More people would rather spend their money online than in store. Online shopping is more convenient and quicker, so it is important to offer an e-commerce market for your buyers. There are trends each year that you can use to help sell more. Here are the top e-commerce trends of 2013 and how to use them to benefit your business.
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Yellow Pages, Does it work?
So I ask myself this question a lot as I see lots of advertising revenue going into the Yellow Pages here in the UK, Does the Yellow pages work. Watch the video below and feel free to…
Find my iPhone
Visiting Sheffield by rail this morning I am frequently found catching up on the latest news from Twitter, The BBC and Mashable on my iPhone on the journey in, getting in to a cab once at the station, coffee and phone in hand, I chatted to the cab driver about the usual pleasantries such as the weather.
I hurried to my meeting and to my utter stupidity left my device on the back seat of t…
Google Disavow Links
Last week Matt Cutts from the Google Webspam Team announced a new tool for webmasters called the Disavow Links Tool.
What the tool does is allows you to submit to Google a text file containing links to your site that you would like to drop from it’s index or disavow. This could be because in the past you have contributed to link spam such as search engine manipulation by paid links, forum…
Never Block The USA
In this short article, I want to talk about the importance of not blocking whole IP Ranges unless you really have to. Like many we use CloudFlare to serve as our CDN and our web filter, a kind of firewall I guess at DNS lev. Recently we were experiencing a distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS attack) from a whole host of IP ranges within the United States, our server suffered…
How To Go Orbital in the Twitterverse
Twitter, on the face of it, is a simple enough concept – 140 characters to let your friends know what you’re doing.
But power users – including those who are currently using Twitter for eCommerce – know there is more to it than that.
Each tweet is an attempt to break free from the gravity of your own profile and spiral off into the deep space of viral marketing – and there are plenty of…
Ion Support Online!
We have been offering support for a number of years to our clients from within our dedicated client area, clients there have an individual support portal that is tied to their specific project, while this worked great for us when We first started our company, the rapid growth of projects has made it impossible to keep up with all tickets received, around 80% of support queries ar…
eCommerce Lite Launched
We’re pretty stocked to have released eCommerce Lite, We really wanted to give something back to all the small retailers who don’t have a huge budget to get a website off the ground.
The idea is pretty simple, for £29.99 per month, we give you a rock solid open source eCommerce platform, a whole range of themes to choose from (in fact we pretty much have one to fit any industry) a free domain…
Best Fonts for 2012
We love typography here at Ion and were always on the look out for great typefaces to add to our collection. Whilst browsing the web a few weeks ago we came across the collection from the Lost Ty…
High Time for Sheffield
The roll-out of the Digital Region initiative has numerous implications for the future of eCommerce in the South Yorkshire area – and for web design in Sheffield in particular.
Sheffield is at the core of the project, which aims to deliver superfast broadband internet access at speeds of 25 Mbps on average to both businesses and residential customers throughout South Yorkshire.
For…