Anyone who is in E-Commerce and has a LinkedIn page, or makes their job public in any way is used to the onslaught of calls from various service providers. They all promise huge gains if you would only share some of your time and profits with them. It’s impossible to try each provider or even listen to each pitch, but…
One of the most popular posts I’ve ever written on this blog is about selling on Amazon.co.uk. Since that post I’ve had many emails asking me for details about how VAT works, so I thought it would be useful to post the major points you need to know about VAT. Before I go any further I should probably mention that…
I’m back! Before I say anything else, I just want to explain to email subscribers that you are receiving this email because of your subscription to the MarketplacePartner.com blog. I’ve moved the blog to a new domain. It’s still the same author and the same topic, just a new domain. So now for the updates and excuses. It’s been over…
One thing I regularly neglect on this blog is the all important SEO aspect of e-commerce. Luckily, Sara Collins, a writer for NerdWallet.com was willing to write on this topic. Her guest post is below: While having a great product may be your first priority, that effort may be wasted unless it’s accompanied by a high quality description. Consumers…
I recently picked up Walter Isaacson’s biography of Steve Jobs. I’m not an Apply fanboy, but I am a huge fan of Walter Isaacson’s biographies, so I gave it a read. As usual the story was fascinating and incredibly well researched and told. First and foremost, I was surprised to learn how huge of a jerk Steve Jobs was, but…
I learned about the minimum effective dose principle after reading Tim Ferriss’ “The Four Hour Workweek”. The concept is so simple and awesome and goes like this: the minimum effective dose is the smallest amount that will produce the desired outcome. So as an example you need to heat water to 212°F (100°C) in order for it to boil. If you…
I’m a huge book nerd and try to read at least one non fiction book a month. Very few great business books out there are tailored specifically to the e-commerce crowd, but there are a few gems that gave me a million ideas after reading them specifically for this industry. Here is my list of the top 7 best books…
I regularly hear people complaining about Amazon. They are afraid that Amazon will eventually completely dominate their market to the point that there won’t anything left for them. It’s true that Amazon is a beast that is trying to consume as much as possible, but there are certain things that they will never move towards because it doesn’t fit their…
I recently finished Kevin Kelly’s “What Technology Wants”. Normally I would have written a post about it, but the book covered so many things and went into such depth that it would have been too much of an undertaking, plus I try to keep my blog posts short. There was one thing he wrote about though that has stuck with…
Over the past few months I’ve been flying through books. Almost to the point where this blog is a business book review blog more than an E-commerce blog like I had intended it to be. Despite this I still feel like I can’t keep up with everything I want to read, and this made me realize that I may be…
