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Gear Up For Tax Season!

If you are like most people, thinking about tax paperwork may fill you with dread.  For online sellers on marketplaces like Amazon, Walmart.com, and even your own e-commerce sites, calculating and filing sales tax can be overwhelming. This article provides some basic tips to help you start to tackle your sales taxes for your digital commerce business. Determine where you have a sales tax nexus.  This is a function of your physical business locations, personnel locations, and inventory warehouse locations. Determine where you have economic nexus.  Even if you do not have a physical presence in a state, if you pass the economic threshold for total revenue or transactions in a state, you are legally required to collect and remit sales tax to that…

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Track Your Competition Using Our Brand Share Tracking Report

Our customizable Competitive Brand Share Tracking Report tracks dollar sales, dollar share, pricing, reviews, and number of reviews for all the top selling SKUs in any given category on Amazon. We look at these metrics on an ongoing basis and the trends over time. In this tutorial HINGE GLOBAL's Head of Research & Data Analytics, Kathy Cummins, reviews the ongoing brand share competitive landscape for Men's and Women's Running shoes for the past 12 months. INTERESTING IN LEARNING MORE ABOUT YOUR CATEGORY AND HOW TO COMPETE IN THE SPACE? CONNECT WITH A MARKETPLACE CONSULTANT TODAY!

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New Feature on Amazon: Request a Review

Amazon has released a new feature for sellers on Amazon marketplace for product reviews. Sellers can use this feature to request reviews once per order between 4 and 30 days after the date the order has been delivered. This limited time frame is to ensure that shoppers receive relevant, recent review requests and in turn, give reviews on products that are top-of-mind. ‍ The "Request A Review"feature can be found in Seller Central under Orders. In the order details there is a new button for "Request a Review". Below is a snippet of where you can locate this feature. Buy Messaging is still a separate review option, which is where sellers previously had automated emails from Amazon sent to customers requesting reviews.These emails asked…

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