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The True Cost of Adding Social Buttons
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
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 >> ]
Amazon Policy Warning For Buyer-Seller Contact Response Times
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
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 >> ]
What is Order Aggregation & How Can it Help Your Business?
Aggregating orders from multiples sales channels is one of the main features in 3rd party software, but what are the benefits of doing this and how can it help your business? I delve deeply into order aggregation in this article and explain how this can help your business tackle multiple sales channels and still leave you with (some) hair. I’ve also included a video accompany this article and I would value any feedback you have … [Full Article >> ]
Do I Need an eBay Shop Design to Sell on eBay?
The short answer to this question is no, you do not need an eBay shop design to sell on eBay. While having you eBay shop custom designed by a third party design company may look fantastic and most are able to offer features and functions that are not found in the basic eBay shop structure, it is not a requirement that you have your eBay shop themed or custom designed. … [Full Article >> ]
What if the prices for everything were the same?
This whole price parity issue with Amazon over the past few days as got me thinking. What if the prices for everything were the same? Now that’s an interesting question… Lets imagine for a few minutes what would happen if we were say all governed by a communist government worldwide and one of the parts of the establishment was that for all products, the prices had to be the same. I mean everything, from … [Full Article >> ]
How eSellerPro’s Channel Profile Can Help Your Business
One of eSellerPro’s core features is a function called a ‘Channel Profile’, in this article I’ll be covering the basics to what a ‘Channel Profile’ does and how it can help your business. Multi-Channel selling is now an assumed practice for eCommerce businesses, unlocking the power to reach a much wider audience than you could ever have imagined, but sensibly. The Channel Profile feature in eSellerPro can enable you to achieve … [Full Article >> ]
Reverse Engineering The Data From an eBay Listing Part 2
Welcome to the second part of a 2 part series in this final part I’ll be looking at the data that is posted into the template to show you how easy it is to create a fantastic eBay listing, but with minimal data. In the first part here, I worked out what the probable layout of the eBay listing template that was used, introduced you to keywords and pointed out that eBay … [Full Article >> ]
What is eSellerPro & How it Can Help Your Business?
So what is eSellerPro and how can it help your business? To answer these questions effectively, I’ve put together a 3 minute video overview where I discuss the following: The 3 core parts of eSellerPro, these being: Inventory data & stock management Order aggregation The “Channel Profile” to keep the sales channels up to date Suitable business types Answered in a 3 Minute Video Before you watch this video its important to note … [Full Article >> ]
That’s Curious BrightPearl is Releasing a Magento & eBay Integration?
Brightpearl, now that’s a curious one. It appears they’re adding a Magento & eBay link to their arsenal (see their shhhh page here) and I’m super curious! Curious and I’ll Explain Why. If we look at the different SaaS (Software as a Service) providers out there, they’ve all originated from different angles: ChannelAdvisor came from the perspective of eBay And so did MarketWorks too eSellerPro came from a order processing perspective, … [Full Article >> ]
What is an Amazon Product Detail Page?
Hola! In this article I introduce you to the Amazon product detail pages and the different variations of the detail page for products on Amazon.co.uk If you’ve never sold on Amazon, are looking to do so or are already a seller central merchant, then taking a few minutes to watch the video in this article will help you and your staff understand what an Amazon detail page looks like and … [Full Article >> ]
Reverse Engineering an eBay Template from an eBay Listing Part 1
Following on from the article series around eBay listing templates I recently covered in Part 1 and Part 2.In this article I reverse engineer an eBay listing template from an eBay listing and show you the parts that make up an eBay listing template. This is again going to be part of a two-part series and in the second part, I’ll be showing you the template that makes up the eBay listing, … [Full Article >> ]
