Kidsontalks
This is my journey as an E-commerce Consultant
Spring is here and WIDSHOP eBay Design is growing!
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Ahh April, Cherry blossoms everywhere and my mother starts asking me to ‘water the garden’ while they of off travelling!
I have written a post on the WIDSHOP new section today about a new cleint that is looking exceptionally Spring like.
Makes me feel those random hail storms we keep having are a fallacy!
http://widshop.com/en/2012/04/widshop-ebay-design-is-taking-over/
On another note spring time is great to think about investing in your business. You know how much profit you made last year and how much you need to pay the taxman!
You can’t stagnate in the e-world, your competitors will leave you behind in a flash.
And while you are at it… Go Global or Go Home!
I stole this graphic from the Channeladvisor blog because I love infographics! Very US centric but it works both ways as the world wants UK stuff too!
David Cameron in Japan talking business…
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My Japanese might come in handy soon! I can buy cream puffs in Japanese Dave, take me with you next time!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-17661004
Sorry, I promise to write something intelligent soon. Far too much chocolate over Easter has made me silly.
I would have gotten away with it, too, if it wasn’t for you meddling online businesses!
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by Liz
in E-Business
Hearing a lot of this lately…Waterstones saying that Amazon is discounting it’s business into oblivion and the BBC reports on increasing shop failures.
“As online retailing continues to grow whilst overall spending is weak, the fixed costs and poor performance of some stores drag on the overall business.”
However, we all know online spending has been growing significantly for the last 10 years, why does it seem big business only decided to catch up when we hit a recession?
Did they not believe the figures?
Think it was a fickle avenue or passing fad did they?
When the supermarkets started aggressive online trading did they not think it was worth the investment?
Don’t blame us forward thinking e-entrepreneurs for your demise, we made it easy for you.
You didn’t take it seriously? TOUGH.
Damn you Amazon for providing me with music and books for the past 10 years: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/apr/06/amazon-destroy-britain-book-industry
Right, well that’s my rant over for today. Normal business will now resume.
Good news for a Monday morning….
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by Liz
in E-Business
‘I can see that the website changes have been made. Looks great. We have had the best weekend of sales on the site ever since it began!’
As a website designer/coder/guru all you want is for your work to produce SALES for your clients.
Feeling rosy now 
Learning Japanese and Korean Online all the way…
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by Liz
in E-Business
I started learning Japanese properly recently with a tutor over skype and have a subscription to Japanesepod101.com. I seem to have a need of the Japanese language more and more in my life so I decided it was time to learn properly.
However, I decided to subscribe to http://www.koreanclass101.com due to a strange love of the Korean language I have developed. I did think, well it will be nice to learn a bit of elementary korean for fun but god knows when I would ever use it!
However….http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-17508360 so I might need it for business!
If I had more time, I would learn Korean and Chinese formally as I love to learn language. However, just learning Japanese formally is a lot of work!
Chinese and Korean will just be fun to know languages until such time as I need them!
