Monthly Archives: February 2017

Top 40 accountants Bishop Fleming are calling on the government to be open and honest about its plans to reform National Insurance Contributions paid by the self-employed. The firm fears that the promised £145 a year saving for the self-employed from the scrapping of Class 2 National Insurance Contributions in April 2018 will be cancelled
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Don’t let the app data gap stop effective upselling

by Ben Lobel • February 6, 2017 • 0 Comments

Personalisation is transforming e-commerce, with recommendation engines suggesting related products and services to customers for effective upselling. From ASOS’s ‘You Might Also Like’ bar, to Spotify’s ‘Discover Playlist’, digital enterprises are analysing customer behaviour to provide relevant recommendations. These personalised offers work. The Infosys Rethinking Retail Survey finds that 86 per cent of online shoppers
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Reading between the lines of Theresa May’s industrial strategy

by Ben Lobel • February 6, 2017 • 0 Comments

Theresa May recently released her long-awaited industrial strategy, in the form of a ‘green paper’, in an effort to strengthen business confidence and boost the post-Brexit UK economy. In the prime minister’s own words, the strategy seeks to ‘deliver a stronger economy and a fairer society – where wealth and opportunity are spread across every
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