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 Can Your Online Customers be wooed into Coming Back and Purchasing More?
Success in online sales works in mysterious ways, at least seemingly so. It is a medium where you cannot directly interact with your customers, or give them a long speech about how their lives will change for the better if they buy your product. You also end up becoming one seller in a sea of […]
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 Niche Online Marketplaces You Should Know About
Online Marketplaces can be divided into a few subcategories – there are your usual online megamalls like Flipkart and Amazon that sell you everything you might need under one virtual roof. There are also online auction companies like Tradus and eBay that work on a slightly different business model. But in online retail, the sky […]
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 […]
“Bylane e-commerce surprise” (Browntape in Times of India)
This is what Times of India had to say about us .. Even as Laxmikant Parsekar’s government struggles to boost investment and create employment, a small yet innovative e-commerce start-up has shown the way, just meters away from the chief minister’s secretariat office. A stroll along the empty streets of the Journalist’s colony in Porvorim leads […]
What Sells Most in the Indian E-Commerce Market?
The first question every online retail newbie has when they enter the sector is, ‘what to sell?’ The Long Tail Phenomenon, propounded and discussed by Chris Anderson, the editor of Wired Magazine tells you not to fret about this question much. Every product has a profitable place in the online market, however niche it is. […]
