Shoppers have been experiencing problems when trying to pay for items on Etsy using its Direct Checkout system since Friday, July 1st. An Etsy engineer blamed the problem on a third-party and in posts throughout the weekend said it was Read more
Walmart hosted 450 business owners at its company headquarters as part of its “Made in the USA” initiative as it looks to stock shelves with products made in the US. The company told attendees that it was telling the “Made Read more
Amazon is holding its second Prime Day shopping event on July 12th, it announced on Thursday, and it’s likely to generate not only more sales, but more Prime members – and more people walking around with the Amazon shopping app Read more
Etsy sellers now have the potential to earn extra revenue by promoting listings of other sellers. Etsy has opened up its affiliate program to sellers, offering a standard commission rate of 4% with a 30-day cookie period. (Cookies help track Read more
eBay published a post on Thursday about an initiative to make its site more mobile friendly, but it failed to explain how it might impact sellers and their listings. We reached out to eBay but did not receive a response Read more
Bonanza is giving sellers a powerful marketing tool that will help them reach shoppers. Conventional wisdom says it’s more effective to get an existing customer to buy from you again than to acquire a new customer, and Bonanza appears to Read more
eBay will let a rival company approach its sellers and make formal cash offers for their goods. Sound strange? The pilot program is the brainchild of eBay Motors and a used-car site called Vroom. eBay is giving Vroom access to Read more
Anyone who has a following can become an affiliate marketer to generate extra revenue, and usually it involves trackable URLs. eBay’s affiliate program, called EPN (eBay Partner Network), launched a new tool to make it easier for members to create Read more
All attention is focused on the upcoming Amazon Prime Day shopping event, but it appears Walmart has a few surprises up its sleeve so as not to be outdone. “As we celebrate Independence Day and the weeks that follow, we Read more
The recent Internet Retailer Conference in Chicago was the first for Bonanza CEO Bill Harding, who flew from his company’s headquarters in Seattle to attend the show and, as he put it, “get the lay of the land.” It was Read more
