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Dec 1, 2015

Fastest Growing Amazon.com Sellers, November 2015 Report

November had two of the largest retail days of the year - Black Friday and Cyber Monday. Various sources expect total volume to grow by at least 20%. While brick and mortar retail sales are shrinking, online ecommerce is growing at a steady pace. Compared to October, November wasn't a fast growing month. Many sellers managed to increase their sales, but overall many more had lost their pace. We think this has to do with depleted inventory after Halloween, which many sellers focused on.

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Nov 2, 2015

Fastest Growing Amazon.com Sellers, October 2015 Report

October had one of the most celebrated holidays of the year - Halloween. As the days got closer to October 31st, sales for costumes and other party merchandize skyrocketed. We used feedback as a way to estimate how much sales has the seller been able to gain. But instead of looking at what everyones' feedback was at the end of the month, we calculated the change in feedback throughout the month. The table below is top 100 sellers ranked by the growth rate. As you can see, most of the sellers who have been able to take advantage of the Halloween increased their sales drastically.

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Oct 8, 2015

Amazon Opens a Handmade Marketplace

On Thursday Amazon opened a stricly handcrafted-goods marketplace. Handmade at Amazon is their first venture into competing with the likes of Etsy at selling handmade products. Etsy has been able to grow their yearly sales to $2 billion, compared to $75 billion of Amazon, so it is no surprise that Amazon wants to be in the game as well.

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Oct 1, 2015

Fastest Growing Amazon.com Sellers, September 2015 Report

September was the back to school month, so no surprise that many books sellers were able to increase their sales. Top two spots are taken by books sellers, and many more are in the top 100 list.

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Sep 11, 2015

Think Fast becomes Avalanche Brands

One of the largest Amazon.com sellers Think Fast have changed their name to Avalanche Brands today.

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