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Now displaying: May, 2016
May 30, 2016

While Mike is absent today, I continue our discussion of Google and SEO. In terms of that, I talk about ways to apply SEO to your work and how it can help encourage traffic to your site and your business.

The most important aspect all e-commerce business owners have to understand is the Google trust rank and how it applies to sites and SEO. Once you understand how this works, you will be able to create quality content that is also optimized for the Google search engine.

Today’s Topics:

  • Arbitrage
  • The history of SEO
  • Google trust rankings
  • Authorship profiles
  • Keywords
  • Human content review vs. algorithm
  • Machine Learning
  • Tactics and strategy for SEO
  • Getting your SEO off the ground
  • Creating unique content

If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast please go to ecomcrew.com and fill out the contact form. Also we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!




May 19, 2016

Hi this is Grant Chen, on today’s episode I’m going to talk about a topic we’ve been asked to do for a while now. SEO, for those who don’t know SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. I have a long history with SEO and I think this will be a 2 or 3 part series. So bear with me if you are really well versed in the history and use of SEO, but I want to start at the beginning for those who are totally new to this subject.

Now back in the day Yahoo was king of the search engines, but slowly as the concept of search engines became more refined Google came in and changed the whole thing. SEO is the cornerstone of getting your business, service, or just name out there. It is a multi-layered thing that is much more complicated than a lot of people would let you believe. Hopefully today you will get a good foundation for SEO and we’ll work up to where it is going in the future eventually.

The topics we cover today are:

  • The history of Search Engine Optimization
  • My education in informatics and my experience with SEO
  • What is “page rank”
  • Why you can’t pay for your ranking
  • A true link vs. a spam link
  • The 2 waves of linking farming
  • The beginning of “Trustrank”

This is part 1 of a 2 to 3 part series. So as we go deeper into this subject we’ll see where SEO started, move to where it is at the moment, and finally talk about where it will end up in the future.

Resources:

Yahoo

Google

 

If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast please go to ecomcrew.com and fill out the contact form. Also we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

May 12, 2016

We have recently been overseas to attend the Canton Fair and the Hong Kong Gift Show. So on today’s episode we share our itinerary from the trip and what kind of experience we had over there. We attended both fairs and we both toured factories of companies who were potential business partners.

It was an interesting cultural exchange and we have definitely learned a lot about Asian business practices through our various experiences. We hope our discussion and tips help all of you decide if these fairs are a good business move for you.

The topics we discussed today are:

  • Our impressions of the Canton Fair.
  • What it is like doing business in Japan.
  • Our daily itinerary over the long stay.
  • Unusual placement and hard to find vendors.
  • The questions to ask vendors.
  • Our impressions of Hong Kong.

Resources we mention today:

Icewraps.com

Hong Kong Gift Show

Canton Fair

Colorit.com

Cuttingboard.com


If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast please go to ecomcrew.com and fill out the contact form. Also we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!







May 5, 2016

Today’s episode is the third and final instalment of our series on domestic and international supplying. We have talked about shipping in both the United States and from overseas. We have also talked about the politics involved in overseas suppliers. Today we finish this series with how to find a supplier you can work with and make money.

There are tons of online suppliers that offer cheap products for newcomers. These sites are helpful, but the ideal situation is to explore the market and find your product through trial and error. On today’s episode we share our experience with finding our products and offer practical advice on how to be smart about it.

The main points from today’s show are:

  • Why you should consider the long term when looking at a supplier
  • Places to find product and the power of word of mouth
  • How order amount is good indicator of a profitable product
  • The reasons to consider domestic suppliers
  • The math equation for smart product ordering
  • What is bank management

We could try to explore what makes a great product and how to find the best seller, but there is no formula for what works and what doesn’t. This will conclude our series on this subject, but we hope we gave some useful information on how to approach building and managing your inventory.

Resources from Today’s Episode:

Cuttingboard.com

ColorIt

Shopify

Amazon

ThomasNet

Alibaba

Global Sources

Made in China

If you have any questions or anything you’d like us to discuss on the podcast please go to ecomcrew.com and fill out the contact form. Also we would really appreciate if you would leave us a review on iTunes. Thanks for listening!

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