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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Amazon Just Made it REALLY Difficult for 99.9% of UK Businesses
First there was the price parity warnings, then there was the policy warnings for buyer response times, then Amazon started to get aggressive with 3rd party businesses by throwing them off and now… They’re bulking in all the really expensive places in the UK to ship to as mainland UK. I’m going to start this article with a direct and open message to Amazon. Open Message to Amazon Dear “Amazon”, It’s crystal clear that you … [Full Article >> ]
Making Sense of the Pending eBay UK Updates in May 2012
This quarters eBay UK updates are a real mixed bag, on one hand there appears to be a lot taken away and the other little given back. I’m going to be using a scoring system for each update, +1 if it I feel its a positive change for businesses and -1 if I don’t. I wonder what the total is going to be at the end of this article? I’d … [Full Article >> ]
Do You Tell Your Buyers What to Do?
I’m writing a chapter for my book on this very topic at the moment, however I feel is important to raise the question with you before its published. Telling people what to do can be seen as impolite, but guiding the user to complete an action that you’d like them to complete is something quite different, specially if you conduct it nicely, you’re just leading them to complete an action you’d like … [Full Article >> ]
The True Cost of Adding Social Buttons
A cost, for adding social buttons to your website? Matt you’ve lost the plot…. or have I? I wrote an article last year because I was horrified that the Facebook Like buttons were actually adding 84Kb, or in time 1.340 seconds to the page load time of this site. In this article I look at the social sharing buttons again, but in more depth and identify the weight behind them. By adding the Facebook, Twitter, … [Full Article >> ]
Amazon Gets Aggressive With Price Parity
This is a follow up article from the original posted a few days ago regarding Have You Received a Price Parity Policy Warning from Amazon? and its not pleasant. If you’ve not read the earlier article yet or the comments, then this won’t make much sense to you just yet and obviously key parts of the email have been removed. This is the first sign that Amazon really means business with its sellers when it … [Full Article >> ]
eSellerPro Banks Another £1m Investment What Do you Think?
I’ve received the release below this morning from eSellerPro. They’ve taken in another £1M in funding as the first round of funding of £2M was around two years ago. I have two questions for you at the bottom of this article, I’d love to hear your feedback on this. Press Release eSellerPro receives a further £1m in funding from Notion Capital Funding follows a record year with £233m in sales … [Full Article >> ]
Amazon Policy Warning For Buyer-Seller Contact Response Times
This is the one I know you’ve been waiting for… Looks like Amazon are about to start enforcing the Buyer-Seller Response times to buyers as a measured metric on your Amazon dashboards. If you missed the Amazon Price Parity article a few days, you can find it here, as Amazon appear to be focusing on 3rd party sellers this quarter. Amazon Policy Warning Email Below is the email being sent out from Amazon, you might … [Full Article >> ]
eBay’s SellerSphere Featured Seller BamfordTrading Out-takes Video
John & Gill from BamfordTrading passed on solid advice in their recent article that was featured by eBay SellerSphere in January, you can see the article and the three videos they included in the full article here. However… Those polished videos were not without a few slips and with John & Gills permission here are the out-takes. Your Feedback I’m also working on persuading John add more video content, you … [Full Article >> ]
A Question For You!
Well its about time really! Its why I have been quite quiet here for past week or so. I’m about 9,000 words in and half way through the table of contents I first wrote a few weeks back. Yep that’s right I’m writing a book, well two actually. No one section of the first book is complete enough to share properly and I’ve not hammered down what I am going to call the … [Full Article >> ]
LastDropofInk Mobile Site Launched
Well its about time I re-launched the mobile version, after all 10-20% of the traffic here during the week days can come from mobile devices. Yesterday I altered one of the standard themes, wrote a customised mobile site and after testing on numerous devices, its been launched. Its been set up so that if you’re on a mobile decide (other than an iPad) that you’ll be redirected to the heavily … [Full Article >> ]
An Introduction to Google Calendar & How To Guide
Since its launch in April 2006, Google Calendar has become a very simple, yet effective tool and also sports some exceptionally powerful features included. If you’re reading this article in February 2011, this articles inclusion may not make any sense (yet), however if you’re reading this in March or later then I’ve put this video guide together for you so that you’re able to schedule those 10 minute windows in Google Calendar which … [Full Article >> ]
What is Order Aggregation & How Can it Help Your Business?
Aggregating orders from multiples sales channels is one of the main features in 3rd party software, but what are the benefits of doing this and how can it help your business? I delve deeply into order aggregation in this article and explain how this can help your business tackle multiple sales channels and still leave you with (some) hair. I’ve also included a video accompany this article and I would value any feedback you have … [Full Article >> ]
Quickly Dealing with Website Spam Bots
If you look in the image to the right, one of the community based sites I’m involved with was seeing a higher than normal user count for this time of the morning, which probably meant that it was being attacked by users or most likely spam bots. Looking through the IP addresses, there was a common theme the IP ranges 180.76.6.* and 180.76.5.* which are located in China (we have no users in … [Full Article >> ]
