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Showrooming, a term you may not have heard – yet
Aside from being another buzzword flying around, it is a term that has come about based on research focusing on the path that a typical customer would take to purchase. Showrooming is the term used when a customer comes to look at a product in a physical location but then…
Selling online is easy – right?
The simple answer is yes, relatively speaking – to an experienced website design and development company, it is no harder to build an e-commerce website than a brochure website. The basics of brand recognition, design, customer journey and simplicity of use are all the same, with the addition of bringing…
The big killer is the lack of – we are sorry
Whilst taking a, seemingly rarer, break from work and scrolling, and for that read deleting, my way through the endless news stories, I came across a headline that caused me to pause and read. “Bus takes more than three hours from Norwich to Blofield – Norwich Evening News It should…
Do you have a brand?
In conversations recently and in our last blog – Social Media should you? The question of being clear on who you market to was raised. An important part of this same question is – what do you want your potential and current customers to see your brand stand for? Seems…
Social Media – Should You?
Not too long ago, the decision to promote or build awareness on social media, was a lot more straightforward, with the answer generally being yes. You then only had to decide where your target market was most likely to be found, which in itself was just a case of do…
Cost of living effects on business
As we are all too aware, the current trend is for higher monetary inflation and you can find many theories on what is driving the increase. If you couple this with input inflation, or the rise in price of materials and energy that you are purchasing, then this could be…
Style over function? or in other words – Keep it simple!
It has been a trend over many years that high fashion brands, when promoting their products, especially perfumes and aftershaves, generally use very visually exciting imagery, but do tend to leave the viewer a bit stumped as to what the message was. The same can be said for the websites…
eCommerce – The challenges SMEs face and the solutions
Companies around the world and of every size and shape, face numerous challenges while everyone adapts to the rush to digital commerce business. Over the years we have written a number of blogs focussed on discussing and offering solutions to some of these challenges and offer some of these again…
How easy are you to deal with?
(especially if something, as it almost always does, goes wrong) During an internal chat about a completely unconnected story this week, it struck us that many companies in the UK, especially larger ones, all seemed to suffer from the same problem – blame avoidance culture. What do we mean by…
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The Office of National Statistics’ report on business confidence for July reveals that while companies are struggling to manage the increasing costs and regulations imposed on them there are some small signs of improving confidence. More businesses than initially projected by the ONS believe their turnover will remain stable in the upcoming months, while fewer…
2026 Marks a Shift in How We Market Our Products. The widespread acceptance of AI in shopping is evolving from merely seeking recommendations to a stage where intelligent assistants can browse, compare, and even make purchases on behalf of consumers. This development falls under the umbrella of Agentic commerce, setting it apart from traditional E-commerce…
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