Recently, my friend called me and said that he wanted to have his own business T-shirt printing but he was so worried because more and more designers were trying their hand at the t-shirt business. He said so many incredible t-shirt lines out there, the market seemed to be too crowded and it’s like an overwhelmingly daunting task for a newbie like him. However, I think that if you take things a step at...

In short, marketplace is the business model that allows multiple vendors to list and sell their products under a single domain so customers have more options to compare and choose in the best possible price and quality. There are no shortcuts for launching a marketplace and making it successful. Easy come, easy go, right? The first step to start a marketplace is not finding developers or open source solution, it should be investigating which...

Since high technology took part in online printing industry online stores for custom clothing became a norm, and a new business model emerged that had the potential to revolutionize the overall printing industry. The standard for an online printing web store now is allowing users to get custom made products and let them choose design, size, etc. This article will give you information about key features that must have in web to print solution: 1....

It is estimated that over 80 percent of all web traffic is conducted over a smartphone and other smart devices. So it is not exaggerated that investing on mobile design is the only way if you want to survive in this fiercely competitive environment. 50% of customers will leave the website if the loading time excesses 2 seconds. and conversions drop by 12 percent for every extra second of load time. How can you...

There is one fact that the marriage of digital printing and SAAS model has brought us to a new world where you can build and manage your printing site with greater convenience, more robustness and efficiency at less cost. We will list out the things we should consider SAAS printing management and traditional management software. Here we go: 1. Software and Maintenance Cost Saas: You can build a website on a server and you just need...

We had gone those days when we had to spend a lot of time and physical effort for almost every routine works, now, we are in an era of technology boom, the time when we can enjoy the rapidity and convenience. For example, instead of you have to go to the road and catch a taxi, you can use mobile phone and call Uber, or you don’t have to wait in queue for food...

3D printing was first invented since 1980s but until recent years, it has started to play a role in ecommerce industry when the technology innovations made it cheaper and more ubiquitous. From the first time released, 3D printing brought itself a lot of potential for modern marketing including online/offline integration, social, or personalization. 3D printing is not as expensive as we’ve ever thought, you can print 3D objects at a number of its shops as...

When starting anything, mistakes are inevitable, they give you a chance to learn and improve yourself. However, in marketplace, some mistakes are really costly and should be prevented immediately. Here are some suggestions for you: 1. Poor risk management Let’s consider the cases of two giants: Airbnb and Uber When an Airbnb apartment teetered on the edge of being trashed, it actually caused a media storm. A lot of time and effort were spent to respond to...

When we mention to plugin ecosystem, WordPress seems to be the greatest. To gain that achievement, we have the contributions of thousands of developers build and maintain a bewildering array of plugins with features that range from minor graphical tweaks to full-blown eCommerce stores. Of course, most of them are really helpful but we cannot be sure that among so massive amount, there is no problem. Plugins are of varying quality and usefulness. Therefore,...

Recently, startups almost are crazy about the marketplace. Some others, in contrast, want to manufacture them and sell directly to consumers and businesses. I will not tell what is better but let’s refer to this article first. I will focus on the benefits of business owners who use handmade WordPress theme, not all participants of this model 1. No inventory Marketplace is ultimate business model that helps you say goodbye to fickle mistress named inventory, that’s...