#75 - Amazon Small Business = Collateral Damage, and more
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In the third quarter, Amazon reached sales levels it would have gotten to even without the pandemic boost. Amazon appears to have lost all the e-commerce spending acceleration.
marketplacepulse.com
Small Businesses Would be Collateral Damage in the Senate’s New Antitrust Bill
More than half a million American small- and medium-sized businesses utilize Amazon’s marketplace to sell their products; supporting 1.1 million jobs nationwide.
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Amazon Badly Misses on Earnings and Revenue, Gives Disappointing Fourth-Quarter Guidance
Amazon reported third-quarter results on Thursday, missing on the top and bottom lines. It also gave fourth-quarter sales guidance that was below Wall Street’s estimates.
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Good to Know
Hasbro Reports $100M of Unfulfilled Orders; Amazon Launches Local Pickup for Sellers
Hasbro said $100 million of products were ordered but undelivered in the third quarter. . Also, Amazon is allowing third-party sellers on its marketplace to offer a local pickup option for orders.
pymnts.com
Amazon Lulls Listeners into Shopping with Interactive Ads
Amazon launched new tools for brand advertisers during its UnBoxed event this week. Among them: it added new features to its audio ads on Amazon Music’s ad-supported tier that includes voice calls-to-action.
ecommercebytes.com
Amazon Pushing More Aggressively to Develop Omnichannel Capabilities
Among the slew of announcements last week, one item stood out as a clear sign of the eCommerce giant’s omnichannel ambitions: a new set of services allowing retailers to offer in-store pickup to local customers.
pymnts.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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How Proposed Legislation Would Break Digital Services: the Prime Example
Controversial legislation in Congress is being described as spelling the end for Amazon Prime. Why is that and what would it mean?
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Alibaba is ramping up in Europe, and is already ahead of Amazon in one region
Logistics arm Cainiao plans to install a total of 5,000 package lockers globally before Singles Day, especially in Russia, Poland, Spain and France.
cnbc.com
Amazon Accidentally Makes a Case for its Own Regulation
Amazon is facing proposed regulation in Congress from an unusual bipartisan group concerned about its size and market power.
theweek.com
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Amazon and Walmart Seen as Fraternal Twins in Retail
Amazon’s streaming services and Walmart’s longstanding brick-and-mortar presence give each an edge among different audiences, according to the report.
talkbusiness.net
Amazon, Large Retailers Well-Positioned to Weather Holiday Supply Chain Pain
Persistent supply chain constraints are expected to have an uneven impact on e-commerce this holiday season, with Amazon.com Inc. and other large retailers better positioned to meet demand than smaller merchants, retail experts say.
spglobal.com
Amazon's New BOPIS Offer Hits Walmart Where It Hurts
Amazon surprises Walmart by offering to aid affiliated retailers' efforts to give their customers a buy online, pickup in-store option.
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Amazon Makes it Easier for Consumers to Complain About Faulty Products from Third-Party Vendors
The company updated its long-standing returns policy (also known as the A-toZ guarantee) on Tuesday to address product defect claims.
einnews.com
Amazon Sellers Target UK With Unsolicited Parcels to Boost Sales
The technique, known as “brushing”, involves sending items that are usually cheap to ship to unsuspecting people and logging them as genuine sales to increase a seller’s sales statistics.
theguardian.com
Amazon Benchmarking – the ANZ Brands who Topped the List
The scoring criteria looked at aspects of each brand’s Amazon presence including product information and imagery, localised ratings and reviews, their placement in search results on their brand terms and much more.
insideretail.com.au
Amazon.com Announces Third Quarter Results
Amazon.com announced financial results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2021. Operating cash flow, Free cash flow, Free cash flow less principal repayments of finance leases and financing obligations, Operating income, Net income, Net sales, and more.
streetinsider.com
Earlier this month, U.S. senators Amy Klobuchar (D., Minn.) and Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) unveiled plans for their American Innovation and Choice Online Act.
nationalreview.com
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Tips and Tricks
Using Amazon Handmade to Sell Your Crafts
If you’re making and selling handmade products, it makes sense to have as many revenue streams as you can. And the more places you have where to sell crafts online, the better your chances for increasing your revenue streams.
smallbiztrends.com
How the Amazon Supply Chain Works
The Amazon Supply Chain is responsible for getting customer orders from point A to point B as quickly and efficiently as possible.
junglescout.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]
The Best Software for Amazon Sellers
This business automation will be a massive consideration as your business grows because, without automation, your growth will be limited.
infotechlead.com
Best Amazon FBA Courses for 2021
Whether you watch free videos on YouTube or invest in a structured online ecommerce course, it is important to have some kind of seller education before selling products on Amazon. There is a lot to learn.
junglescout.com
What are GS1 Numbers, and Do You Need Them to Sell on Amazon?
When it comes to retail, the barcodes that you find on the back of a product's box are important. You can ignore the straight lines. It's the numbers that sit below them that contain, and collect, information that's vital to sellers.
thedrum.com
Podcasts
#295 – Why Plan Your Amazon Exit From Day 1?
Did you know that more than 50% of the money you ever put in your pocket is going to come when you exit your business? Today's guest explains why.
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