Should you hike or lower the prices of your products now?
If you are an online seller who is a part of the online marketplace landscape in India, you already know that there is no set formula for pricing your products. Unless your product is the only one selling in that specific category, you will have competition from all those online retailers selling the same or […]
4 simple tips for sellers to get ready for ecommerce ki Diwali
Undoubtedly, Diwali was the top grossing season in eCommerce sales last year. Despite the many setbacks (read technical glitches, delivery mishaps, angry customers and so on), the figures at the end of the day did set new records for many a seller. The predictions and the benchmarks for ecommerce growth this year has only made […]
Get paranoid about your Account Reputation on online marketplaces, now!
All the online marketplace giants are bent on on boarding more sellers this year. Some are looking to double and triple, while some are targeting as many as 1,00,000 sellers on board by the end of this year. Needless to say, an online marketplace is no longer a level-playing ground; it is already competitive and […]
How to deal with customers trying to rip you off
‘The customer is always right’, goes the dictum. Some might say that this is a very naive way of looking at things, and they won’t be completely wrong. The customer-seller relationship is based on a simple economic transaction, but it can lead to some complicated scenarios. Both the consumer and the seller are ultimately vying […]
5 Furniture etailers making a mark in the Indian Market
In an age where virtually anything can be bought and sold online, it is no wonder that the online furniture sales business is booming. Furniture as an online commodity has a certain specific set of problems – firstly, it is difficult to have a warehouse full of pre-made furniture items, as opposed to easy to […]
Order fulfillment services of online marketplaces – A quick look
In our last edition we spoke about the top three online marketplaces in India, namely Flipkart, Amazon and Snapdeal. These three are bleeding themselves dry competing in various categories trying to one-up each other all the time. In fact, many experts believe that the battle of the online marketplaces comes down to who can take […]
Working capital assistance from online marketplaces: What are your options?
The Indian online marketplace has become a battleground for some big names. With e-retail and m-retail growing at an astounding rate, the Indian e-commerce industry is all set to hit the $100 billion mark by 2020. A few names stand out with respect to online retail, in terms of their sheer market size and growth […]
Top 5 Online Marketplaces in India compared
If you’re looking to get into online retail, subscribing to an online marketplace is arguably the quickest way to do so. The market for online retail in India has grown by leaps and bounds in the past few years. In fact, this Nasscom report says that the Indian e-commerce industry will touch the $100 billion […]
How to Choose the Right Marketplace for Your Products
Once you decide that you want to sell online, the first question that you have to answer is where. There are a lot of options. You can either go for one or more of the innumerable sales channels that make up the online retail horizon, or fly solo and open up your own online store. […]
Tier 2, 3 Cities as Potential Markets for Online Retail
India’s online retail market can be subdivided into two parts in terms of the geography – the so called tier 1 cities, which include the metropolises and the highly developed industrial and cultural hubs and the tier 2 and 3 cities which include the so called developing regions around the country. The disparity between these […]
