eCommerce Explained

There are some strict rules which SA online sellers need to adhere to before the upcoming deadline. To uncover what we need to do I've interviewed legal expert Kyle Torrington from hellocontract.co.za

He explains exactly what eCommerce sellers need to do in order to comply and when the deadline is for making these changes.

I certainly learnt a lot from talking to Kyle and, as you'll find out at the end of the video, there's some really great news here too!

Watch the video now and if you want to reach out to Kyle for more info you can browse to hellocontract.co.za

You've identified suppliers whose products you want to sell but they aren't taking you seriously. They're not excited for you to be selling their products or maybe they aren't even responding to you at all! How are you supposed to have a successful online business if you can't get products from these suppliers!? 

In this episode, I share my 4 top tips to help you get a foot in the door and to get them to want to work with you. Stick around till the end to hear more about what else you can do to have more success online.

There are endless reviews and comparisons online but I wanted to cut through the clutter and narrow down my Top 5 considerations when deciding which platform is right for you. In truth one is not better than the other BUT one is better suited to you. Listen to this episode to find out which one that is. 

And if you're listening to this episode in the week that it goes live then be sure to sign up for our free training on how you can set up your own online store. In this 5 Day Challenge, I'll show you how to create your own store in just 30 mins a day over 5 days, even if you have no prior experience. Book your free spot here: https://insaka.co.za/

I was recently asked for the quickest way to start making sales online and although I'm not here to tell you that you can make a million dollars online overnight, I did want to give you my quickest steps to getting online and getting to your first sale. In this episode, you'll hear my quick-win actions for getting up and running as quickly as possible and you'll hear my recipe for getting from no sales to that elusive 1st sale 🙂 

You'll also get my invite to join me for my free live training where I'll show you the step by step approach to getting your store up and running. The live training is just 30 minutes a day and you can do this even if you have no prior experience. To book your free spot visit www.insaka.co.za now.

The world is shifting it's changing right now and opportunities that have never existed before are  opening up but the problem is that most people aren't even recognizing it and everyone just  keeps following the same old path 

and where it starts gets really scary is when the younger generation is being raised in a world where these new opportunities are being taught as risky or that they’re for somebody else or they're unachievable because right now these opportunities well they're just that they're opportunities but in years to come they won't be opportunities they will be the way of life. 

And we’ve already seen that the security that previous generations had from a good job, well that security no longer exists. 

We see it everywhere, companies using software, robots, machines and outsourcing to replace jobs but at the same time the same technology allows you to make money, start a business or earn a living based off your passion, your knowledge and your skills and to do it without hardly any financial risk at all 

I mean how many websites, blogs and apps have you seen popping up recently? 

But what if the younger generation is raised to embrace that they can generate their own income off of things like YouTube, blogs, online stores? 

Well, they will be ready to thrive in the new shift that is happening right now instead of being left to fight for the small amount of disappearing jobs and see everyone else taking advantage of this new shift in entrepreneurship.

And if the younger generation can thrive in these opportunities, then so can you. 

This will be the way that most people make their income in the future and you really need to ask yourself, do I want to wait until everyone else is already doing it or do I want to start now?

The Africa Free Trade Agreement may not sound like the normal topic that you'll hear on my podcast but if you're selling online then this is something that you really want to pay attention to as it creates 2 massive opportunities for us. Opportunities which are going to be game-changers in the coming years. 

In order to fully unpack this topic, I invited my fellow board member of the eCommerce Forum of South Africa, Mr Alastair Tempest, to do a live video in our community group. That video discussion was too good to let it vanish into the endless scrolling depths of Facebook and so we've pulled out the audio to share with you here in my podcast. 

I'm excited to share more about the Africa Free Trade agreement and the opportunities it presents for you.

To read more, visit: https://ecomafrica.org/blog/2020/02/05/the-launch-of-the-african-free-trade-area-afcfta/

This is an episode with a twist - here I am the one being interviewed by my friend Jandre de Beer for his podcast called The Marketing Fix Podcast. Jandre is the founder of V8 Media, which is a leading digital marketing agency in Johannesburg, South Africa.

In this podcast, we discuss the growth opportunities available in online selling in South Africa and we chat about both our successes and lessons learnt through the years as entrepreneurs in the online space.

Join us for the conversation and apply our collective experiences to your own business to help you grow it faster and better.

If you're thinking of selling to customers outside of SA then your biggest challenges are going to be them seeing pricing in ZAR, high delivery costs for the customer and how to price your products for these customers. In this episode, you'll find out how to easily handle all of that and more.

Duncan Colville from TDMC joins Warrick as they go through the key lessons and experiences from BFCM 2020 with the goal of figuring out what we can collectively learn so that we get even more sales in 2021.

Managing customer returns is an unavoidable part of eCommerce and this can either be managed poorly whereby customers have bad experiences and never shop with you again or this can be proactively managed in a professional manner where the customer is left feeling supported and valued. To help achieve the latter, Craig Plowden from www.revlogs.co.za joins us to share his experience as the CEO of a service provider which specializes in helping businesses manage their returns processes.