Payability gives online sellers quicker access to revenues they’ve earned from Amazon, and now it’s expanded Instant Advance Financing to additional marketplaces – Newegg, Tophatter, Walmart, and Jet.com. The service lets sellers reinvest in inventory to drive more sales without Read more
Volusion released a list of the top-ten cities for small sellers – and one state hit the jackpot, hosting 3 cities on the list: Florida. Ecommerce platform Volusion is based in Texas hosts 30,000 online stores; it found the Health Read more
Webgility partnered with Stamps.com to offer online merchants discounted shipping from the US Postal Service. Webgility customers will have access to USPS Commercial Plus Pricing rates for qualified USPS shipments using Stamps.com, a savings of up to 40%. Press release Read more
Expect more competition from China on Google Shopping thanks to a new deal announced on Monday. Google is investing in Alibaba rival JD.com, China’s second largest ecommerce player. “As part of our partnership,” Google wrote, “JD.com will also join Google Read more
eBay has a new tool to help sellers compete in the new product-based shopping experience it’s rolling out (PBSE, as eBay calls its Amazon-like catalog approach). However, it’s only available to select sellers through a limited number of eBay partners. Read more
Facebook has two programs that small businesses can use to improve their digital marketing skills. The company made a pledge to help the US workforce in a June 8, 2018 blog post titled, “Training 1 Million People and Small Business Read more
BQool launched a new chrome extension for its product-research tool BigTracker. When users search Amazon for a particular product, the BigTracker extension aggregates all of the results on a single page, displaying the Buy Box price, Sales Rank, Estimated Sales, Read more
For the many sellers who use WordPress to host their websites, there’s now BigCommerce for WordPress. BigCommerce launched its first “Commerce-as-a-Service” offering – meaning sellers don’t have to host their product catalog on their own servers. As a spokesperson explained, Read more
PayPal has acquired Jetlore, an ecommerce service that helps retailers offer personalized search results using “Predictive Ranking,” which matches each customer’s unique preferences directly to inventory in real time. The acquisition is an effort to grow PayPal Marketing Solutions, which Read more
For ecommerce pros, fine-tuning their marketing provides a method of evening the playing field. But sometimes SMB sellers do a little too much. EcommerceBytes and Privy CEO Ben Jabbawy discussed the perils of potential over-optimization. “Over-optimization can easily lead to Read more
