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Which Are the Best Places to Sell Clothes Online?

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When it comes to selling boutique, designer or vintage clothes, eBay has strong competition from newer marketplaces that sell clothes online.

Women in clothes store working on a laptop

Selling new or used clothes online can be a profitable niche for many businesses. But there is no doubt about it, you need to have an eye for detail, bargains and trends, and sourcing your products can be time consuming.

Whatever your approach, you have plenty of options when it comes to choosing where to sell your clothes online. There are now a multitude of apps and websites used by professional clothing sellers, each with their own loyal base of fashion-conscious buyers.

In the past, eBay was often the go-to marketplace for clothes sellers, but it may no longer be your best option. So, in this article I am going to discuss some alternative marketplaces for selling clothes, and outline the key features of each.

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Is It Time to Break Into The DACH Ecommerce Market?

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Jacques van der Wilt takes a look at the ecommerce market in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, including the main shopping channels.

Oktoberfest beer representing DACH countries

This post is by Jacques van der Wilt, the founder of global feed management and optimization company DataFeedWatch.

Collectively known as the DACH countries, Germany, Austria, and Switzerland are closely connected both geographically and culturally, and are very successful economically.

DACH countries have a population of just under 100 million (around 80% of which live in Germany) and over 80% of consumers use the internet. The prospects for ecommerce in these three German-speaking countries starts to look pretty good.

There is also a significant year-on-year growth in dollars spent online across these countries. Germany, for example, has seen an increase in spend of just under $10 billion every year between 2015 and 2017. A similar increase is forecast for 2018, bringing the total to nearly $100 billion.

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Multi-Channel Retailing in 2018: More Channels, More Challenges

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Road junction representing multi-channel selling

This post is by Katherine Khoo, Managing Director at ecommerce and inventory platform iPages.

2018 is the year of multi-channel retailing. With over half of all product searches in the U.S. and U.K. starting on Amazon, it’s no wonder that retailers are swiftly changing their strategies to include multiple sales platforms.

Most of us will be tempted to think of simply selling through marketplaces (Amazon/eBay) when we think about multi-channel. However, there are far more ways to get our product into the hands of consumers. There’s Amazon Vendor, for example, and also social shopping on Facebook and Instagram, and voice search with Amazon Echo and Google Home.

One in four households now own a voice-controlled assistant, and Instagram shopping is a buzzing new channel with massive potential. So what does this mean for multi-channel retailing in the year ahead? And what are the challenges of selling on these diverse new channels, which are growing so dramatically in 2018?

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Selling on Facebook Marketplace and Daily Deals for Retailers and Brands

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Facebook finally has a marketplace where businesses can sell directly to consumers. Here’s how it works and how to get started selling.

Selling on Facebook Marketplace

This post is by Daniel Sperling-Horowitz, the President and Co-founder of Zentail.

Before I go any further, you may be thinking:

Facebook Marketplace, isn’t that the local, consumer-to-consumer marketplace?

You’d be correct, or at least 50% correct. Following the early success of their Marketplace, Facebook is now helping brands and retailers sell products on Facebook Marketplace as well.

This post focuses on Facebook Marketplace for Business, the online marketplace accessed directly within Facebook that allows users to discover and buy products directly on Facebook without being redirected off the social media platform to a merchant’s webstore.

We expect this will become a major online shopping channel for authorized resellers and brand owners.

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Ecommerce in Scandinavia: Affluent Consumers and a Growing Market

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Jacques van der Wilt takes a look at the ecommerce market in Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland, including the main shopping channels.

This post is by Jacques van der Wilt, the founder of global feed management and optimization company DataFeedWatch.

Collectively, Scandinavian countries – Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland – spent a massive €20.5 billion on ecommerce in 2017.

With a high standard of living and the percentage of internet users continuing to rise, we are highly likely to see Nordic ecommerce spending rise rapidly as well.

So, where do Scandinavians shop online and what are the current ecommerce trends?

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