{"id":3319,"date":"2013-07-29T12:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T12:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/?p=3319"},"modified":"2015-06-03T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T14:54:44","slug":"strong-online-growth-for-vivabox-with-flexible-combell-hosting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/strong-online-growth-for-vivabox-with-flexible-combell-hosting\/","title":{"rendered":"Strong online growth for Vivabox with flexible Combell hosting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/nl\/blog\/files\/2013\/07\/Vivabox.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5455 alignleft\" alt=\"Vivabox\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/nl\/blog\/files\/2013\/07\/Vivabox-221x300.png\" width=\"127\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a>The Belgian gift solutions specialist Vivabox has been working with Combell since 2011 for hosting its online sales and redemption platform. \u201cEvery year, we see an important peak appear in our sales figures around the turn of the year\u201d, says Michel Tordoir, finance &amp; administration manager with Vivabox. \u201cUsing Combell\u2019s elastic infrastructure and flexible contractual conditions, we can offer an outstanding online shopping experience at affordable rates to our customers.\u201d<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u201cInitially, the Vivabox was a concept mainly aimed at the retail market. Currently, online sales represent twelve to fifteen percent of our activities. It is definitely a strategic channel\u201d, says Tordoir. \u201cRetail has become a mature market for us, with stable sales figures. We are convinced that our growth for the coming years will be concentrated in two branches: online sales and the business market (B2B).\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5457 alignright\" style=\"line-height: 24px; font-size: 16px;\" alt=\"Michel Tordoir\" src=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/nl\/blog\/files\/2013\/07\/Michel-Tordoir-203x300.png\" width=\"164\" height=\"241\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Vivabox website is not only a direct sales channel. \u201cIn addition to our Internet customers \u2013 people who look for a suitable gift online, browse our catalogue and buy a Vivabox \u2013 there is a second group of visitors, consisting of people who already received a gift voucher. And both groups are very important to us\u201d, says Michel Tordoir.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Performance is a major factor for user experience<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Flawless availability and performance are determining factors for user experience, Michel Tordoir underlines. \u201cWe offer an increasing number of different Vivaboxes online. Search strings on the website therefore become more complex over time. Also, visitors are increasingly prone to leave a website when it is too slow. That is why we find robust performance very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Vivabox customer case\" href=\"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/nl\/blog\/files\/2013\/07\/Vivabox_ENG_web_juli2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">Read the complete customer case of Vivabox.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgian gift solutions specialist Vivabox has been working with Combell since 2011 for hosting its online sales and redemption platform. \u201cEvery year, we see an important peak appear in...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-featured":false,"post-featured-opt":false,"post-featured-opt-md":false,"post-featured-opt-sm":false,"post-featured-opt-xs":false,"post-most-popular":false,"post-author":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Romy","author_link":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/author\/romy\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"The Belgian gift solutions specialist Vivabox has been working with Combell since 2011 for hosting its online sales and redemption platform. \u201cEvery year, we see an important peak appear in...","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3319"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3331,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3319\/revisions\/3331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.combell.com\/en\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}