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The second episode of The Frooition Podcast is now available to stream on Apple Podcasts (iTunes), Spotify, Google Podcasts, YouTube, or wherever you get your podcasts. In this show, Frooition's John W. Hayes speaks with Hank Hoffmeier from iContact, about the opportunities available to small businesses with retail stores on [...]

Frooition will be joining eBay UK on the road as their small business roadshow hits Newcastle on 9th June and Glasgow on 16th June. As with previous events in Sheffield and Salford, the event will be jam-packed full of advice about optimising your eBay listing strategies and scaling your business [...]

Frooition is delighted to announce the inaugural episode of The Frooition Podcast is now available for streaming. In this first episode, we speak with Dave Furness, founder of the eCommerce news site eSeller365, about the challenges small business owners face when scaling their businesses on eBay and Amazon and the [...]

Listing optimisation was a recurring theme at the recent eBay UK Roadshow in Salford, Greater Manchester. Throughout the day, eBay's leadership team hammered home the importance of expedited shipping, careful use of item specifics, and images to enhance their sellers' opportunity to be found in eBay search. One question in [...]

eBay UK has issued guidance to its sellers stating they must remove single-use plastic items from their listings before June 1st, 2022. The advice follows in the wake of new laws in Scotland banning the sale of environmentally damaging single-use plastic items. Sellers should comply with these new laws by [...]

If the thought of tuning into the TV news fills you with dread, you're not alone. Let's face facts; the current news agenda is pretty depressing. From the war in Ukraine to the cost-of-living crisis, the ever-present threat of global warming and the ongoing pandemic, it's little wonder why people [...]

eBay listing optimisation experts from Frooition will be joining eBay as their first-ever physical regional roadshow and investment programme in the UK arrives in Salford, Greater Manchester, on the 26th and 27th of May. The event, run in partnership with Small Business Britain and the British Chambers of Commerce, will [...]

Fashion retailer Zara last week announced it was joining a growing number of companies to start charging for online returns. The company now charges £1.95 to return items bought online, with the money taken from the customer’s refund. Zara is following in the footsteps of other large retail brands, including [...]

eBay recently rolled out its handbag authentication service in the UK. The service, which verifies the authenticity of luxury handbag brands sold on the marketplace, follows hot on the heels of its sneaker and watch authentication services launched last year and the more recent trading card service. The authentication services [...]

If you are looking for a good reason to update or build a new BigCommerce store with the latest mobile responsive functionality, I can give you 179 billion great reasons. A recent report stated that adults in the UK spent a staggering £179bn on eCommerce sales using mobile devices last [...]

eBay has contacted its sellers to advise them that the online marketplace is changing how it calculates its Promoted Listings Standard fees. Promoted Listings Standard fees are currently based on the final selling price of an item. However, from June 1, 2022, these fees will be based on the total [...]

Google Shopping (previously known as Google Product Search, Google Products, and Froogle) offers online retailers a compelling opportunity to position their products on the most valuable piece of eCommerce real estate. However, submitting an accurate product feed can be problematic for retailers on the BigCommerce platform selling products with multiple [...]

Selling online has never been easier. But that doesn’t mean that there aren’t still potential pitfalls that many new eCommerce businesses regularly fall into. With more than 16-years of experience helping sellers build successful eCommerce brands across multiple channels, including online marketplaces like eBay and Amazon and their own eCommerce [...]

As a global business that is proud to call Birmingham home, we are always delighted when the Internet Retailing Expo (IRX) rolls into town. IRX will return to the Birmingham NEC on the 11th and 12th of May, and the Frooition team will be there to help you optimise your [...]

eBay is hitting the road over the next 12 months with its first-ever physical regional roadshow and investment programme in the UK. The eBay Business Roadshow has been organised in partnership with Small Business Britain and the British Chambers of Commerce. The first roadshow will roll into Sheffield on 28th [...]

Good news might be in short supply at the moment. With the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic still impacting manufacturing and supply chains, the knock-on effects of Brexit wrapping international trade up in red tape, rising fuel costs adding to the cost-of-living crisis, and now a war in Eastern Europe, it's a [...]

B2B selling is a funny old business. Historically, wholesale and distribution companies have been built on the back of personal relationships and may have been reticent to embrace the world of eCommerce fully. But the world is changing, and more B2B buyers expect a B2C sales experience in their business [...]

Many business owners will be familiar with the Pareto principle, more commonly known as the 80/20 rule. That rule suggests that roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes. For the eBay seller, this might mean that 80% of your sales will come from just 20% of your products. [...]

When you work in eCommerce, it's sometimes easy to forget that many consumers don't actually understand what an online marketplace is. You might look at a platform like eBay or Amazon and see a marketplace where millions of private, independent, and big brand sellers can come together and sell their [...]

If we cast our minds back a few years, eBay sellers used to only contact Frooition for design services. Today, those design jobs come in with a long list of other eBay problems that need resolving. With more than 16-years of experience helping thousands of eBay sellers sell more on [...]