Figures from the office for national statistics published last month showed that the UK internet economy is thriving, with sales averaging £527million per month, however it is thought that this could be many millions higher – if people didn’t make spelling mistakes on their websites!

It is thought that a customers average potential spend is halved when they are faced with spelling mistakes – and its hardly surprising, when you’re preparing to enter your bank card details on to the internet for someone to use, you’re more than likely going to be slightly put off by the legitimacy and quality of the company if it says ‘Add To Shoppping Kart’

Remember, when online shopping is done, a large majority of the process is done through the written word and a huge decider on whether or not the customer will follow the deal through with you, depends on what they can see and read, so always be sure to present your website as the highest quality possible – poor websites can lose you endless amounts of cash!

For more information about getting your business online, please call the Web Design Nottingham team on 01623 650333.

The deal is hardly surprising as just last year eBay purchased a 49% stake in the company for around $22.5million, as it is thought eBay wish to incorporate Magento into its own ‘X Commerce’ software – however it will continue as a stand alone business until a way of doing this is figured out.

We don’t often use Magento here at dijitul, however, it will be very interesting to keep an eye on what it, along with eBay and Paypal can conjure up.

If you would like any help or assistance in getting your business online or information on ecommerce design, then please call the Web Design Nottingham team on 01623 650333.

All of the statistics released show good news for the online auction giant, with a 20% rise in profits for the first 3 months of 2011 (compared to 2010) being the ‘Pièce de résistance’. Their profits grew from $398million to $476million, whilst overall revenue jumped an impressive 16% taking it to $2.55billion.

A large part of these impressive gains has been put down to the success of its pay pal division. Paypal accounts also increased 16% on last year, whilst sales volumes – excluding vehicles – grew 8% taking it to a huge $14.5billion.

So, whilst the high street is suffering, this is more evidence of the strength of ecommerce and the huge part it plays in the economy, making money that you may well be missing out on.

If  taking your company online with its own website is something that interests you then please call the Web Design Nottingham team on 01623 650333 for a friendly chat.

The growth – for January – March 2011 – returns us back to ‘square one’ in a way, following the 0.5% economic contraction we saw in the last 3 months of 2010. The news has drawn a mixed response from experts and the public alike, the fact that the country has avoided a second month of economic shrinkage is good news, however there had been hopes for more growth, especially as the governments ‘austerity measures’ – or, budget cuts – are still in their early stages.

The internet and E-Commerce still continues to grow and play a huge part in the economy throughout these tough times, showing the way in which the world is going, with more and more people going online.

If you want to take your business that next step and get online, then please call our friendly team of internet marketing and ecommerce experts on 01623 650333.

The new website, allows users to view a range of used cars from £3000 to £30000 and even ‘pre-order’ them online, however it is not possible to test drive the cars, a video of the car being used is the most someone can expect, although Tesco have insisted that the cars will all be strictly tested before being made available, with mechanical inspections from the RAC.

With a brand name such as Tesco now entering the 1million Google searches a month market of used cars, you have to wonder what effect this could have on the face of the market, will the small time used car dealership begin to disappear? and also how will this effect the internet shopping world? With the countries biggest retailer championing ecommerce for even large items such as cars, will we see further devlopment.

For more information regarding ecommerce design please call our friendly team on 01623 650333.

In 2010, the £288bn spent using debit card purchases (a 9.4% increase) actually outstripped cash payments which totalled £266bn. Internet shopping – particularly through the heavy shopping periods such as Christmas - is thought to be the reason behind this big increase in card payments as e-commerce continues to become more and more popular every year.

Its easy to see why, being able to shop whenever you feel, from the comfort of your own home, and compare prices and products with just a few clicks of the mouse, easy. These figures should be a wake up call for any business owners who are yet to take their business online, the amount of profit you will be missing out on is huge, and failure to evolve along with modern life, could ultimately lead to business failure.

We have a team who specialise in ecommerce building and optimisation to provide you with an easy to use, professional platform from which you can run your business online.

For more information on ecommerce web design give our team a call on 01623 650333.

The man thought to have played a part in the on and off rail network strikes we have seen over the last few years – who himself recieved a 12% pay rise last year, taking his ‘basic’ salary to £95,000 per year – suggested that the key to lowering the deficit was, not to cut jobs, but place a tax on email.

Appearing on popular channel 4 show ’10 O’clock live’ , he said “If groups of workers are under attack, we believe we should coordinate and stand firm – propose a tax of 1p per email, and get rid of Trident.” The audience reportedly booed his idea, and it has got a ‘boo’ from me too, email is a free, modern way of communicating with someone easily, putting a tax on it would be a huge shame, and impractical.

Unfortunately, 90% of all email sent is spam, so a majority of the emails would more than likely ignore the tax, meaning only legitimate online businesses who send many emails, would be effected by the tax, therefore not making much of a dent on the deficit, and damaging small online businesses, maybe even taking Britain back in time as many may try to avoid going online due to this.

Hopefully, however, Bob Crow will never get his way and email will remain a free service for everyone to enjoy, and the age of SEO and ecommerce will long continue.

According to the ‘Connected Kingdom’ report from Google, the internet is also set to continue to get stronger, growing by around 10% anually and making up 10% of the Uk’s overall GDP by 2015. This, along with the fact that the internet sector plays a vital role in employment, employing 250,000 people (4 of them here at dijitul!) is further proof that the internet is still growing and taking over the world!

60% of all of this money in the industry comes from internet consumption, a mix of connection costs and money spent online shopping. Infact the UK is now the worlds number 1 country for ecommerce! For every £1 spent on imports, £2.80 is exported, strongly beating offline economy where 90p of every £1 is exported.

As an internet company, specialising in web design and ecommerce, this news is very welcome here at dijitul, and we will be making sure to get our hands on our slice of this very tasty, growing, internet pie!

Over the past few months we have been working closely with a number of Nottinghamshire based companies who have ventured into the online shopping world and are starting to reap the rewards for being ranked highly on Google not to mention seeing a huge increase in turnover and enquiries.

We are all hoping that this is the start of a good online shopping season and are preparing our customers for a busy year ahead. If you are expecting a sudden surge in sales then we strongly recommend that you take note of the following points:

1. Do you have enough bandwidth to deal with an increase in visitors?
2. Do you have sufficient stock to cater for an increase in orders?
3. Are the search engine optimisation elements on your website correct?
4. Have you looked into using Online Chat as some people who shop online cannot always pick up the phone and prefer to email/chat so you could increase your sales just by having an online chat system installed on your website.
5. Last but not least, always keep an eye on your competitors website and see if anything they are doing you could do better!

If you are already online and have an eCommerce website then we wish you the best of luck for the 2010 season. If you are yet to try online shopping for your business and would like more information please visit the eCommerce Nottingham section of our website.

http://www.dijitul.co.uk

We build websites most days, we do alot of eCommerce in Nottingham and have recently started developing our own plug ins for the sites and platforms we use. It has shocked me just how much certain industries are missing out on. There are so many amazing add ons for Cubecart that make the users experience so much better.

Keep your eyes peeled on the dijitul blog for the launch of this sexy, grungy, urban looking online shop, its gonna make a huge impact on the extreme sports world

This is one that we are all very excited about…..