Why Meesho and Budget Shopping Apps Are Dominating Tier-2 India
Here is a question: where is India e-commerce really growing? It is not Mumbai or Delhi. The real action is in Lucknow,...
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How Gen Z is Changing Indian E-commerce: 5 Trends Every Seller Should Know
If you are selling online in India and not paying attention to Gen Z, you are missing out on the biggest shift in e-com...
How to save up on Logistics Costs
An oft-neglected area while planning an ecommerce business is logistics. Logistics is the actual process with which your...
Digital India campaign set to take ecommerce to greater heights, AMI Research
The explosion of mobile devices armed with reasonably priced internet broadband plans are the main reasons sighted for t...
What is the most effective way to reconcile marketplace payments?
People who change their mind frequently are often termed as ‘temperamental’, ‘moody’, ‘unpredictable’ or ‘indecisive’. B...
How to decide if you need a dedicated ecommerce site
After spending a bit of time on online marketplaces and getting acclimatised to the working environment on the web, many...
Trademark Registration: Not Mandatory, But Crucial
Once your business gains traction, think about trademark registration. It can save you plenty of time and a bundle in le...
Flipkart’s Seller Protection Fund – What is it, how to claim it
While the Indian ecommerce industry has seen steady rise of marketplaces from single to horizontal marketplaces with lat...
Selling on Craftsvilla – the how-to’s & guidelines
Craftsvilla is an online marketplace for selling ethnic Indian handcrafts of all kinds. They claim to reach out to India...
Data Inspired Selling – How to decide what to sell online?
You may think you know what sells – you may even have some limited proof that you're right – but until you've done the s...
5 Things to keep in mind when selling on multiple online marketplace sites
The strategy of selling on multiple online stores like Flipkart, Snapdeal, Shopclues, Tradus, etc is known as Multi...
Potential liabilities of online sellers, here’s how you can protect yourself!
No business is too small to have legal agreements and registrations in place. If you’ve been selling online without the...
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[Infographic] Optimising your ‘Add to Cart’ button
The ‘Add to Cart’ button is probably the most important part of an ecommerce site. The colour, size, type and even the f...
Maintaining accounts for your ecommerce business – Do it right
Maintaining accounts for a business is one of the most difficult tasks while starting up. As your enterprise starts to g...
Ideal keywords for products? Identify search words by customers!
What’s the first thing most consumers do when they want to buy online?Search for product options!Not every consumer clic...
Seller rating – Pointers to improve & stay ahead in the game!
For an Indian online seller, being on top of the seller ladder takes more than just good quality products. The online ma...
How to protect yourself from fraudulent buyers in online retail
It is interesting that while researching this article, I found that there was no dearth of articles providing tips to th...
The how to on – making your business search engine friendly
Online retail is a very competitive area of business. Just like the physical market there are hundreds of other sellers...
How to do Professional Product Photography with a homemade Photo Light Box in under Rs 2,000
With the increasing competitive e-commerce landscape, needless to say, it has become critical to have good quality produ...
Get Paranoid About your Account Reputation on Online Marketplaces, Now!
All the online marketplace giants are bent on on boarding more sellers this year. Some are looking to double and triple,...
How to be ready for the peak sales season
Although Snapdeal has already kickstarted its festival season sales, Flipkart and Amazon are due to go live with their s...
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[Infographic] Flipkart’s app-only sale driving customers to other sites!
Indian consumers love savings and lately, cashback. To leverage on this sensitive spot of consumers, India’s leading cas...
Importing from China & selling online In India – Deal, no deal?
Thanks to the affordability of Chinese products, importing and selling them in India, US and other countries is consider...
How to choose the right domain for your online store
It can be a daunting process to set up a new website, especially if that website is crucial for your business. If you ar...
Should you hike or lower the prices of your products now?
If you are an online seller who is a part of the online marketplace landscape in India, you already know that there is n...
How to choose the right marketplace for your products
Once you decide that you want to sell online, the first question that you have to answer is where. There are a lot of op...
4 simple tips for sellers to get ready for ecommerce ki Diwali
Undoubtedly, Diwali was the top grossing season in ecommerce sales last year. Despite the many setbacks (read technical...
How can your Online Customers be wooed into coming back & purchasing more?
Success in online sales works in mysterious ways, at least seemingly so. It is a medium where you cannot directly intera...
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[Infographic] 50% of Myntra’s traffic comes from Tier 2,3 cities – Did you know?
Over the past few months, we have heard how mobile commerce or m-commerce is the next big thing in eRetail. With the inc...
Sourcing goods from China – The how to guide
The demand for Chinese goods in India is on the rise and imports are expected to reach $80 billion before 2018. Importin...
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[Infographic] Flipkart is NOT people’s favourite online marketplace! Surprised?!
In the landmark year of 2015, ecommerce progressed in leaps and bounds. There were many surprises, some shocking some ex...
Creating your own ecommerce website – quick tips on the technical side
So you are an online seller who has been selling regularly at the leading online marketplaces. You have seen your share...
How to know if your staff is stealing from you?
Although rarely addressed openly, employee theft is a major issue in India. In fact, a 2009 survey shows that India topp...
How to Start Selling on Marketplaces
Many are migrating from offline business to online selling. And others are diversifying their business by juggling the t...
Could non-performing SKUs get you kicked-off a Marketplace?
Slow business is not a good sign especially for big brand marketplaces. So what happens to your products when they do no...
Craft compelling product descriptions with these simple tips & secrets
Aren’t you tired of hearing the same things again and again and again! Listening to seller claims of quality, affordabil...
Baby care product market – A niche worth the risk
In online retail, baby care products belong to a niche category. The online baby care market began in 2010 with FirstCry...
Amidst crumbling hyperlocal industry, Grofers attempts to turn profitable
Hyperlocal delivery company Grofers is planning to attain profitability at the earliest. In the midst of the volatile on...
Not selling on Alibaba yet? But it has pros that Indian marketplaces don’t!
Alibaba, the rags to riches story of the poor woodcutter who chances upon a cave of treasure appeals to adults and child...
5 Ways to Encourage Customers to Post Feedback
Shoppers no longer put down their money based on pretty images and promotional influences. They want raw facts. The trut...
How to drive more traffic to your Online Webstore
The big question every online retailer faces while starting out is how to get people to their online store. Although we...
How to create an online business with less investment
Business is not a new form of work. This art of making money has been around for centuries. Since its inception people h...
Get your VAT id with these simple steps
Value Added Tax or VAT is a mandatory requirement for all kinds of business. Proprietorships, partnerships, private limi...
How to win a wrong product return claim
Returns are a part of doing business online. It’s an obvious fact and most online sellers accept this. Online seller May...
Ecommerce essentials – a Current Account; Here’s how you can create one
A current account is the preferred bank account when doing business. Even ecommerce related business! It is a deposit ac...
5 Essential ways to ensure repeat sales when shipping products to customers
It is common knowledge that delivery of purchased products impacts customer satisfaction. Often, delivery is associated...
Building an emotional connection with online consumers
Consumers are emotional people. No transaction is emotionless, it’s just the emotional intensity that varies. Sales deal...
What are customers saying about you?
You might have been told a million times, “care less about what people say”. This is true in most cases. It can help you...
So many marketplace options .. What should you choose ?
Online shopping is on a high in India currently with customers having gotten used to the idea of having anything and eve...
Is your online retail business healthy?
So you started with an idea to try online retail and today you are an e-commerce businessman. People buy products from y...
