Every country needs a thriving digital economy, or at the very least a government that understands its implications. Here in the UK we have a new organisation that has just launched, Coadec (The Coalition for a Digital Economy) aims to support the creation of a lasting, sustainable and innovative Digital Economy for British businesses. If [...]
I had a great day at the Small Business 2.0 event in Hammersmith, London on Saturday. Though I missed the opening eBay keynote, I managed to catchup on the juicy bits via Twitter feeds, especially from Dan Wilson http://www.wilsondan.co.uk/ who was quite supportive of the Flog.com idea. Luckily Dan introduced me to a few other [...]
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Christmas is always the busiest time of year for retailers and even more so online, with Flog.com you will be able to easily and quickly setup your own online outlet for free! Also, we are also a marketplace, so your store is visible from the Flog.com portal.
One of the [...]
Not only is Flog.com a marketplace for buyers and sellers but also an important and free tool. By simply creating your store and going to your MyFlog section you can export your shop into your own personal website. Your exported site is still linked to the main Flog.com site, so any products or changes will [...]
Flog.com aims make buying and selling an easy process, in fact the whole site is a visual representation of this, simple and clear. Having many different products and shops on a site mean that our search must be dynamic yet simple. Our search has 30 main categories with a tag system at the heart of [...]
We love video here, in fact we love it so much that we have incorporated it into Flog.com. Budding shopkeepers can really push out their products with our video integration, stores can add upto 3 videos per product and link in YouTube videos, even if they are not yours (permission required of course!). Not only [...]
Creating your own identity online is crucial, this is why Flog.com allows stores to create their branded stores with ease. So, what can you do? Well, first things first, you might want to put in your logo, or change the background gradient colour of one of your pages so it fits in with your brand, or [...]
We all love instant messaging (I do anyway!), over the years I’ve used ICQ, MSN, Skype, IRC, Psi and many more, so, when it came to Flog.com we saw that buyers and sellers being able to communicate directly was crucial. We also wanted to merge instant chat features with private messaging, creating a more convienient [...]
What is Flog.com then?
Well, it’s a a new type of site for sellers to create their own shops for free – yes you heard that right! Also it allows buyers to view products with hi-res images, video and interact with sellers, it’s pretty clever actually! Not just that, its visual, simple and made with Adobe Flash.
I love Cannes, pity we weren’t on the beach this year! Anyway, we did manage to get quite a few placements in Lions Daily, the Cannes Lions Newspaper. Cannes Lions is the annual festival showcasing some of the best creative talent around!
Click here to see an example of one of our placements! (page 18-19)