Call it what you want, secondhand, pre-loved, or vintage clothing is big business these days. Big enough to justify the leading online marketplaces in the secondhand clothing market to spend nearly £100 million on advertising in the UK last year. This incredible investment, which includes TV, radio, print, social media…

According to media reports, TikTok’s online shopping service in the US is failing to attract sellers in significant numbers. Despite attracting hundreds of registrations from interested parties when it first launched in November 2022, it is suggested that fewer than 100 retailers are actively selling on the platform. TikTok Shop: The Opportunity On paper…

If your target market is the lucrative Gen Z demographic (18 to 25-year-old shoppers), TikTok Shopping should be high on your list of priorities for eCommerce channels to explore right now. …

You are not about to be replaced any time soon — Literally weeks after the world of academia, literature, journalism, and content marketing collectively soiled its pants about the threat ChatGPT posed to put us all out of work, a tool has been developed to identify AI-created content. Somewhat bizarrely, this new AI classifier for indicating AI-written text wasn’t invented by…

In the 25+ years I’ve worked in the eCommerce industry, I’ve met many busy fools. In the past, many of these sellers were burned by careless spending on paid search campaigns, mistaking the massive sales volume and associated turnover it generated for profit. …

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 multiple “storefronts.” Each storefront can…

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. …

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 $39 — an…