Easy steps for smooth multi-warehouse management & maximum inventory benefits
If you are an online seller who supplies products to different locations, you will know the hassle of monitoring your inventory. Every day you wake up to fresh batches of orders from Jabalpore, Vishakapatnam, Indore, Panaji, and Mizoram. If your head spins at the sight of different cities, then multi-warehouse management is the answer for […]
Joining a New Marketplace? Here are 5 Questions you Must First Consider!
Once you reach your goals it’s time to move on to bigger more challenging ones. When selling on marketplaces you will set sales or profit goals. Once you achieve these you look out for new challenges and more opportunities to grow you business and earn greater revenue. Many online sellers join a new marketplaces […]
Cranky Customers Compromising your Ecommerce? Tackle their bad reviews and ratings with these Practical Moves!
All online sellers would have faced stubborn buyers. Sometimes even if there is a problem that can be overlooked, a hot-headed customer kicks up a storm. Bad reviews and ratings follow, making things worse for the seller. Picture the following scenario: A buyer complains that the product is not as big as it was made […]
What’s the Deal with Branding in Online Retail?
We often tend to limit the idea of competition in the Indian online marketplace as that between the big online retail channels like Flipkart and Amazon. In fact, the real competition in online marketplaces takes place within the sales channel, between individual sellers. Earlier this year, Amazon claimed that it had acquired 1 lakh sellers […]
Ecommerce Diwali sales roundup – the path breaking trends, the non-performers & everything in between
The party is over, and Indians are slowly returning to the daily grind post-Diwali. BT takes a look at how online commerce has fared this season. How did the marketplaces fare? Redseer Consulting did a brief study on the sale titled, ‘The Great Indian Online Festive Sales Review’. The study makes some interesting observations of […]
Ignorance isn’t always bliss; At least not in case of these online selling factors!
Ignorance is a blissful state of mind. But if you sell online, being ignorant is as good as telling your customers to check out your competition for better deals! Our last blog post covered common mistakes online sellers tend to make. Making these mistakes is not bad; it’s the repetition of these same old mistakes […]
5 Ways You Can Save Time in Online Retail
Only a seller rushing to catch deadlines during the biggest flash sale of the year will be able to tell you the importance of time in online retail. With thousands of sellers selling millions of products and exchanging billions of rupees, the value of time and efficient time management really shines in these moments. This […]
7 Costly ecommerce mistakes you haven’t stopped making
Selling online is not as easy as you thought; is it? When you fall because of losses it hurts more than you assumed it would. Online retail requires strategy. Maintaining stocks and listing your products is not enough. You need to look at where you are going wrong and make a conscious decision to implement […]
Snapdeal’s new identity unbox zindagi – unboxing good fortune or failure?
One of India’s online marketplace trinity recently underwent a makeover. Snapdeal took a lot of pain (moneywise and otherwise) to relaunch its brand. The company also made some policy changes. All of this was in preparation for the Diwali sale season. Did it pay off? We decided to do a post-mortem to see the impact […]
How to Use the Best Product Images for Your Online Retail Shop
Perhaps the greatest hurdle in the transition of a consumer from an offline shopper to an online shopper is the tendency to try a product before buying it. Indian consumers, especially from the up-and-coming tier II and III cities are used to checking a product out in showrooms before buying it. This is especially true […]
