About a year ago, Amazon increased the minimum amount that needed to be spent in order to qualify for free shipping, from $35 to $49. Within the last few days, without any formal announcement, Amazon lowered the minimum requirement back down to $35. According to Amazon’s free shipping help page: “Add at least $35 of … Read more
A new report has just been released from the US Department of Commerce, which looks at retail sales over the course of 2016. In summary, the report found that eCommerce sales reached nearly $400 billion, which is a growth of 15.6% year over year. eCommerce now accounts for 11.7% of the total retail sales in … Read more
Today, November 17, marks a new day for Amazon. In the “old days”, Amazon directly sold the majority of the items that were purchased on its website. In other words, Amazon owned the items that it sold, and shipped them to the customers that purchased them. Now, however, Amazon says that because of its Seller … Read more
Alignable, a local business network site, has collected what they call NPS(net promotor score) from small business users, along with members of its site. The site asks business owners and its members to rank brands on a scale of 1-10, based on how likely they are to recommend the brand to someone. Alignable then takes … Read more
Amazon has been fighting back against ‘fake’ reviews on products for years now, even filing lawsuits against individuals and companies that use or create fake reviews. They had gotten to the point where the vast majority of reviews are written by people who have actually used the products (or those who are making ‘compilation reviews’), … Read more
Amazon’s “Prime Day” has already been called a major success this year, but a new report shows just how incredible it was. A report from Slice Intelligence found that 74% of all e-Commerce that took place in the US on Prime Day went through Amazon. This is absolutely incredible when you look at how many … Read more
Amazon’s annual ‘Prime Day’ occurred this week, and according to early reports, it was a huge success. They said that this year’s event was its biggest sales day ever, and that they had 60% higher sales than in 2015. Notably, they said that mobile sales doubled from Prime Day 2015. To make the day even … Read more
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