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Navigating Business Growth and Profitability in a Changing Landscape

When is the right time for a business to invest in a PIM?

How to add a new tab to the product page in BigCommerce

Gareth James’ Speaker Journey at Meet Magento NYC 2023

BigCom DevX 2023 wrap-up

What You Need To Know About GA4 & The Sunsetting Of Universal Analytics

What You Need To Know About GA4 & The Sunsetting Of Universal Analytics With Google’s Universal Analytics deadline fast approaching, our Acquisition Strategist,  Jen Riley has collated the most frequently asked questions we’ve received about Google’s newest version of its […]

Space 48 ‘Braves the Skies’ with the acquisition of a Shopify Plus agency

Shopify Plus Vs BigCommerce Enterprise

Top 10 BigCommerce Apps

Design and Customer Experience for B2B ecommerce

B2B Ecommerce Tips and Tricks

Data Recovery Apps: What They Are and Why You Need Them

Best examples of BigCommerce Stores

Gifting subscriptions to grow your sales: ecommerce strategies for merchants

3 ways to create a more convenient customer experience with personalisation

How Ratings and Reviews Help Improve Your Bottom Line

What is Hyvä?

How website design style guides help designers and developers

Why Prototype Design Is Essential to Your Website Design Process

Facebook marketing grow your business with retargeting

#8: Know Your Numbers! The Key to Digital Marketing Success in a Global Retail Business

The Impact on eCommerce after Brexit

#7 The changing face of retail

Upgrading to Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

2020 was definitely a year of extraordinary changes in all aspects of our lives, and technology was no different. There have been rapid shifts in the way people use it to connect, engage and interact with family, friends, and brands. […]

Bringing Product Photography to Life on Ecommerce Websites

We’re testing Product Visualisation Software. Here’s what we’ve discovered so far. What’s next for product photography on ecommerce websites? When it all boils down to it, product visuals are the star players of on-page content. Without it, keyword-rich content, competitive, […]

Space 48 wins BigCommerce Partner of the Year 2020

Space48 wins BigCommerce Partner of the Year. We have been waiting eagerly to write this announcement. So here it is. On October 22nd 2020, Space 48 was presented with the Partner of the Year Award at the annual BigCommerce Partner Summit – […]

SweetSquared: A Sweet New Website on BigCommerce

Professional hair and beauty gurus, SweetSquared, is set to launch a standout new site on BigCommerce, designed by Space 48. Serving their professional-only client base since 2006, SweetSquared has now set their sights on a best-in-class e-commerce site, as part […]

3 steps to increase your checkout conversions

Don’t get caught out by poorly considered checkout experiences. In the UK alone over 45% of shoppers have abandoned a purchase because of payment-related issues. It’s an instant loss of sales. But something that can be fixed. To give you the answers […]

Magento 1.x End of Life – Steps to Protect Your Store

The end of life for Magento 1.x is fast approaching. June 30th 2020 will be a sad day for many as support for the most successful eCommerce open-source platform over the past decade comes to an end. While merchants have […]

Succeeding with ecommerce in a COVID-19 world

In just a few weeks, the business landscape has changed. Covid-19 has caused one of the most radical disruptions to buying habits ever seen – with customers forced to stay at home instead of eating in restaurants, drinking in bars, […]

Support Initiatives for Merchants: COVID-19 Responses

We’re in a very strange period in our lifetimes, a period that hopefully none of us will ever have to go through again. The COVID-19 crisis has impacted everyone in one way or another. Whether you’re a business owner that’s […]

How to boost ecommerce sales with immersive content (with examples)

Today, brands throughout Retail are giving significant weight to the User Experience (UX), Content and Design. The aspiration? To create digital experiences that delight – journeys that make it easy for the customer to find the right product, at the […]

How retailers can get started with CX

Start your CX journey with a W.A.V.E    CX (Customer Experience) is a hot topic in 2020, and is fast becoming a key differentiator influencing where customers decide to shop. And how. Why? Because customers are all starting to share […]

What to do if your site project won’t launch before Magento end of life

Magento 1 end of life (EOL). Deadline day is looming. June 2020. Put it in your diaries.  But you knew that already – particularly if you’ve spent months worrying that your new website project will not be ready in time. […]

The new Space 48. A decade in the making.

Welcome to Space 48; the home of seamless considered ecommerce & CX. A reimagined Space 48 where we do tomorrow’s thinking, today.  This 5-minute read is a BTS look at how we got to this stage of our journey.  Imagining […]

5 Realistic Ecommerce Trends 2020

Type ‘Ecommerce Trends 2020’ in your search engine. What you’ll find is a range of articles that make reference to the opportunities provided by new tech. AI. Voice Search. Automation. Voice shopping. You name it. These wonderfully big ideas; promising […]

8 ecommerce events to attend 2020 (+ FREE template)

There are hundreds of ecommerce and retail events out there that claim to deliver the best experience for their delegates. However, in reality, we’re often left disappointed – yearning for something truly refreshing, useful and most importantly, informative.  Filtering the […]

Choosing an ecommerce platform in 2021

The best ecommerce platform for your business is one that provides the technical efficiency and robustness to ensure you reach your ecommerce objectives.  Your ecommerce platform is the lifeline of your online store. It has the potential to be your […]

Magento 1: 5 reasons we’ll miss you

So, here we are. 2020. The end of the road for Magento 1. And what a road it has been. Some 230,000 retailers worldwide have benefitted from over 10 years of releases. Countless extensions have been created. Numerous third-party systems […]

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