McCombs Supply is a family business started in the 1950’s. It sells appliance parts to businesses and do-it-yourself consumers through its brick-and-mortar warehouse store, and it ships 30,000 packages per month from orders that come in through the McCombs Supply Read more
Social media’s origins as a way to connect with others always held the seeds of marketing to people. Finding the best way to do so continues challenging ecommerce pros, but we may be seeing true solutions arriving. Social commerce firm Read more
Etsy CEO Josh Silverman took to YouTube to update sellers on some of the changes he was making after taking over from Chad Dickerson in the surprise company shakeup in May. One of the biggest changes a marketplace can make Read more
Bonanza launched a new tool to help sellers market their Webstores, which are optional hosted storefronts. Webstore Broadcaster allows sellers to easily advertise on Google Shopping from their store. Bonanza spokesperson Gwen Schlefer told EcommerceBytes, “Bonanza Webstores give our sellers Read more
eBay Canada is providing notification and guidance to sellers as it rolls out the revamped Markdown Manager, a tool that allows sellers to run sales and promotions to entice shoppers. In the US, sellers have run into numerous problems with Read more
Online sellers who offer designer goods can increase sales and the selling prices of those items by increasing trust. We take a look at a paid service called Entrupy developed by a group of technologists and PhDs that lets sellers Read more
Etsy is trying to make it easier for sellers to promote their shops and listings on social media sites with a new tool that centralizes the management of posts across social platforms. It makes suggestions on what sellers should share, Read more
It may be hard to believe, but Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday are just 5 weeks away. The UPS Store is offering retailers what it calls “Closer Kits” to help them get the most out of Read more
ShippingEasy introduced a new tool called Automated Email Marketing Campaigns to spur repeat purchases. The company, acquired by Stamps.com last year, provides shipping, inventory management, and other tools for online merchants and integrates with Amazon, eBay, Etsy, WalMart, Shopify, Magento, Read more
eBay sellers can now monitor competitors and obtain detailed information about products in real-time through an eBay-certified application called ShelfTrend. Imagine being able to print a report for a particular product – “sleeping bag,” for example – that shows the Read more
