This is my journey as an E-commerce Consultant
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Feeling international…in Berlin
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When the rest of your team is based in Berlin sometimes you need to visit. That time is now and I am writing from the Createyourtemplate/Widshop office on Mainzer Street in Berlin.
Catalyst is looming and we are getting our game plan ready to introduce attendees to Widshops eBay design a fantastic scalable solution for your international plans.
E-business is international and part of our Widshop swat team for Channeladvisor Catalyst is Mathias who speaks German and English, Larissa who speaks 4 languages and Patrick who speaks German/English. So with my new found love of asian languages we are very much the international team ready to take our customers to the next level.
Quite often we partner with Intercultural elements who have helped our UK based customers become international eBay superstars with their translation, customer service and market knowledge.
Hopefully I will see lots of you at catalyst which is almost SOLD OUT, so you need to be quick to be part of the greatest date in the e-commerce calendar!
See you soon! I will have sherbert dibdabs, haribo and chocolate at the widshops booth so it is worth popping by!
WIDSHOP eBay design at Channeladvisor Catalyst 2012
071 days
Well…it’s that time of year again. Sandra (from the Berlin office) and I have been discussing hotels for Catalyst
This year though, we are introducing our Widshop eBay design service so we have a four strong team, 3 from Berlin and yours truly.
The reason we sponsor Catalyst and have done for 5 years is the very reason people GO to catalyst.
Relevancy.
The content reflects on the past success but mainly focuses on the future of e-commerce and what areas need investment for business expansion.
This year Catalyst will focus again on cross border trade as this is SUPER important and not just looking at Europe.
The east is where there is a massive amount of money and a love of UK goods. Check out http://import.buy.com – a site pushing American goods to the Japanese market.
And who owns Play.com – A Japanese company! Should you be selling to the East? Have you been watching the telly recently? Loads of programmes on the expansion of China and the east. Heck, we are asking China to bail out Europe!
I digress, where was I..oh CATALYST 
This year are some great speakers talking about social commerce, search, female representation in business (you can tell I have started to go to Girl Geek stuff and networking with my fellow business women) and all kinds of things relating to being a successful e-business.
One of the great things about Catalyst is meeting like minded people with the same goals, needs and problems as you. There are a lot of opportunities to network, party and you are ALWAYS well fed at this event.
This event is about information, relevant to your on-line business and where the sector is heading.
The other great thing about Catalyst is you can speak to various third party service providers (which I am one) and discuss potential future partnerships. Having everything in house is expensive and hard to run, third party companies are essential in e-businesses.
Well, I hope to see you at Catalyst and I (Createyourtemplate) will be there with chocolates and sweets as always.
eBay Design Client becomes a Channeladvisor Case Study!
637 days
Dan from buyforlessonline is now a youtube star with Channeladvisors YouTube Channel:
Buy For Less Online are an online retailer of toys based in the Midlands near Birmingham. Managing Director, Dan Aston, considers ChannelAdvisor to be one of his most reliable employees, stating the system easily does the work of three or four people. During peak times such as Christmas, Buy For Less Online process around 3,000 orders per day and state they would not be able to do this without ChannelAdvisor.
Forgot to give some love to ChannelAdvisor and Buyforless…
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Dan from buyforlessonline is now a youtube star with Channeladvisors YouTube Channel:
Buy For Less Online are an online retailer of toys based in the Midlands near Birmingham. Managing Director, Dan Aston, considers ChannelAdvisor to be one of his most reliable employees, stating the system easily does the work of three or four people. During peak times such as Christmas, Buy For Less Online process around 3,000 orders per day and state they would not be able to do this without ChannelAdvisor.
Createyourtemplate design the background, eBay shop/template and basic CA store.
March’s case study is already up!
But how DO they get the email addresses?
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A lot of my clients use similar services, and they have ALL received an email ‘whistle-blowing’ be it true or false about the accounting practises of a particular firm. Fortunately for the time period the email warned about my clients were on the kind of contract that it didn’t matter, more of an all in for one price kinda deal.
But my main concern is HOW the whistle-blower got all of my clients (who happen to use said software) email addresses?
Is this information widely available? Or is this a breach of data protection by an employee of said company? I know this company has made several redundancies recently and probably upset a few employees but still the contents of the email has rattled my clients. One is now thinking of moving away as the words ‘financially viable’ were suggested with respects to the companies future.
It is worrying times for small businesses that use eBay/e-commerce service companies. Personally I lost £50 due to a supplier (GotLingerie.com) going into administration before they could complete my order. In fact they KNEW they would not be able too and still took my money. Unless you pay by credit card you are kinda stuffed. Luckily you can recover from a small amount, but other companies have not been so lucky and it will cost THEIR business.
So with the recession getting worse who can you trust? *insert Morcheeba song here*.
A point about trust, a new review site keeps popping up:
Review:
Frooition : http://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.frooition.com
eBay: http://www.trustpilot.com/review/www.ebay.co.uk
or add other companies, couldn’t find anyone else.
Really should have bothered to find my affiliate links for that one.
Well my clients can trust that I won’t go bust in the recession, I am even having to turn my hand to eBay design due to failing companies.
Recession proof yourself:
- Host your own images/design and keep a local back up
- Back up inventory/sales/analytic’s and any data you have locally on a CD/Tape drive
- Check your suppliers and services providers and don’t let anything go on too long
- Don’t invest massively up front, pay through out the ‘project’ or when it is complete
- Have a plan B and C, possibly D if you have the time and inclination
