A recent report has highlighted eight out of ten respondents had visited a shops website first before visiting in person. According to a US survey in May 2008 that was conducted by Nielsen, more than half the people said they purchased from retailers that have websites they frequently visit.
This highlights the need for regular website updates and communications with your customer base; to regularly try and bring them back to your website. Now more than ever businesses that do not have websites will start to lose out. Consumer trends are displaying that a website is an important part of their purchasing decision.
Another point stated that 58% of respondents said they would choose the Internet to research their products instead of asking their friends and family.To me this shows that there is so much more information available online and consumers are finding it easy to learn more about the products they intend to purchase.
Today you still see many websites that do not have full details or product specifications online, this will become more important because the websites that do contain detailed information will provide a better resource and gain more sales.
Now is not the time to cut back on online investment, now is the time to embrace the increased e-commerce traffic and provide a better online resource to your consumers.
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Apple CEO Steve Jobs has been named the most influential individual in the global technology industry, topping the silicon.com 2009 Agenda Setter's list.
Jobs has made pole position on the list for the second time (the first time being in 2003) - the only person to have achieved this feat in the 10-year history of the list.
The silicon.com Agenda Setters list is voted for by an expert panel which chooses the 50 people who exert the most influence on the worldwide IT industry.
Jobs has made pole position on the list for the second time (the first time being in 2003) - the only person to have achieved this feat in the 10-year history of the list.
The silicon.com Agenda Setters list is voted for by an expert panel which chooses the 50 people who exert the most influence on the worldwide IT industry.
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In the UK, the effect has been so dramatic that online took the biggest slice of advertising revenues in the first half of 2009.
US online ad spending revenues were down 5.3% year over year, to $10.9 billion in the first half of 2009, according to figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC).
“While our preliminary estimates point to another decline in the year’s second half, expect that to be less than the first half’s 5.3% drop,” said David Hallerman, eMarketer senior analyst.
On the positive growth side, search spending was up to reach 47% of the total online spend. And online video ad spending. though still small in absolute terms, was up 38%.
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