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Does my business need an e-commerce website?

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E-Commerce Mobile Friendly Website E-commerce is worldwide the fastest growing retail market, the UK sells the most items online in Europe, and its market is expected to grow to £52.25bn this year an increase of 16.2% on 2014 according to econsultancy.com. 74% of UK population own a smart phone with 72% of them shopping online retail research.org 45% of online sales are now made over mobile devices, according to the IMRG. The retail trade association says “growing consumer confidence in the technology appears to be fuelling the drive towards buying over smartphones and tablet computers.” Why use e-commerce for my business? With this in mind if you run small business or sell a product or service your website needs to be e-commerce enabled and mobile compatible if you’re going to compete moving forward. For centuries the way consumers and businesses traded hardly ever changed, over the last 15 years it’s changed more than it ever will. The customer used to have