In today’s technology fuelled world, customers now demand more flexibility to shop anytime and anywhere through just a click on a phone, computer and even a watch. This is the burgeoning sector of e-commerce and with UK online retail sales reaching £52.25 billion in 2015, it is a sector rife for opportunity for SMEs looking
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How digital marketing can grow an e-commerce business
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Digital marketing can be used to grow an e-commerce business, but what types of marketing are effective and how? Andrew Heppinstall, Pebble Grey digital marketing manager, explains several key areas of digital marketing, and shows how they can be used to build and maintain your customer base and grow your e-commerce company. Aims of e-commerce and
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How to Handle Negative Comments and Keep Your E-Commerce Customers Happy
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Negative comments can actually help build a better business if they are heard and get the attention they deserve.
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6 Easy Tips to Instantly Save Money on Your Ecommerce Strategy
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Know those ads that follow you around after you’ve looked at shoes? You need those. (The ads and the shoes.)
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Ways to Promote your DIY Craft Business
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By Nisa Chavez Taylor Savvy women with home-based craft businesses are often wearing many hats and embracing the DIY mentality of managing nearly all, if not all, parts of their business. Whether you have a craft business to bring in side income or are wanting to ramp it up into a full-time endeavor, there are […]
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SEC Investigating Alibaba's Accounting Practices
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The company has provided the SEC with information about its accounting for logistics unit as well as operating data from its Singles’ Day shopping festival.
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4 Ways To Get Your Customers To Do Your Social Marketing For You
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By Angie Nelson Looking for creative ways to use social media to promote your products? Many established brands and innovative startups have started to mix social media marketing with e-commerce to improve their sales. Below we will look at several examples and how you can apply them to your own business and get your customers […]
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Amway, Tupperware, And Oriflame Issue Notices To E-Commerce Sites
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Direct selling firms are facing the heat from online retailers. Amway, Tupperware and Oriflame have issued notices to e-commerce sites including Snapdeal, Flipkart and eBay, asking them to stop selling their products.
The merchandise of these three direct sellers is not only offered at discounts as high as 40% but also bypass and strike at the very heart of the direct-sales distributor model that these firms follow globally.
In the direct selling model, there are no sales through traditional retail outlets — companies hire distributors who, in turn, sell products to consumers. Most times, errant distributors themselves supply unsold stocks to e-commerce sites and the firms are working to identify and penalise them.
“Oriflame products are not allowed to be sold by unauthorised persons, entities and means and we have issued notices to these ecommerce platforms that are selling our products. The sale of our products on these online platforms not only diverts sales from our distributors but also undermines the essence of direct selling as a proposition,” Vivek Katoch, director – corporate affairs at Oriflame, maker of cosmetics and personal grooming products, told ET.
Katoch said from a consumer point of view, some products need recommendations and usage details, which is not possible with
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QNET Supports Globby E-Commerce Platform in Singapore
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Singapore recently hosted a presentation of a new E-Commerce Service. Globby E-Commerce Platform is designed to support small business development in Southeast Asia.
QNET International welcomes the development of electronic commerce in Asia, as the company’s management believes that the development of the e-commerce market is crucial for future growth.
QNET is constantly improving its own products as well as delivery methods to the end user.
The greater number of companies that create an opportunity to promote their products through eCommerce, the greater the number of people in the world get to choose for themselves exactly the way they’d like to purchase goods.
This type of trade is beneficial as the producer has an opportunity to reduce the budgetary output costs and and the consumer has the opportunity to reduce costs pertaining to the acquisition of goods.
QNET supports eCommerce development in many countries. In early February of this year, the Company became a member of The QNET E-Commerce Association in the Philippines. This non-profit partnership engages in increasing the competitiveness of Philippine business in the global market. It brings together the leading players in the electronic market of this country.
Joachim Steffen, regional director of QNET in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) and Europe,
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Youngevity Launches MK Collab.com E-Tailing Boutique Website
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Youngevity International, Inc. (OTCQX:YGYI), a global direct marketer of nutritional and lifestyle products and also a vertically-integrated producer of gourmet coffees for the commercial, retail and direct sales channels, announced today the official launch of the MK Collaborative e-tailing boutique website at http://www.mkcollab.com/.
The MK Collaborative is a wholly owned subsidiary of Youngevity International, Inc. Marisa Kenson, an acclaimed and talented celebrity fashion designer, designed all of the collections in MK Collaborative, hand selecting the design team, stylists, and multimedia marketers that make up MK Collaborative.
The MK Collaborative line was premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and revealed during a showcase at The Oscars earlier this year. During the Youngevity Convention in April 2014, Marisa Kenson launched Youngevity’s apparel and jewelry line to a sold-out fashion show and provided a preview of the MK Collaborative e-tailing boutique.
“We are very excited to launch the MK Collaborative e-boutique website, which has been highly anticipated by our growing community of distributors and customers,” said Steve Wallach, Youngevity’s Chief Executive Officer. “We believe Marisa Kenson’s clothing and jewelry line integrates well with Youngevity’s makeup and skin care products and uniquely positions Youngevity in the direct selling industry.”
“We are proud to launch our new state-of-the-art e-tailing boutique