Setting up your Amazon account is an exciting moment for any business and the race to ‘hit go’ begins. Entering your information is pretty straight forward with an easy step by step guide to help you…but is it really that simple?
To some degree, yes! However, if you speak to other like-minded Amazon sellers, they’ll almost certainly be able to share a story or two of frustrations they’ve encountered along the way. To help you avoid any unnecessary, time-consuming hiccups, today we want to share with you our Amazon setup top tip; never overlook the simplest of things.
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At Brand Monkey, we’re always keeping an eye on the changes that lie ahead with Amazon. They regularly trial new ideas and develop into areas that they haven’t attempted yet. The global pandemic didn’t even stop them. It only encouraged them to find exciting, forward-thinking ways to support businesses around the world. Say hello to Amazon Explore!
Exploring the world from the comfort of your own home
When setting up products on Amazon, there has always been the option to use HTML formatting in your product descriptions. Amazon have announced that from June 8th 2021, HTML formatting on Amazon will be banned.
Time to check those Amazon product descriptions
Now, we’re not huge fans of the product description section on Amazon. Customers often overlook it and who can blame them? If you see a huge block of text squashed between ‘Advertising’ and ‘Similar Products’, wouldn’t you scroll past?
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Every month, we’re faced with a selection of Amazon updates designed to make buyers and sellers lives easier. The trouble is there are often so many, and not always relevant to your business, that it’s easy to scroll on past. We’re here to make it easier for you! Here are all the latest and upcoming Amazon updates you should know about.
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Amazon have regularly been under fire for their impact on the environment and the sheer amount of waste they produce. They often launch new updates and programmes with the hope of making the returns process easier. But is it as easy as it seems? Are Amazon really turning corners in terms of reducing waste?
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The covid pandemic continues to cause havoc around the globe with shipping containers in short supply from China.
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The busiest time of year is fast approaching (anyone else hear jingle bells?). People start shopping for Christmas earlier every year, with November in particular full of great opportunities to boost sales for the end of 2021. In 2020, independent businesses surpassed $4.8 billion worldwide through Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales, so are you ready for the Q4 Amazon events?
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Exciting news from Brand Monkey HQ! We’ve been working with one of the leading manufacturers of LED lighting in the world, Rotolight, to launch their highly anticipated Kickstarter campaign. Today, that campaign has gone live!...
When creating an Amazon listing it usually goes one of two ways. Either you pack it full of product specifications and end up with a wall of text, or you face the dreaded blank and can only write about two lines. Well, we’re here to help. At Brand Monkey, we’ve spent hours creating Amazon listings for a whole host of businesses, and we’ve got a few great tips to help you write...
Amazon have always been one of the first to trial new ideas and venture into untried areas. Last week, they announced their latest collaboration with Hyundai to bring us Hyundai Evolve, a digital showroom designed to make purchasing your next car even easier.
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Amazon have a habit of updating things a lot and often, but this latest update is a bit of a cheeky one. Amazon Vine is no longer free.
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It’s time for our monthly round up of all the latest news from Amazon. We like to save you the trouble of sifting through the long list of updates and just give you what you need to know. So grab a coffee and take a seat – here are the October Amazon updates you should know about.
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Amazon is always hot on the tail of its competitors and refuses to be left behind. The latest launch is their own TV, the Amazon Omni Series, the first to have Amazon hardware already built in.
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Amazon can be a confusing jungle, with its huge range of opportunities available and ever-changing updates to keep us on our toes (don’t we know it!). But when you’ve got a question about it, who can you ask? You want a real person, not a robot, who can answer your questions with no judgement. That’s where we come in – Brand Monkey: who are we?
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It’s been a busy couple of months at Brand Monkey HQ. After spending the last month managing the Rotolight Kickstarter campaign, the NEO 3 and AEOS 2 LED lights have become the most funded camera light in Kicksta...
*Update Feb 21st 2022* Amazon have confirmed they and Visa have now come to a global agreement. They will continue to offer Visa credit cards as a valid form of payment. And we’ve come full circle…*
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We’ve almost made it to the end of the year and for many Amazon sellers the next month will be the busiest. Christmas is on the horizon, so whilst you’re busy fulfilling orders, grab yourself a cup of tea and take a moment to catch up on all the latest Amazon updates that are relevant to you.
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Towards the end of 2020, Amazon announced the Climate Pledge Friendly initiative, a programme designed to help them reach the Paris Agreement ten years early and be net zero carbon by 2040. We’re guessing lots of you have never heard of it.
So what is the Climate Pledge Friendly initiative?
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It’s no secret that Amazon have been slowly but surely infiltrating Alexa into people’s homes (they’re always listening!). Their most recent development could see that continue at quite a rate. Say hello to the Alexa Connect Kit, a cost effective way for companies to integrate Alexa into their products. So who’s been first to jump on the bandwagon?
What is the Alexa Connect Kit?
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Finding the motivation to write those exciting product details, a noteworthy blog or some eye-catching website copy can be quite daunting when ‘writing isn’t your thing’. If you feel like you don’t know where to start, take a look at our top 12 writing tips below – you’ll be churning out sentences in no time!
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