Nick Whitmore, Author at Sellbrite

Nick Whitmore

Nick Whitmore is a regular contributor to the Sellbrite Ecommerce Blog. He sold his first item online at the age of 10 and now runs an ecommerce cosmetics business and a monthly ecommerce subscription service. Nick’s specialties range from content and digital marketing to procurement and logistics.

10 Ways To Market Your Ecommerce Site

There’s a well-known moral exemplified in the tortoise and the hare fable – “slow and steady wins the race.” The same is true in ecommerce marketing. Customers aren’t always easy to engage — the average cart abandonment rate is 69.2%. It takes persistence and a variety of marketing strategies to reach your audience and increase […]

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Buying An Ecommerce Business

10 Tips For Buying an Ecommerce Business

More and more of my acquaintances are buying and selling ecommerce businesses. Buying an ecommerce business, or any business, is never easy (or cheap). While things might look great on the surface, there are always a few “minor issues” hidden inside every business, particularly small ones. In this post, I want to go over the

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Drive Product Reviews

5 Ways To Drive More Product Reviews

Photo credit to Flickr user Reinventat Reviews enhance the browsing experience of any website. Providing they’re positive, they can work wonders for a website’s conversion rate, too. The difficulty with reviews is actually getting customers to write them for you – speaking from experience, I can safely say that less than 5% of customers actually

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Learning To Focus

The Most Important Skill To Hone This Holiday Season Is Learning To Focus

Photo credit to Flickr user Michael Dales If there’s one thing I’ve learned during my time in business, it’s that you’re better off doing one thing really well – instead of doing ten things in a mediocre manner. In business, only the best ideas succeed – so if the execution of your idea isn’t great

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6 Tips For Overcoming Your Biggest Competitor

Get Your 10 Step Checklist for Going Multichannel – [button link=”http://cta-redirect.hubspot.com/cta/redirect/753887/281bc626-6f2d-4e7f-b16e-61e63fa6e56a” target=”_blank”]DOWNLOAD NOW[/button] Some people wouldn’t consider drinking any soda but Coca-Cola. That doesn’t stop Pepsi from trying – or from building a billion dollar, global business. Some people wouldn’t entertain the idea of fast food, unless it was a Big Mac and fries, served

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Market A Niche Ecommerce Store

6 Cheap Ways To Market A Niche Ecommerce Store

If you’re tired of reading articles and blog posts that seem more appropriate for enterprise class ecommerce websites backed by an unlimited marketing budget, this post is for you! Lots of ecommerce businesses out there are “one man bands” – or even mom and pop operations. Marketing can be hugely expensive, but in this post

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