Recent News
Adwords4less Pays For More!
UK, December 2011 - DataLink UK Ltd (t/a Holbi), an eCommerce solutions provider, in cooperation with its marketing partner Bullseyemedia launches a new module Adwords4less. The tool is developed to help customers advertise their products more effectively through Google Adwords by linking a webstore database and using categories and products information for automatic creating of campaigns into...Read more
Holbi donates funds to Wikipedia
Number 5 website in the world, publicly available and the most unique library that anyone can edit in their own language, is a not-for-profit organization that doesn’t advertise anything or anyone on its pages. The company fully depends on the library users not only in terms of rating and popularity, but also on their will to donate money every once in a while.Wiki hires barely 100 employees in...Read more
Unlimited Newsletter - Unlimited Choice
Pinner, Middlesex, UK 9th November 2011 – Holbi – an eCommerce design and development provider and a distributor of KeyCode products in the UK and Ireland – launches a website fully dedicated to the original e-mail newsletter system Unlimited Newsletter.Generally e-mailing systems are known for their limited capacity and options, yet Unlimited Newsletter implements limitless e-mail sending,...Read more
Google Wallet – a modern substitute to credit cards
In May 2011 Google first announced their new free application called Google Wallet. Except for being launched four months after that, it is an absolutely breaking-through app allowing for Android users to use their credit cards virtually on smartphones by paying in shops, restaurants, hotels etc. It’s as simple as a single tap of a phone on NFC, i.e. near field communication. Google Wallet...Read more
Marketing campaigns performance tracking
At Holbi we are not just eCommerce development specialists, but rather experts in eCommerce as a whole, and always at the leading edge of eCommerce industry. Holbi has recently come up with a new marketing tool that allows for tracking performance of online AND offline marketing campaigns resulting into customers placing orders.The major challenge that drove us to create the module was first of...Read more
Holbi’s partner KeyCode at IAB Forum 2011
IAB forum, one of the most influential events of the year, exploring digital communication and interactivity, was highly anticipated and is finally over. Holbi’s Italian partner KeyCode represented the company and despite of humble expectations to get very little attention from the forum visitors actually generated quite a lot of buzz. The main concern was all-embracing crisis throughout...Read more
Sage Pay: Promotion for osCommerce Retailers!
Sage Pay, an online payment service allowing for secure money transactions through a website, over the phone or by mail order, have cooperated with osCommerce to deliver a special deal to the online retailers.Basically, Sage Pay are offering all osCommerce retailers a 3-month deal of free gateway usage in return for new Sage Pay sign-ups, a deal worth over £60! According to osCommerce blog,...Read more
Effective ways to turn around a retail online business
We have identified the following simple ways to grow your business and we are happy to share our observations with you: 1. Increase traffic - can be achieved by advertising more. Requires investments into SEO, PPC, referral or affiliate programmes, e-mail or social marketing. Increases the turnover, might slightly reduce average conversion rate but provided average order and average...Read more
A must have - new plug-in for Gedit!
We required a temporary solution for the internal needs, so we developed a plug-in that allows flicking from the opening bracket to the closing, and backwards. The installation process is as follows:Download the archive with the plug-in (the archive is enclosed to the plug-in)Unpack the archive in the folder ~ / .gnome2/gedit/plugins /.Open Gedit and in a dialogue...Read more
Product bundling
Bundling is a selling strategy implying a suggestion to buy several products or render a few services as one compound unit, often at a discount. Product bundling is the most common in software business (e.g. Word, Excel, Access, Power Point and Outlook in the MS office suite), cable television industry (many channels united in a package at one price) and fast food industry (a few items combined...Read more
