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 […]

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, […]

How to Drive More Traffic to Your Online Marketplace Store

The big question every online retailer faces while starting out is how to get people to their online store. Although we regularly see the most bizarre things go viral on the internet (case in point, the kickstarter campaign for Exploding Cats), we never really imagine the same happening to our online enterprises. What we don’t […]