etc, that are not secure... Manual updates may be required to many websites to gain SSL status.Posted: Tuesday 8 November 2016
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Customers often wonder what affect SEO, or mobile optimization, or design changes will have on their traffic and sales. Let's consider these in more detail.Posted: Friday 21 October 2016
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Everybody wants to be found by search engines, but many of us are not clear on how it all actually works. How does Google choose which websites to show first? Why is my competitor’s website coming before mine even though we sell the same products? It all has to do with how your website is ranked. Let’s delve deeper into what website rank actually means.Posted: Saturday 15 October 2016 , 1 Comments
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Graphics play a huge role in social media with up to 60% of all social media posts made up of pictures (Kim Garst). With that staggering figure, if you are posting more text than graphics, your messages are likely to get lost amongst all of the other posts demanding your audience’s attention.Posted: Thursday 15 September 2016
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YouTube was the brainchild of three former PayPal employees during 2005 and then it was sold to Google in 2006. It remains a part of Google’s empire and with over 4 billion videos watched every day, it is a great way to get your business out there and noticed by your target audience. It is one of the top three most powerful search engines along with Google and Facebook and is often overlooked by businesses when choosing where to run their marketing campaigns.Posted: Monday 15 August 2016
