After beating merchants into submission in requiring product photos to have white backgrounds only, Google is now offering up a new kind of ad that is more Pinterest-style than catalog. The company explained the new ad format, writing, “This week Read more
We’re excited to announce EcommerceBytes 411, a new publication launching in the first week of September 2016 that will cover ecommerce news and analysis for the independent seller. You can sign up now at a special introductory rate of $49/year. Read more
eBay is discontinuing its seller listing tools, it announced as part of the Fall Seller Update. Users will have to migrate to the new Seller Hub by next spring, when eBay will discontinue Turbo Lister, Selling Manager, and Selling Manager Pro. But Read more
eBay is forcing sellers to migrate to its new Seller Hub tool, announcing plans on Tuesday to discontinue its Turbo Lister, Selling Manager, and Selling Manager Pro listing tools by the spring of next year. Not surprisingly, some sellers are Read more
A tool that allowed online sellers to display feedback generated on eBay, Amazon, Etsy in one place is shutting down this weekend. We wrote about eRated.co’s widget two years ago, and in January it received a round of funding ($1.7 million) Read more
If a picture is worth a thousand words, slap a sticker on it. Preferably one that advertises something. That seems to be the trend as more people use social networking sites to share photos and videos. And as brands try Read more
The ecommerce store-hosting service formerly known as Yahoo Stores, aka Aabaco, published a refresher for storeowners on the new features it has added this year. More accurately, Yahoo’s Aabaco Small Business unit, which provides additional services in addition to its Stores platform, Read more
Need a way to keep track of income and expenses for tax time? Etsy is now integrated with Intuit QuickBooks Self-Employed and it has partnered with the company to offer discounts to sellers who want to subscribe to the service. Read more
It’s not easy to shop the storefronts of Paris, France, if you’re at home in Paris, Kentucky. For people who really want something they saw on a store shelf during a trip abroad, the creators of the iOS app Grabr hope to Read more
While many inventory-management tools are hosted on the web, plenty of small eBay sellers like to have a tool on their desktop for managing listings. GarageSale is one of the few such tools for Mac users, and it recently got Read more
