Cash on Delivery payment in E-tailing is  the most preferred form of payment by the customers these days. Cash on Delivery option is not available in many countries. But some countries in Asia like India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Thailand, Nepal etc. support Cash on Delivery option in E-tailing. These are the pros of Cash on Delivery payment: Cash on Delivery option is supported by many E-commerce sites in some countries of Asia, India being a part of it. Cash on Delivery (COD) is preferred by online buyers who would like to check the product before paying for it.  This is advantageous for the customers as they can check the product before paying for it. Another advantage of COD is that many people in rural areas of India and many other countries who do not have credit cards and debit cards can buy products online. COD is supported by many E-commerce sites to attract  online buyers who are not comfortable  to reveal their credit or debit card details online. Cons

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

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'

    There is an old saying -   ALL GOOD THINGS  WILL HAPPEN AT THE SAME TIME . It is what has happened with SELLinALL . It is with the top three awardees - ebay, Etsy, and Amazon - e-commerce sites chosen by  the world online merchants. This is the result of the poll conducted by  EcommerceBytes.com. "Over 12,000 sellers took part in this year's voting, rating the online  market places on which they sell. This is the seventh year of the  Sellers Choice Awards , published by EcommerceBytes.com .  During the nomination process, sellers had narrowed the field to 10 venues. Ebay, the Californian company which has started in the year 1995 has taken seven years to reach the top position in the history of the sellers choice awards. It has won the first place with a scanty margin of 0.02 because of the profitability for the past three years.  courtesy ecommerceBytes.com 1998 year started Etsy has won the second place  with  an edge over the other players because

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

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 new tax policies on the products bought online which cost above Rs.5000 in Uttar Pradesh is pushing E-market places like Snapdeal, Flipkart etc. to losses. Uttar Pradesh is a densely populated state with many cities. All this began when the Uttar Pradesh government wanted online buyers buying articles to fill the VAT form and declare the registration number of the delivery vehicle. The orders above Rs.5,000 are not being delivered by the E-marketplaces in this state and it is loss to both buyers and the E-market places. This scenario has a direct impact on the E-market places. The current solution to this problem is the establishment of warehouses in the state by the E-market places.  The E-market places say that the similar problem exists in Uttarakhand and was earlier faced in Bihar.  Amazon may have lesser trouble due to this, as they have fulfilment centres all over the country. The E-market places have to plan on the finance side as how the extra taxes laid down by t

'Start Up India' is an initiative taken by the government of India to increase the number of  entrepreneurs  and to give support to the the budding entrepreneurs, provide financial, mentor and technical support for start up companies. The best part is that 'start up India' provides a free website, legal support, marketing and accounting support, co-workers, co-founders etc. when needed. 'Will Start up India help in increasing online business?' is the question. The answer is yes. The 'start Up India' program has already supported 26 start up companies in the Internet and Mobile domain out of which 24 are active, 8 are generating revenue. This itself speaks about the kind of support provided by 'Start up India' to the online business. As far as E-commerce goes, the 'Start Up India' is like a boon to an aspiring entrepreneur, a budding entrepreneur or an entrepreneur struck with some kind of trouble. The Indian Start up program can

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

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

Any E-market place when started will not be a success until it is established and made a known and trusted name among everyone. To win the trust  and to make it a familiar E-market place, it takes a lot of effort and patience. Many of the major E-market place like Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart etc. are popular not only with customers for their deals but they are popular in affiliate marketing. The major E-market places like Amazon, Snapdeal, Flipkart etc. have been supporting affiliates or associates paying a good commission to them.  The affiliate marketing is where the bloggers, website owners etc. are paid commission for placing the links from the E-market places.  Amazon is very popular among affiliates as it is easy to enter into its affiliate program,  for the promptness in paying the commission etc. Affiliate programs to some extent play a role in popularising an E-market place or website. People who own a website,blog etc.  indirectly promote products or the market pla

Grocery shopping is an essential part of any home and this cannot be postponed or cancelled based on some financial ups and downs of a family. This is the main concept for finding many online grocery stores. The online grocery stores like Bigbasket.com, Grofers.com etc. which are already poplular with in a short span is an example of  how fast the online grocery shopping is increasing in India. The much popular retail grocery stores like reliance fresh which has an online grocery store, the very trusted brand of Godrej having its online grocery store in the name of Naturebasket, the popular E-market place like Amazon starting grocery shopping shows the rising interest of online  grocery shopping among people. There are different ways in which the grocery shopping is managed by the E-market places. One is the direct management  like purchase, delivery of the products by a single E-market place like Bigbasket.com. The other one like the facility to order from a favorite loca

With the advent of   e-tailing/ online selling, young entrepreneurs are on the rise in India. The flexibility in timings, easy financial affordability  and the freedom from a daily routine is making young people turn towards starting their own online business. Women who want to work from home and students who want to earn some income for their studies are choosing online selling. Online selling has given a new opportunity for people to sell their products who are good in making unique and handmade products. This will also bring their skills out to the world. Especially the interest and demand for items has made online selling a very good earning option for people who are good in making hand made products. Along with this, so many E-market places like Snapdeal, Amazon, Craftsvilla allow sellers to sell hand made products without VAT/CST which is an added advantage for online sellers selling hand made products. With the increasing demand for designer jewelry or designer

Any one can earn by reselling products online. The original price of a product or manufacturing price of a product will be normally lesser than the retail price of the product. A product can be bought at a lesser cost when they are bought in a bulk quantity. Some products come in a lesser price than the normal price given on the product through some special deals or when bought in special whole sale shops. But for some one to earn money through reselling products one needs to have an idea about the price of the product and the approximate manufacturing price of the product or the whole sale price of the product. When someone plans to make money by reselling products, these points have to be considered: First any one planning to resell products should decide whether to choose a single product and resell it for a higher price or to resell the products randomly which are available for a cheaper price. If someone decides to resell a single product online, then a deal can be done

Earlier in 1980s and 90's even up to 2000,  promoting business was done by mainly playing ads on Television and publishing ads in newspaper. For 30 years, we can say that Televison and newspaper played a major role in advertising products. This was because people used to depend on these two media for either entertainment or information. But now from past 5 years internet plays a major role in advertising or promoting a business. As the online shopping has picked up by leaps and bounds so too the online advertising. As most of the People prefer spending time online than watching Television or reading newspaper, so too the shift of advertising to online is happening. Google ads is a major role player in advertising now. Facebook ads, instagram ads come next to google ads. And now with the increasing use of smartphones, the online advertising is going up. The reason behind this is, some People may not afford to buy a computer or laptop, but the easy and affordable price in whi

There is a new trend in online sales now a days. Some of the websites like Urban ladder, Lenskart, Caratlane  etc. started a new trend in online sales. The trend is to allow the customers try the products before actually buying them. This new trend has definitely increased the sales for these websites, reports say. This new trend works like this. The customer planning to buy a product in one of these above mentioned websites can choose 5 products of their choice for trial and choose a convenient day and time and book a schedule. A representative from these websites will bring the products to the potential customer's home and allow them to try the products before buying. This new trend of trying before buying and saying no if they don't like the products in a one way is good to both the customer and the seller. A seller can know the reasons why some of the products are sold in a huge quantity and why some of their products are less in sale based on the direct interact