Amazon indeed knows how to magnetize consumers and turn them into loyal customers. In 2007, they launched the Amazon Subscribe & Save Program, which offers buyers a discount as well as free shipping if they subscribe for regular deliveries. In its Subscribe & Save store, there are myriad daily-consumed products that shoppers can subscribe for, …
Guest blog post by Ryan Grant from The Online Selling Experiment I came across an interesting order when I was going through my financial results for the past month. As a part of my monthly process, I always export my sales from my accounting system (InventoryLab) into Excel. Once I get them exported I do …
Amazon.com has evolved into an ecommerce giant and today handles millions of products, all over the world, at their FBA Fulfillment Centers. However, even though Amazon has incredibly high standards for their sellers, they themselves are not perfect. Sometimes, Amazon FBA is the party responsible for damaged or lost items. When this happens, Amazon does …
Guest blog post by Ryan Grant from The Online Selling Experiment Following last week’s post, I’m going to answer more questions that I have been often asked from new Retail Arbitrage sellers. Q3. How many items would I buy in any one category? I wouldn’t be too concerned with what categories the items I found …
Guest blog post by Ryan Grant from The Online Selling Experiment In today’s blog post I am going to go over how I recommend getting started selling on Amazon. The question of how to get started on Amazon is one that I get frequently. In this post I will be answering that question, as well …
Amazon EU market, being the second largest Amazon regional market in the world besides the North American market, has undoubtedly a lot of potential and opportunities for new and experienced online sellers alike. Due to the integration in Amazon Seller Central, European sellers can easily access to five EU marketplaces: Amazon UK, FR, DE, ES …
What is Enhanced Brand Content (EBC)? Many sellers have noticed the new Enhanced Brand Content feature under the Advertising tab in Seller Central in recent months. This helpful new tool is now available to brand registered sellers to create more vivid product pages to help boost traffic and sales. With Enhanced Brand Content, sellers can enhance …
Our last VAT article introduced VAT rules for Amazon US sellers who sell in Europe; this article will focus on the VAT regulations that Amazon EU sellers must comply with. If you are based in a European State and sell on any of the Amazon EU marketplaces, the following is information about VAT that you …
Selling on Amazon FBA is a great way to outsource many of the most labor-intensive aspects of running an eCommerce business. But with that comes some trade-offs. One thing Amazon doesn’t handle for 3rd party sellers is sales tax compliance. This post will guide you through what you need to know about sales tax compliance …
For US sellers who are selling or preparing to sell in Amazon EU marketplaces, there is one thing you must pay close attention to — VAT. As it is one of the unavoidable part of doing business in Europe, let’s read on and become familiar with it. What is VAT? Value Added Tax (VAT), is a consumption tax …
As an Amazon private label seller, one of the missions during the process of building your brand is to create package and logo for your products. Some people may think of package design simply as a nice image on a bottle or box, but there’s more to it than that. Package design should be a marketing instrument …
To become a successful private label seller on Amazon, not only do you need to offer good products, but you must also optimize your product page. While a listing should provide comprehensive product description, good photos, especially the main image play an important role in enticing customers to click in to your listing. Moreover, since …
On October 3, 2016, Amazon updated its product review policy to ban incentivized product reviews [1]. In other words, sellers are no longer permitted to offer free or discounted products to customers and ask for product reviews in return. Since this has been the strategy adopted by many private label sellers in recent years to …