Category: Frooition

Facebook Ads For Beginners

Posted on May 20, 2019 by - Frooition, Social Media, Strategies

Facebook Ads

Facebook has 1.39 billion active users. Whoever you sell to, they will be on Facebook. And Facebook offers advertisers a range of tools to target their ads with incredible precision. As a result, typical ROI from Facebook ads is 152%! If you are not yet using Facebook advertising and are unsure how to get started, read on.   Set up Facebook business manager   Firstly, if you don’t already have one, you should create a business page. Secondly, you need to set up your Business Manager account. Business Manager is the section of Facebook that will house your Facebook ad account, business pages, and other tools you’ll need to run your ads. To create your Business Manager account, go to business.facebook.com and… Read more »

Frooition Launch New Minimal Theme For BigCommerce

Posted on May 14, 2019 by - Bigcommerce, Frooition

BigCommerce theme

Of all the ways to make a living online, starting an e-commerce business is the simplest.  Moreover, there’s long term growth potential for brands that present themselves well and capture customer interest. Anything that can be sold, sells online. 67% of millennials and 56% of Gen X now prefer shopping online and e-commerce sales are predicted to hit $4.5 trillion by 2021. Running your own online business you can take control of your working schedule and achieve financial independence. But, getting started isn’t always easy. You may not have any idea what to sell, lack experience, or simply be too scared of failure to take your first step. Starting a business requires guts. It also requires investment. Both time and money. And… 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

Shopify Design Agency

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 »

6 Features Every eBay Listing Needs

Posted on April 9, 2019 (Updated March 25, 2022) 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 »

9 Ways to Make Shipping a Competitive Advantage for Your Business

Posted on April 5, 2019 (Updated April 30, 2019) by - E-commerce, Frooition, Shipping

fast e-commerce delivery.

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 »

How Small Brands Are Dominating In 2019

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

small brands

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 »

Why Competitors Are Not Your Enemies

Posted on March 16, 2019 by - E-commerce, Frooition

business competitors

Every business owner knows who their competitors are. Even if you’re not watching them yourself, others won’t hesitate to point out to you what competitors are doing, asking if you have considered doing the same, or pointing to their perceived success and asking if it worries you. As a business owner, it’s easy to over focus on your competitors, to build them up into the personification of all your business troubles. It’s easy to forget that they are not the enemy. Competitors are your proof of market. If there’s enough interest for your competitors business to grow, then there’s enough for yours to grow too. No product is alone in its market. Coca Cola has Pepsi, Apple has Microsoft, Nike… Read more »

How to create a social media style guide for your brand.

Posted on February 25, 2019 by - Frooition, Marketing, Social Media

social media style guide

Successfully marketing your brand on social media requires a mix of skills from your company’s founder, employees and often freelancers or agency staff. When many different people contribute to a project, it’s important to create a framework that ensures consistency of quality and brand personality. For social media marketing, that framework is called a social media style guide. In this guide, we’ll show you how to create a social media style guide that helps you maintain a consistent brand voice and on-board new employees or freelancers more quickly. Choose Platforms If you haven’t already chosen social media platforms for your brand, consider which platforms might best help you achieve your goals. If you’re working with a limited budget or a… Read more »

Telling Your E-commerce Brand Story

Posted on February 19, 2019 (Updated February 20, 2019) by - Frooition, Marketing, Retail, Strategies

brand story

If you’re part of a growing e-commerce business, or have grown an e-commerce business from scratch, you’ll be familiar with the challenges of wearing multiple hats, juggling dispatch and customer enquiries whilst trying to attract more customers online. We get accustomed to doing everything as fast as possible. There’s always a new immediate task to be dealt with, and sales is a fire that needs constant stoking. Therefore, marketing is focused on the fastest return on investment. Creativity and branding get pushed aside as a luxury that you never have the time or budget to focus on. Why do you need a brand story? Having worked in content marketing and branding for many years, the one thing I see time… Read more »

How to write Meta Descriptions for e-commerce

Posted on January 28, 2019 (Updated January 29, 2019) by - Bigcommerce, Frooition, Marketing, Search, Shopify

meta descriptions

You’re working hard to market your company and make sure you appear in search. Writing your descriptions, optimising images, and mastering most of the other elements of effective search engine optimisation (SEO). However, if you’re anything like many of the many e-commerce merchants we speak to, you may be struggling with meta descriptions. Meta descriptions don’t directly effect your SEO. Search engines like Google will simply take a snippet of page text if you don’t set your own meta description. Page click through does affect your search engine ranking though. If no one clicks on the link to your page, search engines will assume it is not a relevant result. More importantly, if people don’t click to visit your site,… Read more »