The Fundamentals of Selling on Marketplaces
As a collective at Rich Insight, we have experienced marketplaces from both the brand and agency perspective and we’ve supported hundreds of businesses who are struggling to make marketplaces work. Supporting brands in making marketplaces a viable option for their...
The Inside Scoop on OnBuy
As the fastest-growing marketplace in the world with over 8 million customers and top household names like Kimberly-Clark, Swan and Procter & Gamble in their catalogue, OnBuy is revolutionising the marketplace industry. They offer a viable, efficient selling...
The Catch Opportunity – Selling in Australia
Catch is an Australian marketplace that first opened as a retailer over a decade ago. The site was first launched by two brothers in 2006 as a discount site - Catch of the Day. In 2017, the marketplace was opened to third party sellers to expand the product range....
Fashion Marketplaces to Drive your European Sales
Size of the Prize Europe offers a broad range of fashion focused marketplaces, some of which focus on individual countries, while others cover the majority of the EU region. Here’s a selection of some of the strongest: Although all these sites...
An Introduction to Bol.com
Bol.com has been described as the Amazon of the Netherlands (it even started as an online bookstore) - it is the biggest ecommerce site in the country. Much the same as Amazon, it also sells direct retail and facilitates third party sellers. Currently (and...
The Opportunity for Local Retail
I recently gave a webinar to the Chamber of Commerce of a village I grew up in - Cranleigh in Surrey, who have got some pioneering schemes such as Slow Shopping to help people with dementia shop with increased care and support and Smart Cranleigh which is...
Covering Your Bets with Channel Coverage – Part 2
In this guest post, Tony Kyberd, COO of ecommerce platform and services provider Volo Commerce, focuses on how the insurance policy of multichannel ecommerce pays up. In our first post we looked at how being on multiple online channels insures you against...
Covering Your Bets with Channel Coverage – Part 1
In this guest post, Tony Kyberd, COO of ecommerce platform and services provider Volo Commerce, looks at the philosophy of covering your retail bets with multichannel ecommerce. Are you a ‘put it all on red’ kind of a person, or do you prefer an each way...
Cdiscount’s Answers to FBA & Prime
If you don’t know Cdiscount already - it’s the second biggest marketplace in France (Amazon holds the top spot) with over 9 million active customers and 3.89 billion euros GMV in 2019. Despite its size, we’ve noticed a lack of knowledge about Cdiscount...
Myth Busting – Marketing is for my Website, not Marketplaces
We get it. For your business, Marketplaces are different to your website. For some of you reading this, Marketplaces are the core business: driving most of the sales with no need to rock the boat. For others, they’re secondary to a well-oiled ecommerce...