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Future Gazing with Linnworks’ Simon Lye

Linnworks has an enviable insight across the world of online retail. In reality, few organisations are better placed to foresee the opportunities and threats presented to online retailers in the year ahead. With access to so much online retail insight, we were delighted to sit down with Simon Lye, Linnworks’ Commercial Partner Manager, for the second in our series of future gazing articles for the Frooition blog. These articles, which will be published throughout December, have been written to help us better understand where online retailers should focus their efforts in 2022 and the years ahead. eCommerce Priorities for 2022 According to Simon, driving efficiencies through the implementation of best-in-class retail technology continues to be a priority for 2022. “Retailers… Read more »

Omnichannel Inventory Management & the busy holiday shopping season

Santa omnichannel selling

Did you know that nearly 2/3rds of 7-figure ecommerce businesses saw their revenue either increase or stay the same since the global pandemic hit earlier this year?  Customers shifted their consumption almost entirely online when stay at home orders were put in place this spring, which led to an explosion in sales along with supply chain headaches.    Now that consumers have adjusted their shopping habits in response to the pandemic, many ecommerce experts are anticipating a spike in ecommerce sales for the 2020 holiday season.  They also predict this holiday season will start even earlier than usual, and PPC and paid social advertising are expected to go up in Q4 as enterprise retailers need to use up unspent budgets.  … Read more »

Seven Marketplaces to Check out Beyond eBay and Amazon.com in 2020

A snapshot of the top 7 alternative Marketplaces for sellers, written by InterCultural Elements Expanding your eCommerce business internationally is almost a no-brainer these days, and what’s a better time to put it into action than the beginning of the new year! Marketplaces like eBay and Amazon are often the biggest online marketplaces that every retailer tries to get onto, but the online world is competitive, and as you might have heard, “don’t put all your eggs in one basket.” Selling solely on eBay and Amazon can be risky and certainly limits the audience you want to reach. There are multiple factors you need to consider before expanding into new countries and relevant marketplaces. In order to give you a… Read more »

eCommerce website success story: Direct Plants

Direct Plants eCommerce case study

Frooition have been working closely with Direct Plants since 2010. After a recent eCommerce website project, the owner Shaun approached Frooition to provide a case study of his experience. This is Shaun’s story in his own words: Covid-19 update – some positive news! "Since the outbreak, we are seeing up to a 70% increase in sales to the same point as last year – we are seeing increased sales from all areas, people are using this lockdown to make use of their garden space, we are seeing many people trying online ordering for the first time and being impressed of the efficiency & ease of ordering through a website like BigCommerce!Our yearly increase is looking now approx 600%!!! compared to… Read more »

Linn System’s soft launches Linnworks.net

Linnworks.net Soft Launch Designed and developed by the team at Linn Systems, this is the next generation in online automation software and the first ever system to combine the power of a desktop application with web-based technology. A major update to the existing Linnworks Desktop client, customers can take control of their business – whether they’re a small start up, or an eCommerce empire. Linnworks.net promises to help businesses save time, grow their market, and reduce costs with their system that allows users to track everything all from one screen – letting the software take care of the routine tasks. The closest thing to real-time With super high speed, customers will find the same high quality software they’ve come to… Read more »

Linnworks Guest Post: Why go Multichannel?

The folks at Linnworks have created a great guest article on the importance of ‘going multichannel’: Why go Multichannel? So you’ve started selling online and found the marketplace or website you are selling on is doing great! It is bringing in the sales and orders are moving along steadily. This is great, but imagine if you could duplicate the results, double your sales and then repeat this process again and again! Well welcome to the world of Multichannel. What is MultiChannel selling? So what is multichannel selling? A basic definition is promoting your products through more than on avenue, in ecommerce terms this could be Amazon, eBay and your own e-store. Further to this you can expand the same principle… Read more »