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The seller’s guide to Amazon tax issues: VAT requirements and compliance (Part 1/3)
Guest post from Avalara | A three-part series on tax issues and compliance | Part One You can’t do business across the European Union and much of the world without dealing with Value‐Added Tax, or VAT. It’s a legal requirement in the majority of places your organization wants to be, and like pretty much every…
New Seller Central promotion type: The 7-Day Deal
As a seller, you are already making and implementing plans for Q4. Are your promotions ready? And are you taking advantage of all of Amazon’s promotion types? Amazon recently announced a new promotion type for sellers in Seller Central: the 7-Day Deal. This type of deal has several advantages for sellers. What is a 7-Day…
7 reasons to monitor your Amazon reviews
Amazon sellers are busy. Between inventory management, product page optimization and marketing efforts, there’s barely any time to eat or sleep, let alone read product reviews. What many fail to realize, however, is that those customer comments are absolutely vital to the success of any business. This is because they provide valuable insight. From inspiration…
Prime Day 2019 results in wins, with sellers exceeding $2 billion in sales
From Nintendo Switches to robot vacuums and personal water filters, Prime Day 2019 offered customers “the largest shopping event in Amazon history with more than one million deals exclusively for Prime members.” While Amazon has not disclosed any actual sales figures, they have detailed a number of highlights, wins, and top-sellers from across the globe.…
Amazon Q4 2019: Are you prepared?
We are coasting into the last days of summer, the Prime Day rush has subsided, but it’s time to plan ahead. As you start to see hints of fall, you are almost assuredly anticipating the holiday shopping season to come. The fourth quarter of the year begins October 1 and goes through the end of…
Amazon to update terms of services for third-party sellers
Amazon Sellers currently account for nearly 60% off Amazon’s business—no small share when you take into account the more than $230 billion in revenue Amazon posted last year. Selling partners all over the globe will be thrilled to learn of Amazon’s new policies that clarify their rights in an updated terms of service. The changes…
Is it smart to outsource Amazon operations? What to consider before you do
Guest Blog from Connor Gullivan | CMO and co-owner of FreeeUp.com eCommerce has been on a roll for the past few years. With online stores raking in millions of dollars in revenue, it’s no surprise that entrepreneurs everywhere have bitten the bullet and started one themselves. While most eCommerce operations are conducted online, it would…
Avoid suspension: Do your product titles meet Amazon’s standards?
Have you noticed sellers getting “creative” with product titles? It’s tempting to try to stand out from the crowd, with millions of products and items for customers to shop. But starting July 22, 2019, Amazon will suppress ASINs from search results that do not comply with title requirements. According to Amazon, titles that violate the…
Amazon announces Prime Day dates and Prime Exclusive Deals
Prime Day 2019 is quickly approaching. Amazon has announced the long-awaited dates for this year’s epic summer sale as July 15 and 16. The 2019 deals are launching at midnight on July 15 and will continue for 48 hours. For Prime Day in previous years, the longest sales event was 36 hours. Prime Day 2019…
