Photo credit to Flickr user ledesigngroup After relocating my ecommerce business from California to Indiana, I’ve been re-thinking every aspect of my operation. I no longer have an assistant, and now that I work out of my home I have limited storage space. Using a fulfillment center to outsource warehousing and shipping was an obvious […]
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[br] Multichannel Seller News Welcome to this week’s Multichannel Seller News update. Articles this week include speculation on the future direction of a post-IPO Etsy Marketplace, content marketing ideas for March, news of Bigcommerce integrating with Square, and more. As always, if there is a story you want to share with us that you think
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Photo credit to Flickr user vecdeal In my last post I talked about the increasingly popular ecommerce subscription business model. I mentioned that I’m in the process of helping myself to a slice of the subscription business pie – and I’ll discuss exactly what I’m working on in a later post. Today, however, I want
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Photo credit to Flickr user thomashawk I’ve been selling things over the Internet for longer than I care to think about. I started out selling used video games on eBay that I was able to procure cheap from local garage sales. Somehow I managed to wind up in the beauty industry – many years later…
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Photo credit to Flickr user Rina JeriLee Outzen You can’t please everyone all of the time, no matter how hard you try. (Click to tweet this!) That’s something I found very hard to come to terms with when I started out in ecommerce. To an extent, I find it hard to come to terms with
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[br] Multichannel Seller News Welcome to this week’s Multichannel Seller News update. Articles this week include the emergence of the Jet Marketplace, SMB ecommerce insight from Steve Case, tax prep for your business, 2015 EcommerceBytes Seller Choice Awards, and more. As always, if there is a story you want to share with us that you
Ecommerce entrepreneurs sit. We sit a lot. Whether listing new products, answering customer e-mails, paying invoices, or doing research, we are on our butts in a chair pretty much all the time. This is literally taking years off our lives. The dangers of sitting are very real, and very scary. The American Journal of Epidemiology
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Photo credit to Flickr user bdunnette As an ecommerce entrepreneur, there is no escaping spreadsheets. Whether setting up a product or inventory feed for your sales channels, analyzing sales data, reconciling receipts in Quickbooks, or working on a quick budget for your next purchase, you’re going to end up working in a spreadsheet. Being comfortable
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Last time, we covered a little bit of science and photography basics – how to use a digital camera properly and how to make the most of the settings to take perfect product photos. In this post, lets dive into the details of how to set up your in-house photography. Of course, you could outsource
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I’m not normally one to stand around marveling at the achievements of others. I’d rather be coming up with new ideas of my own and implementing them. That said, there are some truly incredible people in our industry, and I wanted to bring to your attention four ecommerce entrepreneurs I admire, and think you should
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