Argos reports 114% boom in online sales
Posted June 14th, 2013
Argos today reported a huge growth in eCommerce sales, with sales over mobile devices more than doubling.
The multichannel retailer’s parent company Home Retail Group reported that a 42% chunk of Argos sales were made via the internet in the same 13 week period as 2012, up from 41% a year ago. Mobile sales grew particularly quickly, with stats up by a huge 114% on 2012.
The company said that sales of consumer electronics were sales of consumer electronics were up, thanks to growing...
Visualsoft client highly commended at prestigious awards
Posted June 13th, 2013
A big congratulations is on order for a Visualsoft client this week, after being highly commended at the prestigious Paypal Etail Awards on Wednesday night. Derry based Chocolate Clothing, who boast a Visualsoft website as well as utilising our OLM services, were highly commended in the Digital Marketing Campaign of the Year category at the awards ceremony held in London this week.
Narrowly missing out the top spot, the judges felt the brand had shown initiative throughout the campaign...
Full service marketing
Posted June 5th, 2013
Our online marketing division has gone from strength to strength over the last few years, and today works with an increasing number of Visualsoft clients and external etailers to help them increase conversions. Both the size of the team and its suite of services have also expanded, so we've launched a dedicated website at www.visualsoftmarketing.co.uk to bring together all the information and updates on our OLM team to one website.
The site gives greater detail on what our marketing...
Celebrating the best in etail excellence
Posted May 27th, 2013
With awards season in full swing, the 2013 PayPal Etail Awards will be taking place in London next month, and we're very happy to report that a number of our clients have been shortlisted in various categories. Chocolate Clothing, Have to Love, Jules B and Psyche are in the running for the 'Best Multichannel Retailer - Small' title, while Little Mistress has been shortlisted for the 'Best Pure-Play Etailer - Small' category.
The prestigious awards celebrate excellence within the eCommerce...
Skrill to continue successful partnership with Visualsoft eCommerce
Posted May 17th, 2013
Online payment provider Skrill is pleased to announce it's continued partnership with North East based eCommerce agency Visualsoft eCommerce.
With over 900 live websites, which collectively handle 200 million transactions annually, Visualsoft is one of the largest suppliers of eCommerce services in the UK.Since 2012 the company has been working closely with Skrill to implement fully funded payment services on its clients websites. in the result being 99 clients already taking advantage of...
