By Alex Nam
Expansion is a core business objective and having an online presence is increasingly important in order to meet this growth. And a global web presence gives firms a direct channel to reach new customers in a new target market.
A new venture aimed at “re-shaping” the mortgage sector has brought together a team with experience including roles at Santander, Experian, Morgan Stanley and Thomas Cook.
By Phil Holt
Phil Holt, CEO of digital agency Web Foundry, discusses that “light bulb moment” when an idea takes hold, but offers a note of caution to safeguard against a number of common mistakes and misconceptions that can lie ahead on the rocky road to online success.
By Matt Sawyer
Some 93 per cent of online experiences begin with a search engine, while Google alone carries out more than 3.5bn searches daily. With that in mind, just how good is the search engine optimisation (SEO) for your firm’s website If you’re unsure, it’s time to get up to speed.
It’s often said that a company website is an online shop window. You wouldn’t expect people to walk into your shop if the windows were stained with bird droppings, so would you expect shoppers to stay on a bad website
With the surge of service outages from large banks, challengers such as Metro and Virgin Money – some offering more appealing rates of interest and few weighed down with the same unwieldy and dated IT – are providing the British public with compelling alternatives to larger counterparts.
By Darryl Adie
The less-than-spectacular recent results of UK bastions such as Next and M&S highlights the fact that large-scale retailers cannot rest on their laurels. We take a look at how boutique retailers are riding a new wave as consumer preferences evolve and online retail develops further.
It’s absolutely critical that a company’s website functions well and engages with users to provide an enjoyable user experience. To gain insight as to how startup companies have managed to convert online visitors to paying consumers, we have spoken to various successful business owners who have first-hand experience in this.
By Viv Craske
When Amazon launches something new, the world stops and listens. This week it took its first foray into running a bookstore with Amazon Books. And while it might not seem like an obvious next step for the world’s biggest online retailer, it makes a lot of sense.
By Ben Fried
With a recent CBI survey indicating the strongest export channel for UK goods and services is the US, Ben Fried, chief technology officer at Lucid Fusion, explains how tech is making it easier for British firms looking to expand overseas.
