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Re: Amazon: Are we creating a monster?

sjp1966 — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:27:42 -0000

Not that I have an company online marketplace account (although it is something that i am looking into) but the fact that they actively look at peoples listings in order to source that product themselves to sell cheaper is shocking (although not surprising I guess).

Re: Amazon repricing and the race to the bottom

Trevor Ginn — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:48:47 -0000

Hi Matt,

At Hello Baby we basically sell a lot of different skus in small volume. What I want to do it try and increase the volumes of each sku we sell and get better deals out of our suppliers. One way of upping volumes will be to more aggressively price on Amazon.

Re: Amazon repricing and the race to the bottom

Matt Sharper — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:06:39 -0000

though I think we will succumb very soon

why?

Re: SEO and Magical Thinking

Matthew Ogborne — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:23:18 -0000

Of course they do :)

Re: SEO and Magical Thinking

Matthew Ogborne — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 17:22:56 -0000

Howdy Trevor,

I think you need to reword SEO to SEM and delve into paid-for marketing instead.

Harsh, but the results pay the bills.

Matt

Re: SEO and Magical Thinking

Matt Sharper — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:39:54 -0000

yep they want you to buy ads!

Re: SEO and Magical Thinking

eBay — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:14:30 -0000

There is something in your seo strategy that you have wrong. No one of sites we've optimized has been hurt, no matter of algorithms change.

Re: What is it with Amazon’s Design?

John Ramsey — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 10:02:04 -0000

Hi Trevor, introduced to your blog from the Practical eCommerce article. I agree, amazon is clunky, confusing and cluttered. When ever I go on there I just look for other merchants and then google their website direct and go there.

Re: Link Building Strategies

Andrew Youderian — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 11:58:24 -0000

Love the flowers / chocolate tip! One that has worked especially well for us is offering to write case studies / testimonials for services and/or products you use for business. It's a win-win: the company usually gets a glowing testimonial and you get a chance to link back to your site.

This can work really well for even high-profile sites if you position yourself correctly, and give them an idea of exactly why you love them and how you'll convey that to their audience. Just make sure you do this with companies who you actually love and recommend. Otherwise, your credibility will quickly disappear.

Re: Online Reputation Services Considered

Mark Priest — Thu, 17 May 2012 20:10:56 -0000

Why would you pay £99 a month to use something with costs next to nothing to run? £10 a month may be but £1200 a year???

Re: What’s wrong with online only retailers FFS?

Matt Sharper — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:55:14 -0000

ignoring companies who only sell through the web is rowing against the tide………

exactly!! the only things that will be left on the high street will be showrooms with computers to order online!

Re: Amazon: Are we creating a monster?

Jeremy Freeman — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 18:26:36 -0000

I totally sympathise with you - it frightens me that this might happen to us. We also have a best seller that we sell around 20 a day (40 a day before Xmas). Hope it works out for you in the end.

Re: Why Keeping Cash is Like Reading a Print Newspaper

MongoMove — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 13:36:40 -0000

I guess you are only thinking of cash as bills and coins. I think of cash as what is in my checking account. For me, cash and online transactions can co-exist peacefully. As a consumer, cash (debit card) payments end up being cheaper if the merchant processing is done correctly. In the USA, if a merchant banks with a "big bank" (defined as $10 billion or more in assets), you can lower processing fees for accept debit cards. Remember that debit cards have nearly zero risk because the funds are taken out of a checking account whether PIN or signature based. A credit card is a loan the bank makes to you and many choose to pay the loan in full or at minimums. One of the points of the Dodd-Frank w/ Durbin amendment was to allow debit cards charges to merchants reflect their level of risk to banks.

You also have payment services like Dwolla that only charge $0.25 per transaction whether funded via balance or ACH.

PayPal is making their own play by making money on PayPal balance to balance payments. It costs them nothing yet they collect fees like they are Visa. The banks want to perpetuate this idea of convenience needing to cost a percentage to merchants, but this is simply not true. There are viable alternatives available that totally cut out Visa, MasterCard, Discover, and AmEx... This means as a nation we have less debt, live within our means, and possibly merchants offering cash discounts (2%?) for utilizing our debit cards, Dwolla, or other bank to bank transfer services.

Re: In praise of Letraset

Stephen Ginn — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:52:31 -0000

Before PP when I went to lectures there was a fighting chance you'd write down the bulk of what the person was saying as they'd often write on the blackboard, slowing themselves down. Now PP slides are clicked through too quickly to allow notetaking and the handout makes no sense even 24 hours later.

Re: Online Reputation Services Considered

HK0 — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:44:51 -0000

You left out an important aspect: the freedom and accuracy of reviews.

I asked Ekomi to post a (neutral, 3*) review after I cancelled my transaction. They said that since I didn't have a transaction, I would have to send my review to the merchant for approval!
Ekomi is clearly filtering reviews for the benefit of its merchant-customers, which I call B.S.

Re: Free Shopping Comparison Sites

Zanon Lights — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 23:15:00 -0000

I dont know about buying you coffe, but thank you very much for your post.

Re: Online Reputation Services Considered

wildtype — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 09:44:44 -0000

eKomi is an awful company. The deliberately delete negative reviews about their clients. If you look at their website, they're only really interested in improving their clients' reputations, with no interest in providing consumers with objective information. "Protecting against negative reviews" is one of their major selling points.

If you see a retailer that uses eKomi, go to Google and find reviews that were posted about them via other websites. You'll often find overwhelming negative reviews, because the retailer you're looking up purchased an eKomi license to hide how bad they are.

Re: Christian Braun on Clockworx going into administration

Frank Merabet — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 12:21:55 -0000

I'm going to end up believing that Christian Braun isn't a good magician and that the forgets his friends of Paris easily.
Frank
frank2merabet@laposte.net

Re: Interview with Robert Matthams from Shiply

Steve Duckworth — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 20:52:46 -0000

Firstly I would like to say I think the concept of shiply is a great idea.
However I do think its time the transport providers stopped cutting each others throats for work.
When will they get it into their heads that what they are doing is setting a precedence for the prices in this industry and people have to learn that if you want things moving from one place to another then it costs money. The industry has already taken a battering with the rising cost of fuel and now the general publig are expecting us to run round the country for little or no profit. I am sure this can’t go on

Re: Make Serious Money on eBay UK by Dan Wilson

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Re: Interview with Become UK

Secret Coupons — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:44:54 -0000

I like this comparison site. Good tips there!

Re: Sorry I’ve been away….

Randy — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 10:18:56 -0000

You disappeared again... :(

Re: Arena flowers blog

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Re: Make Serious Money on eBay UK by Dan Wilson

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Re: Link Building Strategies

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