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Amazon Takes a 50% Cut of Seller’s Revenue. Amazon is pocketing more than 50% of sellers’ revenue – up from 40% five years ago. Sellers are paying more because Amazon has grown fulfillment fees and made spending on advertising unavoidable. Amazon’s Total Seller Fees. According to P&Ls provided by a sample of sellers, a typical Amazon seller pays a 15% transaction fee (Amazon calls it a referral fee), 20-35% in Fulfillment by Amazon fees (including storage and other fees), and up to 15% for advertising and promotions on Amazon. marketplacepulse.com
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Sales Growth Strategies
Amazon Transparency Badge – Proactively protect your brand from counterfeits. Amazon has launched the Transparency badge to indicate that your product is authenticated by Transparency on Amazon stores, reassuring customers that they’re protected from buying counterfiet products. If you’re registered with Amazon Brand Registry and participate in Transparency, your qualifying ASINs will automatically receive the badge in the Additional details section on the Product Detail page. For more information about the Transparency badge and the full suite of benefits available to brands that enroll their products in Transparency, you can submit a contact request. amazon.com
Learn how to price your products competitively. Join this session to learn how to set competitive prices for Amazon customers, understand how to earn Featured Offer placement, and learn how to use the Automate Pricing tool to maintain competitive prices. This webinar covers the following: Featured Offer placement and How to use the Automate Pricing tool to maintain competitive prices. The webinar is offered on three different days. To make the most of the question-and-answer session, you can submit questions when you register. sellercentral.amazon.com
Create case packs to help drive higher-volume sales – Sales grew 16% faster in 2022. Case packs contain multiple single units (for example, six keyboards) and offer customers a lower cost per-item and consolidated delivery. Using case packs helps you grow your sales to customers. In the first half of 2022, case packs sales grew 16% faster than single-unit sales in the US, with 15% higher conversion for Amazon Business customers than single units. Based on your catalog and customer demand, Amazon offer two types of case pack recommendations – Create new case packs: We assess multi-unit orders of your single products to indicate if there is demand for these products to be sold as case packs. Add offers on existing case packs: To suggest that you could add an offer on this existing ASIN, we review case packs for products from brands that you are registered. sellercentral.amazon.com
eCommerce Trends
FTC Charges Supplement Marketer with Hijacking Ratings and Reviews. The Federal Trade Commission took action today against a marketer of vitamins and other supplements called The Bountiful Company (Bountiful) for abusing a feature of Amazon.com to deceive consumers into thinking that its newly introduced supplements had more product ratings and reviews, higher average ratings, and “#1 Best Seller” and “Amazon’s Choice” badges. As a result of FTC’s first case targeting review hijacking, The Bountiful Company will pay $600,000. ftc.gov
A lot of brands call Amazon a “black box”. Maybe in some ways it is, but if we’re talking about availability of data for sellers, it’s definitely not. Here’s an example. linkedin.com
Amazon introduces a new “Previously Viewed” feature for sellers, giving more exposure to products. The text overlay on the first listing picture is now more likely to catch the eye of potential customers, resulting in more clicks, sales, and happy customers. linkedin.com
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