I don’t think there has been any official word from Amazon on the demise of ClickRiver, but I spoke to the Amazon team at a large online retailer yesterday that stated “the ClickRiver program has been discontinued”. Then I came across this complaint from an Amazon ClickRiver user on the WebmasterWorld forum:
Amazon at ChannelAdvisor Catalyst (Part I)
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This past week we held our annual ChannelAdvisor Catalyst conference in Pinehurst, North Carolina, with 500 online retailers, solution providers and the leading e-commerce players (eBay, Amazon, Google, Overstock, Facebook, etc.). Amazon SVP Sebastian Gunningham, responsible for all third-party business worldwide, brought his team to Pinehurst and delivered a keynote address Thursday morning on Amazon’s products and strategy (not available online but if we do share it you’ll read it here first …).
I am going to summarize my key take-aways from his presentation, discussions with Amazonites as well as thoughts and insights from attendees over multiple posts simply because it otherwise would turn into a War & Peace post (and it’s already late). If you’re interested in other non-Amazon thoughts / lessons from the conference I will post a review on the main ChannelAdvisor blog over the next few days. Read more
Amazon.com now offers drop-shipping to retailers
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Finding news ways to monetize the Earth’s Biggest Selection, Amazon.com has now officially added drop-shipping to its merchant services offering beyond Amazon Associates, eCommerce sites (Amazon Webstore) and Fulfillment by Amazon.
Drop Ship by Amazon is essentially the next step in off-Amazon eCommerce using Amazon’s extensive product catalog: Read more