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The Good Part About Amazon as a Sales Middleman

All the facts about having middlemen in a business have been known since years, and while there are a lot of demerits to them existing, they do carry a certain number of merits. With the case of a marketplace like amazon, you as a seller might find certain things too harsh with them. However, there are quite a lot of advantages in doing business with them as well. 1.      Being able to work anywhere, anytime, no questions asked       One of the perks of running an online seller business is that you can work whenever you want, and at whatever time that is convenient to you. You can work from home, from your office, in your PJs, in your suit, whatever rocks your boat.   2.      The cost of start-up is low If you have ever tried setting up a website, you know how difficult it is too get it all up and running. If you are planning on starting out as an individual, then you have to juggle between a lot of stuff! There’s infrastructure costs, server costs, maintenance costs, personnel costs,

Starting Out: Creating A Simple Business Plan

What is a Business Plan? A business plan does not need to be a complex 70-page document on how you plan to run the business. When you are just starting out a simple business plan is often the easiest and most correct thing that you can do. Ideally, your business plan should have 9 or more sections to it. However, you can get away with an even simpler business plan if you are doing this to raise extra money, and not wanting to take on the local bigshot in your business niche. The simplest business plan is designed for you so that you are able to work out key ideas and goals of your business. This is not a "bank quality" business plan, the simple business plan above is more appropriate if you are seeking outside funding for your bookstore. Name of Business: One of the first things to consider about names is the ability to register them in the Domain Name System on the internet if you plan to build a web site later on. The other is to make sure that another Amazon bookseller has

Make the Giant Steps and Become A 9- Figure eCommerce Company

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As a seller, there comes a time when you are most interested in scaling your customer acquisition channels to grow your business. Sometimes it can be a tall order knowing the best platform to bring traffic to your site; traffic that you can convert to actual customers. Perhaps you have already taken your time and created the killer content & product descriptions. You have also probably studied your site analytics – and you are well conversant with best selling locations (globally). However, you can do better; that there are ways you can test channels faster, get more flexible, and even leverage existing customer data for a more in-depth insight into your next audience? Sounds interesting, right? One thing is for a fact; eCommerce is all about generating sales. Artificial Intelligence can be of great help when it comes to prospects conversion- from finding the potentials to providing after-sale services. It sure has its flaws as well, however, the effects of AI in helping you become

The 10 keys to seducing and conquering consumers online (Part 2)

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In our previous post, we explained 5 keys to get consumers in online markets. Of course, that is not enough and we are here to give you 5 more pieces of advice to make you e-commerce grow. 1) It has to be a solution When we buy online, we can buy simultaneously in several spaces and various types of products. We do not have to navigate sections of a supermarket, for example, browsing shelves to see what we find, but you can put many things at the same time in the cart. This implies that companies have to be able to see the purchase not as something that is made product to product, but rather as a process in which products are keys to more things. 2) Many more audiences have to be reached, even those who have been forgotten In a physical store, space is limited. A supermarket can not sell vegan products if there is not really a significant niche market and a cosmetics store can not sell a type of shampoo that only buy 2 people in that neighborhood. However, the online store allows you t