Amazon kicked off the holiday shopping season today, November 1, 2017, by opening its Black Friday Deals store. It also announced its 2017 Holiday Gift Guides, including the new Business Gift Guide by Amazon Business, the Amazon Handmade Gift Shop, Read more
eBay is kicking off a “First Minute Holiday Shopping” marketing campaign today, November 1, 2017. It’s promoting deals and price-matching from pre-approved merchants, as well as focusing on fast delivery. eBay is introducing five new marketing spots “spotlighting how early Read more
eBay promised to protect the accounts of sellers located in the Northeast who were impacted by storms Sunday and Monday that took down power for 1 million utility customers. As of Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 31, over 600,000 customers remained without Read more
eBay announced it has added category filters to its Watch List feature, which lets shoppers add items to a list for future reference when they don’t wish to purchase them right away. The new feature lets shoppers filter their Watch Read more
Consumers are more confident this year, and all signs point to a busy holiday season, according to NRF CEO Matthew Shay. The National Retail Federation closely tracks consumer shopping trends for both online and offline commerce and recently released the Read more
Amazon will open a new fulfillment center in Macon, Georgia, which will be the fourth such facility in the state. The more than 1,000,000-square-foot facility will fulfill large-sized items including household furniture, sporting equipment and gardening tools. Press release follows: Read more
eBay has built an entire marketing campaign around the boxes sent to its customers with the Fill Your Cart with Color campaign. But it has no control over the packaging sellers use to send eBay orders (and every day there Read more
eBay just launched a suite of tools for its marketing affiliates that make it easier for them to include tracking links and even lets them conduct retargeting. The new tools include Smart Placements that identify visitors and update items displayed Read more
Etsy is looking to facilitate more Forums discussions and is surveying sellers on how it can improve the boards where users gather to ask and answer questions, learn about site changes, and chat. Etsy wanted to know if participants believed Read more
Amazon is opening a new fulfillment center in Canada. The 600,000 square-foot warehouse in the Calgary area is the first in Alberta and will fulfill items “ranging from aviator sunglasses to zebra costumes.” It joins 6 other fulfillment centers in Read more
