http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Richard+D+S+Hill Internet Richard D S Hill Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=701211&ca=Internet Imagine yourself in 1999 just before the millennium. What would you have said about ecommerce then? Let’s look at what actually happened in the USA (for which good statistics exist and which is just ahead of the UK curve). Since 2000, US ecommerce has had a compound annual growth rate of 19%. Over t... Internet Richard D S Hill Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=650621&ca=Internet B2B Ecommerce covers Ecommerce transactions between businesses, such as between a manufacturer and a wholesaler or between a wholesaler and a retailer. A recent US report, “Online B2B Marketing in the United States: Assessment and Forecast to 2010” reports an increasing focus on the online channel f... Internet Richard D S Hill Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=650624&ca=Internet We are going a bit wider and looking at B2B marketing and providing a few pointers on how this may be applied to your website. Both B2B and B2C marketing try to convert prospects into customers but there are clear differences between them. In much of B2C marketing the challenge and objective is to b... Internet Richard D S Hill Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=650633&ca=Internet Have you heard of location based services and applications (LBS)? If not the you are not alone as Forrester Research say that 84% of respondents said they’re unfamiliar with location-based services and only 4% of online adults in the U.S. have used location-based mobile apps and that only 1% update... Internet Richard D S Hill Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=650638&ca=Internet You may have noticed a new look to Google’s search results recently. That’s because more than 20 percent of searches on Google are related to location and Google and others believe that location based searches and marketing are set to increase. This is what Google had to say about the changes: “Toda... Internet Richard D S Hill Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=1159553&ca=Internet Whether you want or have a simple brochure website, a more sophisticated content managed website, a blog site or an ecommerce website, then, if you want to be found online, Search Engine Optimisation is essential as it's the most cost-effective way to deliver loyal customers to your website. Search... Internet Richard D S Hill Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=581284&ca=Internet WEBSITE USABILITY Website usability is all about improving your ROI by making your website more efficient and satisfying to users so this month we are presenting the ABC (accessibility, believability and content) for the important factors in website usability. If it is more efficient and satisfying... Internet Richard D S Hill Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=581295&ca=Internet Email newsletters Last month we realized that we had been sending out the newsletter for 5 years. That led us to thinking that a short article on what makes for a good newsletter might not be a bad idea and could even be a good one. So what does? It probably falls in to 2 areas – brand and technical... Internet Richard D S Hill Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=581298&ca=Internet Many of our newsletters are suggested by conversations we have with clients and others about the web. People like to know how things work and sometimes we all get baffled by ‘the march of technology’. We have, I guess, pretty much looked at something like: Intel® Core™ 2 Duo processor P7450, 4 GB DD... Internet Richard D S Hill Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=581301&ca=Internet We can hardly believe that it's a year since our June, July newsletters touched on Social Media - Facebook, Twitter etc. (And nearly a year since our September newsletter touched on the same subject). It's not that it has gone away. Facebook's own statistics and its timeline page says that growth wa...