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Like painting the Forth Bridge, eBay listing optimisation is a never-ending task. If you want your listings to perform well in eBay search and ultimately sell more, you must keep up with listing best practices. This is a challenging task, particularly when eBay constantly moves the goalposts. Are Your Sales [...]

The eBay Business Roadshow winds up its current run of educational events across the UK with a visit to Cardiff, Wales, on March 2, 2023. The full-day event, which takes place at Sophia Gardens Cricket Ground, located just 15 minutes from the Welsh capital's city centre, is free to attend [...]

BigCommerce has announced that its Multi-Storefront (MSF) service, previously only available for enterprise merchants, is now available as a self-service feature to small and midsize retailers directly within their BigCommerce store. What is the Multi-Storefront (MSF)? The MSF feature allows online retailers to use a single BigCommerce "store" to power [...]

Regardless of whether your peak trading period falls during the last three months of the year, the summer months, or rides on the back of the good intentions that come with the new year, few businesses aren't impacted by seasonality. Therefore, having the ability to look back at your historical [...]

eBay has warned sellers in multiple categories that their products may lose visibility in eBay search if they do not update their listings with new item specifics before a deadline of February 22, 2023. With the vast majority of sales on eBay initiated via the online marketplace's search engine, sellers [...]

Shopify has urged online retailers on its eCommerce platform to switch from monthly to annual payment plans to avoid a steep increase in fees from April 23, 2023. The price increase will see monthly fees across all of its plans increase as follows: Monthly Shopify Subscription Fees Basic: From $29 to [...]

When you think about eBay, you probably don't think about buying luxury goods from brands like Christian Louboutin, Fendi, Alexander McQueen, Celine or Valentino. However, that opinion may be about to change. eBay is betting big on the luxury resale market with a £7.5 million ($9 million) investment in the [...]

The UK Government has extended the period it will recognise European CE product marking in Great Britain for two more years. This extension will allow businesses to use UKCA or CE safety markings until 31 December 2024. UK Conformity Assessed (UKCA) marking was introduced as part of the UK's post-Brexit [...]

The eBay Business Roadshow continues to wind its way around the country with its first visit to Belfast, Northern Ireland on February 2, 2023. The full day event, which takes place at the La Mon Hotel and Country Club, located just 15 minutes from Belfast city centre, is free to [...]

Titles are one of the most important aspects of your eBay listings. You must get your titles right if you want to sell more on the online marketplace. A good eBay title not only improves your chances of appearing in eBay search. It will also influence more potential buyers to [...]

BigCommerce has announced in partnership with Amazon that it has launched the Buy with Prime app for BigCommerce, a new self-service integration for US merchants to easily enable Buy with Prime on their BigCommerce storefront. With shopping benefits that millions of Prime members know and trust, including fast, free shipping, [...]

Nine years after Jeff Bezos first announced that Amazon would start fulfilling orders by drone, Prime Air has taken to the skies and delivered its first packages. While many people at the time (myself included) dismissed the idea as nothing more than a fantastic piece of PR. It just goes [...]

It would be too easy to start this blog post with phrases like "cost of living crisis", "industrial action", and "supply chain crisis", but here at Frooition, we are great believers in a little bit of optimism going a long way. This is especially true if that optimism is backed-up [...]

The European Commission has announced that commitments made by Amazon, addressing its use of non-public seller data and possible bias relating to access to its Buy Box and Prime programme, are to be made legally binding under EU antitrust rules. According to a recent press release, the Commission found that [...]

For online retailers selling across multiple channels, including eBay, Amazon, BigCommerce, and Shopify, the opportunity to use a single third-party logistics (3PL) partner like Amazon's Multi-Channel Fulfilment (MCF) makes perfect sense. At Frooition, we always remind sellers that they don't make money stuffing envelopes. Because the cost of running a [...]

With the end of the 2022 festive shopping season in sight, online retailers will be turning their attention to optimising their retail businesses for the year ahead. As a certified Gold eBay partner and a Preferred BigCommerce design agency, Frooition offers a full range of bespoke eCommerce design and optimisation [...]

Even after the big Christmas sales push, the hustle never stops on eBay. Now is the time to put all of your efforts into re-marketing to all those expensively won customers and start generating repeat revenue. But how do you do this on an online marketplace where you don't own [...]

The eBay Business Roadshow will hit the road again in 2023 and kick the New Year off in style, with dates in Bristol, Belfast, and Cardiff. The tour's first stop will be in Bristol on January 12, 2023, when the full-day event visits the Ashton Gate Stadium (home of Bristol [...]

In episode #5 of the Frooition podcast, we speak with Richard Meldner, co-founder of the eCommerce news and information website eSeller365, about his career in the automotive spares and accessories industry. https://youtu.be/jigCC9iAfsc As well as sharing his best practices for listing and selling on eBay, Richard talks about the new [...]

The Royal Mail has issued revised last posting dates for Christmas 2022. The revised dates have been brought forward in line with the expected disruption to postal services due to planned strike action organised by the Communication Workers Union (CWU) on 9, 11, 14 and 15 December, 2022. The new [...]