Last Friday we hosted our first ever Profit Bandit meetup here in Portland, Oregon. We invited Profit Bandit users in the area to join us for an afternoon of sourcing at a local Grocery Outlet. It's a store not far from our offices with a variety of grocery and home...

Changes to Prices? Get Notified in 60 Seconds Today Amazon announced a new API for Amazon sellers. The Subscriptions API has huge implications for sellers who actively reprice their inventories. Instead of checking your items to see if anything has changed, rely on Amazon to provide notifications of changes. Sellers...

Never Before Seen Profit Bandit Scan Data We've never shared this with anyone before, but today we're going to show you just how many scans are made every day with Profit Bandit. For the month of June, we averaged nearly 30,000 unique barcodes scanned every day. What was everyone...

Update on the Unitech MS910 Bluetooth ScannerPreviously, we have written about the different bluetooth scanners available to Amazon sellers who use Profit Bandit. In that article, we recommended against the Unitech MS910 scanner. However, we have heard from many sellers who prefer it, due to its low cost. So...

Ed. Note - This is the first blog post by Maria, from the SellerEngine Services team. She's an expert in selling globally. What are UPC symbols and why are they important?UPC stands for Universal Product Code and they're the numbers you see below barcodes on the products you buy. They're especially important...

In this Sellery tutorial we are going to take a look at smart lists. Smart lists are dynamically updated lists or views of your inventory. And they're essential to successful repricing. Smart lists are found by looking at your Amazon inventory in Sellery. There’s a dropdown where we can see...

New Markets and New Opportunities BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China. These countries have four of the fastest developing economies in the world. In fact, within the next 10-15 years, the combined economies of the BRIC nations will be larger than those of the G7 countries. And...

Mark Brohan, the Director of Research for Internet Retailer has been posting some great articles on international e-commerce. A Tale of Two Continents is about Europe and the European Union and The European e-commerce sun also rises for U.S. web merchants is great, too!Today we'll be taking a closer look at these articles...

Last week, Ioan attended IRCE, the Internet Retailer Conference and Exhibition, in Chicago.A major highlight of the event was the keynote speech given by Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO and co-founder of Rakuten. If you don't know, Rakuten is a major player in international e-commerce. Rakuten is a hugely popular...

During Ioan's keynote presentation on International Expansion at SCOE 2013, we asked attendees to send questions at http://bit.ly/AskIoan. Today we'll start by answering a few of those questions! When you look into your crystal ball, what year do you think selling to China will be viable for US Amazon...