Amazon is opening up a brand new marketplace.

The Walmart Marketplace has created a brand new program to help sellers save on their referral fees.

And Amazon is making it easier for brands to join Amazon Transparency.

This and so much more on this week's episode of The Weekly Buzz.

How cool is that?

Pretty cool, I think.

Welcome back to another episode of the Serious Sellers podcast by Helium 10. My name is Carrie Miller and I will be your host and this is our weekly buzz episode where we bring you the latest and

greatest news related to Amazon, Walmart,

and the e-commerce space. We'll also give you a tip or strategy for serious sellers at any level.

Let's go ahead and see what's buzzing. Okay, so let's start off with one of the most exciting stories

of the day today, and that is that Amazon is opening up a brand new marketplace.

This marketplace is going to be in South Africa. So if you are a seller in South Africa,

this marketplace is going to be opening in 2024, and it's open to currently local South Africans. So they basically announced that you can

start applying for this marketplace now at sell.amazon.com forward slash south dash Africa. And

that's going to be where you're going to apply. And it's already set up and ready to go for you

to do that. It's a very, very exciting opportunity for anyone who lives in South Africa because a lot of sellers are in that area and you're selling in Europe and you're selling in the U.S. and other parts of the world. But now you can sell locally to your neighbors. And so it's a very, very cool time to be able to bring your brand to Amazon with that fast shipping

in South Africa. So let us know below if you're a South African seller and you are planning on

applying and selling in this marketplace. All right. Next up, we have another amazing announcement

by Amazon and that is that they are making Amazon transparency a lot easier for brands to join.

Before they had a basically a 2D data matrix

barcode that they would put on products and you had to label your products physically with this

with your packaging. So this meant that if you wanted to join the Amazon transparency,

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