Kidson Talks | The E-commerce Chemist

A pain for a lot of third party tools like ChannelAdvisor, Marketworks advisor what not and Kyozou.  Auctionbytes has brought this to our attention.
eBay announced it would phase out third-party checkout by this time next year. Third-party vendors help sellers list on eBay, and some offer sellers use of checkout systems to up-sell and cross-sell [...]

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Mathias and I under the Createyourtemplate banner moseyed on down to ChannelAdvisor Cataylst at Vinopolis in London.One of the features of Catalyst was a ‘pimp my shop’ session for ChannelAdvisor Stores, taking an existing CA customer with no current design. So let me run through the features of our tender:
Running down the design we [...]

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Sue from Tamebay had her eBay shop designed free, and has recently reported an increase in sales of approximately 33%. Not to attribute this to one design company, as I believe GOOD eBay design in general improves the customer experience. Sue noted that her traffic had not increased, but the items per customer had.
Sue Says
‘Prior [...]

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It seems that the overly unnecessary re-branding of Marketworks has now happened. Marketworks is now MarketplaceAdvisor so I am now wondering if MarketplaceAdvisor will follow the same flow as ChannelAdvisor Merchant some time in the future? No functionality has changed as far as I can see, but I am hoping for the imminent release of [...]

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Professional eBay design is an investment, and should not be taken up on this level by smaller sellers. Don’t make the mistake of investing in eBay design before your eBay business is even off the ground. You don’t need professional ebay design to start up an ebay business.
The listing design (ebay item template) is very [...]

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I have taken on a freelance eBay Managment, a mid range client who was with another management company and used ChannelAdvisor. Channeladvisor is not suitable for this client as they are not big enough, once they hit £30K the ChannelAdvisor fee makes sense.
So they still have 300 items, and with the $29.95 a month cost [...]

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Well Hairfreax is testing out BTtradespace
You can advertise 5 items for sale free when you sign up or more if you pay a tiered subscription fee. This system is simple to use and encompasses a blog, photo gallery, community, paypal payments, event promotions, product advertisement and much more. This system has embraced the social aspect [...]

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The two titans in the eBay auction management and e-commerce total solutions world collide:
ChannelAdvisor Acquires Marketworks - Combination cements ChannelAdvisor as top e-commerce channel management solution provider..
The press release says:
Richmond, UK – September 12, 2007 – ChannelAdvisor, the leading provider of e-commerce channel management solutions, announced today it has acquired Marketworks, a leader in [...]

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Once you have at least 30 days of eBay selling under your belt you can start thinking about selling smart!
- Use something like ‘Terapeak‘ to research each of your product types (this is something you should do really before you start selling properly) Terapeak can tell you the best selling times, the best categories and [...]

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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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