The Photiq team is always keeping an eye on what small businesses and especially independent merchants are up to to when it comes to promoting their business and advertising thier products. We have been surprised by how many stores do so very little to communicate with their customers and bring foot traffic in through the door, … Continue reading
Tag Archives: Merchants
Just How Important is the ‘Get it Now’ Factor?
When the Photiq team looks at retail websites such as Walmart or Amazon, we think of a future where everything a person wants to buy can be found on one of these two websites. Products will indeed have become commodities… Anything you want you can find online and have it shipped to you. Similarly, the … Continue reading
Dissecting Sellers Fees: Amazon, Ebay and others
The Photiq team came across an article by Wired magazine today. Apparently there’s a little turf war going on between the two eCommerce giants Amazon and Ebay. We’ve heard a lot about disgruntled merchants not happy with either online retailer. In fact we have heard that because of the really high costs of selling on these … Continue reading
Photiq Likes – Dwolla: The Best Way to Move Money
We at photiq talk to a lot of small businesses. What we hear time and time again is how expensive it is to process transactions and how merchants hate accepting credit cards. Meanwhile, we – the consumers love to whip out our credit cards for the smallest of purchases. Even for our morning coffee we … Continue reading