Online marketplaces like eBay and Amazon might be the first step many small businesses take on their online retail journey, but that doesn’t mean the scale of the opportunity isn’t significant. According to a recent report in Internet Retailing, the UK is home to approximately 882,000 businesses selling on online [...]

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating Amazon to ascertain whether the company has a dominant position in the UK and whether it is abusing that position by giving an unfair advantage to its own retail business or sellers using its services when compared to other third-party sellers on [...]

Frooition is delighted to announce the inaugural episode of The Frooition Podcast is now available for streaming. In this first episode, we speak with Dave Furness, founder of the eCommerce news site eSeller365, about the challenges small business owners face when scaling their businesses on eBay and Amazon and the [...]

When you work in eCommerce, it's sometimes easy to forget that many consumers don't actually understand what an online marketplace is. You might look at a platform like eBay or Amazon and see a marketplace where millions of private, independent, and big brand sellers can come together and sell their [...]

Your business is fraught with risk when you rely 100% on online marketplace sales. Just because you are busy with marketplace sales doesn't mean that your business is in good shape. In many ways, those eBay and Amazon sales are like a diet rich in sugar. They will give you [...]

Amazon has long prohibited its sellers from sending promotional email campaigns to their customers acquired on the marketplace. However, according to a recent announcement, that stance is now shifting for a select group of sellers. US sellers that are part of Amazon’s Brand Registry program are now able to send [...]

With more than 50,000 visitors and 2,500 exhibitors from across the trade, the Spring Fair, held at Birmingham’s National Exhibition Center (NEC) between February 6th and 9th, is like Glastonbury for the retail industry. As a business headquartered in the Midlands and serving clients worldwide, Frooition couldn't be more excited [...]

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' [...]

Frooition and BigCommerce will be exhibiting and speaking at The Great British Expo’s North West Expo event at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester on November 18, 2021. The Frooition team will be joined on their event stand by representatives from BigCommerce and are looking forward to meeting retailers and other [...]

Starting a business on eBay or Amazon can be a straightforward process. You have stock, you list it, you sell it, and then it’s just a question of rinse and repeat. However, growing your business on eBay or Amazon is a much more complicated affair. As your business grows, you [...]

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 [...]

Are you trying to decide what to sell on Amazon? With more than 3 billion products listed on Amazon worldwide, chances are that whatever you are thinking of selling, it's already being sold on Amazon. There's still plenty of opportunity to make impressive profits selling products on Amazon, but it's critical [...]

What is Amazon FBA?   FBA means fulfilled by Amazon. With the Amazon FBA program, you choose what you want to sell, send it to Amazon, and they do the rest for you. It's a model that is growing in popularity. Because Amazon FBA makes it easier for you to build [...]

Amazon Prime has truly revolutionized the concept and expectation of shipping. Years ago “fast shipping” would have been considered a week or so. Now, thanks to Amazon Prime, consumers expect fast shipping to take just a couple of days. If consumers don’t see fast, free, or low-cost shipping, many of [...]