Inflation and recession are words you hear a lot these days, and large corporations are making headlines with cost-cutting initiatives and layoffs. But are online sellers paying attention when it comes to their own businesses? Eric Youngstrom, founder and CEO Read more
Shopify launched a marketing tool in May to help its merchants improve the effectiveness of their advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Unlike marketplaces like eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, merchants who set up a store on Shopify’s ecommerce platform must drive Read more
BigCommerce is laying off workers and cutting costs as it pushes to reach breakeven by the end of 2023. The ecommerce platform will reduce its workforce by approximately 13% across employees and contractors, it announced on Thursday. BigCommerce rival Shopify Read more
What if taking product photos and videos for product listings were as easy as using a photocopy machine? That’s the premise of a new offering from longtime photo solutions company Ortery. Ten years ago, Ortery Managing Director Sam Shearer gave Read more
GoDaddy launched a solution to make it easy for sellers to create a WordPress store through its Managed WooCommerce Stores solution, reducing the number of plugins required to run their shop. A spokesperson for GoDaddy said traditionally, WordPress requires entrepreneurs Read more
Online sellers who use ShipStation’s shipping solutions can now import customer information into Constant Contact through a new partnership between the two companies. After syncing customers’ information, sellers can use Constant Contact to market to their customers in the hopes Read more
Facebook updated its self-serve advertising terms to give itself greater leeway in running tests on all aspects of the ads run on its network. The new terms take effect in January and spell out Facebook’s rights to run tests to Read more
Amazon introduced a tool last fall called Product Opportunity Explorer in beta, and it made it available to all sellers in June. The idea behind it is to point Amazon’s army of sellers to ways they can fill unmet customer Read more
Ecommerce platform Shopify launched a tool to help merchants manage their sales-tax collection obligations – and the company said it was just the beginning. Its long-term goal is to build a complete end-to-end sales-tax solution for sellers. A spokesperson for Read more
If yesterday’s news from Amazon’s seller conference seemed all about brands, regular sellers got some good news on day-two of Amazon Accelerate – including faster payouts and free access to multichannel shipping software from a service that previously cost $450/month. Read more
