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More than a quarter of UK Christmas shopping will be online in 2011 and 12% from mobile

Nov
2011
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More than 25% of seasonal shopping will take place online this Christmas, according to the latest research from shopping comparison site Kelkoo. And of those, 12% will be made via a mobile. The study found that UK households would spend more on gifts than those in other European countries, spending an average of £437 per household. [...]

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EU bans pre-ticked website boxes to aid consumers

Oct
2011
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EU ministers meeting in Luxembourg havepassed a set of rules aimed at strengthening consumer rights, which the EU parliament backed in June. They mean online traders will have to disclose the total cost of a product – including fees – and customers will have to actively opt-in to extras. Member countries will have two years to [...]

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Mobile accounts for 10% of e-commerce visits but converts at half the rate

Oct
2011
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Mobile is now driving an average of 10% of visits to e-commerce sites, but there is much work to be done to optimise conversion rates, according to a new study. The study by e-commerce agency Screen Pages looked at more than 1.5m visitors to 30 non-optimised websites, and found that conversion rates were an average of [...]

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Checkout best practice revisited

Jun
2011
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It’s been over two years since I published an article on the Econsultancy blog entitled: Are retailers following best practice to improve conversion rates? In that article I was specifically looking at the checkout processes of a variety of retailers, and in particular whether or not they have enclosed (or in other words removed site wide elements [...]

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Tips and must-haves for your ecommerce platform

Mar
2011
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Choosing an eCommerce platform can be a terribly frustrating experience because of the options and packages available, the misinformation, the pushy sales reps, the time and money investment, and so on. I want to talk about this decision because of this experience, but I don’t plan on making any platform recommendations. No, no. That’s really [...]

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Nine lessons I’ve learned managing e-commerce teams

Feb
2011
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When I was a boy, I thought like a boy. It’s true. When I first managed people in e-commerce, I didn’t really know what good management was. I had some good and bad experiences with my own managers but had never stopped to think what my team thought of my leadership style. Ironically it took [...]

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Announcing amazon simple email service

Feb
2011
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Another nail in the coffin for small email sending providers… Amazon Simple Email Service (Amazon SES) is a highly scalable and cost-effective bulk and transactional email-sending service for businesses and developers. Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service [...]

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Buy into it: the technology of online shopping

Feb
2011
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Looking for a birthday present or Christmas gift? These days the chances are you’ll turn to the internet rather than hit the shops. Shopping online is now easier — and more popular — than ever, whether for physical goods like books or groceries, or music and movie downloads. The web made its name as a [...]

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Eco Reminders

Jan
2011
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Energies are usually produced at the cost of animal environment. This sticker has been created to remind people that if they leave the light switch on and waste energy, animals will suffer from it. Visit Site

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Patent of the day: Amazon’s bad gift defense system

Jan
2011
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Amazon has won a patent for a system that intercepts bad gifts and sends you a gift certificate instead. The patent, which is comical yet pretty innovative, is described like this: A computer-implemented data processing system comprises a user interface and gift conversion logic. The user interface is configured to permit users to order products [...]

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