Amazon issued a press release on Tuesday announcing it had found 50 ways to help its sellers this year. The marketplace said it had launched new tools and services to help small and medium-sized businesses succeed in selling their products Read more
eBay launched a “Spring Black Friday” shopping event, but of course it’s limited to its eBay Deals site, since it has no way for third-party sellers to participate outside of the eBay Deals platform. Just like the traditional Black Friday Read more
eBay launched a seller program called eBay UpFront, which are 3-hour meetups in select cities where employees meet with sellers and help them network with each other. eBay held the first eBay UpFront meetup in Miami, Florida on March 28th. Read more
Amazon launched its ad program in Australia, and it’s not just for online merchants – brands can advertise through the program even if they don’t sell on the marketplace. Amazon Advertising offers display ads and video ads, and advertisers can Read more
President Trump called for a crackdown on marketplaces this week, but European regulators have been trying to go much further, with a focus on protecting sellers rather than brands. The President, who is familiar with Intellectual Property issues through his Read more
What are sellers talking about this week? We pulled out a few topics from the Amazon discussion boards in today’s column. Amazon sellers are discussing changes to the Order Detail page. Change for the sake of change? Or is it Read more
President Trump is putting ecommerce companies and shipping carriers on notice with the signing of a Presidential Memorandum on Combating Trafficking in Counterfeit and Pirated Goods today. The President called out third-party marketplaces in citing the dangers and negative effects Read more
eBay acquired comparison-shopping engine Shopping.com in 2005 for over $620 million and built an ad platform around it called eBay Commerce Network (ECN). eBay is now shutting down the ad network and is parking Shopping.com while it decides what to Read more
Amazon brought some of the people handling sellers’ packages to Capitol Hill last week. Amazon Fulfillment Center associates met with over 20 members of Congress. According to @AmazonNews, lawmakers “heard directly from Amazonians about their work experience and Amazon’s investment Read more
Newegg is holding a seller summit in London in June with a focus on cross-border selling and catering to UK and EU companies wanting to sell into the US. The Seller Summit will examine how changes in global consumer behaviors Read more
