The backbone of British ecommerce? Since its inception in 2002, ekmPowershop.com has grown to become the nation's biggest and most loved ecommerce solution. Over 20,000 businesses have used ekmPowershop.com since its launch, and it continues to grow in popularity. So why do so many people choose ekmPowershop.com when it comes to setting up an online shop? ekmPowershop.com’s unrivalled performance and user friendly interface have made it the number one choice for UK businesses of all sizes – from one man bands, SMEs and multi-nationals alike. We have seen businesses grow with our platform from bedroom traders into multi million pound operations. We asked ...
(As featured in Lancashire Business View's 'The Hot 100') A Blackburn based ecommerce company has ended another successful year in emphatic style, finishing in the top 10 of the county’s most successful businesses. The independent survey conducted by Lancashire Business View (Chamber of Commerce) profiled all of the county’s top businesses, from SMEs through to multinationals. ekmPowershop.com weighed in as the 8th most successful business in the county, as well as being placed as one of the ‘Hot 5 in Blackburn’ by the independent survey. Antony Chesworth, owner and founder of ekmPowershop.com also recently scooped the ‘Enterprising Young Brits 2010’ ...
Updated 06-08-2010 at 12:07 PM by StevenHickey
(As featured in Start Your Business Magazine, 'Ask the experts' June Edition) Regardless of the nature of your business, the plethora of technology available in the modern age not only allows you to promote your business online – it also allows you to DO business online. For me, the killer combination for small and large businesses alike has to be ecommerce and email marketing. The two activities provide such synergies that more and more businesses setup, trade and thrive purely in the online realm. For bricks and mortar businesses, ecommerce and email marketing also provide a huge area for diversification and in many cases; present a brand new channel to explore and monetise. ...
Updated 07-07-2010 at 02:55 PM by StevenHickey
"You have no idea how much time you have saved me!" Thousands of ekmPowershop.com online shop owners have started using email marketing with ekmResponse.com to great effect since its launch last year. Over the coming months we will be sharing comments from our ecommerce and email marketing enthusiasts utilising the 'killer combo' when it comes to effective online marketing: Whenever we have done a mailshot using ekmResponse we have noticed an increase in traffic to our site and our sales go up. You have no idea how much time you have saved me! I used to have to send mail shots to all my customers manually, checking every address, taking several hours. It was so ...
Optimise your email marketing campaigns for maximum impact As part of our ongoing development and enhancement of ekmResponse.com, users can now take full advantage of A/B split testing. The new tool allows users to specify 2 subjects for their campaign, then ascertains the most effective subject to send the entire campaign out to. How does it know which subject is 'the best'? For overall campaigns with 500 recipients or more, you can specify an A/B split sample (100 recipients for instance). ekmResponse will then send the campaign firstly to the 100 sample. Half of the recipients in the sample will recieve 'subject A' and the other half will recieve 'subject ...
Updated 07-07-2010 at 02:30 PM by StevenHickey