Myself, Jamie, at the age of 22 setup The Bicycle Doctor in November 2001 after realising the need for a quality bike shop in the area. It was also my dream to own and run a bicycle shop.
I was announced the winner of The Royal Bank of Scotland and the Princes Trust business of the year for both Wales and the UK in 2002. Since then the business has steadily grown and is the leading cycle store in Wales.
In 2008 we felt the need for an ecommerce site to expand our business and offer our products to an increased audience.
Having only been trading online for a couple of months we have seen an increase almost immediately in sales. We have also seen an increase in people walking through the shop floor having seen the website and our products.
ekmpowershop are a very professional company. The staff are knowledgeable and very understanding in my business needs. They are a company who can adapt and realise that time is important, and small businesses like ours needs advice and information fast.
I am 27 years of age and have 2 small children and it is important to me to have
time to see them grow. In any sales role where I have previously been employed, I have worked from 7 in the morning until 10 at night and was frowned upon for taking time off. So we set up a separate business www.proppa.com to sell automotive accessories, and with the support of ekmpowershop we have gone from nothing to over £100,000 a month in turnover. In less than 12 months! I have not sold a car since!
I chose ekmpowershop after having experience with other web designers; I was fed up
of constantly calling them to make changes and having to wait weeks for them. I researched
packages that would enable me to do it myself with very little computer knowledge. I tried a few and wasted some money. There are some other OK ones out there but ekmpowershop is simply incredible! The only one that came close to it cost thousands of pounds.
ekmpowershop have been fantastic, they are always there to answer your calls and reply to emails incredibly fast.
I would recommend ekmpowershop to anyone within any other industries but never to a competitor!
My name is Martin Weston; I have been running an online business for about 20 months selling digital cameras, lenses and accessories. Our business has grown and grown during this time and we have now opened our first “bricks and mortar” shop on a main street location on the outskirts of Leeds. Our business is still predominantly internet based, but having the shop also allows our customers to meet us face to face if they wish to collect their orders in person.
This business was started, initially as a hobby/second income. It soon became apparent that there was potential for it to become much more than that. Before long, I found myself working 16 hours per day 6 days a week to fulfil our orders. As far as ambitions for the future are concerned, we would like to continue growing and growing, but we will allow that to happen in a controlled way and try not to bite off more than we can chew in the short-term.
I chose ekmpowershop.com as my ecommerce provider because their website made everything seem so simple. It was a very cost effective way to start trading and I soon realised, after making a few telephone calls, that I would always get the technical back-up that I most definitely needed.
Top tip for using ekmpowershop.com is simple; if there’s anything at all you don’t understand, no matter how simple or stupid you think your question is, just call them!
My experience with ekmpowershop.com has been excellent all the way through. After 16 months of successful trading, I decided to upgrade the company image. I ordered a professional web design from ekmPowershop.com and left the rest to their guys in the tech dept. Click on my website www.martinscamerashop.co.uk I think you will agree they’ve done a pretty good job and obviously know a thing or two about what looks good and what doesn’t.
I stumbled across EKM Powershop last year as I had paid someone to put a shopping cart system on my existing website – www.fabricraft.co.uk. If I wanted to make any alterations to prices or postage, it was really difficult to get into the code and make changes confidently without the worry that I might have done some damage.
Having an e-commerce system had improved orders and a friend asked me to add a shopping cart to her web site but I didn’t want to go down the same troublesome route. I found EKM Powershop through Google and it totally changed everything. I spent the weekend playing around with the demo shop and really enjoyed the ease of use. The cost is very reasonable and the support line staff extremely helpful and friendly. I soon added a shopping cart to my friend’s website – www.ribbonbox.co.uk
My business is selling Christmas stockings and bow ties and after having completed the Ribbonbox site quickly, I decided to completely revamp my own e-commerce system and signed up for EKM including hosting and have not looked back since then. Fabricraft usually appears on the first page of Google and most other search engines when searching for Christmas stockings, which I am sure, has been helped by having the EKM system and the automatic submission to numerous search engines. I also signed up to have statistic reports on how customers are directed to the site, which is invaluable. I am now coming up to busiest trading time of the year and know that I have complete control over my site and what is sold by the minute. If a particular fabric is getting low, I can instantly take it off the site, without running the risk of disappointing a customer.
I have been asked to create another website early in 2008 and once again will sign up with ekmPowershop. I cannot recommend ekmpowershop highly enough!
We are an automotive parts business in the north of England. Over the years we have specialised in auto electrical parts for the material handling services. We decided five years ago to take these two aspects of our business to the internet market.
One day I was so fed up with our site having the right products but not the view-to-sale conversions. Then I found the free ekmpowershop demo. At only the first try I remember having a sigh to myself about all the wasted weeks and months trying to make a quality looking site with limited tools, when ekmpowershop is crammed full of useful and professional tools which we needed very little knowledge to master.
Our experience with ekmpowershop has been great. In a world where customer support and service is a rude word ekmpowershop has become a partner we believe we can go forward with and expand in confidence knowing whatever the issue there will be no brick wall’s put in our tracks that we cannot get round or sort out.
We would recommend ekmpowershop to any business! When you look at companies that offer packages similar to ekmpowershop it is not until 12 months down the line that you realize your mistakes. ekmpowershop have proved with word and deed their value to us. We hope all businesses thinking of swapping or starting an internet shop try ekmpowershop and avoid the pitfalls that unfortunately are in abundance in the ecommerce trade.
Our aim at Lotus Cars was to create a clean and fresh online store, which matched our new branding, whilst providing a simple to use system for our customers and for maintaining our product range. The ekmpowershop ecommerce system proved to provide the best of all worlds, allowing us to easily develop the look and feel of the site to meet our requirements, whilst keeping a simple site structure and a simple process for maintaining products.
Our customers find the site is easy to navigate, and the checkout process simple, which makes purchasing products easy for visitors - clearly an important feature in any online venture.
We have found the EKM team excellent to work with. They have been highly responsive, have listened to our feedback, and are constantly adding new and improved features, ensuring the store meets the expectations of a world-wide shopping audience.
Being a keen user of the web to shop for goods, I was well aware of
the ever growing population of like-minded people who are too busy to
trawl the high streets for the best deal when making a purchase.
For
this reason I wanted to start trading online at the earliest
opportunity and obtained a quote from a web developer for building a
site from scratch. The prices started from £2000 without shopping
facilities and without the ability to manage my own data!
A friend
was already using ekm for her products and convinced me to have a
look, but it all seemed too cheap for everything on offer - I thought
there has to be a catch. I made numerous phone calls to ekm's sales
team to try and unearth the loopholes, but did not find any, so
decided to have a go, knowing that I could end my contract at any
time without penalty.
I asked ekm's developers to design and build
the site layout for me for a nominal fee, as I wanted to focus on
building the products.
Since launching the site last year, online
sales have steadily increased and I am adding more and more items all
the time as it is so straightforward to do.
I can honestly say that
ekm has remained supportive throughout this time and has always
offered a top class service. New design features are added on a
regular basis which means the product gets better and better!
Just wanted to say a massive thankyou for all the help from your team. After years of having a site from one and one that sat on the internet with no search engine listings we decided to move our shop to ekmpowershop.
Since transferring our shop over to ekmpowershop, we are already seeing positive results including being listed at position four in just under a day. Just wanted to thank everyone at EKM and let other customers know it was the best commercial decision i have made in years.
Before I decided to settle for ekmpowershop, I had done extensive research about bespoke and the off-the-peg ecommerce solutions, and also had to consider the overall pricing of hosting and website creation. I had previously paid a website developer for a website, but the website was inflexible and difficult to use, for example, the website application would not even automatically resize the product photos!
I am especially pleased with the templates provided by ekmpowershop and I have used one of them in my website design. I am a hands-on person who loves the autonomy this system allows me, I just add the photos or product information, click and it's done.(No HTML required!) Your applications are so easy to use!
The few times I have contacted you by email and phone you have responded quickly and given advice free of charge.
I would like to shout it from the rooftops that I can honestly say, I look forward to many more years with ekmpowershop.
We run a shop and restaurant in romantic Lyme Regis overlooking the outstandingly beautiful Jurassic coastline. The shop has become a secret haunt of weekenders looking for treats for themselves and gifts to take home. We set up loveithaveit.com two years ago to offer our fashion, home and gift ideas online.
We started loveithaveit.com to reach a wider national audience and to become less reliant on the seasonality of our offline business.
We wanted total control of our website on a day-to-day basis because we are always introducing new products. ekmpowershop.com makes it so simple to upload new products and update existing ones. What also sets ekmpowershop.com apart is its import/export functionality which gave us the reassurance that we have choices to develop add-ons like EPOS.
Having recently had our webstore re-designed by ekmpowershop.com, it has proved what a good design can do for your sales. Within the first month we saw an uplift of 150%. I would suggest a written brief to give your designer a clear steer on how you want it to work and how you want it to look. Sounds obvious but it’s a good focus.
Very responsive to our many queries and always trying to find ways to help and improve their offering. For example, to coincide with the recent VAT decrease, ekmpowershop.com added a bulk price change facility.
Since we launched the new design we are growing from strength to strength with orders come in from every part of the UK.
We are a family run business based in Devon. After the birth of my son I decided that I wanted to work for myself, and so Toys and Interiors was created. I thought it would be great to work really, really hard and try and reap the rewards for myself.
After much research, we found ekmpowershop.com and I have to say there is no competition – ekmPowershop.com from day one have been totally professional and helpful. Its easy to see why they are the biggest ecommerce provider in the UK.
We have been trading for a little over 18 months and every month our sales increase. Having had the website recently re designed by ekmpowershop. Our ideas were listened to and turned into a great site which we are really pleased with. Our sales increased the day the new site was updated - I wish we had done it sooner!
In a word, brilliant - I would definitely recommend anyone to use this company, nothing is too much trouble. We looked at other ecommerce providers before making our decision and I am so pleased we found ekmpowershop.com, as I know of others who have spent a lot of money and time with websites that don’t work. With ekmPowershop.com everything is at your fingertips – it’s very quick and easy to update.
ekmpowershop.com are very approachable, the product is very versatile - anything is possible and it’s easy to use. If you have any problems there is always someone on hand to help guide you through the process.
Jusonne UK was founded in 2002 by myself and my Business Partner Julia. After we
had babies at around the same time, we set up the company originally so that we didn’t have to go out to work. It was going to be a small sideline!! However we soon found ourselves having bigger and bigger ideas and haven’t really looked back.
We chose ekmpowershop because it was primarily so easy to use. We had previously
been using Frontpage, but found it long winded and extremely off putting to use. We found
ekmpowershop on the internet and it was soooooo easy, we immediately knew it was the one for us.
Our online shop has been successful. However, since we have had a re-launch and a
ekmPowershop custom design, it has become more so. Sales have definitely gone up for the
time of year.
I would definitely recommend ekmpowershop. Infact I have done so to several
people that I know are setting up online businesses.
Choose ekmPowershop! Anyone can make a website with them its too easy
