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Should You Trust a VA to Manage Your Marketplace Listings?
Outsourcing tasks can be a great way to help scale a business, and Virtual Assistants have been ...
Friday October 28, 2022
Amazon Q3 Results Were More about an Uncertain 4th Quarter
Amazon shared its third-quarter financial results on Thursday, but reaction was focused on its bel ...
Wednesday October 26, 2022
Amazon Sellers Delete Posts in Frenzy over Safety Concerns
Amazon sellers are in a frenzy to delete past posts on the discussion boards after learning Amaz ...
Monday October 24, 2022
Reports that Amazon Has Slashed Storage Space for FBA Sellers
Over the past few days, sellers are reporting that Amazon has significantly reduced FBA storage ...
Saturday October 22, 2022
Etsy Sellers Struggle to Understand In-Person Payment Notices
Etsy sellers began receiving strange notices on Tuesday about in-person sales they did not make. E ...
Thursday October 20, 2022
Book Ban: Sellers Panic over Amazon Book Deactivation
A reader tipped us off to panicking sellers who report Amazon has deactivated their listings o ...
Tuesday October 18, 2022
Can You Charge Higher Prices on a Costlier Platform?
Should you be able to charge higher prices on the different channels on which you sell? And if it ...
Monday October 17, 2022
Etsy to Promote Shutterfly to Buyers of Digital Prints
Etsy is running a test with Shutterfly and Printify to promote printing and framing services for p ...
Friday October 14, 2022
Should Etsy Limit These New Features to Top Sellers?
Etsy added live chat support and an auto-reply feature for sellers - but only top sellers enroll ...
Thursday October 13, 2022
What an Etsy Tweet about Candy Dishes Means for Sellers
Etsy posted a tweet today that caught my attention. The tweet included a video showing cute cand ...
Wednesday October 12, 2022
Is Ecommerce Big Enough for both Amazon and TikTok?
Amazon could be facing a threat from a surprising corner: TikTok. According to Axios, TikTok is pl ...
Monday October 10, 2022
ShipStation PayPal Moves USPS Media Mail behind a Link
A report came in this week that shipping solution ShipStation no longer offered USPS Media Mai ...
Friday October 7, 2022
USPS January Rate Hike, Part 1: First Class, Media Mail
The cost of sending packages by Media Mail will rise by an average of 4.4% on January 22, 2023. ...
Monday October 3, 2022
A PayPal Link to a Chinese Website Has Sellers on Edge
An EcommerceBytes reader tipped us off to an issue that has online sellers wondering if PayPal exp ...
Saturday October 1, 2022
Etsy Clarifies New Policy on Returns - Will It Appease Sellers?
Etsy is changing how sellers set return policies, allowing them to set a return policy for each li ...