Posted by dani cass on December 12th, 2011
Christmas is fast approaching and as people begin to panic about finding the right gifts and making their final purchases, you can guarantee that online shopping will make a sudden increase. In America, Black Friday and Cyber Monday mark the beginning of the shopping rush with the majority of retailers offering special highly reduced purchases [...]
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Posted by dani cass on November 11th, 2011
Copy – When a visitor arrives at your website, they usually have a question in mind or there is a specific product they are searching for, so it is important that the copy on your website answers that question or tells them where that product is or the chances are they will click away from [...]
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Posted by dani cass on October 7th, 2011
Magento Search Engine Optimisation is quite different from the seo performed on general brochure and catalogue websites. As a specialist Magento Web Design agency, our team of internet marketing professionals are experienced in optimising Magento websites to ensure that your site appears on the 1st page of Google, exposing your business to a wider audience. [...]
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Posted by dani cass on September 20th, 2011
There are many great extensions available for Magento websites, covering a whole range of functionality and features. Here are 5 Magento extensions that we like: Twitter Integration Bundle http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-connect/MagePlace/extension/7589/twitter_integration_bundle Social commerce is fast becoming an integral part of many business’ marketing strategy allowing customers and fans of the brand to share products and services via [...]
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Posted by dani cass on September 13th, 2011
Back in November, I wrote a blog highlighting the Best Magento Features focusing on the frontend, today I want to show you some of the great backend features – the ones you will be using as a Magento Ecommerce website owner. Magento websites are great because you don’t need a vast amount of technical knowledge [...]
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Posted by dani cass on August 25th, 2011
What is Magento? Magento is an open source, feature rich, ecommerce platform. Open source software is software that allows others to access the code it is written in so that they can change and modify the code to further extend and develop the functionality available. Because Magento allow access to their code, there is an [...]
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Posted by dani cass on August 19th, 2011
I have written in the blog before about how wonderful Magento websites are from a buyer perspective and also for the store owners; but today I want to discuss Magento from a website developers’ point of view. I asked our Technical Team Leader Gareth to give me 5 reasons why Magento is great from a [...]
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Posted by dani cass on July 8th, 2011
The team at Impact Web Solutions have been building Ecommerce websites for 11 years now, and we have provided our clients with online stores that have really made a difference to their business. While other companies in this field will call themselves Web Designers, Impact Web Solutions prefers to think of ourselves as Specialist Ecommerce [...]
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Posted by dani cass on June 27th, 2011
For those who wonder how social networking can possibly help a business, think about the old saying ‘people buy from people’.
Social networking allows you to create mutually beneficial relationships, on both a personal and a business level, removing the ‘faceless corporate’ image given by many online traders and allowing you to become a valued and trusted contact.
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Posted by dani cass on May 13th, 2011
commerce or electronic commerce simply means to buy or sell products or services through an electronic system such as the internet or other computer network. Ecommerce is a great way to boost your company’s income while cutting the costs associated with running a bricks & mortar store! harges should be clearly shown on your ecommerce [...]
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