Whether You Can Afford the Tools by Carlos Alvarez

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. Hey, what’s up? This is Carlos from Bluebird Marketing Solutions and the Wizards of Amazon and my tip for you today is has to do with tools and how you decide whether you can afford that tool. […]

Online Grocery Shopping

Here is some insighful data about consumers and online grocery shopping. Coresight Research released its “US Online Grocery Survey 2019”, finding that 36.8 % of United States consumers bought groceries online over the year, which is a jump of 23.1 percent from 2018 survey. This is an increase of roughly 35 million more consumers buying groceries online. When […]

Where to Get Free Shipping Supplies

Did you know that you can get shipping supplies for free? The tip I am about to share with you will be especially helpful to small size businesses. Not many ecommerce entrepreneurs know that many shipping supplies like envelopes, boxes, shipping labels and packing materials you can get for free. Let’s start with USPS who offers free Priority […]

Online Spending: Show Me the Money

Online spending represented 16.0% of total retail sales for the year, according to the United States Commerce Department retail data. Amazon.com accounted for more than 1/3 of all ecommerce in the United States.Consumers spent $601.75 billion online with U.S. merchants in 2019, up 14.9% from $523.64 billion the prior year. That was a higher growth rate than 2018, […]

How to Establish Wholesale Accounts by Ramon Gonzales

Hello my name is Ramon Gonzalez, and I’m an amazon seller who has been selling since 2015. the main business model I follow is the wholesale model. For those of you that dont know what the wholesale model is, I essentially buy branded products at wholesale prices, and I sell in Amazon at retail prices. Think buying Barbies […]

Facebook Messenger Stats for Ecommerce Sellers

Here are some interesting stats about Facebook messengers and why Ecommerce sellers need to pay close attention to them. Did you know that Facebook is the most popular mobile app? Well, do you know what is the second most popular app? Facebook messenger. There are 1.3 billion people / month who are actively using their Facebook Messenger. Facebook […]

Why Offering Free Shipping is So Important

Hi, this is Galyna Parker from Ecommerce Brief and this is my expert tip. Did you know that Free shipping is one of the most important conversion factors for online shoppers? It has been proven by multiple studies that look at the bvehaviour of online shoppers. Product price in general is the main conversion factor for the majority […]

Product Reviews and Ratings

56% of online consumers say they always look at ratings and reviews and usually base their purchases on them. 41% say they sometimes look at reviews and only 3% say they never look at reviews. These stats are provided by a Digital Commerce 360/Bizrate Insights consumer survey. So to put it in other words, online sellers should pay […]

How to Get More Amazon Product Reviews

Hello! This is Galyna Parker from Ecommerce Brief. And this is a tip about how to get more Amazon product reviews. Did you know that only 2-5% of buyers actually leave product reviews? Which is why its important to follow up with them and ask if they are happy with their product. If you are selling on Amazon […]

What are Popular Stay-at-Home Activities

New consumer survey from Comscore has revealed the list of the most popular stay-at-home activities during COVID-19 quarantine. I wanted to share about the activities that have a significant surge in younger age group (18 to 34 years old). While you may guess that watching TV and playing video games is among them, I wanted to mentioned the […]

Purging a List by Carlos Alvarez

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. Hey, what’s up? This is Carlos from wizardsofamazon.com and bluebirdmarketingsolutions.com . And my tip today has to do with purging your lists. I’m a huge fan of email marketing, yes email marketing, email is not dead. But whether were talking […]

Tips on Diversification in Ecommerce by Alex Leal

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. For this series of podcast episodes I interviewed Alex Leal, a very experienced ecommerce seller who specializes in selling on different platforms including a very big Latin online marketplace.To watch the video recording of the interview, please […]

Signing Exclusivity Contracts with Brands by Alex Leal

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. For this series of podcast episodes I interviewed Alex Leal, a very experienced ecommerce seller who specializes in selling on different platforms including a very big Latin online marketplace.To watch the video recording of the interview, please […]

Tips on Selling Health Supplements on Amazon by Alex Leal

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. For this series of podcast episodes I interviewed Alex Leal, a very experienced ecommerce seller who specializes in selling on different platforms including a very big Latin online marketplace.To watch the video recording of the interview, please […]

Tips on Selling on Mercado Libre by Alex Leal

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. For this series of podcast episodes I interviewed Alex Leal, a very experienced ecommerce seller who specializes in selling on different platforms including a very big Latin online marketplace.To watch the video recording of the interview, please […]

Bye Jet, its Been a Short Flight

Big news in retail industry: Jet.com is officially no more. Launched in 2015 by Marc Lore (who had previously sold Diapers.com to Amazon) and then bought by Walmart a year later for $3 billion cash in 2016. Jet has existed for only 5 years. In their very short email note to their customers, Jet addressed this with the […]

One Approach for Sourcing PL Product by Carlos Alvarez

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. Hey what’s up everybody this is Carlos from wizardsofamazon.com and bluebirdmarketingsolutions.com and my tip for you today has to do with one approach for sourcing private label product or sourcing something you’d like to get in to sell private label. And […]

Personalization in Ecommerce

Let’s talk about personalization is ecommerce. Personalization can be tricky. Some people freak out by the fact of how much advertisers “know” about them and their internet searches. Some find it very useful. But no matter how you feel about it, personalization is the key to ecommerce success. The truth is: Shoppers hate irrelevant content. 74% of consumers […]

Best Amazon Product Images Practices

Hi guys! Galyna Parker from Ecommerce Brief is here and this is my tip about Amazon product images.Did you know that it has been proven that absolute majority of consumers are basing their purchase decision on product’s photographs? Amazon allows up to 7 images in its product listings, and its a very valuable space on products page that […]

Amazon Testing New Feature on Product Pages

Amazon has been testing out new feature on their product listings. Now instead of showing products Brand name right under the product title, there is a prefix to each name. For example, lets call our brand ABC. If ABC brand has an Amazon store, the link will be displayed before the title and will say: Visit the ABC […]

A Recent Increase in Negative Amazon Reviews

Marketplace Pulse, an ecommerce intelligence firm which is collecting data about Amazon and their sellers, has revealed some information about Amazon shoppers behavior during COVID-19 quarantine. Over the past thirty days, Amazon buyers have left about a million negative reviews about sellers. This is more than two times over the usual amount. Buyers have been unhappy for the […]

Instagram and Ecommerce Data

Unless you have been living under the rock, you probably have heard of photo and video sharing app Instagram which was aquired by Facebook for $1 billion in 2012. And you probably don’t need me to tell you that Instagram is not just for sharing pictures of avocado toasts and beautiful ocean sunsets. Although both of those Are […]

From Googling to Buying

The average amount of time between a Google product search and a purchase is 20 days and about 1/3rd of Google product searches turn into transactions within 5 days. This is according to Jumpshot’s Competitive State of eCommerce Marketplaces Q2 2018 Data report.

Amazon Launches COVID-19 Store

Amazon Business have launched a special webpage on Amazon.com that lists COVID-19 related health products for sale such as masks, gloves, thermometers and hand sanitizer. So far as of today there are only a little over a hundred product listings, many by major brands like Purell, and many products are out of stock. Earlier in the beginning of […]

Taxes for Ecommerce Sellers by Yamaris Diaz

Please note that the transcription below is automated and may contain errors. Please listen to the audio episode for correct text. Hi my name is Yamaris Diaz. I’m CPA from ecomowl. And I’m going share tip with you today about tax planning. So my main tip for sellers will be to not wait until January or the end […]

Ecommerce Shopping by Generations

Here is some interesting data on which age groups prefer to shop online. This is breakdown on ecommerce shopping by buyers age groups According to Statista: 67% of Millenials (or so called Generation Y) who were born from 1979 to year 2000, prefer to shop online56% of Generation X (born in 60s and 70s) prefer to shop online41% […]

Make Your Product Standout by Utilizing Seasonality

Hello this is Galyna Parker from Seller Toolset and this is my advice on how to utilize producs seasonality even if your product is ever-green and usually sells all year long. First, I would like to define seasonality in the respect of product marketing.When we are talking about retail products, Seasonality has much broader definition that simply four […]

Amazon Now Makes Video Calls to New Sellers

Amazon is trying out new ways to screen new third-party sellers who wants to sell on their platform by making a personal contact with each new seller. Initially such meetings took place in person with Amazon employees. But with the COVID-19 pandemic the process transformed onto video calling. These are welcome news for most Amazon sellers who are […]