To take your business to the next level of success, you must sell more, whether to existing customers, new customers or both. You may have to launch new products or services, target new types of customers or sell in new locations. Selling overseas can be transformative, with technology now making this quicker, easier and cheaper. But people will not buy from you if they do not know you exist, or what you offer and why they should buy it from you. Marketing makes this possi

If you’re not already doing it, selling online could be a game-changer for your business, such are the commercial opportunities it offers. Worth £127bn in 2024 (source: The Federation of Small Businesses), online now makes up more than 25% of UK retail sales, when that figure was only 3.3% in 2007 (source: ONS). About 52m people in the UK (77% of the population) were expected to make a purchase online in 2025, confirming the UK’s place as one of Europe’s most digitally activ

Fuelled by continued growth in recent years, the UK has hundreds of thousands of ecommerce-only businesses, but online sales also provide a crucial additional source of income for many UK businesses that also sell offline. Some are “bricks-and-mortar” retailers, but many other businesses of all sizes, types and sectors also now sell online. 11 Ecommerce FAQs 1 What is ecommerce? 2 What are the key benefits of ecommerce? 3 What are the main ecommerce channels? 4 How do I ch

With the value of online retail in the UK reportedly worth £127bn in 2024 and global retail online sales projected to reach £4.8 trillion in 2025 (source: The Federation of Small Businesses), it is no wonder that the already large number of UK businesses selling online continues to grow significantly. The UK has hundreds of thousands of registered ecommerce-only businesses, while a huge number of UK “bricks-and-mortar” retailers and other SMEs also sell online to generate mu