In Part Three of our interview with Amazon Marketplace Vice President Peter Faricy, he discussed solutions for third-party merchants and the outlook for holiday sales. In Part One, Faricy discussed how for the first time sellers can showcase their products Read more
Amazon.com has invited thousands of third-party merchants to participate in its high-traffic holiday-deals promotions for the first time this year. Vice President of Amazon Marketplace Peter Faricy told EcommerceBytes that sellers have been invited to participate in many of the Read more
Mitchell Harper is co-CEO of Bigcommerce. In today’s guest column, he provides tips on putting the human element back into online commerce, a strategy he calls Personal Commerce. Has ecommerce gone too far in eliminating the middleman? The recent trend Read more
eBay is running a promotion for UK sellers. Sellers registered on eBay.co.uk as business sellers must sign up for the promotion in order to participate – if they were invited and sign up, they will receive free listings on up Read more
Remember eBay’s past attempts to bring buyers and sellers of services together? It hasn’t had a lot of success in that area, but as reported in July, eBay is at it again with a pilot program in the UK, and now it’s Read more
Billie Carnes had been selling vintage items through Fab.com for about 10 months when she received notice from the company in October that the category had been terminated, and that her upcoming sale was cancelled. “I was absolutely blindsided,” Carnes Read more
The appeal of Etsy and its approach to connecting handmade goods makers and vintage sellers with the buying public has attained a global reach. A recent change to Etsy’s listings now makes many more of those items visible in multiple Read more
Like death and taxes, annual rate hikes from shipping carriers are a certainty – the only positive thing about them is that they occur after the holiday shopping season. This week, the other shoe dropped from the US Postal Service Read more
One would hardly expect Google to think of anything as too much when it comes to search advertising. After all, those humble contextual text ads emanating from its AdWords program have made Google a multi-billion dollar firm and a household Read more
A number of companies that were set up to help online merchants through the use of data-driven services have received funding lately, proving that ecommerce is not immune from the “big data” craze. One such company, Channel IQ, is developing Read more
