Michael Ugino, Co-founder, Sellbrite

Michael Ugino

Michael Ugino is the co-founder of Sellbrite. A former IR 300 merchant and Fortune 500 product marketer, Michael now helps small to medium sized brands and retailers build a successful online marketplace strategy. He'd be delighted for you to connect with him on LinkedIn.

Sell Smarter on your Online Store: The Metrics You Need to be Tracking with Google Analytics

Merchants on online marketplaces need to stick to each platform’s rules to be successful. An Amazon seller can’t win the Buy Box without matching the site’s algorithms. Products on eBay rank higher in search results if they come with free shipping. Online store owners have more influence over their customer acquisition and engagement since they […]

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The Power of Trusting Your Gut: How One Ecommerce Entrepreneur Rebuilt a Failing Business, One Product and Customer at a Time

Carter Seibels was getting bored. In the early days of her career as a jewelry maker, she fed off of the creativity and energy that went into every item she made and sold to her customers. She had a knack for creating unique and memorable handmade jewelry that literally stopped passersby in their tracks, and

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sell smarter on ebay

Sell Smarter on eBay: The Metrics You Need to Be Tracking

eBay merchants offer everything from lightbulbs to vintage war posters on the marketplace. The platform’s niche products, like used items or one-of-a-kind collectibles, typically have fewer competitors than mainstream goods. eBay merchants offering these specialized goods are in smaller markets, so they have less information and examples to inform their own strategies for selling more

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Sell Smarter on Walmart: The Metrics You Need to Be Tracking

Data empowers sellers to stay ahead of their future competitors. Walmart sellers face a relatively small amount of competition — the marketplace hosts thousands of sellers today, while Amazon hosts over 2 million sellers — and using data is critical to their success. Sellers who use metrics now can establish themselves as strong merchants before

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Competitive Pricing Psychology

The Psychology of Competitive Pricing for Ecommerce

Pricing for ecommerce is a tricky beast. You need to account for competition with other sellers, but you don’t want to de-value your products in a race-to-the-bottom. Purely competitive pricing can lead to disappointing results: you might not sell enough to compensate for offering the lowest prices. A profitable pricing strategy involves considering not only

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How Ecommerce Sellers Can Build Buyer Personas to Connect with Customers

Ecommerce sellers have more potential buyers at their fingertips online, through the use of multichannel listing software like Sellbrite, than any mom-and-pop store can hope to gather. But this doesn’t mean sellers should market to as many people as possible. Instead of advertising to a large, indefinite group of people, ecommerce sellers have to target

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5 Key Things to Know About Email Marketing for Ecommerce

Most brick-and-mortar store shoppers find it annoying when a salesperson constantly shadows them. Even though it’s meant with the best intention, customers get uncomfortable when they know the salesperson is just trying to push a sale. Email marketing works similarly for ecommere companies. When you send too many company-centric emails to push your products, you

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What to Do If Your Amazon Account Gets Suspended

With 2 billion monthly site visitors, Amazon strictly regulates sellers to preserve the high quality of its marketplace. Most sellers have no problem following these policies since they’re eager to access Amazon’s 2 billion site visitors shopping for products each month. Having said that, Amazon’s rules are quite strict. Even the best of sellers have

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