Optiseller, a Stirling-based e-commerce agency, has appointed Richard Falconeras chief working officer. He joins from digital advertising agency Yard, the place he was managing director for greater than 4 years.

Mr Falconer is skilled in search engine optimisation and has a monitor document in working with main model website positioning campaigns.  

He’s a part of a current recruitment drive by Optiseller which has seen enterprise double in dimension within the final six months because the Covid-19 pandemic continues to pressure all companies to deal with on-line gross sales. 

Headcount has grown by 20 because the starting of the 12 months, taking the overall variety of staff to greater than 50, with ongoing efforts to fill one other 20 openings.

Optiseller has obtained a £43,000 grant from Innovate UK which shall be used to develop a first-of-its-kind automated platform to fast-track on-line retailers onto the eBay market.

The goal is to automate the method of onboarding a retailer onto eBay, lowering the time it takes from 10-12 weeks to 4 weeks, and likewise slashing the prices.