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Product Information Management for Brand Owners: Part 1: Why You Should Care about PIM

I created the following video presentation to serve as an introduction to the world of Product Information Management (PIM). While the responsibility of PIM usually falls on the brand owners, often times for retailers, the brands you work with do not properly manage PIM, and hence the responsibility to maintain the data falls upon the

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E-Commerce Accounting: Why you should not use your accounting software to make decisions

One of the most common way I’ve seen E-commerce sellers manage operations is via their accounting software (typically Quickbooks). When I say manage operations, I mean performing such activities as: Inventory Management Inventory Forecasting Inputting Purchase Orders Inputting Sales Orders Analyzing Profitability Other ERP type functions ERP stands for Enterprise Resource Planning and refers to

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Optimizing Google Shopping: Why you shouldn’t use shopping cart plugins to feed to Google Shopping.

There are two main reasons why shopping cart plugins are not the best strategy for your Google Shopping feed: Does not pass Cost of Goods Sold Limit of 1 Google Shopping listing per product Cost of Goods Sold If you are care at all to pass the cost of goods sold to be used in

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True Profit vs. Gross Profit: Calculating Profitability

As an E-commerce seller, deciding which products to sell is vital.

Often, there are hidden costs relating to a product that don’t factor into our calculations. This leads to potentially bad decisions for choosing where to allocate limited investment capital, or worse, can lead to products we think are profitable that are actually losing money!

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