Xiaohongshu or Redbook eCommerce Seller and Marketing 101 Guideline in 2024
Xiaohongshu, or also known as Little RedBook, is the Chinese equivalent of Search plus Instagram. Recently Xiaohongshu decided to sunset the Taobao and Youzan outbound link setting. This was the feature for sellers to direct traffic to their Taobao and eCommerce website. With over 300 million users on Xiaohongshu, it is one of the fastest-growing advanced social commerce apps on the market. It is a must-have platform if you are running an eCommerce business for selling products to domestic and cross-border Chinese consumers.
Why Retail Media Becomes So Important and How to Start?
Covid-19 post-pandemic significantly accelerated the growth of eCommerce in the US this year, with online sales reaching a level not previously expected until 2024. In our Q3 US, US eCommerce sales jump 37% YoY in Q3 2020. In this article, I’ll talk about why retail media is becoming so important. By the end of the article, you can learn how to restrategize your e-commerce marketing, and deploy the next point of growth.
Lazada Marketing & Lazada Seller Promotion 101: 10 Things To Do & 1 Thing Not To Do
Opening a store on Lazada to drive sales is a great option for companies that look to expand into Southeast Asian markets.
One of the benefits of selling cross-border on Lazada is that you instantly reach six countries (Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Thailand), with a total population in the hundreds of millions. The benefit can be either of your water testing approaches to see the sale performance from your product category, or you can strategically enter the markets and reach target customers with no upfront fees and lower transaction fees.
Except for your product and supply chain strategy, Lazada seller promotion and marketing strategy is essential to reach customers and drive sales. Thus, based on my client-serving and business experiences, I’ll share with you 1 thing not to do and 7 things to do in Lazada seller promotion.
Rakuten Ichiba vs Amazon Japan, Which Is Better for Non-Japan Citizen Sellers?
Japan’s business-to-consumer e-commerce market is worth $150.1 billion having increased at a single-digit rate since 2015. The e-commerce market is expected to follow a similar growth trajectory to 2021, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 6.2 percent. As the third-largest online retail and eCommerce market worldwide that is behind China and the US, particularly when RCEP has launched and Japan is one of the members there, many sellers expect more possibilities from Japan and look for business opportunities to grow the business.
Amazon and Rakuten Japan must be two primary channels on the spotlight that sellers are discussing, in particular, which one is better to start. So in this article, I would talk about my review between Rakuten and Amazon Japan from several points of view, such as market share, fee structure, etc. By the end of this piece, you can learn the difference between two platforms and select one to start selling in Japan, which is better as a new seller there.
ChannelAdvisor – How to Centralise Managing Order Fulfillment, Inventory & Product Data for Multichannels
It might be okay if you manually list and change the product data, which includes the product, inventory, and shipment information on a single channel when you just started selling a few items online. However, your enjoyable days must go away along with your transaction volume going up on multiple online channels because if you are still handling by manual, you will get frustrated in the massive error of inconsistent product information across channels, heavily time-consuming to handle inventory in stock, or out of stock, and logistic for customer order delivery, order refund.
Also, manually managing those data connections is both cumbersome to maintain and dangerously prone to error, because requirements vary from each ad network or a retail marketplace, a web store destination. Once the data feed gets an error or very slow to respond, refresh and update on the destination, you could miss out on a huge chunk of sales and revenue.
Thus, if you want your products to stand out on Amazon, Lazada, Rakuten, Google Shopping, Facebook, ShareASale affiliate network, and others, you’re going to need high quality customized product listing data, inventory data, and order fulfillment data feeds in an automatic format across channels. Today’s most successful sellers maintain a well-oiled machine of feed syndication and data harmonization — with strong pipes and paths that always send the correct data to each and every destination.
CBD Advertising – Best Practices to Run Ingestible CBD and Topical CBD Ads
You must have concerns regarding whether you can advertise CBD products in digital channels. For example, can you advertise CBD on Facebook or not? I can tell you the answer is yes. But it is possible to advertise CBD with the right approach. CBD entrepreneurs and marketers need to find a way to promote their CBD product in a way that doesn’t interfere with each channel’s ad policy.
Taobao China, Tmall China Marketing, and Tmall Global Seller Promotion 101
Amazon and Facebook’s shoppable live streams seems just starting to be accepted by consumers in western, but Taobao live has been popular for a few years. I am guessing western thought it was just a kind of TV shopping in the 1st place. The fact tells us it’s time for you to understand the up-to-trend eCommerce marketing approaches being adopted in China. While we discuss eCommerce in China, Taobao China, Tmall China and Tmall Global must be the primary list to talk about.
CAPEX vs OPEX – Apply to Measure Branding and Performance Marketing Outcome
Branding is the future of a business, and branding dilutes the impact of product pricing from customer purchase decisions. So branding is significantly vital like this and that. Personally it’s a kind of common sense, and most people realize that even though they are not professional marketers and business holders. So this article might give you some hints on how to quantify the outcome of branding from a finance and marketing perspective. Next time, it can be a great discussion to reply to your line managers or clients when they question why there was no outcome from the branding investment.