Think you have no chance of success on Amazon if you don’t run a full-time business? Good news: Over half of Amazon sellers run their business part-time—and 37% have full-time jobs. Maybe you want to build an online store that eventually frees you from your 9–5. Maybe you could really use a second income right […]
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Whether or not you like to read what people think of your products or services, consumers do. Nearly all American consumers, anyway — even when they’re shopping online. In 2018, a study by Power Reviews reported that 26% “consult reviews for every purchase they make online. That number jumps to 30% for consumers age 18–44.”
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Before your product listings can sell on eBay, people need to be able to find them. That’s where eBay SEO can help. SEO, which stands for search engine optimization, is the practice of making your listings more appealing to the algorithms that determine which pages show up in search results. Google is the most famous
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We’ve always known product reviews are important for building customers’ trust, but research shows they’re now more important than ever. 81% of consumers say a company’s trustworthiness matters more in 2020 than it did in 2019. To build shoppers’ trust, they need to be able to findall those great product reviews you have lurking on
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In a 2018 report, Adthena discovered that Google Shopping ads drove 76.4 percent of retail search ad spend. With that in mind, here’s some good news: On April 21st, 2020, Google made Google Shopping free for merchants in the U.S. in response to COVID-19, and by mid-October of 2020, Google finally opened Google Shopping to
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Seventy-two percent of consumers use voice search through personal digital assistants, and 25% of consumers have made a purchase using a digital assistant. The latter may seem like a small number in the grand scheme of all that ecommerce has to offer, but it shows a trend of voice commerce adoption among the global community.
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An eMarketer survey found that ad spend on ecommerce is up nearly 40% since 2019 in the wake of the pandemic. Numbers don’t lie; everyone, including you, is fighting for consumer attention by investing more time and money. However, with new ecommerce stores being established every day comes more competition. So, how can you stay
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About two years ago, a Google executive used Google Shopping to look for a high-end Bluetooth headset. He found one merchant offering the product for much less than any of the other retailers, so he snatched it up. His delivery day came and went, and the product never arrived. He called customer service, but the
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Nate and Alysha Jackson used to be full-time public school teachers. Then they decided to start a side hustle with retail arbitrage on Amazon. They took $100, purchased items on clearance, and sold them on Amazon for a profit. And they kept on doing it. All their free time—weekends, days off, before school, and after
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You’ve built a product that makes you proud. You’ve set up your business and launched your Etsy store, and your garage is full of items waiting to be sold. And then you realize you’re one of the 2.5+ million sellers on Etsy. Buyers not only need a reason to buy from you; they also need
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