Competitor analysis involves learning more about the businesses that function around the same target demographic as you enabling you to assess their strengths and weaknesses whilst identifying opportunities and threats to your own business.
Often businesses become obsessed with competitor analysis whilst others can ignore what their competitors are doing completely. A healthy medium would be [...]
On Monday 29th June, Justin and I spoke at the SuperMondays event held at Newcastle University about the eCommerce experiment to a crowd of approximately 40 people. Thanks to Ross Cooney for inviting us to take part.
I am Alex Irwin!
I am currently working for Carrot Media as part of an eight week work placement set up by Shell Step, a placement scheme matching students and graduates with valuable work experience in relevant businesses. After several interviews with other companies, I was excited to read about this company as the project they were offering for [...]
In it to win it? Everyone has heard it one hundred plus times, however over the next two years as reported by the Daily Telegraph online sales are set to double. Even if we take into account that Paypal reported a £8.3bn drop in spending by the end of 2011, online sales are still expected [...]
We’re just starting up Eliot Turner which means we must keep our costs down, therefore this requires us to use the best camera we can get our hands on. Chris kindly volunteered his SONY DSC-T300 touch screen digital camera with 10.1 mega pixels and a 5x optical zoom.
This is great for the time being, however [...]
I can quite honestly say that the vast majority of micro businesses that form under the banner of a limited company don’t have a clue what they’re doing. This might be a sweeping statement but it’s something I’m convinced about.
People don’t realise a limited company requires lots of admin to maintain and run the structure [...]
We are lucky to already have a web developer on board for this project (me ), but if we didn’t have this experience in house, then we would need to look elsewhere. Choosing a web developer will depend quite heavily on your budget, expectations and the scale of your operation.
Once you know what your [...]
Little bit of background behind today’s first video blog post. Last night I decided to put together a short video on something that has been bugging me about Twitter lately, and it links very well to marketing the eCommerce experiment and Eliot Turner. I chat a little about the auto-follow feature in Twitter and how [...]
We’re moving on with the eCommerce experiment and currently putting the design together for the new store. The sneak previews will be shown in the coming week. We just wanted to let everyone know that a new name will be popping up on the blog in the next few weeks.
I had the opportunity to interview [...]
I believe that any business with clear goals which everyone in the organisation is working to will always succeed. We sat down as a team to discuss the goals for Eliot Turner for the coming year.
We decided to set 5 realistic goals which are:
1. Achieve a turnover of £100,000 in the first year of trading
2. [...]