WELCOME TO INDICA MEDIA, A LANCASHIRE BASED CREATIVE AGENCY SPECIALISING IN WEB, PRINT AND ONLINE MARKETING SOLUTIONS
Helping you make money online
The UK tops the European league of online spending and the billions spent via the web is set to increase year on year.
Many small and medium sized businesses have already enjoyed a major boost to their revenues but research suggests the growth potential is still high.
E-commerce stores are open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year taking orders and payments from your customers. With low overheads and money paid upfront - it's a fantastic business model but setting up a stylish, secure and successful e-commerce store is a major undertaking.
There is so much to consider. Which software should you use, what about merchant accounts and payment modules, SSL certificates, cross-selling functionality, affiliates, pay-per-clcik advertising or SEO?
We have tried and trusted experience guiding start up web companies through the entire process. We don't just build you an e-commerce website, we help you build a successful online business. At every stage we are focused on helping you the client make money on the web.
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Your new e-commerce store
It is essential your store attracts customers, functions flawlessly to install confidence and, importantly, is designed to be secure and search engine friendly.
Our inhouse e-commerce system has been developed to give you a highly professional e-commerce store which includes:
• Secure integrated payment model recognised by all - Paypal, HSBC, Worldpay, Barclays EPDQ, Protex, SecPay etc.
• Easy order and track order functionality.
• Real-time stock control. Update your stock without having to reload your site.
• Dynamic frontpage features including latest news, special offers, best-selling items, new products. All functions are easy to administer from the control panel.
• Configure shipping options. Easily configure shipping options for different types of products.
• Easy to set up and manage multi-tiered affiliates with full reports on sales and commissions.
• Inbuilt CMS system to manage content such as news and articles.
• Full customer tracking and extensive reports. Find out where your customers come from, what keywords they used in what search engine. Pay per click and 'clicks to sales' tracking with comprehensive reports plus other invaluable marketing and SEO features.
• Choice of Dedicated IP address and managed 24/7 hosting with dedicated customer service mobile number or Enterprise Class Managed Hosting.
• 128 Bit SSL certificate for 1 year.
• 12 month site support and maintenance.
Our team of qualfied, professional developers can also create tailored-made solutions to provide you with a bespoke website that perfectly matches your requirements.
Call us for details about creating an exciting and successful e-commerce business.
What about SEO?
You may have the best designed website in the world full of wonderful products that people will want to buy but unless potential customers can find your site in the search engines very few people will know that it even exists!
At Indica Media we consider the search engineering requirements at the very beginning of each project. It's no good designing a great site and then, when it's built, trying to make it search engine friendly (which is how most companies seem to approach it!)
We research your keywords and phrases and incorporate your search engine optimisation needs into the very first designs. This means we can optimise each page from the ground up to give your store the best chance of ranking well in search engines like Google and Yahoo.
If you are serious about e-commerce then SEO should be a key component of your business strategy. As well
as researching and optimising your site we source valuable inbound links which are vital in helping you achieve better SEO rankings.
We can also give advice and consultancy about other online marketing strategies such as advertising, affliates, Google adwords and pay per click advertising.
Our editorial and print experience also enables us to help you build an effective offline marketing campaign with press releases, media liaison and printed, promotional literature.
If you are looking to set up an ecommerce store we can help you every step of the way. Our experience has taught us about the difficulties and pitfalls of developing an online store and our customer focused practise ensures we are best placed to help new comers get off to a flying start.
In fact it gives us great pleasure to see a new online business flourish and begin to trade successfully online. Done correctly and with realistic investment, the small guy can really compete with the big boys!
If you've got a great idea for an online business then why not give us a call for friendly, jargon free advice.