A Sellers Guide To Amazon Brand Registry

Posted on April 23, 2019 by - Amazon, E-commerce

Amazon Brand Registry Delivery

Who Can join Amazon Brand Registry?   Brand Registry is for sellers who are brand owners or manufacturers. It’s also open to distributors who have written permission from the brand owner to manage a specific product on Amazon. If you don’t fall into one of these categories, you won’t be able to join Amazon brand registry.   Why Should Sellers Join Amazon Brand Registry?   Joining Amazon Brand Registry is the best way to protect your brand from counterfeit issues or situations where your product content is changed by a third party seller. Brand Registry gives you more brand control and increased ability to deal with counterfeit products. Members of Brand Registry have access to tools to search for infringing products… Read more »

Seller Stories: Bernard Savage – How to sell bespoke items on eBay

Posted on April 17, 2019 by - Case Study, E-commerce, eBay, eBay Design, Frooition, Seller Stories

Bernard Savage make bespoke kitchens and furniture. They manufacture and sell from their showroom in Wolverhampton, where customers can see and touch the solid wood pieces. Buying from Bernard Savage is a unique luxury experience. Customers can even select raw tree trunks to have furniture carved from. However, they had never sold online. They were unsure how people shop for bespoke products online and how they would find these customers. Also, they didn’t know how to translate their luxury showroom sale experience into an online experience. But in 2018, eBay retail revival came to Wolverhampton. eBay Retail Revival offers brick and mortar retailers help finding customers and expanding their business online. The eBay team support retailers through every stage of… Read more »

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What Can We Learn From Social Media’s E-Commerce Gurus?

Posted on April 11, 2019 by - Amazon, dropshipping, E-commerce

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There was a time when e-commerce was just selling things online. Those were simpler times.   Today, searching #ecommerce on Twitter or Instagram will submerge you into a world of posts about drop shipping, flipping, and social selling. Social media has evolved retail beyond shop keeping. It’s now an aspirational route to financial freedom, and social media it teeming with e-commerce gurus, shouting about how to find the next hot trend and win big.   We’ve all been targeted by the Instagram posts promising a four hour work week or six figure salary selling private label products on Amazon. We have all seen the glamorous lifestyle shots; the cars and exotic locations that social media e-commerce gurus say come from… Read more »

5 features every eBay listing needs

Posted on April 9, 2019 by - eBay, eBay Design, Frooition

eBay has over 168 million active buyers and it’s growing daily. So how do you make your listings stand out from the crowd and convert to sales? Let’s run through the six key features every eBay listing needs to entice customers and convince them to buy.   1. Quality Images   An image speaks a thousand words – it may sound cliché, but its true. Images are an important part of your item description. More than half of online shoppers think that product visuals are more important than product information, reviews, and ratings. Images are a key part of the description and should be clear and not misleading. eBay only allow sellers to use manufacturers photographs if the item they… Read more »

Bulk Revision – Now Even Better!

Posted on April 8, 2019 by - Bulk Revision, eBay, eBay Design

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Frooition have created a whole host of eBay certified listing tools and software. But our most popular is eBay Bulk Revision. Doing just as its name suggests, Bulk Revision allows sellers to revise and edit listings in bulk lots. Using bulk edit, you can edit a thousand listings in the same time or less than it would take you to manually edit one. For sellers with hundreds or thousands of listings, Bulk Edit changes the working day. It gives sellers time away from listing products so that they can focus on marketing and fulfilment. Recently, Frooition made huge updates to this classic tool. Sellers who have trialled the new and improved Bulk Revision have been thrilled with even bigger time savings. Here’s… Read more »

9 Ways to Make Shipping a Competitive Advantage for Your Business

Posted on April 5, 2019 by - E-commerce, Frooition, Shipping

With competition in e-commerce fiercer than it’s ever been, nearly every business is looking for a leg up. Many are looking to Amazon, the company that’s dominated e-commerce for the past decade, for guidance. And it’s not hard to discern that one of Amazon’s biggest keys to success is its ability to ship quickly and cheaply. This results in a shipping scramble with retailers racing to offer the fastest and cheapest shipping. Sometimes while cutting dangerously close to profit margins. That shipping arms race is often counterproductive and can lead to unwise moves. So, instead, focus on giving your customers great value and a great experience. Here are nine ideas on how to do that.     1. – Know… Read more »

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How Small Brands Are Dominating In 2019

Posted on April 2, 2019 by - dropshipping, E-commerce, Frooition, Shopify, Social Media, Strategies

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Spend ten minutes scrolling Instagram and you’re sure to come across a dozen new brands, all offering you products that instantly catch your eye. The e-commerce industry has spent the last decade celebrating Amazon’s power in retail. Measuring the potential of a brand by its scale and path to category dominance. The assumption that antiquated high street brands would be attacked by giant e-commerce brands has been taken as fact. But while we were all watching Amazon, an army of small brands was rising up. And now, both old and big brands are fighting against thousands of tiny brands. These tiny brands have low overheads, creative design and supremely efficient customer acquisition tactics. Of course, small brands are nothing new,… Read more »

Mailchimp VS Klaviyo for Shopify

Posted on March 28, 2019 by - E-commerce, Marketing, Shopify

Mailchimp is separating from Shopify. So, by May 12, any merchants using Mailchimp will need to switch to another mail service. Klaviyo is one of the most popular alternatives to Mailchimp right now. If you’re not familiar with Klaviyo, this post will give you an overview of what it does, and how it compares to Mailchimp.   Who uses Mailchimp or Klaviyo?   Your store is doing well. You have a custom Shopify store design that’s converting like a dream and you’re turning 6 figures in revenue each month. You’re focused on squeezing every last bit of profit from your store. Your product research is doing well, your pixel is trained, and your processes are organised so that you have time… Read more »

Mailchimp vs Klaviyo

Branding for automotive parts sellers

Posted on March 26, 2019 by - E-commerce, Marketing, motors

Branding for automotive parts sellers

Selling auto parts online, you’re operating in a growing but competitive market. Sourcing the right stock, getting it online and ensuring that customers find your auto parts website when they search takes hard work. It’s common for automotive parts sellers to find they’ve become so focused on this journey, that they’ve neglected the importance of their brand. But brand is essential for automotive parts retailers. As an auto parts retailer, here’s why you should take time to develop your brand, and how you should do it. Your Brand Helps Your Team Regardless of whether you are two people or two hundred, your brand is a powerful tool to align individuals towards a mission and a purpose. Your brand communicates who… Read more »

4 Ways e-commerce is Working its Way onto Facebook and Instagram

Posted on March 26, 2019 by - E-commerce, Social Media, Strategies

According to a Gen Z report, that generation cite social media as their most influential source for buying decisions. Couple that, with a Meeker report shows 55 percent of users who found a product on social media went on to purchase it later. That makes social media one of the most effective and dominant channels for e-commerce right now. Facebook and Instagram have billions of active users globally and according to the Global Web Index, users spend an average of 142 minutes on social media per day. By capitalising on the opportunity to advertise and sell products on social networks, Facebook and Instagram allow brands to get their products in front of a massive audience where the users already spend a… Read more »

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