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eSellerPro Banks Another £1m Investment What Do you Think?
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 >> ]
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 >> ]
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 >> ]
The Top 8 Pitfalls of Using 3rd Party Software To Manage Your Business
“I thought using 3rd party software to automate my online business was one of the best decisions I ever made?” I asked myself this question back in November last year, since then certain events have happened and I strongly feel that adding software to manage repetitive parts of an on-line business is a sensible move. This is to the point that it doesn’t matter which tools you use, as long as they’re automated and take less … [Full Article >> ]
How to: Add a YouTube Video to Listings Using eSellerPro
Adding video content, especially video content that you’ve made for your business on a product or service to eBay listings easily done and I covered this in an earlier article “Add a Youtube Video to your eBay Listings in 5 Steps“, however when using 3rd party tools, the actual listing template is normally separated from the description. In this How-to guide I’ll be showing you how to automatically add a … [Full Article >> ]
Data is the Life Blood of an eCommerce Business
Introduction Firstly lets quickly identify whom this article aimed at and why on earth you should even consider reading the rest of this article. I’ve personally spent over four years at 3rd party software providers working with businesses that have got themselves into operational & data issues that could have been avoided when it comes to marketplaces such as eBay & Amazon. Some businesses have had no tool prior to … [Full Article >> ]
ChannelAdvisor Powers 25% of eBay UK Fashion Outlets
I’m working on an article relating to competitive advantage for businesses through software usage and I’ve just stopped to share with an interesting observation. Using the official eBay Outlets list here, it turns out that 8 of the 31 listed are powered by ChannelAdvisor, that’s a clear 25% (and not the result I expected). Here is the run down of service providers for backend processing in these accounts: eBay UK Outlets & Software Providers 1 … [Full Article >> ]
eSellerPro Appoints Interim CTO Edgar Smith
If you’re an eSellerPro client, then you’re going to want to take note of the email sent out this morning from eSellerPro’s CEO Keith Bird. Thoughts to come later… Dear Valued Customer After 6 incredible years, our Founder and serial entrepreneur, Chris Farrelly, has decided he wants to step down from the day to day operations of the business. Since I joined in January Chris has been our Chief Technology Officer … [Full Article >> ]
ChannelAdvisor Amazon 360 What This Could Mean For The Future
Two weeks ago I was kindly given a walk around the new Amazon 360 as part of the Autumn Release which also included Buy.com upgrades and comparison shopping merchandiser from ChannelAdvisor. What struck me the most was what ChannelAdvisor has been and created, could be the foundation parts of a much larger offering which I’ll cover in this article. I decided that it would be easier to explain the points covered in this article in a discussion video and … [Full Article >> ]
The First eSellerPro Council
While I’m not going to cover who was there and what was covered in this article, I am going to share a key observation and ask you the question “what does this mean for you?”. The Table The table consisted of nearly all the largest, most influential clients of eSellerPro and together, probably accounted for a quarter of all turnover taken on eBay UK by professional business sellers or more. Ironically there … [Full Article >> ]
“Apples are Apples” or are they? – eSellerPro V’s ChannelAdvisor
Yesterday was an interesting day’s reading. On the one hand CEO of ChannelAdvisor Scot Wingo was elected to Shop.org’s board of directors, which is frankly quite a feat considering there are only five places for non-retailers & is a highly coveted position. A quote Scot Wingo: “I am absolutely honored to join a board of such diverse executives and e-commerce leaders to serve the Shop.org members and continue the development … [Full Article >> ]
Free Site Monitoring – Pingdom
In the past few weeks I’ve had a couple of questions regarding website monitoring, my first choice used to be “AlertFox” as you could go much deeper than just pinging the web server and script actions for the site to follow. However they’ve[AlertFox] gone to a completely chargeable structure , even though they offer 30 days free, $49 a month is too much for most and I’ve found and cruically … [Full Article >> ]
