Amazon’s Choice – How to be the Chosen One
Amazon has more than 500 million products, which is great for attracting customers but can make getting your products in front of those customers, before your competitors, difficult. Difficult, not impossible. Getting pole position in Amazon’s search results and product pages is achievable by: 1. Optimising your Amazon listing with hidden keywords 2. Winning the Amazon Buy box […]
All About Wish.com
This month we announced our integration with mobile e-commerce platform Wish.com WooCommerce is one of the many online shopping carts that Expandly integrates with but less about us and more about them – who are WooCommerce, what do they do and how can they woo you? Wish.com Back in 2010, former Google and Yahoo programmers, Peter Szulczewski and Danny Zhang […]
Happy Birthday Etsy!
They grow up so fast *sob*. Today Etsy storms off to its bedroom and slams the door, as it waves goodbye to its childhood and officially enters teendom. So what better way to celebrate 13 years than with 13 facts about the cutesy marketplace challenging Amazon and eBay. 1. Wood you believe it – Etsy came […]
Testing 1,2,3: Etsy’s Current Marketplace Tests
Handmade powerhouse Etsy is always trying to create a better platform for buyers and increased sales for sellers. Testing is, therefore, a continuous activity for the online marketplace but, unlike Amazon and eBay, they want you to get involved. Etsy Etsy is the global online marketplace, that provides you with a platform to list homemade and creative […]
The Prime Of My Life: Amazon Prime
With Amazon announcing its 100 millionth Prime member, we thought now would be the perfect time to explain what Amazon Prime is and how you can take advantage. Amazon Prime Amazon Prime is the premium version of Amazon, that offers buyers exclusive benefits, for a monthly cost of £7.99/$12.99 or an annual fee of £79/$119. […]
The Future Is Now: The Future Is eBay. eBay’s ‘Why To Buy’
eBay brought the future to us in 2017, with Image Search, Find It On eBay and subconscious shopping and its pioneering artificial intelligence features aren’t stopping there. Artifical Intelligence & Machine Learning Artifical intelligence (or AI) is the development of computer systems to enable them to perform actions and tasks that would usually require the intelligence of a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]