#74 - A New Amazon Policy Will Hit Sellers Hard, and much more...
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Amazon Forces Sellers to Foot the Bill for Fashion Returns
Sellers say a new policy from Amazon will hit them hard. Amazon is requiring sellers to pay for return shipping when a buyer sends back items in Fashion categories.
ecommercebytes.com
Amazon Will Avoid Empty Shelves
Despite disruptions to global supply chains and Amazon’s warehouse space restrictions, inventory levels at Amazon warehouses are high. As other retailers are fearing empty shelves, Amazon has turned its vast marketplace into an advantage.
marketplacepulse.com
The Most Surprising Stats From Amazon’s 2021 Small Business Empowerment Report
In typical Amazon style, the data points don’t always match up like-for-like each year. For example, Amazon has defined its total universe of SMB’s differently in the past 3 years.
forbes.com
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Good to Know
They are Stealing Amazon Accounts to Buy Behind the Back of Their Owners
The PandaLabs team, the Panda Security Laboratory, has detected various phishing techniques in which scammers impersonate the popular marketplace to get either your account or your bank details directly.
marketresearchtelecast.com
Amazon Puts its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products
The online giant gives a leg up to hundreds of house brand and exclusive products that most people don’t know are connected to Amazon.
thenextweb.com
Seller Trade Group Accuses Amazon of Scare Tactics
Amazon is threatening to shut down its third-party seller marketplace if certain proposed legislation is passed, according to the trade group Online Merchants Guild (OMG).
ecommercebytes.com
Multichannel eCommerce Analytics Leader DataHawk Announces a $7 Million USD Series A Equity Funding
DataHawk’s AI-enhanced, centralized analytics, & optimization platform helps brands run their eCommerce businesses better. This financing round will support AI enhancements and a US office expansion.
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Amazon Sellers Are Paying Much More to Sell Their Goods: CANOPY Management Study
Those are the main findings of a recent report by CANOPY Management, the full-service Amazon agency that helps brands scale their business and gain market share. To create the report, CANOPY surveyed more than 300 Amazon sellers.
globenewswire.com
Walmart Is Gaining On Amazon In E-Commerce
Walmart is growing much faster online than Amazon in e-commerce, more than five times faster. If those rates hold steady, Walmart’s e-commerce will overtake Amazon’s retail sales in four years.
forbes.com
Amazon Custom Lets You Sell Customizable Products
Do you have products to sell? Don’t overlook Amazon Custom. Sellers who are already using it laud its features and call it a great experience that brings them more business.
smallbiztrends.com
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Amazon Offers ‘Some’ Sellers a New ‘Contact Customer’ Tool
Amazon will now allow certain sellers reach out to buyers who’ve left less-than-stellar reviews, but according to many of the sellers discussing the new feature, it’s far too restrictive.
ecommercebytes.com
Senators to Introduce Antitrust Legislation Aiding Amazon Sellers
The lawmakers plan to introduce a bill early next week that would prohibit platforms from requiring companies operating on their sites to purchase the platform’s goods or services.
ttnews.com
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy: Antitrust bills risk ‘very serious unintended consequences’ for sellers
Online sellers should consider the implications of U.S. antitrust legislation that could force the company to divest its third-party marketplace — warning that there could be “very serious unintended consequences” for their own businesses.
geekwire.com
Marketplace Sellers Aren't Surprised as Judiciary Committee Blasts Amazon
A bipartisan group of legislators imply Amazon is up to no good with seller data. But sellers are neither shocked nor scared by the news.
digitalcommerce360.com
Stopping Unauthorized Sellers: The Second Pillar of Online Sales Control
As many brands know all too well, the best laid strategy to manage the channels through which their goods are sold can be quickly disrupted by unauthorized sellers.
thefashionlaw.com
Amazon India Reportedly Copied Sellers’ Products and Rigged Search Results
In a 2016 document, titled “India Private Brands Program,” Amazon’s private label team in India detailed how it would review sales and customer review data to identify “reference brands” to replicate, according to the article.
cnbc.com
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Tips and Tricks
Amazon Scammers Swiped $27M in One Year — Here’s How to Protect Yourself
The median loss per person was $1,000. Reports about Amazon impersonators surged more than five-fold during the period. About 96,000 people filed reports about being targeted, and nearly 6,000 said they lost money.
gobankingrates.com
Michael Soltis: From Lifeguard to 6-Figure Amazon FBA Seller and Coach
After he found himself hitting consistent $10,000 months, he dropped out of community college and pursued this career full-time, and today teaches others how to do the same through his self-made framework.
digitaljournal.com
Multichannel eCommerce Analytics Leader DataHawk Announces a $7 Million USD Series A Equity Funding
DataHawk’s AI-enhanced, centralized analytics, & optimization platform helps brands run their eCommerce businesses better. This financing round will support AI enhancements and a US office expansion.
datahawk.co - [SPONSOR]
Why is Amazon PPC important, and how much you should spend on it?
Here, Optimizon’s Amazon PPC specialist, Jon Ellis, reveals everything you need to know about Amazon PPC, and how much to spend.
thedrum.com
Believe it or not, flipping furniture doesn’t require much money upfront to get started. In fact, you can find a lot of used furniture for free — if you know where to look.
junglescout.com
Podcasts
Episode 35: Win on ETSY, Scale on Amazon
E-commerce expert Dave Kettner of Etsy Profits Generator shares how he built a successful coffee mug business on Etsy and scaled his sales through Amazon FBA in this episode of the Sell Rank Win podcast.
merchantwords.com
Amazons Product Opportunity Explorer Tool (Real Search Vol At Last)
Sharon will be doing a screen share and showing all the features of Amazon's New Beta Feature - Product Opportunity Explorer Tool which also shows REAL Amazon Search Volume data which has never been shared before!
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