In eCommerce, we’ve been considering Amazon’s holiday season for months now. Planning inventory, strategizing sales and discounts, staffing…the list goes on. While there’s a lot that you need to do far in advance, you can prepare for the 2021 holiday season with this simple checklist. Everything here is still attainable, regardless of the fact that […]

Caroline Powell 11 min read eCommerce

This day and age, anyone can sell something on the internet. There are inexpensive courses that will teach you how to “flip” clearance items, or how to create your own product. It seems as though everyone and their brother (or sister) has an eCommerce store. However, how many of them have an actual eCommerce brand? […]

Caroline Powell 6 min read eCommerce

While brands can be successful on Amazon or other eCommerce channels, you will need a Facebook Ads Guide to truly grow your business. Our advertising experts, Bret Darby and Zack Van Nus, walk you through Facebook Advertising in this webinar. Why does it matter? Facebook Advertising is the second most popular advertising platform, behind Google. […]

Caroline Powell 8 min read eCommerce

We all know the saying, “Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.” You see it all the time in business: Amazon notices that All Birds sneakers are taking off, so they create a similar product for less money. You may have even gotten the idea to start your business from looking at an aspirational competitor.  […]

Caroline Powell 6 min read eCommerce

Selling online, regardless of the marketplace in which you operate, is one of the toughest businesses there is. Highly-qualified people with quality products and services all compete for the same shoppers, which makes conducting frequent competitive analyses an integral part of your strategic plan.  How can you stand out from the crowd? How can you […]

Brandon Checketts 7 min read Amazon Seller Tools

In 2019, the Prime Day sale sold more items than Black Friday and Cyber Monday combined. What is in store for Prime Day 2021?

Caroline Powell 11 min read eCommerce

The challenge that we as Amazon sellers face (rather, one of the many challenges that we face) is that our world is filled with noise, which makes it hard to discern who’s saying what and what’s worth listening to. This noise comes from the many Internet marketers, software companies, advertisers, and self-proclaimed gurus who are always telling us what we should do, why we should do it, and how working with them will make us a more successful seller. But what about the people who hustle hard and still fail? We never hear them sharing their stories, they come and go without anyone ever noticing. What makes the difference between success and failure in an Amazon seller?

Jeff Cohen 7 min read eCommerce

The Amazon Buy Box is special real estate given to an offer on an ASIN’s product page. The Buy Box solves the “too many options” problem by separating the featured offer from the other offers so that the buyer sees what Amazon deems the best deal (not always the cheapest). The Buy Box is an effective solution. It stands out and the offer featured there accounts for over 90% of purchases on Amazon. Needless to say, for Amazon sellers, having their offer featured in the Buy Box is enormously important.

Maria Navolykina 8 min read eCommerce

Since 2005, Amazon has been delivering products to its customers by way of its own package delivery service appropriately named: Amazon Logistics.  The service began as a pilot program more than 10 years ago in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and New York City, but has expanded to nearly every major city in the US. Now […]

Helen Golubeva 7 min read Amazon Policies