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6 Ways to Make Money on Amazon
While it may have started as a small website for selling used books, Amazon has quickly become one of the world’s largest retailers. In addition to selling products, Amazon now produces shows and movies and has a stake in the grocery industry. It also owns several companies including Goodreads, IMDB, Zappos, and Whole Foods.
By Craig Middleton6 years ago in Journal
How I Taught Myself to Print Gold and Launch A Jewelry Line
I had no intention of launching a jewelry store. It started off as looking for some side gigs to finance one of my own software engineering projects. I listed myself as available to assist people with their Etsy store on a task by task basis. The idea was to view it as pocket change for projects I was never funding due to it being a "frivolous" pursuit. (I still don't have that rasberry pi that's been sitting in my project bucket list, for example!)
By idrial6 years ago in Journal
How to Customize Your Storefront URL in Amazon Seller Central
Amazon offers an incredible opportunity to reach new markets and increase the visibility of your brand with Amazon Stores. Amazon Stores provide an enhanced brand-centric shopping experience on Amazon in desktop and mobile platforms. The main benefit of Amazon Stores is to provide customized content to potential customers and to introduce prospective customers to your brand.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How to Use The Browse Tree Guide from Amazon Seller Central
The Browse Tree Guides (BTGs) are required to display your products to a particular branch of Amazon product categories. BTG consists of recommended browse nodes. Recommended browse node is the id of amazon’s category branch. You need to include this in product feed to list your product in a particular category of Amazon.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How to Create a Buy One Get One Discount on Shopify
One of the biggest marketing ideas in recent years has been the concept of Buy One Get One or known as BOGO. This can come in a variety of offers from “buy one get one free” to “buy one get one 50% off” or “buy three get one free”. But no matter the variety, they all do one thing very well—they drive sales.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How to Fix Stranded Inventory on Amazon Seller Central
Like cars, your Amazon listings also needs maintenance. From time to time, one or more of your inventory may become Stranded. What it means is that your product will just sit in the warehouse, cost you money, up until you fix the reason on why it was stranded.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How to Give User Permissions on Amazon Seller Central
Giving user permissions in Amazon Seller Central account has never been this easy. We all know that managing a business is tough and at some point, we need a hand. When you first set up your Seller Central account on Amazon, only you can access the account tools and features.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How to Create Amazon Listing Variations – Size & Color
Most of the Amazon sellers sell products with a lot of variety and it's a good thing that Amazon allows listing variations. If you are a new seller on Amazon, there is a lot of things to know. One of this is selling products with a lot of listing variations such as different colors and sizes.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How to Connect Your Existing GoDaddy Domain to Shopify Automatically
As we all know, Shopify is an all-in-one platform for online sellers. You have an option to use buy your own domain name through Shopify. But if you already have purchased a website domain from a different Internet domain registrar (such as GoDaddy for this tutorial), you still are able to transfer your domain and let Shopify host it.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How to Create a Variation from an Existing Listing on Amazon Seller Central
There are no two customers exactly alike, and there will always be different opinions and preferences to attend to. It can present a bit of conundrum for brands in selling the same product to different audiences. Because we all know that when it comes to selling products to Amazon, it’s all about appealing to the customer. This is actually where the Amazon Variation play’s it’s important role and sometimes we forget placing one in our listing .
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
How To Start Your Own Private Label Brand From Scratch
Private labeling has boomed in popularity in recent years because of its profitability and customer advantages. More and more sellers are building their own brands on and off e-commerce marketplaces as a way to differentiate between bigger retailers.
By Seller's Choice6 years ago in Journal
Is Your Story Stuck?
Whether you’re a pantster, a plotter, or you prefer an organic style of writing, you may at some point find your story mired and hopelessly stuck.
By PG Barnett6 years ago in Journal