Based out of our own in-house business and making an online profit since 1995, we are a team of experts dedicated to meeting all of your E-Commerce and online business needs – web development being a big part of that. Because we have nearly 15 years of experience in web development and other related services, and due to the fact that we’ve worked with an incredibly diverse array of customers in the past, we’re able to take all of our knowledge and apply it to all of our future projects. We’ve worked with large organisations such as Bisley; one of the premiere furniture manufacturers in all of the UK; Paramount Comedy Channel, a popular television station that is owned by MTV and is now known as Comedy Central, and NHS websites for the UK Government. Moreover, we have plenty of experience in helping small and medium-sized businesses achieve their online goals as well.
With all of this experience behind us it’s easy to see how DigiSpike has become one of the leading innovators in web development technology today. Whether you are starting an online business for the very first time or even if you have an already established business model that you’d like to improve upon, the professionals at DigiSpike have a variety of web services that will help you realise all of your online potential. This includes services such as:

Website development and management for any scale
It doesn’t matter if you need a simple website with only a few pages or a vast network of interconnected pages and sites, DigiSpike can meet your needs.

W3C and Royal Institute for the Blind compliancy
The World Wide Web Consortium, abbreviated W3C, is an organization that sets forth the international web standards and requirements to ensure a safe online environment for all. In addition to full compliance with the W3C standards, we are compliant with the Royal Institute for the Blind as well.

Security and encryption
Our experts at DigiSpike understanding how important security is when it comes to maintaining an online presence; especially when you’re in charge of customer’s credit card numbers or other sensitive data, security is of the utmost concern. That’s why we employ a variety of security and encryption techniques to make sure that all of our servers are completely protected from hackers, malicious computer users, and other possible threats.

Mailing list
The mailing list services from DigiSpike are extremely feature rich. We provide a double opt-in requirement to prevent SPAM and other types of abuse, we offer a number of tracking results that will tell you whether or not your mailing list is effective, but the best part of our customised mailing lists is the Intelligent Automated Email system.

With our Intelligent Automated Email system, those that are new to your mailing list will receive all of your important messages in the order they were originally sent out, so your new customers won’t miss out on any hot deals, tips, or important news. Furthermore, once a product is purchased through your mailing list the customer is automatically placed onto a different list with different rules and different products on display – think of it as an effective automated up-selling system that work when you’re not. And of course we can provide all of this in professional HTML templates and designs or plain text email messages.

Testing
After setting up your site, we’ll test out all of the features and systems to their fullest extent. Not only will we test for any potential security flaws, loopholes, or other bugs, but we’ll even analyze and test the usability and GUI (Graphical User Interface) of your website to ensure that your business can reach its maximum potential. With our extensive and comprehensive testing process you can be sure that you are getting an attractive, fully functional and secure site every single time.

CMS
All of the web content in the world isn’t going to do you any good without a proper CMS (Content Management System) in place to keep track and maintain order of it all. We employ some of the most efficient and effective CMS’s to make sure that all of your site’s content is easily accessible – whether it’s currently in use on your site or not.

RSS and other feeds
Content that is frequently updated, such as the posts that can be found on personal blogs can be broadcast to news sites and other internet sources in a standardised fashion that is quick and easy to read through an RSS (Really Simply Syndication) online feed. This allows your content to be syndicated all across the World Wide Web automatically for maximum exposure, all while you retain the rights and credit to any works you’ve done.

This is a fast way for a small or medium-sized start up business to make a name for themselves on the internet today, and a great method for expanding your customer base through creative and innovated advertising. We also utilise XML (Extensible Markup Language) to its fullest extent in order to maintain complete compliancy with the W3C as well as to make sure all of your content is fully accessible by everyone.

APIs
An API (Application Programming Interface) is used by programmers to define standards, conventions, routines, protocols, and more concerning web and general computer programming. In short, APIs streamline the entire programming process and makes web development more efficient not only for our programmers, but on the user-end for our clients as well.

At DigiSpike, we can implement APIs in a variety of ways in order to help your online business. APIs can be used to keep track of payments, billings, and sales, as well as user messages, and even online traffic filtering, monitoring, and tracking, and they are used by large corporate sites like Amazon and EBay as well as small and medium-sized internet businesses. Moreover, there are new innovations and developments being made with APIs – and just like our other services we strive to bring you the latest and greatest technology with every project that we do.

Statistics
One of the most important techniques you can utilise to ensure success of your website is stat tracking. Any beginning webmaster or web developer can keep track of how many visitors view their site by the day or even by the hour; but there’s a lot more statistics that are capable of revealing much more.
DigiSpike tracks not only the number of visitors you have to your site but a variety of other facts about them. This includes where your visitors are coming from, the specific time your site is being viewed and exactly what pages are being viewed, the keywords that were used in drawing visitors, and what visits end up converting into a sale. All of these valuable stats and more can be used to make improvements and changes to your website in order to maximise conversion rates and make the most profit as possible.

Affiliate marketing
DigiSpike employs one of the best affiliate marketing systems on the World Wide Web today. Unlike most other affiliate programs where you pay upfront for a certain number of views or clicks, with DigiSpike’s affiliate program you only pay when a sale or lead has been made. There’s no need to worry about having the money in advance; since the commission is only paid after a sale has been made.

But our affiliate marketing system gets even better than that. We also offer a dual-layer affiliate scheme, which means all commission is split between the original vendor where the purchase was referred from and their referrer to the affiliate system. For example, if you refer me to “XYZ’s online CDs Limited” affiliate marketing system and I earn £10 for every CD sold through my site, you will earn £5 if you referred me to the affiliate scheme. This is a great way to maximise profits while minimizing the amount of work you actually have to do, and it encourages the affiliate base to seek out new affiliates and new sales leads. In turn this leads to higher profits for you and your business.

These commissions are all worked out automatically through our established systems, so you don’t even have to know anything about affiliate marketing to make the most out of our service. All you have to do is turn on your PC, see how much profit you are making and pay your affiliates. And believe it or not, some of the more successful affiliates in the industry earn upwards of £6,000 a month for one of the easiest careers in the world. Some smaller and medium-sized companies online today aren’t even capable of making this much on their own – but with the affiliate marketing services provided by DigiSpike you’ll have the potential to earn a lot more whilst your affiliates earn more as well, a truly win-win situation. Thousands are doing it in the UK alone with even more around the world; don’t you think it’s time you claim your piece of the pie?

Resellers
With a reseller system, similar to our affiliate systems, the resellers aren’t allowed to change any of your pricing options but everything else is fully customisable including the logo, colour scheme and content. This creates the illusion of multiple competitors that are really your business that helps increase sales for everyone involved.

Finally, our reseller systems include a single and a dual layer commission scheme. This means that not only will your resellers earn money on every sale made, but also for any referrals under join and earn money too. There’s a lot of money to go around, and a lot of methods to make sure that some of that comes around your way with the DigiSpike reseller systems.

Geo location
Many of the start up E-Commerce sites fail because they ignore one simple rule of business; the saying that “80% of your income comes from only 20% of your business”. When you’re talking about an online business, this 20% is the traffic that is coming to your site – and this is why DigiSpike focuses the majority of their efforts towards accommodating the visitors to your site. Because we are able to track the exact physical location of every user who visits your site, we can create scripts to enhance everyone’s individual experience. This means automatically directing visitors to the site with their correct country or language, and the ability to promote certain products or services to a specific region.

Exit traffic
Studies have shown that offering potential customers one last special deal before they leave your site can have a dramatic impact on sales – as such, it’s important to capitalise on the traffic that is leaving your website, also known as the exit traffic.

By displaying either a banner or pop-up advertisement, you can give your traffic the choice between leaving without making a purchase and taking advantage of that last minute hot offer. For an added revenue stream you may even consider displaying pay-per-click advertisements to your exit traffic featuring other relevant products or services.

Banner advertising
Since the first online business started up, banner advertisements have been used as a low-cost yet effective method of advertising a company on the World Wide Web. Without banner advertisements many companies would never have reached the online success they enjoy today; and going without an internet banner to advertise your site is simply asking for failure.

But banner advertisements can be used in other ways to increase your profits even further. In addition to displaying your banner on other websites, you may want to consider placing pay-per-click banners from another site onto yours, or joining additional affiliate programs in order to cash in as much as possible. The possibilities are nearly endless, and DigiSpike is here to help you every step of the way.

Split testing
Split testing is a fantastic method that allows you to make an extremely detailed analysis of your website and make impactful changes that have already proven themselves in a live setting. We’ll take two versions of your web page, with only a few subtle changes made, and show the first site to one half of your visitors and the other site to the other half. After comparing the two we can easily tell which content works better, and we’ll know what version of the page we should use in order to ensure success. But we don’t stop there – we’ll repeat this process over and over again, comparing the chosen page version against yet another version of the page. Once again we’ll let some traffic visit your page and use each version, and then we’ll make a choice between the two.

Forums
If you want to develop and maintain a community on your company’s website you’re going to need an online forum. Not only does this help you stay in touch and communicate with your visitors in an open atmosphere, but it lets your visitors communicate with one another, as well.

But online forums have another benefit - one that many webmasters don’t even realise. Because each new post in your forum is essentially a new webpage full of keywords, online forums lend themselves particularly well to SEO and help to improve your page’s rank amongst search engines quickly, efficiently, and with little to no work on your end.

Blogs
Blogs are everywhere on the net today as just everybody with internet access is eager to have their voice heard online. But very few online businesses take advantage of this niche; filling it may mean a substantial reward and edge over the competition like you never thought possible. With your blog you can make sure to keep your customers informed about any special promotions, limited time offers and deals, and discounts on any services or products that you provide. You can also keep them up-to-date on brand new merchandise and even general news concerning your company.

Additionally, your blog can even be used to generate even more revenue for your online business. By selling ad space from a company like AdSense or another similar online advertising company, you can cash in. And you won’t even have to exposure your visitors to annoying pop-up advertisements, as banners can easily be placed in the empty margins around your blog.

Rich media / interaction
Macromedia Flash is the industry standard when it comes to simple 2d or 3d animation and games on the internet. Flash provides crisp, clean colours and uses ActionScripts to define exactly what happens during an animation or, for example, when you click on a button in a Flash-based menu. Limited only by our own collective imagination, we can record live actors, even you, to be integrated within our Flash animations. It takes an expert team of graphic design professionals to pull off this effect correctly; thankfully DigiSpike has plenty of experience in doing so. Our animators use some of the same graphic design systems that are currently in use by the likes of Disney and the Pixar Animation Studio, so you know that you’re getting professional quality every time. For a sample of some of the past animation work we’ve done, we invite you to visit our Portfolio section – you’re sure to be pleased with what you find.

E-Commerce
Selling and making a profit online is not as simple as it sounds; instead it’s actually a rather complex and involved process. With DigiSpike your site will come complete with an easy-to-use shopping cart system like you’ll see with all major and professional online retailers. We also feature a one-click buying option where customers can setup their shipping and billing information ahead of time to make their purchase that much easier and quicker once they do make a purchase. And finally, we even offer our very own “orphan customer” program where you’ll have the ability to contact customers with incomplete purchases in order rescue the sale which results in many saved sales that would otherwise be lost, and gives you the opportunity to market other products or services towards your customers as well.

Online payments
In order to send and receive payments on the World Wide Web you’re going to need an account with major online payment provider – and of course the more payment options your customers have mean an increased likelihood of sales. Currently the major online payment sites are Barclays, HSBC, PayPal, Google Payments, Worldpay, IBill, SagePay, and more. While all of these sites are safe, reliable, and secure, we can help you figure out exactly what ones you’ll need to use in order to make the most amount of profit with your online business.

Social networking systems
When they first came along, social networking sites like MySpace, FaceBook and BeBo were considered to be nothing more than a site where kids and teenagers could keep in touch with friends and perhaps even make some new ones. However, these kinds of social networking sites can actually be extremely useful tools when it comes to web marketing, and a great way to attract brand new customers to your online business.

For example with MySpace you’ll have the ability to send out mass communication to everyone on your friends list by posting a “bulletin”; with FaceBook you can post news and updates for everybody to see on your “wall”. All of the top social networking sites provide a number of useful features like this, many of which have actually turned out to be quite an effective means of online advertisement.

Additional Revenue Streams
At DigiSpike, we are completely dedicated to helping you make the maximum amount of profit with your website. As such we’ll introduce you to some additional revenue streams that you may have never even thought of, and some that you’d never be able to take advantage of without the help of our expert staff.

For example, one of our customers wanted to setup a site to sell CDs – and that was her one and only goal in mind. After consulting with us, however, we were able to set her up with a CD and DVD repair company that was willing to provide her with commission on all sales leads. All of the sudden she was not only selling CDs, but offering her customers the service of repairing them as well. This was a connection that she had never even thought of, but one that has helped her realise her online goals and reach her maximum potential. We have a variety of different connections and partnerships like this that can help your site succeed; and as our customer they are all available to you.

Because we are such an all-inclusive web services provider, please keep in mind that the above list is only a sample of some of the services that we can provide at DigiSpike. Please feel free to browse our Portfolio section for samples of our work, and you can even try out some of our systems for yourself in our Test Drive area. If there are any services you require that aren’t listed here, or if you would like to receive a no obligation quote regarding your online business needs, don’t be afraid to contact us immediately at <telephone number here> so we can work out a plan for you today.