E-COMMERCE WEBSITES

An E-commerce website can transform a business. It will open up a vast new market place. Instead of just the traditional, local customer base in Lincolnshire or the local region, people from around the United Kingdom can browse and purchase products and services. The cost of running an online store to an offline store is very favourable: there will be initial setup fees, small ongoing monthly fees for hosting/maintenance, then staff time for allocating, picking and delivering orders. Compare these to the ongoing costs of maintaining a shop!

Some e-commerce facts:

• In the run up to Christmas 2008, Amazon.co.uk had 16 million unique visits from people in the UK. That represents over ¼ of the entire population of the United Kingdom.
• Other online stores also had similar visitor success stories; Argos had 8.2 million, Tesco had 7.3 million, Play.com had 5.7 million, Marks & Spencer had 4.5 million and Littlewoods had 3.6 million.
• The top 10 online retailers saw a 37% increase in visitors in 2008 over 2007 figures.

Spiral Media has been involved in E-commerce since it's conception. From processing credit cards, to shopping carts, to setting up delivery processes, we have been there, done that and picked up many t-shirts along the way! This is why we will be able to not only create an E-commerce website for you, but also to advise how you can fully integrate this with your business.