E-TAILERS HAVE 10,500 CHOSEN ACTINIC FOR THEIR ECOERCE SITE 18 SUCCESS IN ECOERCE: TESTIONIALS 15 TOP TIPS: 1. Quality Design 2. SEO 3. arketplaces 4. obile Site 5. Customer Loyalty 6. Easy site Navigation 7. Catalogue management 8. Email Campaigns 9. Social Shopping 10. Promotions, Business Sales 11. Trustworthy 12. Price Comparison Sites 13. SS arketing 14. Delivery Options 15. Payment ethods Discover the practicalities of managing a high performing ecommerce site! "With a multi-million pound turnover per annum, our ecommerce website is at the top of its field." www.premierequine.co.uk OUR ECOERCE EXPERTS ARE HERE TO ASSIST YOU www.actinic.co.uk
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S IN ECOERCE "We moved our site to Actinic for a custom site created by the Actinic experts and access to a more powerful solution" We benefited from custom design and technical services for the creation of our site, and these wholly met our expectations. A multi-lingual site The Actinic solution is constantly being E ntire catalogue available improved with new features. The Actinic team on Facebook S ite optimised for search engines is great and always answer our questions obile version quickly. Actinic is the leading ecommerce solution in Europe and can be counted on for a smoothly operating site, even during busy sales periods such as Christmas. Our ecommerce sites are complete and powerful thanks to Actinic who helped us with all aspects (design, SEO etc.) ax Commençal- www.commencal-store.co.uk "24% of our orders are made through Amazon alone" With Actinic arketplace anager and SmartFeeds multichannel sales are made easy: our stock is automatically synchronised and we manage everything directly from our back office. We sell Brolliesgalore products on ebay, Amazon and Google Shopping. Using multiple distribution channels gives us access to a larger customer base and helps improve our products visibility. Christine Naysmith - www.brolliesgalore.co.uk Attractive design arketplaces User-friendly navigation ultichannel Actinic s innovative features give us the advantages we need to succeed and increase our sales. "In just two months our Facebook page has increased traffic to our site by 21.6%" We use our Facebook page to provide our customers with information and offer them a space to exchange thoughts and ideas. Design templates We post our new items, current offers and SEO advice on different ways to train. This has F-Commerce ultiple payment methods allowed us to attract customers, build loyalty, -Commerce increase our brand visibility and create a community of enthusiastic customers. We also activated the mobile version of our site and the results have been quite impressive: over 20% of our orders come from mobiles and our customers regularly use this channel to make purchases over 1,000. Our customers regularly make purchases over 1,000 on mobiles! Juan Antonio Vidal Sanfélix - www.corpomachine.com 3 Discover all the advantages of our Ecommerce solution: www.actinic.co.uk
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S IN ECOERCE "Thanks to Actinic s statistics we can measure the results of our efforts" You have access to a range of detailed statistics with Actinic, which is crucial for monitoring your sales, distribution Updated slideshows channels and measuring how effective Statistics your marketing campaigns are. This allows Detailed catalogue S ocial networks us to calculate our profit margin for each of B log our products and determine which ones we should continue to offer and which ones are less successful. We were pleasantly surprised to discover after activating the mobile version of our site that this growing sales channel represents an opportunity that cannot be ignored: it now makes up 11.92% of our orders! Having access to detailed statistics on your orders, visits, conversion rate etc. is an invaluable tool Peter Witts - www.willandglory.co.uk "Our site is available in 3 languages and we manage everything from one centralised back office." We ve grown our business on an international scale with a site available in three different languages that we manage from one central back office. We offer localised shipping and payment methods, and our stock is centralised and updated for each version of our site. All of these elements reassure our customers from different countries and help expand our customer base abroad. ultiple payment methods Price comparison sites Newsletters ultilingual Eduard Cortès - www.prepaidsatphone.com Actinic includes all of the services we need with hosting, updates, advice and experience. "We have between 7,500 and 10,000 visits a month" Our website is in the top Google results for important keywords thanks to the optimisation work of Actinic SEO experts. As we migrated our site to Actinic, we were worried about losing the search engine status we d already achieved. We SEO worked closely with the experts at Actinic Site traffic to carefully select the keywords, and igration D esign followed their advice on the optimisation of our site (rewriting URLs, optimising product descriptions, headings, etc.). Thanks to these efforts combined with some paid advertising, we were able to improve our status to second place in Google for a highly competitive keyword. This helps draw customers to our website we have between 7,500 and 10,000 visits a month, and 36% of these visitors come from Google. As 65% of our turnover comes directly from our site, this traffic is essential for our sales. Linda Naysmith - www.stickandcaneshop.co.uk 5 Discover all the advantages of our Ecommerce solution: www.actinic.co.uk
18 SUCCESS IN "25% of our sales come from abroad" Taking stock of our business potential we realised that exporting was a promising opportunity that could lead to success. SEO It turned out to be a winning bet as our ultilingual international turnover made up 25% of our Facebook Twitter overall sales last Christmas, up 30% from B log the previous year. Thanks to the Actinic solution and their custom individual training sessions we were able to quickly to get a handle on the platform and work on our organic SEO. Our keywords and website have been translated into 6 languages: English, French, Spanish, German, Italian and Dutch. Today we manage and update our website independently Jean-Philippe Thoër - www.shop-ballkit.co.uk "The mobile version of our website now accounts for more than 5% of our turnover" We worked on expanding our online reputation by creating two forums for hiking enthusiasts which we participate actively on. The expert Design advice and general good practice that we give out Traffic has helped build customer loyalty, and generates SEO a significant amount of traffic. Customer loyalty We also worked on expanding our online reputation by creating two forums for hiking enthusiasts which we participate actively on. The expert advice and general good practice that we give out has helped build customer loyalty, and generates a significant amount of traffic. Pierre Dumay - www.arklight-design.com The ability to measure the efficacy of products and price comparison sites has been a good way to increase our profitability. "We chose Actinic for their reliability, ecommerce expertise and number of successful sites" We regularly benefit from new features that enable us to keep our site constantly on the cutting edge. An effective design We frequently update our website s layout to A user-friendly site P roducts visible on Facebook attract customers, keep things fresh and build R eassuring elements customer loyalty. With our site s new userfriendly design our visitors have increased by 100% and our rate of visitors per orders has also significantly increased (over 50%). The Actinic experts helped make our site search more user-friendly. The Actinic solution offers both high quality technology (security, reliability and uptime) and a solution that is intuitive and user-friendly. 6 OUR ECOERCE EXPERTS ARE HERE TO ASSSIT TOU Pierre Baudoin - www.cave-atlantide.com
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