Happy New Year, your costs are going up. One example of the many increases that are hitting small businesses: the Postal Service is raising fees for renting a PO box this month. The USPS sent a reminder to box holders Read more
UPS boasted it beat its rivals in on-time delivery over the 2022 holiday season, and it wants to recognize employees who provided great service. UPS said it led the industry in on-time performance in the US for the fifth straight Read more
Products from third-party sellers represent almost 60% of the units sold on Amazon, and of the nearly 2 million sellers that do business on the platform, most of them are small or medium-sized. In the US, sellers sold over 3.9 Read more
Returns are painful for online sellers, but one company sees them as an opportunity. Delivery service DoorDash announced Package Pickup that caters to shoppers who can’t or don’t want to make a trip to the Post Office or UPS/FedEx to Read more
eBay will offer advice to sellers on growing their sales in the New Year. An eBay specialist from the Growth Advisor team will answer questions from sellers in this month’s eBay live-chat session. The theme of January’s chat session is: Read more
A US seller is baffled as to why eBay is charging them an international fee for a package going to Georgia – the “Peach State,” not the country Georgia. In the description of selling fees for that transaction, eBay included Read more
Amazon introduced a new metric that rates one aspect of sellers’ product detail pages. The “Potential Sales Lift” metric identifies listings that are missing key attributes – but goes further by showing sellers how much their sales might improve if Read more
Poshmark will give five lucky people $10,000 each to encourage sellers to list new items. The “January $10K Listing Event” sweepstakes runs between January 1st and February 5th. For a chance to win one of the weekly drawings, sellers must 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
Nearly 100,000 members of eBay’s Main Street program from all over the country reached out to their elected officials in 2022 to lobby on issues related to ecommerce, according to the company. eBay sent a letter to members of the Read more
