Neighbourhood associations and small businesses are looking to more creative ideas to engage with customers ahead of the christmas season Many local Business Improvement Area’s have looked to innovate and find new ways to connect with local customer bases. In Oakville and Beach Village, Toronto, online gift guides have been created to directly link customers…
Small Business Saturday and Cyber Monday have given small businesses a good start to the Christmas season as online sales climbed Ecommerce platform provider Bigcommerce saw sales increase 74% during the 5 day period with the Sunday sales rising 86% year over year The total number of orders from the Thursday to Monday period increased…
With yesterday being International Womens Day, many social media accounts for companies were posting about it. From messages thanking their female members of staff, to empowering posts about equality and raising funds for womens rights charities, there was a wide array of social media being used for good. However, there is always some attempts that…
A new report by Scotiabank found that 7 out of 10 small businesses asked said they were confident having survived Covid-19’s second wave and lockdown measures A further 4 in 10 said that they were ‘very’ or ‘extremely’ confident for the future. The report saw that many businesses feel far better equipped then prior to…
The search engine giant has announced the launch of a new crawl stats report in Google Search Console, aimed at making it easier to spot issues with Google Crawling The new report will offer new data, including comprehensive summaries, detail information on host status and total crawl requests The new influx of data and options…
The company, which specialises in providing samples of products to customers, had to close due to the pandemic, but has flourished online, with second quarter sales up 35% in April from the previous 3 months CEO and founder Marie Chevrier Schwartz said that when looking at the pandemic “We went pretty quickly from ‘Uh-oh’…
L’Oréal SA saw a 52% rise in online sales in 2019, the company has announced, from $3.39 billion to $5.14 billion. In a statement, the company said “Ecommerce is a unique opportunity to make more women and men discover our brand and our products” Ecommerce helped make up 16% of the companies sales last…
The Ottawa based company recorded a profit of US$36 million for the second quarter of this year. Reported in US dollars, Shopify recorded their adjusted earnings at $129.4 million, up $10.7 million from this time last year. Financial market data firm Refinitiv had expected the company to be reporting a net loss this year,…
Snap Inc has announced that the rise in users, thanks to Covid-19 and lockdown measures, has petered out sooner then expected, with their new estimate lower then originally. Stock prices fell 11% at the news before eventually paring losses to 6% The amount of daily active users, something often closely watched by investors and…
Despite being home to the some of the most sort after office space in Canada, downtown Toronto has seen a spike in office vacancies. 4.7% is the current vacancy rate for the area, rising a whole 2% from Q2 to Q3 It is a similar story in Vancouver, Montreal, Ottawa and Calgary, which has…