With mobile now not only a viable, but an expected marketing channel, businesses are flocking to build a presence on the mobile web. Desktop sites may load on most modern mobile devices but is this the best way to make your company known? Where do apps fit in? Here are our top tips for businesses [...]

2011 has undoubtedly been the year of technology on the move. People have now come to expect access to everything everywhere. We held a round table debate to discuss the biggest technological advances of 2011 and it was pretty obvious that ‘on-the-go’ is ‘on-the-up’. Looking back at the footage of the debate, there are three [...]

Mobile internet is massively on the up. Pensioners are tweeting and Facebook-ing, but hardly any of us purchase e-learning material on the net. This is according to the latest Office of National Statistics internet usage statistics report for the twelve months leading to 31 August 2011. We all know how the internet is fast becoming [...]

This is a guest post by Liam Ahern. Liam is an Online Business Specialist at I-COM (www.i-com.net), an award winning online marketing agency in Manchester. I-COM offers a full range of online marketing services, including web design, social media marketing, PPC, web development and SEO.   Are you using social media to promote your ecommerce [...]

This month’s e-commerce themed round table broaches a massive range of topics within the e-commerce umbrella. Our communications director Jonathan Bowers hosted the event as usual and attendees are Nick Rhind, MD of CTI Digital, David Grimes, director at myParcelDelivery, Liam Ahern of I-Com, Rob Walters of thefurnituremarket and UKFast’s very own technical director Neil [...]

The riots in the UK last week garnered worldwide coverage. Rightly or wrongly, social media took a lot of blame – especially Twitter and BlackBerry messenger (BBM). During the uprisings in the Middle East, especially Egypt, Twitter took a lot of the credit for facilitating the communication needed to action the uprisings. In these cases [...]

This is a guest blog by Dave Chaffey who is CEO and co-founder of SmartInsights.com, the digital marketing advice site.  He is a  consultant, speaker and author of 5 acclaimed books on digital marketing including Emarketing Excellence and Internet Marketing: Strategy, Implementation and Practice.   In the recent UK Fast roundtable on customer service I recommended applying [...]

When Amazon first released their e-book reader, the Kindle, in 2007, it sold out in five and a half hours. Even with this hype e-books were still seen as a relatively niche area. I don’t believe many back then would have predicted the results of a report released yesterday announcing that the Kindle and e-books [...]

The news announced last week that banks are earning additional revenues by enabling customers to use mobile devices for their banking needs, is more evidence to support the idea that m-commerce is a fast-growing industry and businesses should consider how they will harness its power sooner rather than later. According to a TowerGroup study commissioned [...]

The news announced today that The Telegraph is to put its web content behind a paywall is significant – not only for the publishing industry but for the advertising industry, for digital businesses of all sizes and for consumers of media. The newspaper is the third of the big five nationals to opt for a [...]