In the long terms will we stay with HSBC? I doubt it unless our business grows drastically to over £1 million. The major problems I had with HSBC are that unless you are a sizable business they really don’t care and are faceless in communicating with their customers. When you need something from them you have a long drawn out process and no ability for them to be flexible. Business colleagues who are running large turnover businesses can’t speak highly enough of HSBC as a personal bank manager is appointed.
We called an emergency meeting in the office where we all sat down to discuss how we can build ecommerce business for our clients faster with less cost. A throw away remark was made; “well short of starting our own ecommerce business how will we find out?”. This was a great idea and putting your own money on the line will definitely help the team concentrate on finding the right formula for our own solution.
We have always used our own software for our ecommerce sites from the beginning. Since then the system has been added to and modified as and when required to add or improve functions on a very ad hoc basis. We had been planning various upgrades to the system in order to improve it’s functionality and [...]