Mr. Scruff shows how your packaging can really help build brand loyalty
Finding a PCI Compliant Website Host in the UK
Why you should improve your Product Descriptions
ASOS team up with GROUPON to offer half price vouchers
Heart help ensure you get a twitter/facebook account to match your domain
SEO must-haves for your ecommerce platform
X-Cart launch facebook plugin
If you are not familiar with Mr. Scruff let me give you a very brief introduction. He is primarily known as a musician/DJ but also is a artist/cartoonist and self confessed tea lover. I had been to a couple of his gigs a few years ago and noticed the tea related items within the merchandise for sale such as tea pots and tea towels, however at the most recent gig I attended earlier this year I was exposed to his own brand of tea “make us a brew“.
It used to be that PCI Compliance was just a worry of the big retailers online, but now the payment processors have been cracking down ensure that pretty much everyone taking online payments has to meet some PCI compliance standards or another. Even if you are using an off site method for your payments such as Paypal or Sagepay to process the card payments there are still steps you need to take to ensure you are PCI compliant some of these are affected by which web host you choose. Failure to abide to the guidelines can end up resulting in large fines from your payment processor so it is well worth the extra effort and cost ensuring you have website hosting that is suitable.
Time and time again I come across ecommerce sites that are let down by an overlooked key part of the conversion process, this being the actual product descriptions. The operators of these sites can invest a lot of time and money in the design and development of the website itself, but then when it gets [...]
ASOS one of the biggest names in online fashion in the UK have today teamed up with the daily deal site Groupon to offer a £20 voucher for just £9. The popularity of this great offer has resulted in them becoming a trending topic on Twitter and is no doubt giving them some great brand [...]
Heart internet have launched a new tool on their site that couples the standard domain registrar search form with one that also searches to check the availability of your desired name on the main social networking sites (think twitter, facebook, youtube etc). Now in this age where social media is becoming more and more important [...]
The guys over at seomoz this week published a list of must-have features to look for in an ecommerce platform. This is a list of features they see as requirements of any ecommerce site that wants to do well in the search engine rankings, and being the industry experts they are in all things S.E.O. [...]
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