#47 - Amazon’s Prime Day Will be Very Different This Year
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Behind the Curtains at Amazon: Shadow Industry of Black Hat Consultants Alter Listings for a Fee
“We’re selling on Amazon, paying for fulfillment and advertising — and now have to pay Amazon to fix their own abuse,” said one seller.
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Amazon’s Prime Day Will be Very Different This Year, And Sellers are Bracing for Chaos
Online shopping remains strong heading into the holidays and analysts expect Prime Day sales will top last year’s event. But a mid-October Prime Day could still result in some snafus.
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Don’t Let Amazon Get Any Bigger
A damning congressional report about Big Tech helps make the case to break up Jeff Bezos’ empire.
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Good to Know
Amazon Promoting Small Business Sellers with $10 Prime Day Credit
Prime members who purchase $10 in products from a small business selling on Amazon will earn a $10 credit to spend on Prime Day.
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Hidden Cameras and Secret Trackers Reveal Where Amazon Returns End Up
What happens to all returns? You might figure they simply get resold to someone else. Think again.
cbc.com
Amazon is Trying to Crack Down on Fraudulent Reviews. They’re Thriving in Facebook Groups
The review, like many on the e-commerce platform, is fake. Amazon banned incentivized reviews in 2016, but it’s still a rampant problem on the platform.
theverge.com
Amazon Sellers Integration with SMS by ProTexting to grow Reviews and Sales
New and innovative way! All done via SMS. Ask customers to text in their orders to trigger SMS funnels. Reviews via MMS photos are automatically detected.
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Amazon’s Seller Transparency Policy Signals Progress Against Counterfeit Goods
Amazon's announcement falls in line with its now-regular cycle of introducing new tools for combatting counterfeiters and infringers. But the ecommerce giant's new policy is far from perfect.
digitalcommerce360.com
Amazon Prime Day Kicks-Off Holiday Shopping Projected To Hit $9.9 Billion
Last year Amazon Prime Day raked in $6.93 billion worldwide from 124 million U.S. Prime users (up almost 11% from the previous year).
forbes.com
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Key Amazon FBA Brexit Dates that Will Impact Your Business
Amazon want to help you prepare your business and with peak and the new post-Brexit customs border approaching wanted to give you the latest information on key FBA inventory dates to help you prepare for the upcoming changes.
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California, Florida, Texas Lead in New Amazon Sellers
Businesses from California, Florida, Texas, New York, and New Jersey represented nearly half of the 75,000 new Amazon sellers in the U.S. over the past twelve months.
marketplacepulse.com
Feds Arrest Former Amazon Employee After Company Reported Him to FBI for Fraud
The scheme involved approximately 318 unauthorized refunds for orders purchased through eight Amazon accounts belonging to Nguyen and others.
techcrunch.com
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Tips and Tricks
Amazon’s Vine Program for Sellers: What Is It? And Is It Worth It?
Let’s explore what the Amazon Vine program is, its pros and cons, how to enroll, and whether the Amazon seller community believes it’s worth joining.
junglescout.com
How Amazon Prime Day Helps Entrepreneurs Build Million-Dollar Businesses
Happily, for small business owners still hoping to get in on the action next, Amazon spokespersons offer the following hints and tips.
cnbc.com
How much in fees is Amazon actually charging you?
Making sense of all of your fees, refunds, sales and everything else Amazon charges can be tricky - luckily A2X, developed by fellow sellers to help work this out can. Find out how and try it for free.
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How to Eliminate Fakes on Amazon
While the e-commerce giant has been taking steps towards curbing this problem for online brand protection, consumers too need to learn how to identify and eliminate counterfeits on Amazon.
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The Importance of Product Reviews on Amazon: A/B Test Results Don’t Lie
Spoiler alert: reviews are incredibly important to a product’s success. 75% of U.S. consumers said that, when shopping online, they’re looking for the product with the best ratings and reviews.
junglescout.com
Podcasts
Amazon Bribery & Back End Deals Exposed with Jeff Schick of Seller Basics
Amazon/Ecom Attorney and 7 figure Amazon seller Jeff Schick proved that having multiple passions works well when you know how to put them together.
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