Amazon, Shopify and others are feeling the sting of slower online sales in early 2022. That’s likely transitory as physical and online retail rebalance for what could be a long recovery. Even as social sites are leveraged by more sellers as sales channels and under dour stock market news, marketplaces are thriving, and their business…
Read moreDon’t put all your eggs in one basket. Diversify — yes, it’s good investment advice. And it’s also sound strategy for online sellers, who have to compete for share of consumers’ eyeballs, minds and wallets. Those smaller companies jockey against one another for sales, and if they’re not already on Amazon, they compete with Amazon…
Read more“The more you know, the less you need.”― Yvon Chouinard, Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman In a design patent application, “the subject matter which is claimed is the design embodied in or applied to an article of manufacture (or portion thereof) and not the article itself.” United States Patent and…
Read moreAn online petition started by Etsy (ETSY) shop owner Kristi Cassidy urging the company to cancel the fee increases — which tick up from 5% to 6.5% starting Monday — has garnered nearly 50,000 signatures. Of those signatories, some 18,500 come from people who have identified as Etsy sellers who support the strike, according to…
Read moreA New Jersey man and two New York men pleaded guilty yesterday to fixing the prices of DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs sold on the Amazon Marketplace. According to court documents filed in Knoxville, Tennessee, Morris Sutton, Emmanuel Hourizadeh and Raymond Nouvahian were charged with conspiring with others to fix prices of DVDs and Blu-Ray Discs…
Read moreNEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Prizeout Corp. (Prizeout), a performance-based ad-tech company that connects customers withdrawing money with brands looking to capture their spend, announced today their partnership with SidelineSwap, the largest online direct-to-consumer resale marketplace for new and used sporting goods. Through this partnership, SidelineSwap sellers can use Prizeout’s platform to withdraw the money they’ve earned from…
Read moreA bipartisan group of U.S. senators announced Thursday they were introducing additional legislation targeting platforms like Amazon’s marketplace amid news reports that say Amazon swipes product information from sellers to bolster its own brands, then favors those Amazon-branded products in search results. The lawmakers, including Sens. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., and Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, plan to…
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