Hot on the heals of BlueBay Electronics, another ChannelAdvisor customer has been recognised for their online success in 2007.

This time the award goes to one of our UK customers, Schuhstore, who just picked up the first ever ‘Auction Seller of the Year 2007′ award at eBay’s recent Backstage VIP party in London.

The team at Schuh, led by ecommerce whiz kid himself, Dan Lumb, has exceeded all expectations this year, moving over one hundred thousand pairs of shoes in the last 12 months through the eBay channel. Yes, you read that correctly, in the last 12 months they have amassed a massive 111,500 postivie feedbacks (although that number is increasing as I type this!)

We’ve been working with Schuh for just about a year now and we’ve enjoyed every moment of it. It’s people like Dan and the Schuh team that make us excited to come into work in the morning and we love the constant pressure they put on us to improve. We couldn’t be happier that their success has been recognised in such a appropriate way.

Congratulations to the Schuh team from everyone at ChannelAdvisor - great job!

p.s. if you’re after some light entertainment, be sure to check out the rather strange, but amusing ‘silent movie‘ on their eBay blog…

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I started to write this post last week when I was deep in depression about the miserable summer we were having here in England at the moment. But the gorgeous sunshine this weekend has changed all that and I’m feeling a lot better - but I still think this post is interesting so here goes….

Reports from the IMRG in the last few days have confirmed a massive spike in online sales in July, up 80% on last year. For the first time, UK e-retail sales exceeded £4 billion in a month (£4.2bn) - that’s a massive £1.86 billion higher than in July 2006.

The highest sales growth in July was seen by electricals retailers as people bought items online for their summer holidays. Clothing sales were also strong online - the IMRG Clothing / Footwear / Accessories Index was 56% higher than a year earlier.

Several factors contributed to July’s very strong growth, including the very wet weather which discouraged people from travelling and encouraged them to shop online (unfortunately in many cases to replace water-damaged goods).

Many retailers also reported rising numbers of new customers as a result of the still strong uptake of domestic broadband, and because existing internet shoppers are expanding their online buying activity as they become more confident in using the channel.

“IMRG was surprised by the strength of July’s growth, so checked and rechecked the figures …then checked them again,” advises Jo Evans, IMRG’s managing director. “This data is sound. It reveals the extent to which the retail sector is being transformed by frictionless e-commerce. Major brands are bringing on-stream the next generation of slick new internet retailing services, and consumers are flocking to use them. It’s big players’ success that is now driving e-retail growth and boosting the Index.”

I’ll be interested to see how August and September turn out. Traditionally these two months have also suffered from the ’summer holidays’ effect and taken a downturn as shoppers abandon computers and head off (abroad usually) in search of the sun. Watch this space!

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Back by popular demand, we’re excited to announce the expanded 2007 series of ‘ChannelAdvisor Insite‘ conferences, taking place in cities all over the UK and Ireland this summer.

If you’re an online retailer, planning your strategy for Q4 and beyond, then take a day away from the distractions of the office, and come to one of these highly informative one-day events.

Join ChannelAdvisor and industry experts, and your peers as we focus on some of the most effective strategies and techniques for boosting sales and improving the profitability of your online business. We will cover topics such as eBay, Amazon Seller Central, Google Checkout, PayPal Express Checkout, Paid Search Marketing and Shopping Comparison engines and, with a combination of presentations and workshops, equip you with the tools required to go back to your business and make an immediate impact.

This summer we shall be visiting a total of six cities with the Insite event - starting in Bristol on the 16th August, then London, Manchester, Glasgow, Birmingham and finally Dublin in mid-October.

And, thanks to generous sponsorship by Google (Gold), Cybersource and the FOEB (Silver), we are able to keep the cost to a minimum - only £49 + VAT per person for a full 8-hour day of learning! I think you’ll agree this represents tremendous value-for-money - in fact, as we’re limiting places to 25 delegates per event, we expect all six events to be oversubscribed. So if you’re interested in taking your online business to the next level this Christmas, be sure to sign up straight away and reserve your place.

Here’s a link to the official Insite website where you can see more details on the agenda and register to attend. Hey, why not bring someone else from your company as well so you can bounce ideas off each other during the day and take action when you’re back in the office?

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At ChannelAdvisor our mission is simple – hire great people that can help make our clients more successful. We know the more talented, diverse people we have with a passion to be the best, the closer we’ll come to this goal.

Thanks to the success of our clients over the last few months, we too are growing as a company. Which means we need more good people on the ChannelAdvisor team.

Right now we have a bunch of open positions in our London office, based in beautiful Richmond on the banks of Thames. So, if you’re a bright, ambitious, tech-savvy individual, with an interest in software and internet retail then we’d love to hear from you.

Whether you’re interested in sales, marketing, account management or technical implementations, we have a role to suit. You can find out more about a career at ChannelAdvisor UK and our current open vacancies here.

And even if you don’t see something that suits you in the current open vacancies, but you think you have something special to offer, please get in touch anyway - we have new positions becoming available on a regular basis.

For open positions at ChannelAdvisor’s other offices (US, Germany and Australia) please visit our main careers page.

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Heads up if you sell in the ‘Home & Garden’ or ‘Clothes, Shoes & Accessories’ categories on eBay.co.uk.

This weekend (June 9th & 10th) eBay is running a half-price listing promotion (plus free Gallery update) for these two categories only.

That’s great news for sellers like The Contemporary Home or Schuh!

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