This is NOT the time for business-as-usual. It’s time to pivot!

WHAT WILL YOU DO DIFFERENTLY TO HELP YOUR BUSINESS SURVIVE THIS CRISIS? In the face of the pandemic and the resulting economic crisis, brands need to get their Amazon businesses running as efficiently as possible. Here are the tools and services to help you quickly pivot your Amazon business:   If you are FBA, are you faced with long or uncertain warehouse replenishment times? If so, you do not want to run out-of-stock. You need to update your demand planning forecasts and apply careful inventory management. Be careful about your promotion and AMS strategy for any SKUs that are running low. HINGE COMMERCE has automated technology to manage your marketing dollars and shift your AMS to higher stock inventory.…

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COVID-19: Strategies to Help Your E-Comm Survive

The coronavirus will have an impact on brick and mortar retail, as well as on digital commerce. Sellers, companies, and retailers need to focus on getting their businesses operating as efficiently as possible.  Here are strategies to leverage in the face of the COVID-19 crisis to help your online business weather the storm. There are many different impacts from COVID-19: Economic fundamentals of supply and demand are in play that will be difficult to influence — If you are overly dependent upon a single retailer or online channel there may be a significant risk for your business. The second impact is the major restrictions on public interactions — including work-from-home initiatives and canceled sporting and social events…

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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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