How To Prevent Overselling: 5 Top Tips
Whilst overselling means that you’ve got customers, you’re popular and you’ve shifted a lot of stock (great) it also means that you’re missing out on sales, your customers are left disappointed and your potential customers may head elsewhere (not great). Not overselling stock is one of the eight rules of the eCommerce club (we can’t talk about the […]
Billion Dollar Baby! Etsy’s Q4 Results
Whilst winter was having a leaving party at the end of February, Etsy was celebrating its first ever quarter with over $1,000,000,000 in sales and if that wasn’t enough, their other financials were pretty impressive too. Growing In A Sea of Sameness This is a huge milestone for creative marketplace Etsy, who demonstrated strong growth across […]
eCommerce clock change: don’t get caught off guard
Daylight saving time – sacrificing a little bit of sunrise for a whole later sunset. But whilst we don’t mind losing an hour’s sleep for those lazy summer evenings, losing an hour’s worth of work on your eCommerce business isn’t ideal. Here are our top tips to be tip top for DST. 1. Add New Listings […]
eBay Spring Seller Update 2018
Spring has sprung and showed us that it can wear whatever it wants – even snow. But whilst most of us were building snowmen out of spring’s arrival, eBay was providing us with their 2018 Spring Sellers Update – of which there is a lot to update on. Gold Standard Retail Experience Much like spring, eBay […]
March eCommerce News Roundup
March, the month of snow, spring, snow, spring, a bank holiday and the following not-to-be-missed eCommerce news: Let’s Take That Offline In January we announced Amazon’s first checkout-less store, in Seattle and rumour has it that there are six more waiting in the checkout line. The bricks, mortar and online mashup concept sees physical stores […]
Prices Fit For A Queen: Royal Mail Price Increases
The Royal Mail has been at it again and is increasing its shipping prices from 26 March 2018. Whilst they maintain that they are still one of the best value postal operators in Europe (offering first class letter delivery for 27p less than the European average), it will still come as a pinch for many […]
I Don’t Know But I’ve Been Told: eBay Boot Camp Now Open
eBay is inviting you to a four-week training boot camp and the best thing: it’s online and it’s free. Dates eBay is running its free online boot camp from 05 March 2018 (also the start of British Pie Week), for four weeks. Topics You’ll be covering the basics such as eBay best practices and buyer expectations, as well […]
Futures, Made Of, Augmented Reality: eBay’s New Features
In an effort to make online shopping even more fun eBay has announced plans to make augmented reality a reality for both you and your buyers and here’s what it means for you: 2017 Last year, eBay delved into artificial intelligence and machine learning by releasing new features such as: Image Search, Find it on eBay and subconscious shopping but […]
eBay Moves Paypal Out & Adyen In
Following its rather public breakup back in 2015, eBay is making its conscious uncoupling with PayPal even more formal, by boxing up its things and moving rival company, Adyen, in. eBay eBay is the global eCommerce online marketplace that operates in over 190 markets, has 170 million active buyers and has 1 billion live listings. They’re kind of a […]
February eCommerce News Roundup
February – the month of love, rain, singing nursery rhymes to work out how many days are left and the following not-to-be-missed e-commerce news: Where is the love? Etsy showed that sharing is caring by offering Etsy shop owners the chance to win themselves, and an Etsy-colleague, $500 each by sharing #LoveYourShopSweeps on Instagram. Promising to […]
Scores On The Doors: Amazon & eBay’s Q4 Results
Whilst the first Monday in February might have been ‘national sickie day’ for some, it certainly wasn’t for Amazon or eBay, who were no doubt gloating in their impressive Q4 financial results. 31 January and 01 February saw the big guns reveal their big wins of the quarter and the year, and with results like these, they […]
All About Etsy – Overview, Platform Perks & Etsy Origins
Etsy is one of the three online marketplaces that Expandly integrates with but less about us and more about them – Who are Etsy, what can they do and what’s in it for you. Etsy Etsy is a global online marketplace. It provides you with a platform to list homemade and creative products, as a third party […]