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As a content marketer employed by an eCommerce store developer, one of the first places I look when checking out a new retail site is the company blog. Almost every eCommerce site has a blog, but very few are ever properly utilised. This is a real shame because a company [...]

Linnworks has an enviable insight across the world of online retail. In reality, few organisations are better placed to foresee the opportunities and threats presented to online retailers in the year ahead. With access to so much online retail insight, we were delighted to sit down with Simon Lye, Linnworks' [...]

As the primary point of contact between Frooition and our partners at BigCommerce, we consider Robyn Potter, an essential team member. She’s the first person we go to discuss strategy, integrations and, as we so often do at Frooition, the challenges of fitting a square peg into a round hole [...]

As eBay design and optimisation experts, it is our job to gauge the temperature of the online marketplace and recommend solutions to help our sellers sell more. With 29 million customers using eBay’s UK platform every month, an increase of 5 million on pre-pandemic levels, eBay is “red hot” at [...]

Frooition and BigCommerce will be exhibiting and speaking at The Great British Expo’s North West Expo event at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester on November 18, 2021. The Frooition team will be joined on their event stand by representatives from BigCommerce and are looking forward to meeting retailers and other [...]

Starting a business on eBay or Amazon can be a straightforward process. You have stock, you list it, you sell it, and then it’s just a question of rinse and repeat. However, growing your business on eBay or Amazon is a much more complicated affair. As your business grows, you [...]

Here at Frooition, we help eBay sellers drive sales by creating custom designs and optimising listings. One of the easiest ways to increase buyer engagement is to add video to your listings. Our clients tell us that they are seeing anywhere between a 15 and 30% increase in conversions from [...]

I’m going to share a secret with you at the end of this blog post. Hopefully, it will inspire you to invest in a marketing strategy for your eCommerce site that you know you should have been doing for years now but have somehow put it off. For as long [...]

After a long career in retail management and eCommerce, working with major brands, including HMV and Clarks, Dave Elston decided it was time to invest his knowledge and experience into something he could call his own. So, in 2020, he started on a new journey which saw the launch of [...]

Optimising your eBay listings for the many different seasonal opportunities should be a priority on your holiday marketing "to-do" list. But who has the time at this time of the year to update their holiday-themed templates for Halloween, Black Friday, Christmas, New Year, and the January Sales? Celebrating the festive [...]

eBay Promoted Listings is a promotional strategy that some sellers might be running scared of this Halloween. Many online retailers are asking the eBay optimisation team at Frooition, are Promoted Listings just a trick to increase eBay seller fees or are they a treat that will help them improve their [...]

Hot on the heels of September’s eBay Open UK event in Manchester, Frooition is hitting the road again and heading to the Birmingham NEC for InternetRetailing Expo (IRX) on October 13th and 14th. We are particularly excited to be back at the NEC and InternetRetailing EXPO because (a) it's on [...]

The month of October and Halloween traditionally marks the start of the busy holiday sales season with eBay sellers gearing up for what should be the most wonderful time of the year. But 2021 is no ordinary year (as if you needed reminding). Instead, many online retailers are navigating what [...]

Frooition are Co-hosting a free webinar with Linnworks, BigCommerce and Direct Plants on the Wed Aug 18th - 3pm BST.  Find out how DirectPlants grew and thrived during the pandemic and find out plenty of tips and tricks to grow your online business. In this webinar BigCommerce, Frooition & Linnworks [...]

Are you cross selling on eBay to boost sales? As we mentioned in our 10 eBay essentials, cross promotion is a huge part of optimising listings. One of Frooition's most powerful features is the dynamic cross promotion sections within every eBay product listing template. Dynamic Cross selling on eBay offers alternative products [...]

Frooition are delighted to announce the immediate availability of an exciting new advertising service in partnership with eBay. This service, eBay Promoted Listings, is now available to Frooition eBay customers within our eBay-certified Frooition software suite. You can start a free 30-day eBay Ads Trial here: https://www.frooition.com/ebay-advertising/ The Promoted Listings advertising [...]

Direct Plants are a celebrated, eBay award winning, seller. They have built a hugely successful eBay business over the last 15 years. They reached the pinnacle of what is possible on eBay, the team turned their focus to e-commerce... Their legacy website, running on an old self-hosted platform did not perform [...]

In recent years the personalised product and gift market has flourished, online sellers are embracing the buyer demand to add personalised offering to their ranges. Selling personalised and customised products online on eBay has always been a great option and now it has become easier than ever. There really is [...]

Custom eBay brand design sets you apart from competitors and keeps customers in your eBay listings for longer. Not just exciting visuals, custom eBay listing design can include extra sales features like video in listings, dynamic cross-promotion and software for motors and motor parts sellers. It’s important that your customers know [...]

Once considered an auction house for bedroom sellers, eBay is now a reliable multi-channel marketplace that allows blue-chip sellers to offer their branded products to a huge audience. Adding to Amazon’s marketplace lets you increase the level of exposure your products get and reach a much bigger audience. There are [...]