Ecommerce
East is Live
East launches their new transactional website. The aim of the site according to their CEO is for the site to become East’s biggest store. Something that every retailer should aspire for their online real estate.Full story on e-consultancy. Read More …
Mydeco (beta) launches
Not sure if it was this week but anyway mydeco.com has launched in beta. There’s a review of the site at e-consultancy since I haven’t really had time to delve very deeply yet. A couple of interesting things to note. 500 retailers are signed up with over 1.4 million products available, that’s some online store. Also once signed up you can design ‘public’ rooms’ Read more …
Etail trends
The UK online spend over Christmas was unsurprisingly a record £15.2 billion. With more than 80% of adults shopping online in 2007 this trend is set to continue according to the IMRG (via Retail Bulletin). E commerce sales overall grew 50% last year with £46.6 billion being spent in 2007. High street retailers have an obvious advantage with the ability to deliver and control stock and in theory Read more …
The amazon kindle review (via Scoble)
Amazon entered the world of digital mobile recently with the Kindle. In a bizarre twist it seems they forgot to add any retail to it. I use amazon a lot and I like the review system particularly, but it seems this product should have been released with a big beta button on it. Proves the point that if you don’t know how to do something (like stretch your business into hardware) hire an expert Read more …
Improve your checkout process
Here from E-consultancy 10 ways to improve online checkout process. A must read for many, many etailers. Apparently 50% of (potential) customers bail out at this stage. I’ll add my number 11, spend some cash yourself, you can’t do this stuff on the cheap and sustain a decent retail presence online. Read More …
Some ecommerce numbers worth knowing
We do love a good statistic here and here’s a few to mull over … 90 per cent of adults became angry and stressed at a slow or poor response via email from a companys customer service – Retail Bulletin – dealing with online enquiries 80 per cent of customers who buy online have researched in a catalogue first – Retail Bulletin – Integrated marketing fuelling ‘flick Read more …
Oxfam online shop
With the strapline of “from designer to downright comfy” Oxfam’s online shop sells a range of what we might call ‘vintage’ fashion including accessories and childrenswear. Here’s another business getting its act together online. This is a great way of using an existing offline social network to create a new online network. Sometime soon are we going to see something Read more …
The new ASOS website
The Christmas website makeover constinues. ASOS launch their ‘new season’ look. Product images are bigger, search can be narrowed and there ‘s plenty of readability with trends , daily news and a blog. Very fine. I like the idea of creating a design that can be updated seasonally, even weekly or daily I suppose, bringing a bit of visual merchandising to the web, seasonal shop windows Read more …
John Lewis launch their new website
Today, John Lewis unveiled their new website. I’ve used their ‘old’ (yesterday’s) version a few times and always found it very good if a little light in the product area. Apparently this new version will have nearly double the product range, up from 22,000 products to 41,000 and will be edited frequently so that should take care of that. An excuse for some retail therapy anyway. One Read more …
Webtogs – An etail startup
Webtogs, is a new etail business, selling “the outdoors, online”. At the moment they’re due to open (according to their holding page) in Summer 07 and have taken the interesting step of documenting their progress towards their launch. I haven’t read all of their blog but what I’ve read makes interesting reading and is a good way of garnering interest pre-launch. Maybe Read more …
