How to Increase Revenues with Upselling and Cross Selling
In the quest to become a successful online seller, two tactics will always be your best friends – upselling and cross selling. There is generally a bit of confusion about these two, and many people tend to confuse one with the other. In actuality, they are two very different yet complementary strategies that you can […]
5 Simple Ways to Retain Customers and Make them Shop More
Customer retention is the name of the game. If you are an online retailer, you cannot thrive in the market without conserving a loyal customer base. Oftentimes, this is the major conundrum that the average online retailer has to face – how to retain customers? But why is customer retention so important? Loyal customers are […]
How to Save up on Logistics Costs
An oft-neglected area while planning an ecommerce business is logistics. Logistics is the actual process with which your product is stored, transported and delivered to your customers. So, while it is important to fiddle with your website UI to make it more engaging, and promote your venture online so that people shop on your website, […]
5 Actionable Ways to Improve Customer Loyalty on Your Online Store
In the cutthroat world on online sales, customer loyalty means everything. It means more market share, higher profits, higher brand recognition and a stable, growing business. Customer loyalty has two important benefits – firstly, it means the conversion of a one-time shopper into a trusted customer who would always come to you for their shopping […]
How to Decide on The Selling Price of Your Products?
Pricing your products for the online market can be a tough job, especially because as an online retailer, you have to face competition from hundreds of other retailers who might be selling the same/similar products. A few months ago we published an article that talked about some unusual pricing strategies that make use of certain […]
How to Categorize Your Products on Your Online Portal
Think of it this way – when you enter a supermarket looking for a toothbrush, and you find it in the pet food section, aren’t you frustrated? Categorisation in the real world is done to increase efficiency for both the customer and the seller. Imagine frustrated customers leaving their shopping and storming out of your […]
How Browntape Simplifies the Order Processing Procedures for All Your Online Marketplaces
It’s a question most of us don’t bother to ask. It’s like asking how the plumber turns the water on, or the IT guy fixes your computer. We know that Browntape has the capacity to integrate numerous online and offline marketplaces, including your brick-and-mortar store. But it’s definitely good to know what goes on under […]
How to Maintain a Good Seller’s Rating on Marketplaces
Online marketplaces are ultra-competitive platforms, and excelling in them can be a difficult prospect. It is not uncommon to find many sellers on an online marketplace selling the same product, especially consumer retail like electronics and apparel. (Interestingly, electronics and apparel rank at the top in the list of the most popular product categories sold […]
Everything You Need to Know About Drop Shipping
Sales is an evolutionary entity, and evolution happens at a very fast paced rate with it. The subdivision of wholesale and retail, the emergence of catalogue based sales, the idea of malls, and finally that of selling online are things that have come up in less than the past hundred years. Drop shipping is an […]
5 E-Commerce Trends to Look Out for in 2015
These are great days to be in e-commerce. In India and worldwide, e-commerce and online retail have been seeing some amazing progress, and it is no surprise that consumers have finally gotten used to this new way to shop. The Indian e-commerce market saw its biggest year in 2014, and if the predictions are correct, […]
