Recent research has revealed that the eCommerce industry has grown by around 12.6% in the month of August, despite the relatively gloomy retail market, according to KPMG.
Online sales increased year on year in August, with Britons spending £5.2 million online, which is the most significant expansion experience within the eCommerce market since April. In July growth was down to around 9.6%, was deemed to be relatively low, in comparison to the economy and constant growth in the industry...
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Further eCommerce growth reported in August
Posted September 24th, 2011
Recent research has revealed that the eCommerce industry has grown by around 12.6% in the month of August, despite the relatively gloomy retail market, according to KPMG.
Online sales increased year on year in August, with Britons spending £5.2 million online, which is the most significant expansion experience within the eCommerce market since April. In July growth was down to around 9.6%, was deemed to be relatively low, in comparison to the economy and constant growth in the industry...
eTail Webstores
Posted January 1st, 2011
Etail webstores are more commonly known as online stores or ecommerce websites. Etail (sometimes hyphenated as e-tail or e-tailoring) is a definition derived from "e-mail", the term used for electronic mail and refers to electronic retail (or online retail usually via an ecommerce store). An etail webstore is just another term for a website that sells products online.
There are obvious benefits to having an etail webstore rather than a physical store (such as reduced overheads) but in...
Cross-Selling / Up-Selling
Posted December 27th, 2009
Cross-selling is a very simple but highly effective sales technique - it provides users with additional images and information on related items. Cross-selling can also be used to up-sell, offering your customers the chance to purchase an additional product relating to the product on show.
An example of cross-selling would be showing different colours of a t-shirt on a t-shirt product page. The advantage of cross-selling online is that an alternative is available to a user shopping via...
Customised Products
Posted December 23rd, 2009
Visualsoft have developed technology which allows merchants to sell customised products on their website. Typically, customised products include clothing with logos on the front or back of the garment. For example, customised t-shirts can be sold where the shopper can choose a different logo to be printed on the front and back of the t-shirt – the logos used can come from an image library integrated within the website.
The complete customised product details are given in the customer...
Data Import
Posted December 22nd, 2009
If you’re planning on offering a huge array of products for sale on your website, and would rather not spend day after day manually adding every single one into your site, then our data import feature is the perfect, time-saving solution.
As a leading eCommerce provider, at Visualsoft we’ve developed a range of bespoke data import routines that take existing data from other sources and quickly and conveniently incorporate it into your site – we can grab data from various useful...
