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Rakuten Ichiba vs Amazon Japan, Which Is Better for Non-Japan Citizen Sellers?

Japan’s business-to-consumer e-commerce market is worth $150.1 billion having increased at a single-digit rate since 2015. The e-commerce market is expected to follow a similar growth trajectory to 2021, expanding at a compound annual growth rate of 6.2 percent. As the third-largest online retail and eCommerce market worldwide that is behind China and the US, particularly when RCEP has launched and Japan is one of the members there, many sellers expect more possibilities from Japan and look for business opportunities to grow the business. 

Amazon and Rakuten Japan must be two primary channels on the spotlight that sellers are discussing, in particular, which one is better to start. So in this article, I would talk about my review between Rakuten and Amazon Japan from several points of view, such as market share, fee structure, etc. By the end of this piece, you can learn the difference between two platforms and select one to start selling in Japan, which is better as a new seller there.

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How to Sell Products on Amazon as a Non-US citizen

In fact, of Amazon’s 2.2 million third-party sellers worldwide, 86% sell in the U.S. marketplace — and 41% aren’t even located in the U.S. If you’re interested in becoming a seller on Amazon’s U.S. platform, but don’t live in America, this piece will teach you how to start selling by selecting your preferred type of account status, business entity, available markets. By the end of the article, you can learn what documents, cost you need to prepare in the process, and how to go global to sell your listings.

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Chapter 21: Amazon Best Selling Product Scraper to Find Niche Products, Monitor Competitors, and Identify Potential Clients

Amazon, the eCommerce giant globally, is the important lighthouse of product trend and direction to millions of sellers and hundreds of brands worldwide. Most of them are keeping eyes on the popularity of product selling and momentum of trends on Amazon. No brainer to ask a question where to find the trend? Amazon best selling products and brands is the place you should often drop by. It makes more sense if you are asking how to implement more efficiently in an automatic format. If you do, this piece can be helpful to you.

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Chapter 18: Utilize Macbook Crontab to Automate Running Amazon Competitor Price Tracker and Updating P&L Calculator and Product Market Value

Can Python really help you save a huge amount of time? The answer depends because it is not when you manually command B the script every time. It’s so manual-driven to update the pricing data using this method. This is not the purpose of the Python application. The destination picture should be someone else on behalf of you. The bot, she or he executes the Python script automatically in the background of your local device or on the cloud server.

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Chapter 17: Amazon Price Tracker, Get the Up-to-date Product Market Value Using ASIN, Oauth2Client, and Google Sheet

Alert of up-to-date or even real-time product price information is indispensable if you want to keep your business and marketing in a winning position. Also, the automatic update can integrate with your eCommerce P&L calculator. That means you can see if you set the pricing too high or too low. Don’t panic when the conversion rate goes down. That might be none of your marketing strategies. Meanwhile, it might be just because of your competitor’s pricing update.

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Chapter 16 – Amazon Product Scraper Using Selenium, BeautifulSoup, and Easy2Digital APIs

You might be wondering why some sellers can smell the up-to-trend niche products and make a great investment. Of course, software like Jungle Scout is assisting them to understand the target market consumers. I might partially agree because the most important is the mindset and mastering skills to automate the survey and monitoring. Instead of paying and relying on 3rd party software, self-developed amazon product scraper is indispensable if you like to stand on the front of demand, and monitor your pricing value.

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Taobao China, Tmall China Marketing, and Tmall Global Seller Promotion 101

Amazon and Facebook’s shoppable live streams seems just starting to be accepted by consumers in western, but Taobao live has been popular for a few years. I am guessing western thought it was just a kind of TV shopping in the 1st place. The fact tells us it’s time for you to understand the up-to-trend eCommerce marketing approaches being adopted in China. While we discuss eCommerce in China, Taobao China, Tmall China and Tmall Global must be the primary list to talk about.

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7 Secrets to Amazon Marketing Plus Niche Product-driven Strategy

Only relying on product-driven with good quality products listing your on the site is enough? As it’s not an easy job to find the right niche products, so with more competition, and being proactive and up-to-date with Amazon’s ever-evolving trends and requirements, you must also take steps to ensure your products and brand stay one step ahead of the competition.