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eBay has over 168 million active buyers and it’s growing daily. So how do you make your listings stand out from the crowd and convert to sales? Let’s run through the six key features every eBay listing needs to entice customers and convince them to buy. Quality Images. An image speaks a thousand words – it may sound cliché, but its true. Images are an important part of your item description. MORE
Want to increase your eBay sales? Well of course, who wouldn’t. Well, the first step is getting your items seen by more buyers. It is possible to boost this through sponsored listings and paying for additional listing features. However, there is an effortless, free, and effective way to achieve this: it’s just a matter of adding the right item specifics in the right place on eBay. Tip #1: use product catalogue. MORE
What is Amazon FBA? FBA means fulfilled by Amazon. With the Amazon FBA program, you choose what you want to sell, send it to Amazon, and they do the rest for you. It’s a model that is growing in popularity. Because Amazon FBA makes it easier for you to build your business without having to worry about the logistics of warehouses, packaging materials, couriers and so on. With private labelling , you also have the opportunity to build your own brand, increasing the value of your business. MORE
Mailchimp is separating from Shopify. So, by May 12, any merchants using Mailchimp will need to switch to another mail service. Klaviyo is one of the most popular alternatives to Mailchimp right now. If you’re not familiar with Klaviyo, this post will give you an overview of what it does, and how it compares to Mailchimp. Who uses Mailchimp or Klaviyo? Your store is doing well. MORE
The opinions we find most compelling are always our own. This is true for you, and it’s true for your customers. It’s far easier to give people the information they need to reach their own opinions than it is to convince them to agree with your opinions. High performing e-commerce sites give customers the information they need to make confident buying decisions. In e-commerce, sharing customer reviews is one of the most effective ways to offer information. MORE
Email is one of the highest converting forms of e-commerce marketing. Every e-commerce business should be sending regular mails. If you haven’t already got one, you should make building your mailing list a priority. Following that, you should start to build your e-commerce email campaigns. To get you ready, we will take you through the four top performing types of e-commerce emails and how they can work for your e-commerce business. Order confirmation. MORE
Traffic is guaranteed on eBay. But converting viewers into customers and increasing order value will always be a challenge. For your business to grow, you should be cross selling on eBay. When done right, cross selling can help customers, shorten the purchase journey, and increase revenue. What is cross selling and why do you need it on eBay? It’s easy to confuse cross-selling with up-selling. However, they are separate techniques. MORE
The buy box is a famous concept in the eCommerce industry. It highlights your listing and items over your competitors, in some cases even hiding them altogether. Marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart combine similar listings. MORE
What’s a Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a description of your ideal customer. They are the person you choose your stock for, knowing they will want every item. You write product descriptions to answer their questions and use social media to share content you know they’ll enjoy. Even if you haven’t sold anything yet, this is the person you’re confident is just waiting to become a loyal customer for your brand. MORE
With over 179 million active buyers in over 100 countries, eBay gives sellers instant access to a global marketplace. But how can you make the most of this exposure and increase your eBay sales ? This guide covers key considerations and best practice you need to follow when selling on eBay. What to Sell on eBay. Offering high demand products is probably the most obvious way to increase sales. MORE
One of the hallmarks of a great brand is a confident and distinctive tone of voice. These brands know exactly who their customers are and speak to them in a way that’s natural and engaging. Tone of voice is the result of the choices a brand makes about the language, style and messages it shares. People will make decisions about your brand based on the tone it communicates with. It’s important because it can draw your audience closer or alienate them completely. MORE
Platform loyalty allows you to simplify your inventory and distribution process. But it also puts your business at risk. When all your sales on one platform, suspensions or account issues are costly. For example, if you only sell on Amazon, an account suspension could end your business. Also, no matter how successful any one marketplace is, it will never sell to 100% of customers. Retailers who sell on two separate online marketplaces see a 190% jump in revenue over those who sell in just one. MORE
It’s the start of a fresh new year! Time to reflect on the year just gone and plan for the successes of the coming months. You probably have a whole host of personal resolutions revolving around health, fitness, relationships, and self-fulfilment, but let’s take a moment to focus on what you could do to improve your business. Even if you’ve already made personal resolutions, it’s not too late to make some resolutions for your e-commerce business. MORE
Are you trying to decide what to sell on Amazon? With more than 3 billion products listed on Amazon worldwide, chances are that whatever you are thinking of selling, it’s already being sold on Amazon. There’s still plenty of opportunity to make impressive profits selling products on Amazon, but it’s critical you’re able to offer unique, budget-friendly products with minimal competition to truly succeed on the site. MORE
The year is not quite over yet, but eBay expects net revenue between $2.85 billion and $2.89 billion for 2018. Whatever you want to sell on eBay, customers are there. And with eBay’s average visit duration being 50% longer than on Amazon, eBay is the perfect place to cross sell to browsers and increase your average sale value. Competition is fierce, trends change fast, and popular items can quickly fall out of fashion. MORE
You can sell all types of vehicles including cars, trucks and motorcycles, as well as their parts and accessories in the motors category on eBay UK motors. Vehicles, parts and accessories can be listed in the same formats as most other product categories. You can choose to list as an auction, buy it now or best offer. Should you sell car parts on eBay UK motors? Earlier this year, eBay UK motors merged with motors.co.uk. Listings now reach ten million unique car buyers. MORE
Popularised by business bloggers and keynote speakers, the phrase growth hacking is the perfect mix of snappy enthusiasm and aspiration. Like hustle, it’s a phrase that’s never monotone. There’s a natural energy to it’s quick simplicity. Growth – we all want that. Hacking – getting what we want even faster and with less investment?! Even better! This phrase is music to every entrepreneur’s ears. The promise of their dreams. MORE
Every business owner knows who their competitors are. Even if you’re not watching them yourself, others won’t hesitate to point out to you what competitors are doing, asking if you have considered doing the same, or pointing to their perceived success and asking if it worries you. As a business owner, it’s easy to over focus on your competitors, to build them up into the personification of all your business troubles. It’s easy to forget that they are not the enemy. MORE
Digital branding relies on consistency. From your product descriptions to your customer service responses, the customer should receive your branded experience. Digital branding goes far beyond sticking your logo on everything. However, in e-commerce it’s easy to get lost in the numbers and forget the importance of making a good first impression. Making a positive first impression is the most important part of creating a good customer journey. MORE
If you’re part of a growing e-commerce business, or have grown an e-commerce business from scratch, you’ll be familiar with the challenges of wearing multiple hats, juggling dispatch and customer enquiries whilst trying to attract more customers online. We get accustomed to doing everything as fast as possible. There’s always a new immediate task to be dealt with, and sales is a fire that needs constant stoking. Therefore, marketing is focused on the fastest return on investment. MORE
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of those things that can often be overlooked during the exhausting process of designing and building a new e-commerce site. MORE
We are moving into the busiest season of the retail year. Previously known as the holiday season, the period between November and New year is now referred to in retail as discounting season. Customers are bombarded with Black Friday deals and 24-hour flash sales. MORE
There are three ways to sell on Amazon. Sell items you have manufactured. Resell items from other brands. Private label. Private label mans that you sell items made by other manufacturers, under your own brand name. This is one of the most lucrative and popular ways Amazon retailers do business. How to sell white label products on Amazon. Your first step is to decide what to sell. MORE
Marketing a BigCommerce store, it’s always important to keep consistent branding. From your products to your customer service responses. Branding goes far beyond adding your logo to everything. But when marketing a BigCommerce store , it’s easy to get lost in the numbers and forget the importance of making a good first impression. MORE
Who Can join Amazon Brand Registry? Brand Registry is for sellers who are brand owners or manufacturers. It’s also open to distributors who have written permission from the brand owner to manage a specific product on Amazon. If you don’t fall into one of these categories, you won’t be able to join Amazon brand registry. Why Should Sellers Join Amazon Brand Registry? MORE
When you sign up for an eBay store , there will initially be eBay seller limits in place. Limits vary, but if you’re new to eBay your limits will probably be around 10 items and $500. Limiting sales for new sellers helps to keep eBay a trusted marketplace. To help you stay within these allowances, new sellers can only use bulk listing/editing tools after 90 days and receiving at least 10 positive Feedback ratings. MORE
eBay suspension is every seller’s worst nightmare. Suddenly locked out of a marketplace with 180 million active buyers, results can be devastating. Especially for a business still building itself online. So how can an honest, law-abiding eBay seller avoid suspension? Certainly, prevention is better than cure. That is to say, the best way to avoid suspension is to learn what eBay frowns upon and, well, don’t do it. Types of eBay suspension. MORE
With more and more brands and retailers selling online, customers are spoilt for choice. If you want them to choose to buy from you, it’s essential to distinguish your business from the competition. Positioning a business in its own unique space can be achieved using a combination of two approaches. A business can differentiate based on: Products they offer. The audience they target. Overheads of traditional retail would make operating in a small niche unprofitable. MORE
According to a Gen Z report, that generation cite social media as their most influential source for buying decisions. Couple that, with a Meeker report shows 55 percent of users who found a product on social media went on to purchase it later. That makes social media one of the most effective and dominant channels for e-commerce right now. MORE
Facebook has 1.39 billion active users. Whoever you sell to, they will be on Facebook. And Facebook offers advertisers a range of tools to target their ads with incredible precision. As a result, typical ROI from Facebook ads is 152%! If you are not yet using Facebook advertising and are unsure how to get started, read on. Set up Facebook business manager. Firstly, if you don’t already have one, you should create a business page. Secondly, you need to set up your Business Manager account. MORE
Setting up an online shop is now a painless process. You can sign up for a hosted store on a platform like Shopify or BigCommerce and apply a template design in minutes. Even for more complex, custom stores, working with an e-commerce design agency, you could go from just an idea to taking sales in as little as six weeks. You just need a product. To get you started with finding something profitable to sell, we’ve listed seven e-commerce niches that we see are growing in 2019. MORE
Selling auto parts online, you’re operating in a growing but competitive market. Sourcing the right stock, getting it online and ensuring that customers find your auto parts website when they search takes hard work. It’s common for automotive parts sellers to find they’ve become so focused on this journey, that they’ve neglected the importance of their brand. But brand is essential for automotive parts retailers. MORE
Bernard Savage make bespoke kitchens and furniture. They manufacture and sell from their showroom in Wolverhampton, where customers can see and touch the solid wood pieces. Buying from Bernard Savage is a unique luxury experience. Customers can even select raw tree trunks to have furniture carved from. However, they had never sold online. They were unsure how people shop for bespoke products online and how they would find these customers. MORE
Of all the ways to make a living online, starting an e-commerce business is the simplest. Moreover, there’s long term growth potential for brands that present themselves well and capture customer interest. Anything that can be sold, sells online. 67% of millennials and 56% of Gen X now prefer shopping online and e -commerce sales are predicted to hit $4.5 trillion by 2021. Running your own online business you can take control of your working schedule and achieve financial independence. MORE
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NOVEMBER 12, 2018
The buy box is a famous concept in the eCommerce industry. It highlights your listing and items over your competitors, in some cases even hiding them altogether. Marketplaces like Amazon, eBay, and Walmart combine similar listings.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2018
Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) is one of those things that can often be overlooked during the exhausting process of designing and building a new e-commerce site.
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DECEMBER 17, 2018
The year is not quite over yet, but eBay expects net revenue between $2.85 billion and $2.89 billion for 2018. Whatever you want to sell on eBay, customers are there. And with eBay’s average visit duration being 50% longer than on Amazon, eBay is the perfect place to cross sell to browsers and increase your average sale value. Competition is fierce, trends change fast, and popular items can quickly fall out of fashion.
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JUNE 11, 2019
You can sell all types of vehicles including cars, trucks and motorcycles, as well as their parts and accessories in the motors category on eBay UK motors. Vehicles, parts and accessories can be listed in the same formats as most other product categories. You can choose to list as an auction, buy it now or best offer. Should you sell car parts on eBay UK motors? Earlier this year, eBay UK motors merged with motors.co.uk. Listings now reach ten million unique car buyers.
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MAY 28, 2019
With more and more brands and retailers selling online, customers are spoilt for choice. If you want them to choose to buy from you, it’s essential to distinguish your business from the competition. Positioning a business in its own unique space can be achieved using a combination of two approaches. A business can differentiate based on: Products they offer. The audience they target. Overheads of traditional retail would make operating in a small niche unprofitable.
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MARCH 26, 2019
According to a Gen Z report, that generation cite social media as their most influential source for buying decisions. Couple that, with a Meeker report shows 55 percent of users who found a product on social media went on to purchase it later. That makes social media one of the most effective and dominant channels for e-commerce right now.
Frooition
NOVEMBER 20, 2018
We are moving into the busiest season of the retail year. Previously known as the holiday season, the period between November and New year is now referred to in retail as discounting season. Customers are bombarded with Black Friday deals and 24-hour flash sales.
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MAY 23, 2019
One of the hallmarks of a great brand is a confident and distinctive tone of voice. These brands know exactly who their customers are and speak to them in a way that’s natural and engaging. Tone of voice is the result of the choices a brand makes about the language, style and messages it shares. People will make decisions about your brand based on the tone it communicates with. It’s important because it can draw your audience closer or alienate them completely.
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MAY 14, 2019
Of all the ways to make a living online, starting an e-commerce business is the simplest. Moreover, there’s long term growth potential for brands that present themselves well and capture customer interest. Anything that can be sold, sells online. 67% of millennials and 56% of Gen X now prefer shopping online and e -commerce sales are predicted to hit $4.5 trillion by 2021. Running your own online business you can take control of your working schedule and achieve financial independence.
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MAY 8, 2019
Platform loyalty allows you to simplify your inventory and distribution process. But it also puts your business at risk. When all your sales on one platform, suspensions or account issues are costly. For example, if you only sell on Amazon, an account suspension could end your business. Also, no matter how successful any one marketplace is, it will never sell to 100% of customers. Retailers who sell on two separate online marketplaces see a 190% jump in revenue over those who sell in just one.
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JUNE 5, 2019
Traffic is guaranteed on eBay. But converting viewers into customers and increasing order value will always be a challenge. For your business to grow, you should be cross selling on eBay. When done right, cross selling can help customers, shorten the purchase journey, and increase revenue. What is cross selling and why do you need it on eBay? It’s easy to confuse cross-selling with up-selling. However, they are separate techniques.
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APRIL 9, 2019
eBay has over 168 million active buyers and it’s growing daily. So how do you make your listings stand out from the crowd and convert to sales? Let’s run through the six key features every eBay listing needs to entice customers and convince them to buy. Quality Images. An image speaks a thousand words – it may sound cliché, but its true. Images are an important part of your item description.
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FEBRUARY 19, 2019
If you’re part of a growing e-commerce business, or have grown an e-commerce business from scratch, you’ll be familiar with the challenges of wearing multiple hats, juggling dispatch and customer enquiries whilst trying to attract more customers online. We get accustomed to doing everything as fast as possible. There’s always a new immediate task to be dealt with, and sales is a fire that needs constant stoking. Therefore, marketing is focused on the fastest return on investment.
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MARCH 7, 2019
eBay suspension is every seller’s worst nightmare. Suddenly locked out of a marketplace with 180 million active buyers, results can be devastating. Especially for a business still building itself online. So how can an honest, law-abiding eBay seller avoid suspension? Certainly, prevention is better than cure. That is to say, the best way to avoid suspension is to learn what eBay frowns upon and, well, don’t do it. Types of eBay suspension.
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MARCH 19, 2019
When you sign up for an eBay store , there will initially be eBay seller limits in place. Limits vary, but if you’re new to eBay your limits will probably be around 10 items and $500. Limiting sales for new sellers helps to keep eBay a trusted marketplace. To help you stay within these allowances, new sellers can only use bulk listing/editing tools after 90 days and receiving at least 10 positive Feedback ratings.
Frooition
MARCH 14, 2019
There are three ways to sell on Amazon. Sell items you have manufactured. Resell items from other brands. Private label. Private label mans that you sell items made by other manufacturers, under your own brand name. This is one of the most lucrative and popular ways Amazon retailers do business. How to sell white label products on Amazon. Your first step is to decide what to sell.
Frooition
SEPTEMBER 25, 2018
The opinions we find most compelling are always our own. This is true for you, and it’s true for your customers. It’s far easier to give people the information they need to reach their own opinions than it is to convince them to agree with your opinions. High performing e-commerce sites give customers the information they need to make confident buying decisions. In e-commerce, sharing customer reviews is one of the most effective ways to offer information.
An infographic listing the best practices companies can follow to bolster their e-commerce website.
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APRIL 17, 2019
Bernard Savage make bespoke kitchens and furniture. They manufacture and sell from their showroom in Wolverhampton, where customers can see and touch the solid wood pieces. Buying from Bernard Savage is a unique luxury experience. Customers can even select raw tree trunks to have furniture carved from. However, they had never sold online. They were unsure how people shop for bespoke products online and how they would find these customers.
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JANUARY 16, 2019
What’s a Buyer Persona? A buyer persona is a description of your ideal customer. They are the person you choose your stock for, knowing they will want every item. You write product descriptions to answer their questions and use social media to share content you know they’ll enjoy. Even if you haven’t sold anything yet, this is the person you’re confident is just waiting to become a loyal customer for your brand.
Frooition
MAY 6, 2019
Are you trying to decide what to sell on Amazon? With more than 3 billion products listed on Amazon worldwide, chances are that whatever you are thinking of selling, it’s already being sold on Amazon. There’s still plenty of opportunity to make impressive profits selling products on Amazon, but it’s critical you’re able to offer unique, budget-friendly products with minimal competition to truly succeed on the site.
Frooition
FEBRUARY 7, 2019
With over 179 million active buyers in over 100 countries, eBay gives sellers instant access to a global marketplace. But how can you make the most of this exposure and increase your eBay sales ? This guide covers key considerations and best practice you need to follow when selling on eBay. What to Sell on eBay. Offering high demand products is probably the most obvious way to increase sales.
Frooition
JANUARY 3, 2019
It’s the start of a fresh new year! Time to reflect on the year just gone and plan for the successes of the coming months. You probably have a whole host of personal resolutions revolving around health, fitness, relationships, and self-fulfilment, but let’s take a moment to focus on what you could do to improve your business. Even if you’ve already made personal resolutions, it’s not too late to make some resolutions for your e-commerce business.
Frooition
MARCH 26, 2019
Selling auto parts online, you’re operating in a growing but competitive market. Sourcing the right stock, getting it online and ensuring that customers find your auto parts website when they search takes hard work. It’s common for automotive parts sellers to find they’ve become so focused on this journey, that they’ve neglected the importance of their brand. But brand is essential for automotive parts retailers.
Frooition
APRIL 23, 2019
Who Can join Amazon Brand Registry? Brand Registry is for sellers who are brand owners or manufacturers. It’s also open to distributors who have written permission from the brand owner to manage a specific product on Amazon. If you don’t fall into one of these categories, you won’t be able to join Amazon brand registry. Why Should Sellers Join Amazon Brand Registry?
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JANUARY 18, 2019
Digital branding relies on consistency. From your product descriptions to your customer service responses, the customer should receive your branded experience. Digital branding goes far beyond sticking your logo on everything. However, in e-commerce it’s easy to get lost in the numbers and forget the importance of making a good first impression. Making a positive first impression is the most important part of creating a good customer journey.
Frooition
JULY 1, 2019
Popularised by business bloggers and keynote speakers, the phrase growth hacking is the perfect mix of snappy enthusiasm and aspiration. Like hustle, it’s a phrase that’s never monotone. There’s a natural energy to it’s quick simplicity. Growth – we all want that. Hacking – getting what we want even faster and with less investment?! Even better! This phrase is music to every entrepreneur’s ears. The promise of their dreams.
Frooition
APRIL 29, 2019
What is Amazon FBA? FBA means fulfilled by Amazon. With the Amazon FBA program, you choose what you want to sell, send it to Amazon, and they do the rest for you. It’s a model that is growing in popularity. Because Amazon FBA makes it easier for you to build your business without having to worry about the logistics of warehouses, packaging materials, couriers and so on. With private labelling , you also have the opportunity to build your own brand, increasing the value of your business.
Frooition
MARCH 22, 2019
Setting up an online shop is now a painless process. You can sign up for a hosted store on a platform like Shopify or BigCommerce and apply a template design in minutes. Even for more complex, custom stores, working with an e-commerce design agency, you could go from just an idea to taking sales in as little as six weeks. You just need a product. To get you started with finding something profitable to sell, we’ve listed seven e-commerce niches that we see are growing in 2019.
Frooition
JUNE 24, 2019
Email is one of the highest converting forms of e-commerce marketing. Every e-commerce business should be sending regular mails. If you haven’t already got one, you should make building your mailing list a priority. Following that, you should start to build your e-commerce email campaigns. To get you ready, we will take you through the four top performing types of e-commerce emails and how they can work for your e-commerce business. Order confirmation.
Frooition
MARCH 16, 2019
Every business owner knows who their competitors are. Even if you’re not watching them yourself, others won’t hesitate to point out to you what competitors are doing, asking if you have considered doing the same, or pointing to their perceived success and asking if it worries you. As a business owner, it’s easy to over focus on your competitors, to build them up into the personification of all your business troubles. It’s easy to forget that they are not the enemy.
Frooition
JUNE 17, 2019
Marketing a BigCommerce store, it’s always important to keep consistent branding. From your products to your customer service responses. Branding goes far beyond adding your logo to everything. But when marketing a BigCommerce store , it’s easy to get lost in the numbers and forget the importance of making a good first impression.
Frooition
MARCH 28, 2019
Mailchimp is separating from Shopify. So, by May 12, any merchants using Mailchimp will need to switch to another mail service. Klaviyo is one of the most popular alternatives to Mailchimp right now. If you’re not familiar with Klaviyo, this post will give you an overview of what it does, and how it compares to Mailchimp. Who uses Mailchimp or Klaviyo? Your store is doing well.
Frooition
SEPTEMBER 3, 2019
Want to increase your eBay sales? Well of course, who wouldn’t. Well, the first step is getting your items seen by more buyers. It is possible to boost this through sponsored listings and paying for additional listing features. However, there is an effortless, free, and effective way to achieve this: it’s just a matter of adding the right item specifics in the right place on eBay. Tip #1: use product catalogue.
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