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Setting up shop – online

Nick — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 08:49:14 +0000

If you’re thinking about setting up an ecommerce or mail order shop, or even adding ecommerce functionality to your website you need to be aware of UK distance selling and e-commerce regulations.

Here’s a link from Out-law.com to help in writing those all important terms & conditions. Also much more useful ecommerce set up information on the site.

Rapha Cycle Club

Nick — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 11:41:36 +0000

A good piece about the Rapha Cycle Club café from Noisy Decent Graphics.

Also worth looking at his flickr group of the café. The Rapha website’s not too shabby either and a nice video on Monocle.

These days there’s no reason not to have a shop, a pop up shop, a twitter, a facebook page, a van, go to festivals, write a book, a photo essay, a magazine, have a loyalty card, a website, a microsite, a tumblr, a flavors.me, print a t-shirt the list goes on. Brands that market themselves as authentic and have an idea win. Those that buy off the shelf and stick their logo on, fail.

Update: just came across another piece about Rapha here on everydaylife.style loads more to explore on there too.

Made up

Nick — Fri, 07 May 2010 17:35:54 +0000

Just spotted made.com, a new furniture website and to make it even better for a new visitor there’s a pop up money off voucher. Nice idea.

Originally spotted (and more info) on the very fine Design Milk.

Square away

Nick — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:36:38 +0000

A new way of accepting payments for retailers of all sizes devised by a team including Jack Dorsey of Twitter fame. An interesting use of the audio jack makes me wonder how soon before you can ‘bump’ your cash from phone to phone?

More on the Square website and follow them on twitter @Square could be interesting.

New Google Internet Stats

Nick — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 13:53:29 +0000

Launched today but hidden away Google Internet Stats is a neat little site to back up those all important presentations/proposals.

Five main areas are covered (with room for expansion) and the opportunity to submit your own stats.

Originally from Read Write Web via twitter

Super Supermarket Sarah

Nick — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:11:17 +0000

A lovely website with a real sense of discovery and browseability.

Hover over the products to see what’s still available and what’s sold. Click the browse button to see a different catalogue view.

Take a look for yourself. Supermarket Sarah.

Originally from the very excellent Design Milk

Where's your $300 million button?

Nick — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:17:53 +0000

Here’s a story well worth reading for those of you with ecommerce sites. Jared Spool from UIE changed the usual user/register button to be optional.

Annual Revenue increased by $300 million because customers would rather have the option not to register and just pay, rather like the High Street.

The best quote “I’m not here to enter into a relationship. I just want to buy something.”

Ah luxury

Nick — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 07:42:57 +0000

From Dezeen an article well worth a browse of the new Liberty of London boutique by the Paris based architects, Pierre Buecler and Jean-Christophe Poggioli. While the middle ground is suffering, Marks & Spencer and John Lewis for example, there still seems a lot of money left to make in the luxury end of the market as well as other opportunities for growth as shown by asos.

Hedge retail anyone?

Nick — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 14:10:26 +0000

As oil hits $145 a barrel on it’s never ending upward trend, a new kind of ecommerce appears, Hedge Retail. Buy your produce online, probably using credit, and then use what you’ve bought over whatever period of time suits you. The first one of these I’ve noticed (and I’d like to see if there’s any more) is MyGallons.com, a US site where you can buy ‘tomorrow’s gas at today’s prices’. An interesting concept that could work across a great many commodity and product areas. Next step will be a trading site where you can sell your stuff at marked up prices. We’re all designers, we’re all marketers, we’re all retailers. Just depends how good you are.

George goes online

Nick — Fri, 30 May 2008 10:04:17 +0000

At long last a value retailer is going online with a transactional website.
Apparently later this year George will be taking the plunge. You can sign up to be the first to know although if you do they don’t send you some sort of email automatically, even a thanks for signing up, a bit of a missed opportunity.