Indigo 9 Digital

APRIL 5, 2022

Merchants on Taobao pay a fee to rank higher within the site’s search engine results, similar to the way Google works. Alibaba does not charge merchants on Taobao listing or transactions fees. Merchants are charged a fee to list on Tmall as well as a sales commission and advertising fees. Source: Statista. AliExpress.

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Independent Retailer

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

A Shift In Advertising Focus. The most resilient retailers will keep a cool head by adopting a multitude of strategies, like the ones below, to target and retain customers, perform great customer service, keep sales moving and cash flow healthy. In 2013, merchants lost an average $9 for every new customer acquired.

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Retail Geek

MARCH 18, 2022

And be Engineers we were able to automate effectively everything in that e-commerce business except the part around shipping and Logistics. 2:58] And we would call up a bunch of these existing companies 3pls who helped companies with the shipping and Logistics take all three pills third party Logistics providers.

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Retail Geek

JANUARY 12, 2024

No Live Streaming Commerce Still not meaningful in US in 2023 (less than 5% of social commerce in US) Yes Jason Total Score: 3 of 5 Scot : Amazon uses this 2022 setback/slowdown/reversion to the mean for a public resetting of expectations, but behind the scenes they take share and raise the bar on shipping. And that did not happen.

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Retail Geek

JUNE 13, 2022

Impact of App Tracking Transparency (ATT) on advertising platforms Shopify vs. Facebook Retail Media Networks Q1 2022 US Department of commerce data and trends Audience questions (including buy now pay later). This episode was recorded in front of a live audience at the NYC Google HQ, for Zenith Basecamp.

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Retail Geek

MAY 6, 2024

Episode Summary: In this episode, Jason “Retailgeek” Goldberg and Scot Wingo dive deep into Amazon’s first quarter results for 2024, analyzing the company’s performance in various segments such as retail, offline and online sales, marketplace, AWS, and advertising. So it was fun. He’s been a friend of the show.

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VMS

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Effective in the third quarter, Andy Jassy, formerly CEO of Amazon Web Services, stepped up to replace Bezos. Bezos’ rocket ship went up to the stars (which got all the headlines) and came back down again (hardly mentioned). Much of it is sitting in ships stacking up at various U.S. Lampert took control in 2013.

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