As profitability becomes increasingly elusive for Amazon sellers due to rising Amazon fees, leveraging the platform’s various programs strategically has become paramount to maintain probability of one’s business. The FBA Selection Program emerges as a potential lifeline, designed to alleviate financial strain by offering storage fee rebates to sellers meeting specific eligibility criteria. However, can …
Potential in European Marketplaces European E-commerce is growing rapidly! E-commerce in the UK is expected to grow by 10.5% this year [1], France by 7.9%[2], Germany by 12%, Spain by 19% and Italy by 18% [3]. Moreover, the 5 European marketplaces that Amazon currently operates in covers 25% of e-commerce spending in the region [4]. With …
The risks and pitfalls of expanding your Amazon store internationally can be intimidating. Thanks to Amazon’s interconnected global networks, infrastructure and mega branding – the challenges of logistics, customer support and fulfillment have become easier to manage than ever before. With 11 global market places (US, UK, CA and IN all English-based) reaching customers in 180 countries worldwide, embrace the opportunity to expedite your …
Coming in 2nd is worse than finishing last. You have given more effort than the rest, but the result was the same. As sellers, we’d all love to sit on the Buy Box throne, but it isn’t too bad to be second, third or even fourth on Amazon thanks to the More Buying Choices Box …
Rejoice! Amazon has expanded their search term limit from 250 characters (5 lines of 50 each) to 1,000 characters. Working within the confines of a 50 character limit is challenging, and it’s often frustrating to filter out valuable long-tail keywords. However, as they say, “Water is a boon in the desert, but the drowning man …
Exactly five months ago, Amazon began weeding and removing the “Verified Purchase” label from reviews given using free or deeply-discounted promo codes from sellers. Recent policy changes indicate that such reviews are subject to immediate removal. This article takes a closer look at this policy, why these changes were implemented and guidelines to avoid removal of these precious labels from legitimate …
Many Amazon sellers have developed social media marketing strategies to increase traffic to their store. Moreover, utilizing social media allows you to find new customers, and develop brand exposure before they’ve even ‘stepped’ into your store. Pinterest is the third largest social media platform with over 100 million active users per month. Read on to …
+$10 FOR AN ADDITIONAL EUROPEAN MARKETPLACE Are you a multiple European marketplace seller? Have you ever considered expanding to European marketplaces? It is now the time! BQool has now launched a new and better pricing plan for sellers in multiple European marketplaces including UK, FR, DE, IT and ES. In the past few months, we’ve been …
You’ve got a great idea for what you are going to sell, but here comes the next challenge: Where to source the products? Product ideas can be difficult to come by, but coming up with the idea is often less challenging than the sourcing of those products. In recent years, many entrepreneurs look to Asia, …
Discovering a profitable trending product is every sellers’ dream. Those Movers and Shakers can take off in a matter of weeks and generate massive revenues. However, without proper research, haphazardly jumping on the bandwagon to sell trending products will more likely result in getting dragged under the wagon instead. In part 2 of our series, …
Start Sourcing Products to Sell Online Google ‘what to sell on Amazon?’ and you’ll get 185 million hits. Anyone can pay the fees, source inventory, and start selling on Amazon… but not everyone is successful at it. Online sellers have a better chance to profit and satisfy customers when they stock the right products at the …
Heads up! Here are the Amazon holiday sales strategies to help you boost your revenue! During the holiday shopping season, who doesn’t want to increase sales? Learn more about Amazon sales strategies to increase your holiday sales! Create winning strategies and follow these basic guidelines to optimize your inventory levels, pricing strategy and shipping. The first step …
A statistical analysis of the effectiveness of feedback requesting emails from third party service providers on Amazon. There are currently a lot of third party service providers on Amazon featuring automated feedback-request email software. While products might slightly differ between each company, their main idea is similar, which is to take on a proactive approach …