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

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

You have just started your own online business like selling designer clothes online. You have started your own website with great design and beautiful pictures and you are waiting for orders to pour in. But you do not get orders pouring in as you have expected and  you have started worrying about the reasons behind this . We will go through the steps to be followed to get more and more orders and to improve the online sales. 1 . Pricing: Pricing is an important factor in online business. There are many websites available for everything and so doing a little research on how other websites have given a pricing to the similar products you are selling online and pricing the products in a competitive way does improve sales. 2. Tags or Keywords: Include more tags or key words in your website to improve the search engine optimisation. 3. Visibility : Your products or website may not be visible online and for that take some measures like writing a blog about the products frequen

Whether you are a seller already selling in a retail market and want to expand or want to  become an online seller, there are now a days many websites available where you can list the products and start an online business. But it is really important to choose in which websites to list the products or which websites really help you grow or expand your business. Like if you have to choose websites where you can sell your products, let us start with these three websites. The first Website would be Amazon. Amazon is one of the top most E-marketing places with millions of customers and the reach out is huge. Amazon always puts sellers at ease. The new feature called Fulfillment  By Amazon( FBA ) where the seller can store his/her products in Amazon fulfillment centers where Amazon picks, packs and ships the products to customers puts sellers at ease. The second wise choice would be Ebay . Added to the advantage of easy selling on Ebay ...there is another interesting feature

                                                 Amazon, everyone is familiar with this name.Everyone knows ... even a kid knows that he/she can go and buy anything on amazon .I think that is one of the reasons why Amazon is so successful. Amazon has started its journey in USA and spread its wings all over the world with in a short period of 18 years. For a seller the customer is the king. But for an E-market place the buyer and the seller both are important. Amazon has recognised this fact where the seller or buyer is made special with their quick response in every way,and by doing that to millions of sellers and buyers and making everyone feel special is one of the the success secrets of Amazon. Now for the buyers: The buyers always enjoy deals...and when I was going through one of the forums, ".one of the amazon buyer was shocked to find out how much money he has to spend to return a particular product whereas amazon does the free shipping or at minimum cost.Shipp