Amazon’s rumored impending supplier purge: Why, and what should vendors do?
“Third-party sellers are kicking our first-party butt. Badly,” Jeff Bezos wrote in the 2019 annual shareholder letter. This is an important statement, the first of its kind, followed by hard data – yes, data! – detailing the size of Amazon’s third-party platform – meaning, the amount of total sales generated by third party sellers on Amazon.
Hybrid Selling Models on Amazon – Why the Hype?
The single biggest growth opportunity for your brand might be opening a third-party seller account. More and more brands (including some of my clients) are seeing significant sales uptick by transitioning to a “hybrid” model to address a variety of challenges on Amazon – persistent out of stocks/inventory management, circumventing Amazon’s aggressive price matching strategy, a means to manage products requiring special handling, getting more direct access to their customers, and to keep selling their CRaP on Amazon (no, it’s not potty talk – if you don’t already know about CRaP, see my previous article).