The Craft with Helix e-commerce site has won a coveted gong at the recent Craft Business Awards. We designed and built the site last year and are delighted with the accolade. This is the second e-commerce award we’ve won this year, following Mio Destino’s e-tailer award.
“We will be concentrating on our website activity to ensure [...]

Our working relationship with Cable Management Products goes back around 10 years. This week we launched the latest update to their Elkay web site, allowing customers to purchase directly online. We worked closely with their marketing department to ensure this objective was achieved on a limited budget (who said e-commerce had to break the bank?!). [...]

Following on from last week’s blog about the rise and rise of e-tailing, Rory Cellan-Jones has an interesting article on his dot.life blog confirming the continued boom in online sales.
Statistics from Nielsen Online report that UK online sales were up by a staggering 37% by the end of 2008. Cellan-Jones goes on to state that:
‘…Amazon [...]

Dear me, it’s been a gloomy start to the year. Hardly a day goes by without some high street name throwing in the towel or Alistair Darling revising his predictions downwards for a recovery (’it’ll be over by Christmas I tell you!’).
Only this morning, Mark and Spencer reported a decision to close 25 store. Look [...]

Full details coming soon, but just a quick heads up on our latest website launch - www.sendoptics.com. This project was a re-design for the Leicestershire based business that provide top range designer sunglasses from the likes of Tom Ford , Emporio Armani, Oliver Peoples and Rayban

According to MSN news the World Wide Web is 15 today, but the BBC dates this anniversary as far back as the 5th of August 2006. Windows communication foundation recognises the release of the first web browser celebrating its 15 years on the April 22, 1993. However today is the anniversary of when web technology [...]

According to CNN and Fortune magazine, eBay (EBAY, Fortune 500) intends to implement a controversial new policy that will entail holding payments sent through PayPal for up to 21 days for certain “high-risk transactions.”
Cite have implemented PayPal payment options for a number of websites including Italian Heaven, the Calabria investment property specialists. This solution works [...]

Today marks our latest e-commerce website launch, this time for the Neighbourhood Watch. ‘Stay safe with Helix‘ arrives in partnership with the charitable trust to provide a range of Helix security products for their members. We facilitated the ecommerce web site following a series of other online projects for Helix prompting the UK Marketing Director [...]

Our friends at The Retreat Company have launched an e-commerce store, specialising in well being products and gifts, to inspire and relax you. Choose from a wealth of books and CDs for yoga, health and lifestyle improvement.Treat yourself today at: www.theretreatcompany.com/store

Its all about planning, preparation and execution. A recent lecture delivered by Dr Martin Beckinsale on e-commerce and e-marketing emphasised the need for a marketing plan. You need to know where you stand in your market at the moment to get to where you want to be. Which is obvious really [...]