Businesses not maintaining their websites are at risk of online revenue loss
A website is essentially an online shop window for your business, whether that be for a service or products. The pandemic forced many customers to shop online, and businesses that adapted and responded to this demand fared well. But to what extent can a well-maintained online presence really influence sales and revenue in the long run? As part of its …
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Online collaboration tools can end up hindering productivity
Although communication and collaboration platforms are designed to improve productivity, they can sometimes have the opposite effect. A new report from enterprise search platform Sinequa asserts that having too many platforms to work on causes staff to forget who shared what with them – and where that data is stored. As a result, they spend too much time searching for …
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Square Online: website builder, ecommerce and more
Square is a popular and well-known ecommerce solution, with a native site builder that has helped thousands of businesses get online fast and ranks among the best website builders, as well as being one of the best website builders for ecommerce and the best website builders for small business, via its ownership of Weebly. “From side gigs to sports stadiums,” …
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Can the UK compete globally on online retail?
Around the world, eCommerce is experiencing skyrocketing growth. For the year 2021, the sector is expected to reach a sales value of $4.89 trillion. Indeed, online retail as a proportion of total retail sales in the UK nearly doubled, up from 19.5 percent in January 2020 to 35.2 percent in January 2021. Questions over the sustainability of this boom once …
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Expanding online footprints can be the key for UK SMB success
The UK’s SMBs are looking to digital innovation in order to help them succeed in the post-pandemic world, new research has found. A survey from Cisco looked at the priorities and growth opportunities for small businesses in the UK as they navigate a new hybrid world, and found that digital and tech solutions are vital for many. Overall, 40 …
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2020 was a record year for online scams
During 2020, there were 15 times more online scams than in the previous year, a new report from the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) claims. Basing the report on the results of the organization’s Active Cyber Defence program, the NCSC claims to have mitigated more than 700,000 online scams last year, which includes 1.4 million URLs. The program heavily …
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Users are more concerned about online privacy following pandemic
The pandemic has made consumers in the UK more worried about their online privacy, a new report by digital identity firm Callsign is saying. Polling 2,000 UK adults, Callsign says almost a third (32 percent) are more worried than before the pandemic, and of those people – another third say it’s because they don’t know what data the companies are …
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Online shoppers are turning to guest checkouts due to security fears
To avoid sharing private and sensitive data with retailers and other companies, almost a quarter of online shoppers (22 percent) opt for a guest account. This is according to a new report from global commerce search and discovery platform, Empathy.co. Polling 4,000 online shoppers in the UK, the company not only identified increasing awareness of sensitive data among consumers, but …
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Millions of BigBasket users have details leaked online
Personally identifiable data relating to more than 20 million BigBasket users has allegedly ended up on an underground forum where criminals buy and sell stolen data and hacking tools. As reported by TechCrunch, hackers going by the name “ShinyHunters” posted the database on the dark web for free over the weekend. The publication analyzed a small sample of the database …
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Winning customers online with successful experimentation
The results are clear – businesses can’t neglect experimentation. There is now a sea of tangible proof showing how businesses that experiment, often significantly improve their online metrics. This includes increasing page views and time spent on site, and ultimately improving the businesses bottom line. In today’s digital era, experimentation should be top of the agenda for any business operating …
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