Selling Boring Products? Make Online Shoppers Hyper about them with these Content Tricks
Perhaps one of the most under-acknowledged problems for the online retail seller is – how to make boring products interesting. Millions of listings exist on online marketplaces, and there are many retailers selling the same product in the market. How do you establish a point of difference between buying the same product from you as […]
The Road to Recovery After a Failed Product Launch
Sometimes you take risks and you lose big – failed product launches are a part and parcel of being an entrepreneur. Launching a new product into the market can be a high-pressure situation, and it is easy to lose hope if the launch fails. But a failed product launch doesn’t mean you can’t bounce back […]
Marketplace rejected your seller application? This could be why!
So, you decided to take the plunge into online selling and made the necessary arrangements. After some research, you zeroed in on selling first on a marketplace before you diversify to your own site. You kept all the documents ready, checked them, and submitted the lot. Just as you were getting ready to service your first […]
Do you have an Effective Team for Online Retail? Here’s How You Can
Perhaps the best part about online retail is that virtually anybody with an internet connection can do it. Companies like Quickr and OLX already let you sell stuff from the comfort of your living room, and are a great way to get introduced to selling on the online market. If you do graduate to being […]
Best Practices for Ecommerce Payment Reconciliation
While a huge proportion of the sellers trust marketplace payment practises to compensate them for the sale of the product, not many have an effective mechanism in place to check the glitches in the marketplace’s payment system. Typically, orders through a marketplace such as Flipkart or Amazon may reach the seller in the order of […]
Date with GST looms near. Do you know all you need to about it?
The government has announced that the much feared and much loved Goods and Services Tax (GST) will be hitting the stands on 1st July 2017. But do you know everything there is to this new law? Are you aware of how it will affect you and your online selling business? What are some of the impacts […]
5 Ways to Find Your Ecommerce Niche
For the past decade or so ecommerce has taken traditional brick and mortar businesses by a wild surprise. But the success of ecommerce portals depended hugely on deficits in the existing model of an industry that, made people switch from one to the other. Didn’t the online ecommerce portals selling branded clothes capitalise on the […]
5 tips to manage your ecommerce business on a shoestring budget
Many online sellers are running small ecommerce businesses. There are a good number of sellers who take the avenue to make some extra money on the side to supplement their regular income. Getting a loan and other finances can be difficult. This being the case, these sellers run things on a tight budget. Planning your […]
6 easy steps to build a loyal customer base in ecommerce for 2017
As online sellers, everyone knows that it costs much less to retain an existing customer than to attract a new one. This being the case, it makes much better business sense to work on keeping the customers who have shopped with you earlier. Last year has brought with it a lot of developments. What can […]
Lacking reviews on Amazon? Here’s what you might be doing wrong
Online businesses thrive when they have substantial reviews to back their goods and services. In fact, these reviews help testify your experience as an online seller and your capabilities too. If you have been in the game for a while make it a point to collect as much feedback as possible to avoid annoying new […]