Tag: online retail

The Cost of Living Crisis: How Online Retailers Can Weather The Storm

Posted on August 26, 2022 by - E-commerce, eBay

The cost of living crisis caused by rising energy costs and the subsequent squeeze on household budgets will hit online retail businesses hard this winter. Not only will people have less money to spend on little luxuries and everyday essentials, but the cost of doing business will also soar as suppliers pass on ever-increasing expenses to their clients. We are not pulling any punches here. Christmas 2022 is going to be challenging for many retailers. While there is no “magic bullet” to solve the problem, there are a number of levers businesses can pull to help them better weather the storm. 10 Tips To Help Online Retail Businesses Survive The Cost of Living Crisis Liquidate Distressed Inventory Immediately: When every… Read more »

Dynamic Cross Promotion on eBay, Sell more with Frooition [Guide]

Posted on July 7, 2021 by - eBay, eBay Design, Frooition

eBay dynamic cross promotion

Are you cross selling on eBay to boost sales? As we mentioned in our 10 eBay essentials, cross promotion is a huge part of optimising listings. One of Frooition’s most powerful features is the dynamic cross promotion sections within every eBay product listing template. Dynamic Cross selling on eBay offers alternative products from your eBay account within each eBay listing. The aim is to retain the buyer and encourage them to visit your other items on eBay rather than returning to the core eBay search and stop them from potentially buying with your competition. Successful dynamic cross promotion directly increases sales, boosts conversion rates, improves click-through and increase average order values. A positive side effect of dynamic cross selling is it also boosts brand… Read more »

eBay Promoted listings via Frooition

Posted on June 24, 2021 by - Frooition

Marketing and promotion on eBay

Frooition are delighted to announce the immediate availability of an exciting new advertising service in partnership with eBay. This service, eBay Promoted Listings, is now available to Frooition eBay customers within our eBay-certified Frooition software suite. The Promoted Listings advertising service is a Pay Per Sale service and is the first release in the eBay marketing toolkit that allows eBay sellers to get more views and grow their sales through promoted and enhanced listing visibility. It’s not just about increasing your visibility on a search page, it’s about visibility across the whole shopping journey including Search, View Item, My eBay and Browse pages together with other eBay locations exclusive to Promoted Listings campaigns This new service offers the potential to increase listing views by up to 32% (average based on a… Read more »

How DirectPlants More than Doubled their eBay Sales

Posted on June 15, 2021 by - Bigcommerce, Case Study, eBay

Direct Plants are a celebrated, eBay award winning, seller. They have built a hugely successful eBay business over the last 15 years. They reached the pinnacle of what is possible on eBay, the team turned their focus to e-commerce… Their legacy website, running on an old self-hosted platform did not perform anywhere near as well as other channels. For many years the team just accepted this as the limits of what their products could achieve on a website. In 2019 DirectPlants started a conversation with Frooition, who recommended they take a free BigCommerce Trial. After initially being wowed by the functionality on offer they needed help migrating their data and products. Frooition stepped in to help and helped them migrate to a brand… Read more »

10 eBay Design Essentials to Boost Your eBay Sales

Posted on May 14, 2021 by - eBay, eBay Design, Frooition, Strategies

eBay design tips

Custom eBay brand design sets you apart from competitors and keeps customers in your eBay listings for longer. Not just exciting visuals, custom eBay listing design can include extra sales features like video in listings, dynamic cross-promotion and software for motors and motor parts sellers. It’s important that your customers know who they are buying from. If you sell great products and give excellent service, then you should brand that experience so that customers can be loyal to you using a proven eBay design for sellers. Professional branding design for eBay sellers makes it clear that you are a serious seller and encourages buyers to trust you. They know that you’re invested in eBay and your company appearance and that they… Read more »

Why You Should Have Your Brand on Amazon as well as eBay

Posted on November 11, 2020 by - Amazon, eBay, Frooition, Guest Post

Why sell on Amazon

Once considered an auction house for bedroom sellers, eBay is now a reliable multi-channel marketplace that allows blue-chip sellers to offer their branded products to a huge audience. Adding to Amazon’s marketplace lets you increase the level of exposure your products get and reach a much bigger audience. There are many differences between the two platforms when it comes to selling, there are some real benefits when it comes to expanding. Why should you start selling on Amazon? To expand your reach: In 2020, between 350 to 450 million buyers visited Amazon.co.uk every month. And this amounts to double the number of global active users on eBay. It’s where most of your customers start their search: 63% of shoppers start… Read more »

Omnichannel Inventory Management & the busy holiday shopping season

Posted on October 13, 2020 by - E-commerce, eBay, Omni-channel, Strategies

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 »

How to optimise your eBay listings in 2020 – [eBay SEO]

Posted on October 7, 2020 by - Frooition

eBay SEO guy

What is eBay SEO? We know search engine optimization (SEO) is the practice of increasing the quantity and quality of traffic to your website through organic search. For websites there are well documented best practices to improve your search engine ranking, from relevant page titles, sitemaps, meta tagging, just to name a few, all of which you can complete for free. Did you know, with marketplaces such as eBay, there are several steps that every seller can complete to improve their product ranking? That’s right eBay SEO! eBay is 25 years old this year and its search systems have seen many evolutions within that time. Back at the start it was simple, you put as many keywords as you could… Read more »

Boost Your eBay Sales in 2 Easy Steps Using Item Specifics

Posted on September 3, 2019 by - Frooition

Boost your eBay sales

Want to increase your eBay sales? Well of course, who wouldn’t. Well, the first step is getting your items seen by more buyers. It is possible to boost this through sponsored listings and paying for additional listing features. However, there is an effortless, free, and effective way to achieve this: it’s just a matter of adding the right item specifics in the right place on eBay. How to boost sales on eBay in 2 steps: Tip #1: use product catalogue The first (and easiest) tip is to match your product to the items catalogue entry on eBay. If you can find your product line in the eBay catalogue, you should always use this. EBay will transfer the product details directly… Read more »

eCommerce Analytics (why is it so important?)

Posted on August 29, 2019 by - Frooition

Having access to a comprehensive suite to monitor any eCommerce analytics is business-critical. Trying to run any website without a good view of your analytics is like trying to ride a bike blindfolded. When it comes to an e-commerce website without analytics; it’s like trying to ride a bike blindfolded, down the middle of a motorway, while setting fire to your wallet… With today’s free offerings from Google, there is absolutely no excuse for not adding Google Analytics to your eCommerce store. You should include Google Analytics in any eCommerce website project you undertake (…we do). Need to setup Google Analytics on your BigCommerce Store? Follow this guide and get it done in less time than it takes to make… Read more »