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📰 Weekly ECommerce News

📦Amazon Caps Titles at 75 Characters July 27

Amazon is limiting most product titles to 75 characters starting July 27, with a new searchable "Item Highlights" field (125 characters) to hold the overflow. Media categories are exempt. Audit your keyword-heavy titles and move critical specs into Item Highlights before enforcement hits.

👀 eBay Airs Out Sellers' Second Chance Offers

Sellers are frustrated that Second Chance Offers, the private discounts they extend to non-winning bidders at that bidder's last (lower) bid, are now showing up publicly. If you run auctions on eBay, be aware these offers may no longer stay private.

🎓 Seller University Is Now Free for Everyone

Amazon opened up Seller University to anyone, no selling account required, covering listings, pricing, fulfillment, and advertising across all skill levels. A handy free onboarding resource for new team members or partners.


🔥 Top Ecommerce Tips & Tricks of the Week


⭐️The New 2026 Amazon KDP Strategy That NO ONE Is Talking About!: This video argues that in 2026, treating Amazon KDP as a book-selling business no longer works because Amazon owns the customer, not you.

The fix: use your book as an entry point, offer a free lead magnet inside it (workbook, checklist, template) that points readers to a landing page, and capture their name and email so you can follow up and sell higher-ticket products later. The back half is a walkthrough of building that landing page with an AI website builder, plus the seller's own strategy-call funnel.

⭐️The Official Shopify Sidekick Tutorial (Part 1): "10 Sidekick Hacks Most Merchants Miss" from Learn With Shopify walks through 10 copy-paste prompts for Shopify's free built-in AI assistant, covering instant sales breakdowns, AOV-boosting bundle suggestions, AI product photography, one-prompt discount and email creation, inventory health reports, customer segment building, and saving your best prompts as reusable "skills."


⭐️ 3 HUGE E-commerce Trends Coming Your Way (2026-2027): Brands that win next are the ones LLMs learn to trust, so make your product data LLM-readable, shift budget toward organic social as a genuine sales channel (not AI slop), lean into repeat-purchase categories and live commerce (which converts 3-10x better than a standard store), and enter cheap, fast-growing markets like Africa and Southeast Asia.

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