UK Online Spend­ing Tops £5bn Dur­ing November

Fig­ures just released by IMRG reveal that UK con­sumer spend­ing for Novem­ber 2009 was up by a quarter com­pared to the pre­vi­ous month and by 11% against 2008.
This news comes just after the BBC reports of critis­ism levied by the con­sumer advis­ory group Which?, who claim that many online retail­ers are break­ing the law when […]

Protx™ Becomes Sage Pay™

Back in Novem­ber 2006 Sage™, the well known account­ancy and CRM soft­ware com­pany; bought out the UK mer­chant ser­vices pro­vider Protx for twenty mil­lion quid.
Protx was estab­lished in 2001 and provides online pay­ment ser­vices for small and medium busi­nesses (SMEs) in the UK, with a cus­tomer base of over 10,000 busi­nesses. Protx online pay­ment gate­ways are […]

The Top 7 Mis­takes Small Retail­ers Make On-line

As more and more people turn to the web to buy goods and ser­vices, the power and pop­ular­ity of trad­ing on-line becomes even more evid­ent as it estab­lishes itself within the make up of today’s retail­ing sec­tor.
Con­sequently the need to trade on-line with an effect­ive e-commerce strategy is now a real ‘must have’ for […]

Get Ready For Valentine’s Day

If you run an e-commerce site that sells products to the con­sumer then if you haven’t done so already, you should now be gear­ing up for Valentine’s Day by pre­par­ing your site to fea­ture offers that will attract the pro­spect­ive Valentine’s Day pur­chaser.
That’s right; we’re nearly into another “selling sea­son”. Why not make the most […]