Amazon vowed to hold another Prime Day after calling last year’s July 15th shopping event a success. Amazon sold more units on Prime Day than Black Friday 2014, and worldwide order growth increased 266% over the same day in 2014 Read more
Amazon will host its second “Prime Day” shopping event in mid-July, and if last year is any indication, sellers should be prepared for a shopping frenzy. It’s too late to submit deals to Amazon for consideration – sellers had until Read more
eBay urged sellers to continue selling in Canada as a postal disruption looms, telling them on Friday that there was no need to put their Stores on vacation hold or to end their listings. But eBay sellers reacting in the Read more
Online sellers in the UK, EU, and beyond are wondering what the impact of a non-EU United Kingdom would be on their businesses. Thursday’s historic “Brexit” vote took many by surprise and leaves much uncertainty about the future of trade Read more
Brexit is now close to reality, and online sellers wonder what impact it will have on their businesses. The people of the UK voted on Thursday to exit the European Union, which is a group of 28 countries that work Read more
The eBay Shine Awards features three finalists up for recognition in the Global Business category. These sellers engage in international ecommerce, a challenging endeavor at best, and have excelled. Sellers Schad VanLeeuwen, Neha Gajwani, and Jalmar Araujo are the trio contending for honors. EcommerceBytes reached out Read more
eBay announced it is now using 16 different social channels to distribute content, and it’s also running ads in a brand new format called the “branded podcast” – podcasts featuring stories that sound like journalism but are produced at the Read more
AbeBooks.com is celebrating its 20th anniversary this month. Founded in Victoria, British Columbia in Canada in 1996, it was acquired by Amazon in December 2008, but its site remains independently run. Spokesperson Richard Davies told us this month the site Read more
Etsy is making two changes to search. In one change, visitors can no longer click on a link to a seller’s Shop when viewing search results – instead, clicking on a Shop name in a listing in search results will Read more
Last year’s inaugural Amazon Prime Day broke global records, with unit sales exceeding 2014’s Black Friday holiday-shopping day. Amazon confirmed it will hold the event again, and although our contact wouldn’t confirm the date, Amazon has told sellers it will Read more
