Primark dampens 'transactional website' rumours
Discount fashion giant Primark has denied reports that it is planning to launch a transactional website.
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US ecommerce revenues worth $37.5bn, up 14%
Online retail spending in the US reached $37.5 billion for the quarter, up 14 percent versus year ago, according to new research.
Right to reply: Ecommerce spelling mistakes cost more than just pride
In a recent article on the BBC news website, online entrepreneur Charles Duncombe claimed that spelling mistakes are costing UK etailers millions of pounds a year in lost revenues. Credibility is everything when it comes to converting visitors to customers in your online shop, and bad spelling does little to convince the public that you … [Read more…]
Case Study: Sports retailer cuts production time and ups conversion rate with Adobe Scene 7
German retailer Sport Thieme recently teamed up with Adobe Scene7 to improve the way it manages product inventory and marketing across its ecommerce site.
Two-thirds of business finance apps in the cloud by 2013
The majority of UK businesses are planning to move their finance, ecommerce or security applications to the cloud, but only 30 per cent of businesses currently have cloud governing policies in place, according to a new poll.
Guest comment: Forget the crystal ball – use your data to predict the future
Understanding performance and usage patterns and establishing a “normal” behavior pattern or profile is essential in detecting subtle anomalies in ecommerce websites when it comes to performance management. David Flower, Vice President EMEA, Compuware Gomez, takes a look at the growing importance of predictive analytics.
Top 3 online retail mistakes: Web shoppers reveal pet hates
British consumers show little forgiveness towards poor eCommerce sites but reward those that perform well and provide them with timely, personalised offers, according to a new survey from Apptus and YouGov.
Top 50 online retailers in the UK
The London 2012 Ticket site has been the most popular new ecommerce site so far this year, while Tesco overtook Play to become the third most searched-for online retailer in the UK, according to new research from the IMRG and Experian Hitwise.
Guest comment: Brand journalism – successful ebranding for online-shops
As media becomes more fragmented, the marketing department of today is becoming tomorrow’s social media newsroom Albert Pusch, head of marketing at FACT-Finder – it looks at the issue of brand journalism and how online retailers can use e-branding to promote their ecommerce offering.
ScanMe turns social media profiles into real world barcodes
Social media tool ScanMe has launched this week, an application that creates a unique, permanent, QR barcode for a user through their Facebook account.