Ecommerce

Ebay Auction Stories

2009-12-27T02:54:00.000-08:00

Las Vegas Review-Journal writes about how “a showgirl-turned-bartender sees Jesus on her toilet seat, so she puts it on eBay”. They claim it to be the weirdest story they came across in the year 2009.(This is possibly the weirdest Ebay Auction story ever.:))

Similarly, DesmoinesRegister recounts a heart-warming story of “Jeff Lenhart of McGregor who sold Iowa snow on eBay to raise hundreds of dollars in donations for cancer research. His ad described the snow as being in "excellent" condition and from the Dec. 8 snowstorm. The winning bidder was also promised a certificate of authenticity and a picture of a snowman Jeff built outside his apartment building. The bidder? A fellow Iowan who certainly had more than enough snow already, but wanted to help a good cause”.(This sounds like a Reader Digest feature on Ebay Sellers.)

Selling online: Specialization is the name of the game

2009-12-21T19:48:00.000-08:00

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Easy access to the Internet and the ever-evolving sector of ecommerce together has created a low entry barrier for selling products online.

This low entry barrier has created an opportunity for anyone to sell any product to anyone anywhere in the online world. This in turn has led to the burgeoning ecommerce industry.

However, this very ease of ecommerce poses a challenge to an ecommerce entrepreneur. He is at a loss to differentiate him from others and make his ecommerce website stand out and be more attractive to online buyers.

To build a highly profitable business means an ecommerce businessperson has to build up a constant stream of buyers against other equally strong and eager ecommerce sites. Nevertheless, how does one attract more online buyers?

Diane Wang believes that in order to have a successful ecommerce business a small business owner or a prospective Net-preneur needs to do just a simple thing and that is specialize.

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Free Shipping Critical Driver of 2009 Holiday Shopping

2009-12-20T17:54:00.000-08:00

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An analysis of online transactions by comScore reveals that free shipping remained an important driver of online shopping throughout the 2009 holiday season.

At least 45 percent of all transactions included free shipping, outpaced the corresponding week in 2008. The peak occurred during the week ending Dec. 6, with 50 percent of all transactions including free shipping.

The average order value for online transactions peaked at $117 during the week ending Nov. 29, 2009 and week ending Dec. 6, 2009, also outpacing the corresponding weeks in 2008.

For the week ending Nov. 29, the average order value for transactions including free shipping was $124 while the average order for those without free shipping was $111.

For the week ending Dec. 6, the average order value for transactions including free shipping was $134 while the average order for those without free shipping was a much lower $103.

This suggests that retailers to incent consumers to spend more per order can use free shipping offers creatively.

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Online sales to treble by 2020

2009-12-19T00:04:00.000-08:00

British shoppers currently spend one in 13 pounds online, that will soar to one in five over the next decade. Sales of items that were historically bought on the high street so consumers could sample them will see enormous growth: clothes and footwear will rocket by 351%, followed by Health & Beauty which will increase by 330%.

eBay has also revealed that by 2020, online will account for over half of all new retail businesses, compared to a quarter at present, with over 280,000 internet start-ups being established. Online retail expenditure will also increase by £46 billion (up 223%) by 2020, while offline spending will drop by £18 billion (down 7%) in the same period.

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Cyber Monday may see 1,750 online sales a minute

2009-11-27T18:29:00.000-08:00

Ecommerce sites in UK will make 1,750 sales a minute on "Mega Monday".

A combination of factors will make Monday (30 November) the busiest online selling day with sales predicted to reach up to 1,750 sales a minute.

Dubbed ‘Mega Monday’, the combination of being the last payday before Christmas for many people and a weekly increase in online sales on Mondays will mean etailers will take more orders than on any other day.

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Ecommerce: Average Indian spends nearly 1 lakh?

2009-11-26T22:09:00.000-08:00

This news will certainly surprise an average Indian :

According to a new study by credit card giant Visa, the average Indian Internet user spends $2,066, or approximately Rs. 96,000, on buying goods and services through the Internet every year. Purchasing digital downloads was the most popular form of consumer e-commerce, the study found. Seventy-six per cent of respondents from India, the highest among Asia-Pacific, have bought a form of digital entertainment over the Internet in the last 12 months. Music downloads (63 per cent) emerged as the most popular digital entertainment purchase.

Why SME's hesitate to adopt eCommerce?

2009-11-25T21:42:00.000-08:00

It is a fact that the internet has become the pre-eminent shopping spot for much of the population.

Yet, when it comes to adopting eCommerce, small business owners still lag in building websites and selling their products online.

The Sensis report tells us why so many small business operators fail to adopt websites and eCommerce.

However, Craig Reardon sums up this attitude beautifully by terming it as technophobia.

Engaging the online shopper

2009-11-23T21:48:00.000-08:00

How can an online retailer prevent a customer from going away without making a purchase?

The answer lies in keeping them engaged with more options.

Online shoppers know that deals and discounts are just a few clicks away. For this reason, online retailers must avoid giving consumers any reason to leave their site before making a purchase.

Selling online using IP Geolocation data.

2009-10-07T19:43:00.001-07:00

More and more online retailers are personalizing their ecommerce store by leveraging the power of IP geolocation.

By identifying the IP geolocation of the shopper, e-tailers successfully serve targeted/different content to users based on their location.

Take look at the wealth of information one can get from identifying the IP geolocation of the shopper. You can even drill it down to the level of getting their:

Country

State

City

Postal code

Connection speed

Time zone

Telephone area codes

TV regions

A simple example, if your site is about cricket bats, gloves and pads, then you can use IP geolocation techniques to highlight English county cricket to browsers from U.K.

However, IP geolocation data has other important users for e-tailers. It helps in fraud prevention, compliance and enhances security.

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Ecommerce: Consume B2B in the form of processes!

2009-10-07T17:33:00.001-07:00

Whatever you think you’re doing – “B2B integration”, “e-commerce”, “Cloud computing” – remember that you’re implementing PROCESS. Though not available for all projects, BPNs are a direct way to implement B2B processes, increasingly available for e-procurement, financial services, logistics, etc.

http://blogs.gartner.com/benoit_lheureux/2009/10/07/doing-b2b-e-commerce-cloud-computing-don%E2%80%99t-forget-%E2%80%93-its-about-process/

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Ecommerce-Amazon Payments Services

2009-10-07T04:26:00.001-07:00

Amazon's Mobile Payments Services (Amazon MPS) is yet another boon to merchants selling online.

Amazon MPS enables online ecommerce stores selling goods or services to process payments from mobile devices using Amazon's 1-Click checkout service.

This means ecommerce websites can offer yet another mobile payment option to their customers along with credit card billing, Google Checkout, and PayPal who all have their own mobile payment gateways.

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Selling Jewellery Online

2009-10-03T03:28:00.000-07:00

Have you considered selling jewellery through your online ecommerce store?

In fact, rings, necklaces, bracelets and other trinkets may well boost your profits this Christmas season.

Jewels, whether, it is made from silver, gold, platinum or even precious stones like diamonds or even pearls make ideal Christmas gifts. Needless to add finely made jewellery are welcome gifts for all occasion.

In addition to the huge demand for regular items there is also a vast market for handmade jewellery. These handmade or custom jewellery are popular for their unique designs and exclusivity.

Typically, most major jewellery retailers have their own jewellery designers; other jewellery designers do it because of their passion.

Why don’t you identify these jewellery makers and help them sell their jewellery online through your online retail store?

Drop Ship Wholesale

2009-10-03T03:20:00.000-07:00

This month, like every October is the Breast Cancer Awareness Month.

If your thoughts lead to selling online pink ribbon products, then hold on.

For according to this article there could well be a backlash.

A sea of pink ribbons washes over products from sneakers to snacks. While the effort raises research dollars, it leaves some breast cancer survivors feeling that companies are profiting from their pain.

How to make a online information products business successful

2009-10-03T03:18:00.000-07:00

Information product business is not confined to writing ebooks and then selling it online.

In fact, it involves much more than that.

Here are 9 elements to an information products business which make it a success from Alan Cheng.

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2009-10-02T04:41:00.003-07:00

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