London Internet Marketing No.1 Way To Increase Sales
Posted by Harrace, Senior Internet Marketing Coach
Greetings from Harrace and Fione in London!
We are spending our Christmas and New Year in Europe, starting with London and keeping an eye on the websites and eCommerce development here, for the purpose of gathering information for our upcoming Internet project in 2009.
In Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, I seldom saw any websites ad on TV. However, it´s quite common for websites ads to appear on TV in London, and most of the non-website ads would also have the website addresses stated clearly.
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| From Christmas Eve in London |
How is the financial tsunami hitting the UK? All the retails shops are offering unprecedented lowest discounts starting from Boxing Day. 50% discount is the norm, including famous brands such as Armani AX, Body Shop, Top Shop, River Island, and some even offering up to 70% off, such as Debenhams.
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| From Christmas Day London |
Fione in front of an ad in a department store in London
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| From Christmas Day London |
With this kind of discounts, I can see shoppers packing most of the shops and lining up in long queues in front of the cashiers. I was one of them!
However, retails sales is still experiencing a drop this Christmas.
What about online sales? This is still experiencing growth! On Christmas day alone where most of the shops were closed, 5 million people went online and spent 104 million British pounds, up from 84 million pounds in 2007.
Why the surge in online sales? According to survey, British consumers are more confident than ever to use their credit cards online. Faster broadband has made it easier to shop online. And they are less scared about retailers failing to deliver in time because retailers have got better in fulfilling orders.
But I think the main reason is that retailers are now more Internet savvy and use the Internet marketing to do promotions as well as do Internet retailing. For example, some high street retailers started their sales online on Christmas day while their physical stores were closed, and allow customers to collect their purchase items in the store.
Of course, those who are also savvy in doing Internet marketing will benefit most, and those who still didn’t embrace it will miss the boat and lose out to their competitors.
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:15 am
Hi Harrace,
Merry Christmas and wish you have a Happy New Year!
Do you have any affiliate programs recommended in UK?
Cheers,
Perry
December 30th, 2008 at 11:07 am
From the information above, internet marketing is very common today, although this journey is not easy to go but it worth to go. Wish Harrace and Fione have a wonderful christmas and new year!
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December 30th, 2008 at 12:48 pm
Dear Harrace & FIone,
Absolutely true, when we went for shopping , that is really so many beautiful things, so little time. hahah^^
And i believe money wont be the shopping problem for the successful internet marketing entrepreneur.
So everyone, catch the chance to be the internet marketing entreprenuer before it’s too late.
Can’t wait for the eOneNet 2 day internet marketing advance coaching on 28th February 2009 in Malaysia. c u there^^
Cheers,
Suki Tan
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December 30th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
In this economy situation, GB is affected but not hard as US. From my friends in England, the sales drop is under predicted and they do believe the pick up in 2009 is much faster, probably in 2nd quarter will start to recover. Therefore, I got request from my previous client through facebook to ask me as agent in HK to supply watches to England. Since this client just start his own business, he need time to prepare for new business but in production and R&D side, I got strong support from Mainland factory. Once my client get more solid business confirmation from his client and start to have design, I can jump in and start this new business.
As internet marketers, this kind of traditional trading business is also one of internet business you can do at this moment.
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January 1st, 2009 at 11:59 pm
Hi Harrace & Fione,
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!
Enjoy your holiday & the good news is i already start earning money from my website!!!
January 3rd, 2009 at 10:21 am
Hi Harrace & Fione,
Happy New Year !
I want to tell you that our blog already start earning money.
Cheer !
January 9th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Congratulations to all those of you already making money online!
Now it’s time for you to come up with an Internet marketing plan for 2009 to propel your online income to the next level!
Harrace