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Online Retailers are helping us all to cope better with the Pandemic

Most ecommerce businesses are demonstrating best practice in maintaining the highest levels of safety for those at work while making our own locked down lives more bearable during isolation.

Is it best to use agencies or use an inhouse team for ecommerce?

When should an ecommerce manager use internal staff or agencies/free-lancers to have the most effective team for your ecommerce business?

Scotland’s First Dedicated Course on Ecommerce Begins

With funding provided by Scottish Enterprise and Skills Development Scotland, a pilot course on Ecommerce has been launched at the Business School at Strathclyde University and delivered by the Institute of Ecommerce.

Celtic plays away at the Glasgow Ecommerce Club

Manager John Bruce this week playing at the City of Glasgow College.

Ecommerce Marketing Calendar for 2020

Here’s something to pin to the office wall to remind you about all your themed ecommerce marketing campaigns for 2020.

UK Ecommerce Shows Fastest Acceleration … Ever

UK Ecommerce accelerates into the record books with a massive £688 billion turnover

Black Friday: Seasonality for Ecommerce Managers

How should an ecommerce business best allocate resources throughout the year and best cope with spikes such as Black Friday?

Ecommerce Club Glasgow: First Meeting

The inaugural meeting for the Glasgow Ecommerce Club took place at the City of Glasgow College.

Institute of Ecommerce & Women's Enterprise Scotland

The recent sell-out event bodes well for both organisations - Institute of Ecommerce & Women's Enterprise Scotland

Glasgow Ecommerce Club

The newly formed Institute of Ecommerce is launching a series of local Ecommerce Clubs. A new one kicks off on 6th November at City of Glasgow College.

The Case for a Glasgow Ecommerce Free Trade Zone

An ecommerce focussed free trade zone would be a bold strategic move to boost the local economy. How might it work and how might it dovetail with an ecommerce strategy for Glasgow.

Reskilling & Upskilling in Ecommerce

The report provides detailed evidence to support its view that the dominant factor that is holding back ecommerce in Scotland is a pervasive lack of skills.

Magento/PHP Back-end Web Developer

Are you a Backend Web Developer looking for a change? INDEZ have a full time job opening for a Backend Web Developer based in our Glasgow office. We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic individual to join our growing team. If you think it may be of interest or you know someone who would be perfect for it please get in contact with us.

Hire or Automate; the key question to scale ecommerce?

Hire a new employee or automate business processes? If you have a rapidly growing ecommerce business then this article is worth a read before you hire your next employee.

Bad Bots; What Ecommerce Businesses Need to Know

Bad bots can cost you money in surprising ways. Get up to speed on what you need to do to make sure it’s not your business that suffers.

Ecommerce Payment Changes Coming this September

Strong Customer Authentication for ecommerce payments is about to happen. This is what you need to know along with what you should do about it.

Definition of Ecommerce

Good communication and shared understanding require a common definition of words and exactly what they mean. Ecommerce is a subject where different definitions have sometimes led to confusion and a misunderstanding around statistics, trends and Key Performance Indicators. In the following article we attempt to provide the ultimate guide to EXACTLY what ecommerce is (and is not).

IKEA is changing its business model

IKEA is a hugely successful global retailer of scale; it’s the world’s largest furniture business. The company now plans to progressively change its business model in favour of ecommerce combined with smaller city-centre demonstration stores. This inevitably means proportionately less focus on their out of town retail warehouses.

Productivity and Ecommerce

Ecommerce means ‘productivity for sales’. Any business that’s serious about improving their productivity should start by automating their online sales process.

Customs Union, Frictionless Trade & Trade Automation

Global trade continues to grow. This combined with the rapid growth in small-package trade resulting from consumer-led ecommerce means that the number of cross-border packages is rapidly increasing. How should we handle this and what advantages might follow from automating cross-border trade?

Cash Flow is King when running a business - How true?

In the process of running a business cashflow can seem like a daunting and boring task. We have a few tips & tricks that help us along the way.

How good is Shopify for International Ecommerce and Online Exporting?

Shopify is a great platform for small and startup businesses that want their own platform to begin trading online. Once the tills are ringing and you plan to trade outside the UK, is it still effective or do you need to replatform?

Why Ecommerce is damaging the Scottish economy

The relentless shift to online retail results in an export of jobs, local taxes, wealth and business infrastructure to those places that fuel the ecommerce supply chain. While Scottish people seem just as likely to buy online as those from other parts of the UK, those that supply our ecommerce needs are increasingly elsewhere.

UK web ecommerce growth accelerates to 21%

The UK Government just published its annual review of UK ecommerce. Results show that UK web-based ecommerce growth is accelerating to three times the growth rate of China.

Occam's Razor; the most important principle in Ecommerce success

Occam was the first to lay a solid theoretical basis for why ‘simple is best’. This post discusses why adhering rigidly to this principle provides the most efficient, logical and effective basis for establishing and growing an ecommerce business.

How Service Businesses can Sell Online

If you are a service business that wants to sell online, this article provides a list of ways to do it along with a few tips and tricks to help make it work.

Don't Forget the Desktop When Selling Online

Desktop and tablets remain the devices of choice for those buying online. Whatever your screen preference might be, businesses that want to optimise their sales and profits must continue to design first for desktop.

Is the UK still number one for ecommerce?

Recently, the UK has has been overtaken by both China and the US in terms of the overall size of our ecommerce trade. Here we look in more detail at the ecommerce landscape across these big three markets to help better understand what the future might bring for electronic trade.

Ecommerce and the Pareto Principle of 80-20

The Pareto Principle explains a lot about how ecommerce works. It’s based on solid mathematical principles and can help explain why a business works the way it does along with providing strategies and mechanisms for improvement.

INDEZ are Hiring a Magento Developer

Job Vacancy - Magento Web Developer Full time based in Glasgow We are looking to increase our team here at INDEZ and are on the hunt for a talented Magento Web Developer to join us.

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