DIY Ecommerce Guide

By Chris Dawson March 16, 2021 - 10:49 am

eBay SEO webinar – How to sell more on eBay

If you are an eBay seller and are struggling to get traction, you need to increase your visibility to drive more sales. You need eBay SEO. Just like online search engines, eBay searches don’t return random results. Instead, they use several factors to sort through the

Amazon ruin Christmas with revealing and tainted packaging

Here we go again... People are turning green and running off to live in a mountain outside of Whoville because Amazon ruin Christmas with their revealing or tainted packaging. No need for courier stickers to ruin retail packaging or having to tell Children that Santa delivered

Royal Mail peak period saw a 10% uplift in parcel handling

Royal Mail peak period experienced a 10% uplift in parcel handling, with 164m of parcels handled by the supplier during December. The supplier announced today their trading update covering the months ending on 23 December 2018. Royal Mail say that in nine months, parcel volumes and revenues saw a 6%

Shipworks The Works offers enhanced features

Shipworks, a largely US focused solution, has launched a series of robust product enhancements, including the launch of The Works. Shipworks The Works is a single piece shipping workflow designed to simplify warehouse shipping, especially for warehouses shipping large volumes enabling multiple carrier labels to

8: Legal

As an eSeller you have many rules and regulations to contend with when selling in the UK, let alone elsewhere in the world. While the Brexit vote may well yet throw up some changes to the law, this chapter looks at what you have to

7: Retain and Expand

Now you have set up an ecommerce site and began promotion, you need to retain a cabal of loyal customers in order for your business to grow. In the seventh section of the DIY eCommerce Guide, Retain and Expand: Learn how to convert browsers into sales

6: Convert

What are the top-selling ecommerce sites doing to convert browsers into customers? We've looked to some of them for inspiration, including Argos, Tesco, Apple, Marks and Spencer, and Next. In the sixth section of the DIY eCommerce Guide, Convert: Some of the very simple ways to

5: Deliver

Delivering the goods that consumers want to buy from you is, naturally, a crucial step in the process of running an online retail business - but involves more than just putting orders in boxes. Make sure you're running an efficient and well-liked operation with an

EDITORIAL What we have learned from Black Friday – and how do we apply it

Black Friday delivered the boom in early Christmas online sales as we all expected, but as ever it showed up where the weaknesses are in ecommerce – and since we offer you a guide as to how to build and run a successful ecommerce business,