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Oct 3, 2016

Fastest Growing Amazon.com Sellers September 2016 Report

September was a big month for books sellers, as just like the month before many customers were shopping for books for school. However Ecolife Technologies looked the most interesting to us. They joined the Amazon marketplace just a few months ago, but were able to grow quickly by offering a very unique product - their own made replacement water filters for various appliances. Amazon.com is one of the most visited websites, and a lot of those visitors are searching instead of going for a particular product. Being able to offer a better or more affordable alternative to existing products is a guaranteed way to grow.

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Sep 27, 2016

Marketplace Pulse Celebrates First Birthday

Launched in August 2015 as a basic list of top Amazon sellers we were able to expand it to be the leading provider of ecommerce analytics and insights. To celebrate this we have redesigned the website to make it better and easier to use.

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Sep 15, 2016

Rapid Expansion of the Amazon Marketplace in India

In May we looked at the amount of active marketplace sellers on each Amazon site. We found that Amazon.com was leading with more sellers than almost all other marketplaces combined. This time we wanted to investigate how much are Amazon marketplaces growing. Amazon India is the one to pay attention. While the European and Japan marketplaces continue to be bigger, Amazon India is growing faster than all of them.

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Sep 3, 2016

Fastest Growing eBay.com Sellers August 2016 Report

In August the list of fastest growing sellers was quite eclectic - we couldn't find a singular theme. audiocityusa has been operating in La Puente, California since 1989, but over the last month their eBay presence has exploded in growth. They have over 8,000 different after market car wheels in stock.

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Sep 2, 2016

Fastest Growing Amazon.com Sellers August 2016 Report

The story in August was back to school buying. Many of the top sellers were selling books or various school supplies. There were so many books being bought that even the large sellers like Jenson Books Inc, who are consistently in the TOP 10, were able to increase their sales considerably. A unique seller in this list was Assurant Solutions, they sell protection plans for electronics, office products and computers purchased on Amazon.

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Aug 25, 2016

Rise of Scam Amazon Marketplace Sellers

Over the last month we noticed a rise in Amazon Marketplace sellers created for one purpose only - to scam people. All of them list a lot of products, have great prices, but as the orders start rolling it customers quickly realize that their products are not coming. For example Redline Street Performance this week started getting a lot of traffic and it only took us a moment to realize it's one of the offending sellers. They already have 420 negative reviews at the time of writing, and of course by now Amazon has suspended their selling, but that's at least 400 upset customers.

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Aug 24, 2016

Marketplace Pulse is Attending Retail Global Conference in Las Vegas

We are going to be at the Retail Global ecommerce conference in Las Vegas on September 20th-22nd. The speakers we are most excited to see are Jason Trichel, Head of US Global Sales and Business Development at Amazon and Stacie Sefton, Co-Founder & CEO of BHFO, one of the top eBay sellers.

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Aug 18, 2016

Q2 2016 Walmart Ecommerce Growth Accelerates

Walmart on Thursday reported Q2 2016 earnings beating market expectations. Ecommerce sales (gross merchandise volume) grew by 13%, well above the last three quarters' growth rate. Walmart was struggling to grow their ecommerce sales - in Q1 2016 ecommerce sales grew by only 7%.

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Aug 8, 2016

Analyzing 3,721,683 Sellers on Etsy Marketplace

We are very excited to include Etsy, the marketplace for hand-crafted and artisan goods. We have been monitoring Etsy for a couple of weeks and have a lot of interesting research planned for the upcoming months. Out of the 3,721,683 sellers on Etsy we found 586,740 sellers with at least one review in a year. Etsy is an international marketplace so a lot of those sellers are based all over the globe.

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Aug 8, 2016

Walmart Acquired Jet.com for $3B

Today Walmart made the biggest move yet in a bid to compete with Amazon by acquiring Jet.com. Jet.com has been online for a little over a year since July 2015. Jet.com founding team included Marc Lore, who had previously founded Quidsi, the umbrella company for Daipers.com, Soap.com and BeautyBar.com, and then sold the company to Amazon for $545 million in 2010.

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