The View from England Posts
Growing Pains
Being successful comes with its own problems. As your customer base grows and your orders come in higher volumes, you need to expand... 0 Comments | Read More »
Price Fixing Cartels
As the rise of the bedroom sellers continue, a new problem has arisen. Suppliers have gotten into the act. Now whilst some suppliers... 6 Comments | Read More »
The dreaded Amazon A-Z claim.
If you sell on Amazon, then sooner or latter you will get an A-Z claim. No matter what you do, and no matter what the justification,... 8 Comments | Read More »
Never Forget The Customer
Ecommerce is a service industry. We should never forget that customers come first. We should always consider what a customer actuall... 0 Comments | Read More »
The Dreaded Bedroom seller and how to beat them
. With the rise and rise of Ebay and Amazon, comes the “bedroom” seller. It may be more accurate to call them hobby sellers. All Ec... 4 Comments | Read More »
Ecommerce in the shrinking world.
I heard on the news tonight that the EU and the USA have started talks on a free trade agreement. No doubt this will take many years... 5 Comments | Read More »
Learn from your Christmas Experience
Its January. The Christmas rush is over. The Christmas money has been spent, and the website sales are slowly dying. The number of o... 0 Comments | Read More »
Minimising “lost” Deliveries over Christmas
One of the often forgotten costs of Ecommerce is theft. Either in transit, or “never arrived”. In the current recession too many cha... 7 Comments | Read More »
Magento and multi channel selling
These days it is not enough to have a single web site. The E-commerce market keeps evolving and you have to move with it to keep up.... 3 Comments | Read More »
The Perils of Amazon Re-Pricing Software - or Beware Amazon Being Helpful
When Amazon first opened their market place to third party sellers, it was mainly books. These sellers had catalogues of tens of tho... 4 Comments | Read More »
Oh No, Its Christmas Again
Its September, and Christmas is coming. Like many gift retailers Christmas is our busiest time of the year. Orders double, then trip... 0 Comments | Read More »
If You Build It They Will Come – Not Unless You Work On It
I often see posts on forums from optimists who want to set up a web site and make money. They seem to have that great optimism that ... 9 Comments | Read More »
Not the Top Ten Extensions for Magento
When you first install Magento the temptation is to go to Magento Connect and look at all the possible extensions. There are literal... 12 Comments | Read More »
Shared hosting is best for Magento
Yes, you read that right. I firmly believe that the best hosting for most Magento sites is shared hosting. All too often when you lo... 36 Comments | Read More »
Magento, Multi Store and SEO
One of the biggest challenges to Search Engine Optimisation for any Ecommerce site is the range and variety in the stock. All SEO tu... 22 Comments | Read More »
SEO and Selecting a Magento Theme
One of the best ways to implement any cart is to select a template that is close to what you want your site to look like, and then u... 7 Comments | Read More »
Put Retail back on the Agenda
The English have been called a nation of shopkeepers, and I guess that this is in part true. We still have a significant number of i... 3 Comments | Read More »
Playing The Amazon Game
Sooner or latter every online retailer will consider selling on Amazon, or are already doing so. Amazon is a huge market, and it wou... 0 Comments | Read More »
January Blues
It's January and Christmas is over. The huge rush of orders has been picked, packed and dispatched. The first week or two of January... 0 Comments | Read More »
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