Having a sale, giving a discount for new customers, or creating a discount voucher is an excellent way of boosting sales to your online shop. Magento comes with an excellent set of tools for creating discount rules quickly and easily.

We recently upgraded our Magento ecommerce stores to version 1.4, starting with our new projects Bumble&bailey and Sound Affects Music. We always integrate all our websites with Google Analytics to keep track of website performance and conversion rates, but we started noticing some serious anomalies with the reporting for both these websites. We where receiving data for the Sound Affects website but not the online shop, and Bumble&bailey was showing a 98% bounce rate and just 1 visitor, data that we knew was just plain wrong. As we use Magento's built in Google Analytics integration we had a look at the tracking code, and sure enough that's where the problem lies.

We've got some really big changes happening at Creative Hub HQ happening over the next few weeks.

To increase your conversion rate you must reassure your customers that your website is safe to buy from and that you offer secure payment options. Make sure you offer payment methods that inspire trust and make it easy for your customers to check out. 

Could your business be losing out if it doesn't have an internet presence? A recent report by IMRG (Interactive Media in Retail Group) shows online shoppers spent a massive £132 million on Christmas Day last year, up 29% on the previous year.

Out of the box Drupal has some pretty powerful content management tools, but installing the best Drupal Modules just makes it the best solution for website design and management. If you are new to Drupal this list has some of the best modules for adding custom fields, administration, functionality, seo and more.

First it was the Germans, then the French and now even Microsoft themselves have had a go at their own browser and recommended you get yourself something better for browsing the internet!

By far the most important aspect of email marketing is the concept of permission. It is the only thing separating you and the spammers of this world.

Some people commission websites all the time, so they get to know what to look for when hiring a designer or developer. But if it’s your first time (or worse still, your second time and you had a bad experience before), then there are a few key things that can help you make your decision.

URL shorteners, like bit.ly, have become a popular way for people to share links on Twitter while taking up as few of the allotted 140 characters as possible.