Breaking News! Main Canada/Toronto Fulfillment Center Closes!
This just in from Amazon! This is a closure notice for the main fulfillment center in Canada. Presumably this is about Covid 19. Amazon Notice On Friday, March 12, Amazon Canada received an order from the local government in Peel Region requiring us to temporarily close our YYZ4 fulfilment centre located at 8050 Heritage Road…
Finding High Value Amazon Keywords
Having the right keywords in your listings is a key component to building and sustaining sales of time on Amazon. For the purposes of this article you should think of keywords as falling into two categories: Core Keywords These are the core terms that shoppers are using to find your (and your competitors!) products. For…
Amazon AI Identifies Non-Compliant Emails
Just a quick announcement. In various marketplaces Amazon is rolling out new updates to ensure that emails sent comply with their new guidelines. You can read about those guidelines here. We are trying our best to update our compliance checker, but we may not find more complex issues. Email Styling Rules Do not include any…
5 Tips For Increasing Feedback
For the purposes of this article, ‘feedback’ can be considered either Seller Feedback or Customer Reviews left on the Amazon site. Why Feedback? Two words: social proof. Despite what we might think of ourselves, the fact is that it is human nature to rely on and, to a certain extent, copy our peers. (The big…
[Amazon Australia] Tracking Numbers Required For MFN
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This update just in from Amazon Australia. They will be requiring Tracking IDs for most MFN shipments. A very similar rule came into effect in Europe on February 8, 2021. Please note that what Amazon does in one marketplace may or may not make its way to other marketplaces, but best to be aware of…
5 Ways To Boost Your Alexa Search Rank
“Alexa, please stop telling me that voice search is the next big thing!” “Sorry, Dave. I can’t do that.” Yes, voice search is a growing trend that shows no signs of stopping. And Alexa, searched by Amazon products such as the Echo and Amazon Fire TV, only looks on Amazon for products. It means that…
7 Tips For Saving Money When Shipping To Amazon
Amazon Sellers often spend between 5% and 20%(!) of their product costs on shipping. Here at Zonmaster we’ve pulled together 7 top tips about how maybe you can save a little bit of money on freight costs when arranging you shipments to Amazon. Some of these may seem obvious, but, the obvious can sometimes be…
5 Key Predictions For the Future of eCommerce
Recently the folks over at Shopify released a report boldly called ‘The Future of eCommerce’, where they plumbed their extensive data to highlights changes in the eCommerce world. From that they distilled 5 key predictions. Here we are going to look at those predictions, how they came to them and what they mean to you…
Send To Amazon (STA) – Creating a Shipment
Send To Amazon is a service that saves you time when you replenish your FBA inventory by letting your create reusable packing templates with information on how your SKUs are prepped, labeled and packed. Once you create a packing template you can reuse it on shipment after shipment without having to re-enter the same details…
All You Need To Know About Amazon Buy Shipping
Amazon’s Buy Shipping service enables you to buy shipping labels individually or in bulk from recognized carriers. It also facilitates the shipping and confirm your orders, and the tracking your shipments. You can do all of this through either Seller Central or the Merchant API. Buy Shipping ensures that your products are delivered to your…