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Features

How to Keep Your Business Fresh in 2010

How to Improve Your Online Sales

Fine Tune Your Email Marketing Strategy in 2010

How to Avoid the SEO Scams

Featured Case Study

News In Brief

Facts & Figures

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Welcome To The January/February Edition

Looking forward to 2010 it’s all about how we can improve, grow and develop our businesses.

2009 saw more customers than ever using online, phone and mail order methods to make their purchases and the numbers are set to increase in 2010.

In this issue of ‘Grow Your Business’ we’ll give you some ideas to keep your business fresh in 2010.  Look at ways to improve your online sales and fine tune your online marketing. Plus show you how to avoid starting the New Year off in a bad way in our article about how to avoid falling for SEO scams.

If your company has implemented any innovative tactics to revitalise your business for the new year, and you’d like to share them with the other readers of ‘Grow Your Business’, then email them through and we’ll publish them in the next edition.

Kind Regards

Kam Kothia
Managing Director
eBusiness UK Ltd

Features

How to Keep Your Business Fresh in 2010
How to Keep Your Business Fresh in 2010

The small business community of Great Britain is characterised by its entrepreneurial and creative approach and by its ability to be flexible and versatile. The businesses that succeed in the next decade are going to be those who are brutally honest about their operations allowing them to anticipate and adapt to the changing business landscape. Find out more...


How to Improve Your Online Sales
How to Improve Your Online Sales

Although a huge amount of money was spent online over the Christmas period, you may be left wondering why based on the large numbers of visitors you had to your site, why a large number of visitors didn't buy from you. Find out more...


Fine Tune Your Email Marketing Strategy in 2010
Fine Tune Your Email Marketing Strategy in 2010

Despite the influx of social media in 2009, there is still a place for email marketing as we move into the new decade. The challenge lies in understanding how all the pieces of an online marketing campaign fit together to engage with the customer. Whatever communication tools you use, they need to be relevant and worth reading to encourage customers to take the actions you want them to take. Find out more...


How to Avoid the SEO Scams
How to Avoid the SEO Scams

We’ve all seen the adverts from companies offering to bring you more business than you’ve ever dreamed of through the use of SEO.  Those who claim to charge no set up fee, those who claim to get you guaranteed first page listings and those who claim that £20 a month will get you top rankings.  SEO can and does drive traffic to websites but there are also a lot of scams out there and companies will take your money and let you ask questions later.  To dispel a few of the myths surrounding SEO, here are a few facts you need to be aware of before you buy. Find out more...

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Featured Case Study

Lancashire Education Business Partnership
Lancashire Education Business Partnership

Pairing Lancashire businesses with educational establishments is the easiest it has ever been after the biggest match-making website of its kind - www.lepb.co.uk - received a major overhaul. Find out more...

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eBusiness UK News In Brief

Kam's expert opinion for Insider Magazine

Kam's expert opinion for Insider Magazine

Yorkshire branch of eBusiness UK selected by Rasmus Design to deliver new e-commerce website

Yorkshire branch of eBusiness UK selected by Rasmus Design to deliver new e-commerce website

Practical Solutions Website Tackles Honour Violence

Practical Solutions Website Tackles Honour Violence

If you're based in Lancashire, enter our competition to win a £5000 online solution

If you're based in Lancashire, enter our competition to win a £5000 online solution

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Facts & Figures...

Bad Weather = Good Business
Online retailers have reported huge increases in online sales which they attribute to the bad weather keeping people in.  During the first 2 weeks of January, a large retailer reported a 56% increase in sales from last year.  Whist another well known name was 26% up on the sales they achieved in the run up to Christmas.


Christmas 09 Ecommerce Stats
According to the British Retail Consortium, non food, non store sales (online, phone and mail order), were 26.5% higher than in 2008.  Also according to Motorola, 51% of shoppers overall and 64% from the 18-34 age group used their mobile phones for in store shopping related activities in the run up to Christmas.

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