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Ebay Inventory Management Made Simple: Sell on eBay with Ease
The day may soon arrive where you recognize the benefits of selling on eBay, so why not be fully prepared for its arrival? With 157 million active buyers, eBay may be the answer to your inventory problems. Of course, selling on eBay can have its downfalls, but we’re here to help you find solutions around potential problems, while giving some insights into the pros as well. As we’ve spoken about in a previous post, managing your eBay inventory for eCommerce can create a number of errors when using manual reconciliation, but selling your products on the eCommerce platform is no stranger to concern either. Staying Ahead of the Game Selling your products on eBay can be a breeze if you go about it with some key concepts in mind, such as spotting price fluctuations, knowing when to use specific features and more. Competing with the many retailers out there can be complicated, especially if you are trying to manage multichannel sales, but with some eBay inventory management and selling tips, you will be on your way to maximizing your profits.
Integrating eBay Inventory Management for eCommerce
When one of your customers places an order on eBay, are you left scrambling to prepare the order, hoping you have enough in stock? If you actively sell your products on eBay, you know the dreaded process of keeping your inventory in-sync with your store and just how time-consuming it can be. With manual inventory management, you not only have less control of what products you have on-hand and when they go out for delivery, but there is a high probability that you’ll lose tracking visibility into the orders along the way. Do any of these problems sound familiar? Not to worry…There is one simple, streamlined solution beyond manual order processing; namely, implementing eBay inventory management software. Beyond the proven data that selling on multiple channels increases sales, there is much more to managing your business when it comes to successfully fulfilling those eBay orders. Why It Makes Sense to Connect eBay with an Order Management System Managing inventory manually often times requires a daily focus, which can open the door for error in order processing, fulfillment and the purchasing
How to Take on the Holiday Retail Season Like a Pro
With consumers spending more and more online each year, you want to learn the best ways to get your website up to speed, recover from the high-volume shopping days like Black Friday and Cyber Monday and most of all, keep your customers content and coming back. Keeping Your Customers Happy The holidays tend to create anxiety among consumers. They are no longer only trying to find the best deal, but with the never-ending buying options, they need the quickest and most seamless shopping experience out there. Think about your strategy for the upcoming holiday retail season and consider implementing the following: Email Marketing & Planning Having a successful email marketing strategy can really help during the holiday retail season. Feel free to get creative with promotional emails that highlight specific deals for certain holidays. Most importantly, gather as many emails as possible so you can promote more when the busy time hits. Start planning ahead by finding a way to bring customers back. Avoid shopping cart abandonment by looking into adding extra features to your business model, like Bigcommerce’s cart closer
5 Reasons to Offer Free Shipping
Imagine yourself searching all over for the perfect product online, and you finally find it. The moment is here; you add it to your shopping cart and proceed to checkout - until you realize shipping is ridiculously expensive, almost nearing the price of the items you need. Who really wants to complete a purchase if the shipping costs are close to or exceed the price of the products? Where’s the sense in that? Since 'free' marketing incentives are so popular among consumers, free shipping is almost expected among buyers today. “According to 77% of online shoppers, free shipping remains the most important option during checkout - more than half have added items to their shopping cart to qualify for free shipping." -comScore study This, along with the need to compete with brands like Amazon and eBay, increase orders or attract new customers, makes up just some reasons why more and more retailers feel the pressure to jump on the free shipping bandwagon. Free shipping is part of managing your customer’s experience for a seamless shopping experience. So let’s get to it. What are
5 Ways to Get Rid of Excess Inventory Once and For All
Is excess inventory weighing you down lately? Maybe a customer cancelled a huge order or your demand forecast is far from clear. Maybe your inventory just isn’t moving as quickly as you’d hoped. Not to worry, these 5 strategies can help you get surplus items out the door faster, allowing you to keep your inventory flowing smoothly, and free up as much space as possible in your back office or warehouse. 5) Retarget Like No Tomorrow An estimated $4 trillion worth of merchandise will be abandoned in online shopping carts this year, according to Business Insider. Keep your customers engaged by using more mediums to promote your products, and keep them clicking by using apps like Bigcommerce’s shopping cart closer. It is vital to always look for more and more ways to retarget your products, especially if you only have an online store. Google has some helpful retargeting programs, but Facebook and YouTube are two of the most overlooked retargeting strategies for retailers. Facebook Custom Audience is just one example of how you can reach customers you may already know with ads right on the platform.
How Kits and Bundles Can Solve Your Ecommerce Woes
Every retailer needs to be sure their customers find the exact items they need, in the fastest time possible. And, managing your supply chain is not a simple one-size-fits-all approach anymore. As competition continues to grow, eCommerce immediacy will follow suit. Giving your customers the accessibility to purchase as many products as possible in the fastest time is the way of the future, so why not jump on board? Adding eCommerce kits & bundles is a quick, simple solution to expand your product offering, and increase online store sales. What Are ‘Kits’ aka ‘Bundled’ Products? If you’re not familiar with these types of products, a ‘kit’, or ‘bundled’ product is made up of various components or items, sold as a set or group, also known as product bundling. That’s what makes adding kits to your product mix so easy. You already have the individual components, but instead of offering each product on its own, you create a new offering by grouping similar or complementary products together. 1) Increase Store Sales There are a number of ways you can increase sales by adding kits to