Category Archives: Services

2012 – multichannel, m-commerce, e-commerce – shopping opportunities galore!

A belated Happy New Year to everybody. While we read about the struggle retailers continue to face on the High St; online retailing is set for another year of bumper growth. According to IMRG, the trade body for internet retailers, … Continue reading

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Twitter to focus more on companies

Earlier this week, Twitter announced that it is to revamp some features of its site in order to give more focus to companies. The company has become increasingly reliant upon advertising revenue, with the main money source currently coming from … Continue reading

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Have you honed your SoLoMo strategy?

The key to Apple’s success was that Steve Jobs and his team thought like a customer and not an engineer. The new generation of smartphones has introduced the notion of technology being something personal, and even cool. Elegant cases and different … Continue reading

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The internet – the domain of oligarchs?

I have recently read in a blog post, that Facebook has now become the same size of the Internet in 2004. There have been an inordinate amount of statistics thrown at us about Facebook’s sheer mass and dominance. Rarely a … Continue reading

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Online retail has definitely come of age:

Not a day goes by when we do not hear of the demise of the High St. Indeed, TV footage showing the empty shops goes to show just how much of an impact the Internet has had over the last … Continue reading

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Social commerce does work; a recent paper from Adobe says as much!

A recent whitepaper published from Adobe underlines the importance of the Facebook Like button. We all know that Facebook is an integral part of many people’s lives, and that it has offered businesses an hitherto unseen opportunity to engage meaningfully … Continue reading

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“Like-gating” on Facebook no longer cuts it:

As recently as twelve months ago, companies and brand owners were frantically scrambling for as many Facebook “likes” as they could get. Indeed, the process of “like-gating” -where companies ask for “likes” in order to give access to exclusive content … Continue reading

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The web …it’s a people business now

With Twitter and other social networking tools, the convergence of our online and offline lives has never been more real. It is becoming second nature to go online to communicate with friends. With so many apps and services now available … Continue reading

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Let your customers buy from you without having to leave Facebook..and your quids in!

Not so long ago, Facebook was a mere social networking tool. Businesses had started to see it as a marketing tool or a customer service portal, but not much more. Nowadays, the more savvy businesses, both large and small, see … Continue reading

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Facebook users can now video chat

Last week, Facebook announced that they had entered into an agreement with Skype, to allow Facebook users to place video calls to friends and family. All users need to do would be to accept the call, and the Skype feature … Continue reading

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