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How to Use Dropshipping for New Product Testing

Using dropshipping to test new products can save your company tons of money in the long run. Keep reading to learn how to get started.

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7 Ways to Completely Revamp Your Amazon Product Listings

Amazon Seller Central can be a challenging platform to get the hang of. What's even more frustrating is that once you finally understand it, you will often still run into issues you would expect Amazon to assist you with (or at least alert you about it). Unfortunately, this is rarely

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How Can Amazon Sellers Build Email Lists to Boost And Have More Control Over Their Sales

According to The Amazing Seller, it’s possible to build an email list with over 7,000 potential buyers in 30 days. If you're asking yourself “Why should I build an email list in the first place?”, there is only one thing we want to recap - thousands and thousands

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How to Drive External Traffic to Your Amazon Store and Product Listings With Influencer Marketing

Do you want to drive more traffic to your Amazon Listings? Well, of course you do… who would ever say they get enough traffic? Today we'll like to guide you through something fun and valuable in terms of boosting your Amazon traffic. We'd bet you haven't tried this before. Why

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Should I Join Amazon Vendor Central?

Amazon Vendor Central is an oft-coveted prize and a feather in your proverbial ecommerce marketplace cap. It is the wholesale side to the 3rd party Seller Central model that has proven so popular in recent years.

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The Hidden Amazon FBA Cost You're Not Even Thinking About

If you are listing your products as FBA there's a high chance that you are either not aware of a hidden cost lurking in the background of your account, or that you simply don't have the time and don't know the process for handling it. Let's shed some light on

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The Essential 5-Step Amazon Listing Optimization Checklist

This article is intended for those who are willing to spend a maximum of 30 minutes optimizing the listing. If you're out of time, feel free to bookmark this page and come back later. Anyone who tells you listing optimization has to be a long game is either lying, or

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Beat the Amazon's Holiday Rush: 5 Tactics for Getting Ahead

A short sprint at the end of the year and Q4 a.k.a. the Holiday season accounts for as much as 40% of annual retail sales, according to the US National Retail Federation. U.S. retail ecommerce spending rose 16.6% to $123.73 billion in 2018. A typical

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Advanced: How to Create Your Own Multi-page Storefront on Amazon (For Free)

We’ve been analyzing a customized Amazon Stores and it works no matter how big or how small your Amazon seller account is. Heck, this Amazon feature was previously only available to manufacturers through Amazon Marketing Service. Since 2018 it's available to third-party sellers in Seller Central. Best of all,

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13+ Websites to Find the non-Chinese Overseas Supplier For Amazon FBA

Trump has recently increased the Tariffs for certain products entering the United States from China, causing quite a stir among the bulk of US marketplace sellers. For this reason, it's a good opportunity to consider sourcing Amazon products from countries other than China. Many sellers have been impacted through these

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Sourcing Amazon Products at the Canton Fair and Other International Trade Shows

After reading this article you'll be able to assess quality of products at the Canton Fair, you'll know why presenting yourself as a direct-to-consumer distributor is better than saying you're an Amazon seller, what questions should you ask potential suppliers and why taking 🤳 selfies is MUST-DO thing. Jumping on a

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Choosing the Right Amazon Business Approach: Stretching Wide vs Going Deep

Which business path to choose? One or multiple products? One or multiple brands? One or multiple niches? Building a business on Amazon is both an art and a science. There's neither a right way or wrong way, especially with multiple business approaches possible. Sellers may wish to choose to focus

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When And How To Hire Additional Talent To Scale Your Amazon Business: Outsourcing Freelance vs In-house Employee

In this guide, we're going to share our key takeaways on how to scale an Amazon business through outsourcing and who to hire for your growing Amazon FBA business, directly from serving literally thousands of Amazon sellers daily. We'll also talk about the pros and cons of outsourcing for Amazon

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Scaling an Amazon FBA Business: Fundamental Elements to Scale From Small Seller to Big Merchants

We have a large range of existing Amazon sellers on board, and a common target is to scale an Amazon business to 7 figures and beyond. In fact, some of our clients have done just this. We’re excited to share this one, as it’s both insightful and aspirational

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Amazon FBA Fees and How FBA Pricing Can Go Wrong!

Fulfillment by Amazon fees can be a moving target, yet are a vital part of the profitability calculation for every successful Amazon seller. The challenging part of this is they can change. These changes are sometimes routine pricing updates on Amazon or updates in the packaging you choose for a

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Amazon Product Listing Optimisation, SEO Tips For PRO Sellers

Launching a new product on Amazon can be intimidating. In the past, Bindwise has provided an overview on ranking a new product, and even mentioned in our most popular article 3 common mistakes majority of Amazon sellers make. It is worth taking a deep dive on what the best Amazon

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Merging Amazon Listings: A white hat technique to reduce blackhat listings

Amazon sellers know that there are numerous techniques to enhance your organic search results. Today we'll explain to you how listing merges can accomplish that goal by cleaning up the catalog. Here at Bindwise, we automatically monitor listing merges daily, so you can keep track of what’s happening with

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What's New In Amazon Advertising in 2019 (Spoiler: Target Specific ASINs of Competitors)

We’ve previously talked about how important advertising is for third-party sellers on Amazon and other platforms. Managing your ads (much like your Amazon business as a whole) is an ever changing process. Amazon changes their processes at their own whim, and it can offer both opportunities to the astute,

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Amazon's Project Zero Will Let Private Label Sellers Remove Fake Product Listings On Their Own

Amazon announced a new initiative today called Project Zero. Essentially, it provides a self-service to brands and private label sellers to remove counterfeit listings. Previously, you first had to report an issue to the Amazon Seller Support. The team would then start the investiagion process and take action. The Project

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Hijacked No More! Amazon Transparency - A New Program Being Used by Top Amazon Sellers

Amazon sellers have long battled counterfeiters within the marketplace. This is an especially important issue for private label sellers that are already part of Amazon Brand Registry. As the marketplace facilitator, rather than direct seller for most items, they certainly have been able to avoid legal liability for these Amazon

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So Your Amazon Seller Account Has Been Suspended

Today we are happy to share an actionable story which we received from one of our Amazon Pro sellers, Chantelle Thomas. Hopefully you'll learn practical things related to seller account suspension. If you have anything to share with the community of sellers feel free to reach out to us, here

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The Amazon Buy Box: Little-Known Factors That Could Affect Your Sales

Amazon is a unique and ever-changing marketplace. While every seller is familiar with the Buy Box, few have a nuanced understanding of it. So we'll tell you 2-3 things you, as a professional Amazon seller, most probably didn't know about the Buy Box. Especially if you're a PL seller or

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What Last-Minute Shoppers Are Adding to Their Wish Lists

Black Firday and Cyber Monday might be over, but that doesn't mean shoppers are taking it easy. We're sharing real-time holiday shopping trends that show how last-minute online buyers are making their final purchases. Teaser: new research shows that holiday shoppers continue to browse and purchase over longer stretches of

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This Holiday Season, Watch For These 3 Growth Tactics For Your Amazon Store

Coupons, Sales and Lightning Deals: Lightning in a Bottle or Lightening the Wallet? As the holiday season comes upon us, every Amazon seller is hoping that fourth-quarter sales are the cherry on top at the end of the year, pushing their business to unseen heights. Hopefully, by this point in

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Latest Research On Online Shopper Behaviour, Explained In 19 Infographics

Shopping across so many categories available on Amazon can be overwhelming for online buyers. In other words, shoppers are going to need as much help as possible, providing brands, merchants and retailers an opportunity to get into the consideration set early on. Customers are doing more research before purchasing. And