Selling an item online is easy, so is a couple of items, but making living from a business that sells online, well that's something different entirely.

That's me over to the right *waves* I don't pretend to know everything, but I have spent the last 10 years running an online business, helping people just like you become more effective & efficient with the online sales channels like eBay & Amazon, either through consulting or at one of the two ERP software companies I have worked for.

It's my personal goal to turn everything I know about eCommerce into plain English and that's why I need your assistance by getting involved.

Do You Tell Your Buyers What to Do?

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I’m writing a chapter for my book on this very topic at the moment, however I feel is important to raise the question with you before its published. Telling people what to do can be seen as impolite, but guiding the user to complete an action that you’d like them to complete is something quite different, specially if you conduct it nicely, you’re just leading them to complete an action you’d like … [Full Article >> ]

The True Cost of Adding Social Buttons

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A cost, for adding social buttons to your website? Matt you’ve lost the plot…. or have I? I wrote an article last year because I was horrified that the Facebook Like buttons were actually adding 84Kb, or in time 1.340 seconds to the page load time of this site. In this article I look at the social sharing buttons again, but in more depth and identify the weight behind them. By adding the Facebook, Twitter, … [Full Article >> ]

Amazon Gets Aggressive With Price Parity

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This is a follow up article from the original posted a few days ago regarding Have You Received a Price Parity Policy Warning from Amazon? and its not pleasant. If you’ve not read the earlier article yet or the comments, then this won’t make much sense to you just yet and obviously key parts of the email have been removed. This is the first sign that Amazon really means business with its sellers when it … [Full Article >> ]

eSellerPro Banks Another £1m Investment What Do you Think?

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I’ve received the release below this morning from eSellerPro. They’ve taken in another £1M in funding as the first round of funding of £2M was around two years ago. I have two questions for you at the bottom of this article, I’d love to hear your feedback on this. Press Release eSellerPro receives a further £1m in funding from Notion Capital Funding follows a record year with £233m in sales … [Full Article >> ]

Amazon Policy Warning For Buyer-Seller Contact Response Times

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This is the one I know you’ve been waiting for… Looks like Amazon are about to start enforcing the Buyer-Seller Response times to buyers as a measured metric on your Amazon dashboards. If you missed the Amazon Price Parity article a few days, you can find it here, as Amazon appear to be focusing on 3rd party sellers this quarter. Amazon Policy Warning Email Below is the email being sent out from Amazon, you might … [Full Article >> ]

eBay’s SellerSphere Featured Seller BamfordTrading Out-takes Video

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John & Gill from BamfordTrading passed on solid advice in their recent article that was featured by eBay SellerSphere in January, you can see the article and the three videos they included in the full article here. However… Those polished videos were not without a few slips and with John & Gills permission here are the out-takes. Your Feedback I’m also working on persuading John add more video content, you … [Full Article >> ]

A Question For You!

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Well its about time really! Its why I have been quite quiet here for past week or so. I’m about 9,000 words in and half way through the table of contents I first wrote a few weeks back. Yep that’s right I’m writing a book, well two actually. No one section of the first book is complete enough to share properly and I’ve not hammered down what I am going to call the … [Full Article >> ]

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