Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

I have been doing a lot of traditional ebaying recently and before you list your item after the fees section there is a little note:
Your listing will be posted on the eBay site and can be viewed in My eBay. Your listing may not be immediately searchable by keyword or category for several hours, [...]

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I have been trying not to shop on eBay, but looking for pink hair straighteners I spotted this shop:
Hairs Angels The colour scheme is one of my favourites, pink and grey. Taking a look at this article on The Meaning of Pink it suggests:
While red stirs up passion and action, studies have shown that large [...]

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Every morning I sign for a package from play.com for one of the guys in the office. Play have taken their lead from Amazon and launched Playtrade:
PlayTrade is the new way to make money selling your DVDs, CDs, Books, Games and more to the millions of customers who shop at Play.com. As a PlayTrade seller, [...]

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I read though the daily links to blog posts on The 10K Marshmallows Marketing Blog and this one caught my eye
Are internet marketers lazy? Is that why they aren’t blogging? and it rings true on so many levels. I am always surprised how many UK firms just have not subscribed to the power of the [...]

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Most of my business ideas, customers and favourite clients at my main work place have been targeting niche markets. Reading this post from eTailology gave up a few nice reads about marketing successfully to a niche.
This article by Volusion - Increase Your Online Sales by Marketing to a Niche gives up three things to [...]

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This blog ‘eCommerce Optimization‘ has lots of useful information and articles about our e-commerce world.
eCommerce Optimization features How-To Articles about eCommerce Marketing, Learning eCommerce and Online Business including eCommerce News, Latest Trends, Platform Reviews and a Store Spotlight section where we look at, review and spotlight some of the most successful retail stores Online.
There are [...]

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As an automated ebay listing and website storefront system channeladvisor is pretty hot.
Channeladvisor has made my life easier today because:
1. You can get a full export of all of your inventory - all that hard work exported in excel.
2. You can export all customer information (and see if they have opted in to your newsletter [...]

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Daintyfeet is a small niche seller of small shoe sizes. Currently her inventory is split into shoe style and size. The titles currently include the 3 size conversions which are imperative for search as the new website produces dynamic HTML titles based on the item title.
Example: http://my.frooition.com/050014/product_info.php?cPath=73&products_id=279
However, to tidy up the website I can use [...]

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I am currently in the process of transferring one of my cleints from the channeladvisor application to a brand spanking new website designed and developed by Frooition. Setting up a website from scratch is a pain, but here are a few tips to make sure you can speed up the transition, and maybe improve your [...]

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As I don’t have my comments on as default I occasionally get emails!
One such email in response to : What functionality to make sure you have when investing in an e-commerce platform…
was:
Hi Liz,
I really enjoy your blog.
I read your post today on e commerce platforms and I wondered if you knew
anything about goecart.com? Is it [...]

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