For years, Amazon sellers have relied heavily on goods from China, basing their margins on the low cost of manufacturing and anticipating profits based on selling at a high volume at competitive prices. The supply chain difficulties triggered by the 2020 pandemic challenged this model. …

This weekend I stumbled across an editorial titled, “What You Don’t Know About Amazon” in the New York Times. The article starts with a story of an Amazon customer who received a defective product and struggled to get compensation for serious harm because it was purchased from a third-party (3P)…

On April 28th, 2022, a change in Amazon FBA fees went into effect, adding a 5% fuel and inflation surcharge to FBA fulfillment per unit rates. What does this mean for sellers? Amazon FBA Fees: Why Are They Increasing? The surcharge is not a 5% increase for sellers on Amazon across the board. It’s an additional fee…

The Multitudinous Expanse of Amazon Brands During the pandemic, budding entrepreneurs thrived on Amazon. Consumers flooded online marketplaces looking for a safe way to shop for necessary goods and morale boosters alike, making e-commerce surge. For sellers, the ability to rent Amazon’s high-traffic marketplace and robust fulfillment infrastructure gave small business owners with limited capital the…

Taylor Smits, co-founder of the largest Amazon prep and e-commerce fulfillment network in the United States, shares his thoughts on the technology need for supply chain optimization and the e-commerce trends dominating today’s marketplace. — - It goes without saying the last two years of e-commerce trends have been marked…

If you want growth on Amazon, you need to understand which ACOS Amazon metrics to track to improve ranking, impressions, page views, sessions, and ultimately, sales. Advertising cost of sale, or ACOS, is one of the most commonly used measures of success for Amazon marketing success, but it is far…

Your consumer arrives at Amazon.com with intent to fill a need. They want to know what you can do to solve their problem. A click in the search bar and a few strokes of the keys, and they’ve described exactly what they’re looking for. They are presented with a carefully…

Prime Day 2022 is coming. Whether you are a private label selling your own product, a third-party (3P) seller, or even a wholesale seller buying products from a brand you don’t own to sell on Amazon, the most important thing you can do in preparation for Amazon Prime Day 2022…

Your products have been selling alright, but not at the velocity you know they’re capable of. The listing describes the product, has plenty of keywords, and the imagery looks great. Large efforts were applied to make it a great listing initially, but results have since faded from great to good…or…