Welcome to my blog. Please check back soon for new entries.

As you come here to visit, you will find a fairly regular commentary on the state of the Ecommerce Market and Ecommerce  Best Practices as it relates to selling on the internet.   This will also be a place for customers and the public alike will be able to come and get hints, tips and tricks to selling successfully on the internet.   

Not that I didn’t have a lot of fun and a huge sense of accomplishment from what I do, because thats not the case, I did have a lot of fun and made a lot of good friends and business contacts   It’s just that I decided lets put the profits where they truly belong, in my families pocket.    I am very proud of the accomplishments from while I was there.  When I started we had a website that did ok, 2 ebay stores that puttered along,  an amazon seller account that did ok  and a custom division separate from ecommerce.      The company had always centered around the custom division which supported the company financially.   Ecommerce had always been a side income stream, great at different times, but never incredible.    Not being the type of person to watch oppurtunity walk by, I took the bull by the horns, flipped on his back, skinned it, butchered it and made a million juicy steaks out of it.   Next thing you know all heck is breaking loose at DSI due to the amount of orders that just wouldn’t seem to quit.    In Dec. of ’08 on the busiest day of the year, Amazon was processing 72 orders a minute, up from 64 a minute the year before.   They processed 6 million orders in one day.   My goal was to get a small chunk of that.  We were not doing much on fulfillment then, but we sure are now.     We came in on that Monday after the weekend of their busiest days to 242 orders for us to ship and 40 or so Amazon fba orders.      This year in the slowest time of the summer, we were walking into around 100 orders every Monday plus over 100 fba orders.     We are averaging about 2500 orders total across all platforms and all stores right now, that should be close to 4500 by xmas this year.    Yes I am the person that might have changed the numbers on certain prices or analyzed how to knock the competition off the table, its been a group effort from day 1.   I couldn’t focus on what I needed to focus on if I didnt have high caliber people watching my back, ensuring the other stores were on course, processing orders, getting quality product in at a resonable price etc….  

If you come back often, I promise to tell all my secrets in the form of Best Practices and strategy statements.    Putting them into practice, thats your job, unless of course you want to hire AEC to take your company to the next level.   Its the best investment you will ever make, I promise.   Are you ready for the challenge.   Its a lot of work and definitely not for everyone.

My first goal for this blog will be getting a spell checker widget. lol