Author: Ina Steiner

Ina Steiner is co-founder and Editor of EcommerceBytes and has been reporting on ecommerce since 1999. She's a widely cited authority on marketplace selling and is author of "Turn eBay Data Into Dollars" (McGraw-Hill 2006). Her blog was featured in the book, "Blogging Heroes" (Wiley 2008). She is a member of the Online News Association (Sep 2005 - present) and Investigative Reporters and Editors (Mar 2006 - present). Follow her on Twitter at @ecommercebytes and send news tips to ina@ecommercebytes.com. See disclosure at EcommerceBytes.com/disclosure/.

Etsy Wants to Fill Instagram with Shop Love on February 8th

February 5, 2018 Ina Steiner

Etsy wants sellers to telegram their shop love on Instagram on February 8th. Etsy is asking sellers to participate in a new Instagram marketing campaign as part of a #LoveYourShopSweeps sweepstakes. Sellers who promote their own shop and another seller’s Read more

Amazon Invests in the Czech Republic

February 5, 2018 Ina Steiner

Amazon issued a press release to tout its investments in the Czech Republic. It said it has already created over 4,500 permanent jobs in its logistics operations in Dobrovíz and corporate office in Prague-Dejvice, and in 2018, it will create Read more

eBay Tool Inkfrog Is Working to Fix Legacy Software

February 4, 2018February 5, 2018 Ina Steiner

InkFrog co-founder and CEO Greg Sisung responded to reports of a problem with its legacy software, urging customers to move to its new platform after reports came in on Ecommerce EKG about the “classic” version being inaccessible for several days. Read more

Amazon Kicks Off Small Business Training Program in UK

February 4, 2018February 4, 2018 Ina Steiner

Amazon UK kicked off registration for its first Amazon Academy event of the year. The program is designed to help small businesses (SMEs) in the UK boost their exports. The first event will take place in Glasgow in April. Amazon Read more

Amazon Grows Sales 36 Percent in Fourth Quarter

February 1, 2018 Ina Steiner

Amazon grew sales 36 percent in the fourth quarter of 2017 on a foreign-exchange neutral basis (that number includes all of its businesses including its AWS web-hosting business, of course). It was a profitable quarter for the company: net income Read more

eBay Tests Off-Site Shopping (Again) with New Partnership

February 1, 2018 Ina Steiner

You can shop eBay items while staying on Mashable thanks to a new partnership announced this week. eBay partnered with content site Mashable to create “shoppable” images on Mashable sites in the US and UK. eBay has tried in the Read more

eBay Removes a Barrier to Guaranteed Delivery

February 1, 2018 Ina Steiner

eBay is no longer requiring that sellers use its own shipping label program in order to opt in to the Guaranteed Delivery program, which helps buyers find items that ship quickly and is backed up by a guarantee, as the Read more

eBay Grows GMV 7 Percent in Fourth Quarter

January 31, 2018 Ina Steiner

eBay grew GMV 7 percent year-over-year in the fourth quarter of 2017 on a foreign-exchange neutral basis. Eclipsing the news was eBay’s bombshell announcement that it will become a payments intermediary, as terms of its operating agreements entered into with Read more

Volusion Lets Sellers Accept Apple Pay Payments

January 31, 2018 Ina Steiner

Volusion has integrated with Apple Pay, allowing merchants on its ecommerce platform to accept the payment method for transactions. Press release follows: Volusion, the only all-in-one e-commerce platform on the market built specifically for the needs of small businesses, today Read more

eBay Issues Tax Warning to UK Sellers

January 31, 2018 Ina Steiner

eBay issued a warning to UK sellers advising them to comply with Value Added Tax (VAT) obligations. The company said it works with the country’s tax agency HMRC on preventing tax evasion, and said it would take action against sellers Read more