Now is the time to grow online
Imagine opening your shop doors to every person in the world. Imagine that they can experience your products and services without ever having to leave home. There is no need to imagine, the time is now.
We at Lingo24 know the pressures faced by e-commerce professionals when it comes to translation. On our blog we share tips on how to make use of the appropriate translation technologies for your e-commerce business.
Imagine opening your shop doors to every person in the world. Imagine that they can experience your products and services without ever having to leave home. There is no need to imagine, the time is now.
If you’re not online, you’re obviously… offline; but you’re also off the map. In the past few years most store-front retailers have fully embraced e-commerce and set on a path to international growth.
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An e-commerce website allows you to reach a wider audience and sell your products worldwide, around the clock, while you’re doing your dishes or walking your dog.
Fashion e-commerce is clearly very fashionable: Europeans spent over £30 billion on clothes online in 2015, making it the biggest product category for internet purchases.
Europeans have always looked abroad for better deals: Brits buying wine in Calais, Finns venturing to Estonia for vodka, and Spaniards exploring the exotic offerings of Andorra.
The growth of the internet and the influence of globalisation have combined to make doing business abroad easier than ever before.
Black Friday is very much an American invention. It’s the day after Thanksgiving Day for a start, which is as American a holiday as you can get.
If you have an online presence you already have a global reach. Theoretically anyone can access your website, blogs, social media and other online materials from Beijing to Buenos Aires, but in practise there are a number of barriers that are likely to prevent them from doing so.
When it comes to translation buying, cost per word can often be a deciding factor between suppliers. While for a short-term solution being able to negotiate a cheaper price could result in a small cost saving, companies looking to maximise profitability from their international operations are increasingly adopting a more strategic approach.