A lot of businesses are now wising up to the benefits of social media marketing, and one of the best platforms for this is the social networking site Facebook.
With more than 500 million members already, Facebook gives businesses a huge potential audience and target market worldwide. Until the rise of social media businesses used the internet as a one way communication medium to advertise products and services to their customers. Facebook has now enhanced this by allowing a more...
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Posted January 24th, 2011
A lot of businesses are now wising up to the benefits of social media marketing, and one of the best platforms for this is the social networking site Facebook.
With more than 500 million members already, Facebook gives businesses a huge potential audience and target market worldwide. Until the rise of social media businesses used the internet as a one way communication medium to advertise products and services to their customers. Facebook has now enhanced this by allowing a more...
Online sales soar for etailers
Posted January 6th, 2011
A number of UK etailers have announced tremendous Christmas trade. In particular, Boxing Day is being reported as the busiest day in 2010 for eCommerce with visits to websites 12% higher than pre-Christmas traffic peaks, according to Experian Hitwise.
Clothing retailer Next enjoyed a significant rise in its recent online trade, which has pushed its year-on-year online and catalogue sales up by 8.7% and helped the UK business to reach its profit targets despite its high street sales...
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...
UK’s eCommerce boom continues
Posted October 28th, 2010
A new study shows that the Internet contributes an astounding £100bn per year to the UK economy, with around 60% of that figure attributed to online shopping, plus the cost of connections and devices to access the web.
The research, commissioned by Google, indicates that the Internet accounts for 7.2% of the UK's gross domestic product (GDP) which means that if categorised as an economic sector, it would be the fifth largest in the UK and greater than the construction, transport and...
Inta Audio sings our praises
Posted October 13th, 2010
Visualsoft Director Richard Bendelow received a pleasant surprise today which gave the whole team an unexpected boost.
In similar fashion to Glamorous Amorous, Chapmans and Ornamental Trees, another one of our clients has contacted us to praise our efforts.
In an email to Rich, a spokesperson for Inta Audio sang the praises of our team for the hard work we put into designing and developing his company’s website. The spokesperson said: “Inta Audio was launched with Visualsoft...
