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	Podcast:		Ecommerce Pulse
	Episode:		EP 019: Ecommerce is a Bear (4 strategies for competing against Amazon)
	Category:		Business
	Duration:		00:34:50
	Publish Date:		2013-12-07 03:00:23
	Description:		Today I’m joined by Shabbir Nooruddin of BootstrappingEcommerce.com for a discussion of Andy Dunn’s article, “E-Commerce is a Bear.” The basic idea behind the article is this: Big ecommerce companies like Amazon are like grizzly bears–they are the apex predators who annihilate or consume anything in their path. How can smaller ecommerce companies even begin to compete against Amazon’s ferocious price competition and scale? Andy discusses 4 strategies for competing against Amazon, so Shabbir and I decided to give a summary of those strategies while also sharing our own own thoughts, as well as giving a few real-world examples of ecommerce companies who are using these strategies. Our goal in sharing these tips and examples is to help other small, bootstrapped ecommerce ventures like ours and yours better position ourselves to compete in this tough playing field. To hear the episode, click play below or download in iTunes. Links referenced during the show: BootstrappingEcommerce.com – Shabbir’s blog FishFinderSource.com – Shabbir’s ecommerce store SurvivalKnifeExperts.com – My ecommerce store E-Commerce is a Bear, by Andy Dunn Andrew Youderian’s blog post about selling one of his ecommerce stores, TrollingMotors.net Woot.com – A site with a “flash sale” model I mentioned a discussion between Terry Lin and Andrew Youderian about “ambiguously priced products.” In our discussion, I mistakenly said that Terry Lin mentioned this on his own podcast, Build My Online Store, but he actually said this on a recent episode of Andrew Youderian’s eCommerceFuel podcast. Here is a link to that episode (conversation about product value/pricing starts at about 14:30). AccessoryConcierge.com – A company that started off doing flash sales on Facebook, build a following of thousands of people, then used that momentum to launch an ecommerce store with a more traditional model. ManCrates.com ManPacks.com RightChannelRadios.com – Another one of Andrew Youderian’s ecommerce stores that provides an example of the second strategy discussed on the show (proprietary selection). JustFab, Shoedazzle, and TrunkClub.com – Ecommerce businesses that use the third strategy we discuss on the show (proprietary experience). Quote of the week: “The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don’t define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.” ~ Denis Waitley Subscribe to Ecommerce Pulse in iTunes! • Facebook • Twitter • Delicious • LinkedIn • StumbleUpon • Add to favorites • Email • RSS The post EP 019: Ecommerce is a Bear (4 strategies for competing against Amazon) appeared first on Ecommerce Pulse.
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