An E-commerce business is a profitable and flexible profession. Like any business E-commerce business also needs some basic things to get started. The following three basic points have to be taken care for starting an E-commerce business. An idea about what kind of products can be sold profitably. Having a basic idea of what kind of products can be sold online is essential to get profit. The best products that can be sold online are the ones that are not found easily online. This is easy to say but sometimes difficult to implement. Normally products that are  self created  or selling the creative products made by friends is a good idea. The creative products can be anything like some painting done on canvas shoes, plain slippers which have been decorated with beads, a plain T-shirt which is altered or designed with some design etc. The creative ideas or E-books are also good products that can be sold online. If someone is good at technical or business ideas,

Singapore based SELLinALL after making its high voltage pitch  at The Bridge Fest 2016 , Japan , opened its first overseas office at  Chennai in India.  The new office centred in Rattha Tek Towers, a  prestigious Technology park, is right on the most sought after IT corridor of  India- Rajiv Gandhi Salai, Chennai. SELLinALL one of  the echolon 27  top five awarded startup companies of Singapore,   within an year of its inception opened its overseas office now in  India. This all has happened to SELLinALL just because of the support  received from the Global Online sellers. The fast growing Indian e-market place which has grown more than  33 times, from 3 million in 2001 to 100 million in 2016, (read :  For online sellers!! The Pots of Gold at the (Indian) Rainbows  End .) has now become the best place for the Global online sellers to  sell their products. Now the SELLinALL Indian office will be an easy approach for the Indian Online Sellers. The Big qu

India post is gaining from E-commerce in India. True, the drowning India Post is gaining its strength and becoming a major player in E-commerce. Due to the advent of E-mails and courier services, postal services were merely surviving and the Postal sector was in loss. E-commerce is gaining these days and people are showing interest to buy products online. Earlier people in major cities used to buy products online. The major courier services and  the delivery network related to the E-market places used to deliver the products. But now the E-commerce has spread to rural places in India. Delivering the products is a major  part in online selling. As the rural areas cannot be reached by private delivery services and as post offices are present in each and every village, the delivery of the products bought online is done by the postal services. The people in rural areas are coming to know about the E-market places and the advantages of buying online like the cheaper prices and the v

Customer interaction plays a very important role in the online business. The E-market places like Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart, Ebay etc.  which are popular among customers and who are major players in online business are very good in interacting with customers. Even though there are various ways to interact with customers, interacting with them in social media or through the E-market places is the one that reaches all the potential customers. It is a good practice for the E-market places to encourage customers to give their opinion about the service provided by the E-market place or the product bought in the E-market place. This allows potential buyers to check the credibility of the product or the E-market place. Allowing the customers to give their opinion whether it is positive or negative plays an important role in online sales. Reviews are important as the customers wont be able to see and check the products directly. They would like to read the reviews given by other custome

The houses in Indian cities have become compact and the available free space is very limited. But people try to make their homes look greener with indoor plants. Having some indoor plants or some plants in the free space and making it a relaxation space is the need for every one living in cities. Indoor vertical garden plants and miniature gardens are very much useful to decorate the houses and to create the much needed peaceful space. But these are not available online in India and are available in a limited varieties in some countries. Though these varieties are interesting and very much in demand ,  these vertical garden plants and miniature gardens are not available online in India. People who are interested to create some thing can use this opportunity to create miniature gardens, vertical indoor gardens and can sell online. This is a very good online business opportunity. Along with selling these, they can have section dedicated to garden miniatures for miniature garden

Online selling is advantageous if taken seriously and when taken cross border rather than restricting to a particular place or particular area in a country. There are many websites/E-commerce market places like amazon.com,  EBay.com and Facebook which can be used to expand the business in an international level. As these E-market places are accessed over many countries and allow customers to use many international currencies,  these websites can help online sellers to expand their business internationally. Online sellers when considering to expand internationally, should also consider the international holidays, festivals in many countries, major festivals in most of the countries, and try to provide deals during these events and try to sell the products which are most used in those countries. Some of the international festivals which are well celebrated in their countries are Chinese New year which is celebrated in a grand way in China, Lantern festival in China, Valentine'

The online health care in India is on the rise for past 5 years. Its a 100 Billion Rupees industry in India Now!!! There are various sectors in the health care  like online pharmacy, online appointment and consultation with doctors, online medical insurance etc. People are moving towards the online health care system as there are more advantages in this system. Online pharmacy is a sector which is rising now a days. There are many online pharmacy websites like netmeds.com, metplusindia.com, Appolopharmacy. in etc. which cater to the needs of the customers like over the counter drugs,  health supplements, health care devices, personal care and wellness products, Ayurvedic and herbal products etc. The major websites like Amazon.in, Flipkart.com , Bigbasket.com also have a health care section which caters to the needs of online customers. The cheaper rates, home delivery and the availability of rare medicines are some of the reasons for people tending towards online pharmacy. Comi

There is a saying - technology and services has to enrich the future of  our life. That is what has happened when SELLinALL   had its high voltage pitch at the BRIDGE FEST 2016 Tokyo, Japan. Asia's largest festival with the startups provided a meeting with Asia startups in cooperation with overseas partners Media. Started in 2011, STARTUP DATING has rebranded itself as THE BRIDGE in 2013.  Since then THE BRIDGE has its own way of presenting the startup companies to the world.   The Bridge website sees nearly 520,000 monthly unique users - quotes Masaru Ikeda, Co-founder.  Since the prestigious Echelon Asia Summit 2015   placed SELLinALL as one of the top ten start ups out of the 100 start up company contestants from 14 countries, SellinAll improved its software and now had its presentation along with 300 startups of the Asian countries and it still maintained its lead as one of the top five.  As one of the startup companies  specially  invited for this occasion SELLinA

Housing sector is one of the key sectors as it comes under 'necessities'. Whether it is renting a house, Buying a house, Buying a plot, Selling a plot or a house requires a lot of  help and advice from others. So this housing sector has gained a real boom when it got online. There are a number of online websites like magicbricks.com, housing.com, primelocation.com, makaan.com, 99acres.com which are very popular among people and millions of people have benefited from these online real estate portals. For people who cannot do the buying/selling by themselves, these online portals have helped in a great way. While a few years back, people would prefer to buy a property in the place they have been living for many years and there would be apprehensions to buy the property some where else in the country even though they know that there will be benefits by buying the property. The Real Estate classifieds section in the newspaper has now transformed into a much more open pla

It has taken three years of dedicated work for a batch of techies with a decade of E-commerce  experience behind to bring out the wonder working SELLinALL.  When prestigious  Echelon Asia Summit 2015 placed SELLinALL as one of the top ten start up out of the  100 start up company contestants from 14 countries, really SELLinALL has played its wonders. This has aroused the interest of the online sellers all over the world to look into SELLinALL  and made them wanting to know - what is SELLinALL? SELLinALL is a multi-channel posting E-commerce software/website which is made much more interesting, convenient to use and more user friendly to the online sellers with its added exiting new features. The major feature of SELLinALL to list products in the E-market places started with two E-market places has now included more E-market places like Flipkart,  Ebay and Lazada. But this is not the end to this feature. More popular E-market places like Etsy, Snapdeal etc. will

The online sellers will have many dreams about earning a steady income through online selling. The online selling is a good way to earn a steady income or as a source of secondary income. These are some of the resolutions which can make online selling a good source of income. The online sellers should never get disappointed in the early stages of starting the business as it takes time to get orders or to get settled in the business. One way to  improve online selling is to be  constantly visible online. As there would be millions of online sellers, choosing ways like writing a blog about the products or the website would make the products and the website visible online.  The other way to improve online sales is to choose  a simple design while designing the website. Importance should be given to the quality of the pictures. Care should be taken that the website opens up fast and there are no delays in opening the pictures and other information. Maintaining good relation wi

There are instances when an online seller registers in E-market places like Amazon, EBay,  Snapdeal etc. and then they lose interest or they don't upload products after registering. Normally 30% of the online sellers who register are not actively involved in the selling process which is in a way loss to the E-market places. These are some of the problem areas and how these problem areas can be dealt: A seller who decides to sell in E-market place has to go through some procedures to register in the E-market and sell the products. Some sellers who go through half the way find the procedure to be tough and they may need some one who can help them in the registration process. So the best thing to deal with such cases is to have a team who can constantly pursue the sellers to finish the registration process. The sellers after finishing the registration process get struck when uploading photos and the data. This can  be dealt  by E-market places by having some people allocate

Online business is no different when it comes to dealing with natural disasters. In the offline business its comparatively easy to deal with natural disaster. The reason being the additional and important factor in online business which is shipment from seller to buyer. Shipment plays an important role in online selling/E-tailing as many of the major E-market places have a condition that the delivery of the ordered products should be done in a minimum amount of time like 1-2 days in case of domestic shipping and 1 week - 10 days in case of international shipping. The rating of seller and that way the rating of the website depends on the shipment time. When natural disasters like storm, heavy rains etc. struck then definitely there will be an effect on online business. The shipment can't be done if all sorts of transportation come to a stand still. The E-market places will be responsible for the late delivery of the products. In some cases the order may get cancelled au

As more and more people are becoming health conscious, the home made food is becoming more and more popular. People who are health conscious and have no time to spend on cooking prefer to order home made food online and it is easy to order through various websites and apps.  The increasing interest in home made food has made many people leave their jobs and start an online home made food catering business. People who are passionate in cooking have got a chance to expose their skills outside by starting their own online home made food catering service. Especially homemakers who are good in cooking are getting a chance to showcase their skill to the outside world by catering online home made food ordering services. Seeing the interest for home made food even many tech companies and many other major companies are having tie ups with online home made catering services. This has given a a new dimension to the home made food catering service. This a good trend that is beneficial

E-tailing/Online selling is increasing exponentially over years. People are much interested in buying online.  With increase in online buying there are some adverse factors which makes online buying a bitter experience or which reduces the interest in online buying for some people. Online Robbery or online theft is one among the reasons for some of the people loosing interest in online buying. Almost 25-30% of online buyers are suffering from online theft. There are many ways in which online theft can be avoided or reduced. Most of the people use credit cards to buy online. Securing or not sharing the pin number with others is an important thing to do. While using online transfers for buying online,  the password and other banking details which need not be revealed should never be revealed and if any doubt arises about the details being asked, then it is better not to shop in that E-market place. Being careful about the phishing mails,phishing websites and download links wh

Search engines play an important role in increasing the popularity or visibility of an E-market place/ website.There are many search engines like yahoo, Bing. But Google is a very popular search engine till now and from past 17 years the usage of Google  has grown exponentially. Any website or E-market place uses S earch Engine Optimisation  techniques to improve its visibility in Google. Online selling/E-tailing indirectly depends on the Google search engine visibility. This scenario has now changed in China because of Baidu. Baidu is a search engine which is started 13 years ago in China and  now Baidu has overtaken Google in China.  Google is used in China, but Baidu has overtaken the No.1 position by 70-80% of internet users using Baidu. This makes the China's Baidu more popular than Google in China.  The websites/E-market places in China have to design their E-market places/websites so that it is more visible in Baidu. Till now China has proved its potential in th

About 40 minutes, that is all it has taken for 95000, Mi3 Xiaomi Mobiles to be sold  in India through Flipkart in six flash sales.  This shows the future of e-commerce in India – Says The Economic Times.  Online sellers! the future of e-commerce in India is Pots of Gold at the Rainbows End.  In my blog - Oh!   It all started with the Barter System , I  wrote about the selling trends of 50’s till 90's  where- in  one  important link I omitted to mention in  between the online selling of present day world  and the old time way of selling.  That is the Mail Order Business.  The advertisements in print media  converted into a sale by Mail Order Business.  In the 60’s till the year 1970 the selling through Value  Payable Post has been considered as the important link to the present day online selling. Here is a brief history of evolution of Indian online market (e-market) for your view – Online Sellers. In the year