What’s the most important thing for any ecommerce merchant trying to sell something in the massive web that is the Internet? Getting found! Getting found is the hardest part. Anyone can register a domain, open a store, and list their products, but if you can’t get found, then what’s the point? There are hundreds of […]
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Not all sellers are ready to work with a professional supplier from the very beginning. Whether it’s a restriction of capital, credit, labor, time, or just a desire to start cautiously, sometimes sourcing product locally on a small scale is the way to go. Drop shipping products can help alleviate some of these issues, and
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Just recently, Nick wrote an article examining 3 reasons why e-commerce stores fail. Nick writes from experience — he is a longtime seller and runs his own profitable store — and he puts forward some really good points. In the beginning of the article, Nick cites a crazy statistic: “e-commerce in particular is even more daunting – 65%
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Of the myriad ways in which you can improve sales on eBay, perhaps the most effective is to drive your listings up eBay’s Best Match search results. The higher your listings, the more visible to potential buyers your products become (and with greater visibility comes more sales). If you aren’t familiar with Best Match, here’s
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A creative mathematician has all of the analytical tools to be a successful businessman. After all, what is business? It’s a numbers game – there’s some arithmetic, a bit of probability, a touch of algebra. Put all of that together and you are golden! Because the Internet lets you be as big as you want,
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Just because the internet is home to some of the biggest businesses in the world doesn’t mean that it’s easy to start a business online. In fact, it’s incredibly difficult. The failure rate for businesses in general in their first ten years of operation is close to 71%. The odds are well and truly stacked
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If you sell on eBay, you know there are lots of tips and tricks to increase sales. For example, you can use relevant keywords in your listing title to make an item easier to find. What you might not know, however, is that there are also certain things you can do to actually drive buyers
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Amazon has struck a late holiday deal with the USPS to offer Sunday delivery for Prime members in L.A. and New York. The deal goes effective immediately, which is… well… pretty amazing. This is a huge boon to FBA sellers, as FBA shipments are automatically available to Prime customers, and those customers might now be
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Sellers, If your inventory moves well for you in the U.S., have you considered listing in Europe to see if you can drive even more sales? If the answer is “no” (and every business has legitimate reasons why it may well be “no”), let me share a little info about how Amazon works in Europe
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This is a continuation of my last post about how to build brand loyalty with Amazon’s marketplace. eBay, like Amazon, is a beast. And not just any beast. A ferocious, bloodthirsty beast with retractable claws. If you ride the beast, you can become its master. But if you get in its way, then you’re probably
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