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Amazon Messages: Best Practices for Every Serious Seller
It really should be part of the daily habits of every Amazon seller to check messages. We're not just talking about email, What's App, social media, and the like - we're talking about the buyer messages that you'll receive in the Amazon message center. Amazon messages...
Amazon Messages: Best Practices for Every Serious Seller
Checking your Amazon messages is absolutely crucial to maintain good communication with your buyer. We’ll provide you with the best practices.
Are You Making This Huge Mistake In Your German Listings?
In this week's YLT Translator Profiles, our German Team Leader and Translator, Silke, explains why machine translation is a bad idea for English-to-German translations. When you weigh machine translation vs. human translation, the latter will always win,...
Taking Amazon Networking to the Seas with Online Seller Cruise
Many Amazon networking events are very businesslike. You go to a 2 day Amazon conference, you give a talk, you go to dinners and networking functions, then you go home and follow up on the connections you've made. Usually, at big conferences, you get distracted by...
Love or Wine? Valentine’s Day or St. Tryphon’s Day? Let’s Discuss!
Lupercalia. Does this ring a bell? It's not surprising if it doesn't - Lupercalia is the name of a Roman fertility festival that our ancestors celebrated until the end of the 5th Century CE. Pope Gelasius outlawed Lupercalia, deeming it un-Christian and immoral....
Selling on Amazon Germany? Compound Words in German Make Your Keyword Research a Challenge
“Things could be brought into being that had no name in English – Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, Sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, Vergangenheitsbewältigung. Austrian writer Anna Funder extolled the beauty of the German language. Compound words, which are...
What Can Sellers Do About Chinese New Year?
We blinked our eyes and Chinese New Year is upon us! Doesn't it feel like 2022 is already going by too quick for comfort? All over the Amazon world, things get a little quiet. According to East West Design-Manufacturing-Distribution, factories and businesses usually...
What Converts a German Customer?
If you’re thinking of selling on Amazon Germany, you’re making the right decision. After all, it’s the second biggest platform after Amazon US. Around 50% of German nationals own an Amazon account. So, what’s stopping you? Perhaps an unfamiliarity with the stoic...