Celebrating Mother’s Day can be a challenge when your Mom is an online seller, spending her days running from the computer to her camera to the printer to that pile of shipping boxes and back again. If your Mom is running an online business, here are some tips on how to share (and survive) Mother’s [...]

Amazon’s Seller Discussion forum had a flurry of activity last week after the online retail giant sent out an email to its sellers informing them about the new Virtual Account Manager (VAM) program. While most sellers pondered what the cryptic email actually meant, others commented that they were experiencing a feeling of dread over the [...]

If you’re like most sellers, you probably spend a lot of time Tweeting on Twitter, posting on Facebook, and linking (or rather networking) on LinkedIn, but have you ever wondered if your getting the most you can out of spending all that time posting and commenting on these social media websites? As you probably already [...]

Some say this March wasn’t a great month for Amazon. First they were sued for withholding money from seller’s accounts, then eBay came out with guns blazing by introducing a new seller fee structure, then as the month drew to an end, the New York Court of Appeals rejected arguments from Amazon and Overstock.com that [...]

In Canada, as of March 31 it was “Bye-bye, eBay Bucks” because eBay discontinued the eBay Bucks rewards program on eBay.ca. Ryan Moore, an eBay spokesperson stated that this will not affect the eBay Bucks program in the United States. eBay has been somewhat vague about what drove them to this decision, but a statement [...]

When a seller first decides to start a e-commerce business, one of the first things they need to do is find a niche. That is not always easy as it sounds, but fotunately, there are some ideas you can use to help you decide. First,consider the old adage “do what you love and the money [...]

    If you have recently gotten a little lazy about how you ship your items to Amazon’s warehouses, you might want to listen up. Amazon announced this week that it is about to start slapping the wrists of Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) sellers who don’t follow the shipping rules, by imposing a fee for labeling, [...]