Ecommerce
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 …
A bit more about Social Commerce
We’re designing 4 websites at the moment (at the last count) that all include some sort of social commerce and social network, so here’s some timely research from e-consultancy. My key outtakes … More than half of UK online customers say reviews are extremely or very important in making an online purchase. More than half of all online sellers (51%) consider User Generated Content Read more …
High Street Etail
A brief summary from retail Week Conference about the push for Etail in the UK, despite 2 thirds of retailers still not having a transactional website read more | digg story Read More …