At ChannelUnity we’re working with Walmart to help you to Sell on Walmart.com. In this blog we answer the critical question – How to sell on Walmart Marketplace? Walmart operates a gated marketplace in the USA, similar to Tesco Direct in the UK, alongside its enormous network of stores. Since Amazon started encroaching on Walmart’s market with the purchase of Whole Foods, Walmart has been fighting back. Walmart marketplace is growing, FAST.   Before asking how to sell on Walmart Marketplace, it may be worth considering why sell on Walmart…. Walmart […]

The Relevance of Your Etsy Product Listings and Your Buy Stats One of the topics that you will need to master when setting up on Etsy is a full appreciation of Etsy product listings.  I am an Etsy novice and I am on a journey to see how easy it is to sell online, and I want to help you via my mistakes. Getting your Etsy product listings correct is going to be the single most critical factor in getting views and ultimately purchases. Product Categories – Be Specific – […]

 The Whole Picture The morning’s events began with many attempts at creating quality Etsy product images.  In the absence of good solid photographic equipment I used my very own Motorola G4 phone.  Amateur? Absolutely correct. Etsy Product Images One of my many questions is – can you even use phone camera pictures for Etsy product images?  Is the quality good enough?  What is the relevance of image size, DPI and file size? The day started dull, and the photos? – well – dull! Nonetheless, with a few ‘googles’ and the […]

Online Marketplaces – finding the best fit In an earlier blog I set the scene. I am a novice to online marketplaces, I have never had a website, or a webstore, and I have never blogged until this month. This is my story of becoming an Online Seller (from scratch). It’s hard to know where to start – I am learning as I go.  To start the ball rolling, I am fairly convinced I need to choose just one of the online marketplaces out there. I can use this marketplace as […]

WooCommerce has been one of the most impressively disruptive products within ecommerce – from launch in September 2011 to its current position of providing the shopping cart technology for more than 30% of ecommerce sites at over 1,000,000 web store users.Until six months ago we had what we’ve subsequently found to be a fairly typical view of WooCommerce for those who aren’t already in the know. We assumed that the lack of significant cost for the core product along with the massive volume of sites using it meant that in […]

A former M2E Pro customer left us some amazing feedback this week after finding our M2E Pro Alternative. It goes a long way in proving that the work that we’ve put in to ensuring that our multichannel support is truly market leading has been well worth it. When we first spoke with Les at Snuggle Feet Limited he was already set on moving away from Magento. Les told us that some of his team were finding it overly complicated and too technical. He was looking at both Bigcommerce and Shopify as […]

Angelica Valentine at Business 2 Community wrote a really excellent piece recently, identifying the things that you need to be up to speed on if you want to win the Amazon Buy Box. If you’re left thinking “How does this translate if I have more than a handful of products?”, then let us give you the benefit of our years of multichannel sales experience on some other considerations for putting yourself in the best position to win the Buy Box. Angelica outlined the key areas as: In-stock Consistency – as much as it’s important to have […]