(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
[1] The domain name that a storeowner chooses can have a huge impact on their business, but why do you think many site owners still fail to optimise the URL they are using? Online businesses face the dilemma of branding vs. SEO (search engine optimisation) when it comes to their domain name(s) of choice. A URL/domain name on one hand forms the identity of a business and therefore the basis of their branding. For instance www.wyvernep.co.uk is a client we have using our ekmPowershop ecommerce platform, selling the Wyvern range of equestrian supplies and equipment. They get plenty of repeat business, and as far as online (and offline) brands go, they are now established. ...
Updated 09-07-2010 at 11:04 AM by StevenHickey
What are your top feature requests for 2010? Join the ekmCommunity forum and have your say on this year's developments to the UK's leading ecommerce platform. We want to know your top feature upgrades on ekmPowershop for the coming year. ekmPowershop has been built on customer feedback, and this year we aim to push out more new features than ever before - all by the request of our customers. We've set up a thread on ekmCommunity and so far we have had some great ideas, as well as common requests which we are sure will make the final shortlist. At present we are gathering ideas from the forum, and will be putting the most popular requests onto a poll in the ...
Updated 05-07-2010 at 05:55 PM by NickStansfield
Steven Hickey, Head of Commercial Development at ekmPowershop.com reflects on the biggest annual survey for online retail in the SME sector – one which the online retail industry looks forward to every year: “As a hosted platform with more merchants than any other company in the industry, we can query our servers and get live, accurate data like no other provider can. The stats we produce are used by both the hosting and payment service providers as a glimpse at the coming 12 months and any changes or shifts in buying patterns we may be in for. At the moment the big shift seems to be in value based purchases; as people shop around for the best price and make a more considered purchase with ...
Updated 05-07-2010 at 05:56 PM by NickStansfield
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