Image Credit: Amanda Tipton For online merchants, preparations for Christmas time should start as early as July, as there’s a lot to do if you’re planning to profit from the considerably increased e-retail sales in late autumn and early winter. In the first part of this blog series,…
Amazon fulfillment centers are taking over the world! With 89 fulfillment centers and an approximate 203% increase in active worldwide customers in the last 6 years, Amazon is primed (pun intended) for rapid expansion. Here is an infographic from Amazon that shows the expansion they have gone through…
Image Credit: Dorret In the previous part of this blog series, we reviewed the actions businesses should take when preparing for the winter holiday sales in terms of product range and sales channels. This week, it’s time for the field of marketing, which is also extremely important –…
NetSuite’s Brandon Jenkins explains why they bought the order management company Order Motion. via MultiChannel Merchant Here is a transcript – We believe the heart of etail and retail and delivering on the omni-channel promise is order management. If retailers execute flawlessly on order management, they are going…
We thought we’ll share some nerdy cool Twitter jokes on the NSA PRISM scandal. I totally misunderstood when AT&T and Verizon said they were moving to shared data plans. — Ina Fried (@inafried) June 7, 2013 AOL totally participated in PRISM, but only at dial up speeds. —…
If you’ve been following us on Facebook or Twitter, you probably know that we are real nerds about Amazon’s fulfillment operations. We even collect pictures of Amazon warehouses. (Email us if you’ve got more pictures). So, obviously, this blog post has been long overdue. Why are we obsessed…
Here are some really cool photographs of various Amazon fulfillment warehouses. Credit to each photograph is attributed right below the photograph. via The Atlantic via IBTimes via DallasNews.com via TheVerge via DailyMail via Tamebay via VisualNews
eBay has a simplified (beginners) interface to list products for sale. See the screenshot below. You can create auctions or fixed price listings via this interface. However this interface assumes that you are only going to list one unit of a product per listing. That assumption makes sense…