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Using Facebook Like-gates for Social Media Marketing

Published on 2012-04-13 10:15:00

I was asked yesterday if E-creation does SM marketing. It took me a second to realise we were talking about social media - so after the initial confusion disappeared from my face, I said, 'of course'.Social media should not be filled with jargon - it's actually very simple and easy to explain ... but there is one important technical term to understand. The 'like-gate' ...The simplest explanation of a 'like-gate' within social media marketing is: 'a barrier requiring a Facebook visitor to "Like" [..] > read more

Magento E-commerce Website Development

Published on 2011-10-27 02:30:00

What is Magento?Magento is an open source e-commerce platform written in PHP with a wealth of built-in functionality & extendability through plugins. Magento was purchased by eBay in 2011 to form the cornerstone of its e-commmerce offering. It is used by 100,000+ merchants ranging from micro businesses to large corporations like Nokia, Salomon, Ford, Pentel & Mothercare.Mangeto e-commerce websites can be simple, fast & cheap ... or sophisticated, customised & expensive. As an open source platfor [..] > read more

Beautiful Business Card Design in Bournemouth

Published on 2011-09-15 03:39:00

Fast doesn't need to look cheap. E-creation recently produced a business card design for a local Bournemouth business with a 4 hour design budget (£275 + VAT). Okay, it's not a fast or cheap as online business card design tools or websites BUT the results are in a different league.Using a spot varnish, the golden area of the business card will actually 'shine' like gold within the need for expensive foil printing and will provide a better 'feel' to the finger. This is something that online busi [..] > read more

Integrating Magento & Sage 200 to achieve eBay's X.Commerce objectives for an start-to-end e-commerce platform

Published on 2011-08-03 06:38:00

Integrating Magento & Sage 200 to achieve eBay's X.Commerce objectives for an start-to-end e-commerce platformIn June 2011, eBay bought the remaining 51% stake in Magento as part of a strategy for its X.Commerce open source platform. eBay's goal is to provide a complete end-to-end service to e-merchants, bringing together local inventory data, discounts, pricing history, transactions & tools for payment with its auction platformMost SME businesses aim to become more profitable through growth but [..] > read more

Smartphone App Development - how to avoid the average iPhone app loss of £16,000+

Published on 2011-08-02 08:13:00

Smartphone App Development that makes sense ...After the hype & 500,000 Apple apps, why does the average iOS app lose £16,000+?Since Apple introduced the App Store in 2008, everyone seems to be developing iPhone applications. 500,000 iPhone apps available in Apple’s app store at the end of July 2011 with 15,000,000,000 downloads, but the underlying smartphone market is shifting:In the UK, in March 2011, the percentage of smartphones sold was:Android 38%RIM (Blackberry) 24 [..] > read more

Published on 2011-07-01 06:18:00

Twitter & Google's Instant IndexingThe world of digital marketing moves incredibly fast, with a constant flow of new tools and opportunities for businesses. It was only 5 years ago that Twitter was launched and for many businesses, let alone individuals, the value of creating a Twitter account is unclear. So here is why we think Twitter has become a useful business tool …Using Twitter and Blogger to instantly list your website content in GoogleTwitter is a 'micro blogging' website for publishi [..] > read more

Book Review: Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers

Published on 2011-06-21 06:12:00

We are voracious book worms here at E-creation and always looking for something interesting to read (any suggestions?) Even though this book is over a year old, it is our 'must read' book for 2011:Malcolm Gladwell's 'Outliers'Malcolm Gladwell scores a hit with another one of his books in our office, this time with the rather quirky 'Outliers'. Vaguely reminiscent of Freakonomics, Gladwell takes a look at people and unusual statistical 'outliers', analysing how 'destiny' drives success. As Malco [..] > read more

Sage Integration for Magento - Sage Magento Integration Connector launched by E-creation

Published on 2011-06-02 08:17:00

For the past 3 months, E-creation has been working on a substantial e-commerce website build using the Magento open source e-commerce platform. The website has been created to take the client from sub £1m turnover per annum to £2m+ per annum with a > read more

Open source website development vs. traditional website development

Published on 2011-01-22 04:55:00

Difference between open source website development vs. traditional website developmentIn a recent proposal, E-creation was asked to explain what open source website development is in laymen's terms. Since a layman's explanation of open source website > read more

F-commerce - Facebook & Amazon WebStore Technology

Published on 2011-01-17 10:39:00

E-creation was recently asked by a client to respond to the influence of F-commerce on the e-commerce market. As an agency developing e-commerce websites on a bespoke basis, we are rarely asked to look into these 'packages', since they do not offer t > read more

Fake Sony USB 64GB Memory Stick Warning

Published on 2010-12-23 07:25:00

Just a quick note regarding a 64GB Sony USB Memory Stick which we recently purchased which turned out to be a fake. We did not buy the unit in China (given the potential issues of quality control) but purchased from a USB memory stick seller based in > read more

WordPress E-commerce Website Design With Google Maps & Google Places

Published on 2010-11-26 12:34:00

Building a successful e-commerce website is more than effective functionality. It's the complete environment the website lives in. Our WordPress e-commerce website masterclass series covers the use of Google Maps & Google Places in this edit > read more

Booking Calendar Plugins for WordPress - E-commerce Website Design Part 3

Published on 2010-11-08 18:27:00

Unlike most e-commerce websites based around physical products, due to limitations on kitchen size, there are a limited number of orders that SecyCooking can delivered each day. As a result, a booking system with limited daily spaces, similar to a ho > read more

WordPress E-commerce Website Animation Design - Part 2

Published on 2010-10-29 05:53:00

Part one of our WordPress e-commerce website design overview looked at the commercial influences into E-creation's decision to start using WordPress as a CMS platform and WP e-commerce as a shopping cart plug.In the previous article, our top fiv > read more

E-commerce websites designed using WordPress & WP e-commerce work!

Published on 2010-10-28 19:30:00

E-creation has historically designed & built e-commerce websites using off the shelf shopping cart packages or custom written code. However, over the past year, we have noticed a web 2.0 trend towards using WordPress as a CMS platform with variet > read more

Virtual digital marketing director for growing SMEs

Published on 2010-07-13 06:24:00

E-creation's Virtual Digital Marketing Director service for SMEs is low-cost, low-riskDigital design agency E-creation is providing a 'virtual digital marketing director' service as a practical, pragmatic answer to in-house digital marketing requirem > read more

Professional website redesign for improved search engine performance and enquiry levels.

Published on 2010-06-14 12:25:00

Starting the business journey - professional website redesign to improve search engine performance & enquiry levels.For many businesses, their website has not delivered the business results promised by web agencies, who focus on design or develop > read more

Internet & online marketing campaigns for Bournemouth, Dorset

Published on 2010-02-12 09:03:00

E-creation is a Bournemouth based Internet marketing & online marketing agency creating world-class digital marketing campaigns using the latest web technologies & clever psycholinguistics for stunning business performance across websites, e- > read more