For an e-commerce site to succeed, several things are needed (traffic, of course, being one of them), but an absolute “must” is a selection of good products that are proven sellers. New software, Descova, that was just released, lets you instantly do product and niche searches so you can quickly fill your stores with good products. With Descova, you can discover new, trending products with one click. All you have to do is use its convenient dashboard to search multiple e-commerce platforms, including Aliexpress and BestBuy, at the same time. It brings back all the information about... [...]

Arbitrage is finding goods for sale at a low price, then selling them to buyers willing to pay a higher price. On Amazon, you can find buyers (millions of them) eager to buy almost anything of value. If you can find products at prices most people never see, you can use Amazon’s wide reach to sell for a profit. Amazon has good prices; it’s true, but they are not always the lowest price seller. That’s where your opportunity arises. For example, Walmart.com often has individual items for lower prices than Amazon. But it can be a difficult, time-consuming process to find the items... [...]

Mike Filsaime and John Cornetta– both are experienced product developers–just launched GrooveKart. This new shopping cart software can help you build your online store and then run the store while saving big bucks compared with other shopping carts, such as Volusion, Magento or Square (or even Shopify.) It is priced for small businesses. All eCommerce merchants need shopping cart software to let customers select the items they want to buy and then checkout. GrooveKart gives you: ► Many built-in apps that other carts charge extra for, including funnels, upsell and downsell offers, professional... [...]

HubSpot columnist Braden Becker has published a short guide on ‘Ecommerce Marketing’. It covers the some common marketing channels and guides marketers on how they need to use those channels.  Becker says, “Ecommerce marketing is just one community of marketers who can use the principles of digital and inbound marketing to convert visitors into customers. However, ecommerce marketers don’t necessarily use these marketing channels the same way a traditional brand or content marketer would. To give you a sense of what an ecommerce marketing strategy looks like, here are... [...]