Amazon’s recently concluded flagship global shopping extravaganza Prime Day held between July 10th and July 11th, 2017 helped Global Selling Indian sellers witness a remarkable growth of close to 100% y-o-y in sales.
The Prime Day 2017 this year helped thousands of Indian sellers selling globally under Amazon’s Global Selling Program to boost their revenues tremendously. The total selection saw a rise of over 90% and the Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) seller count also witnessed over 100% increase as compared to last year. Indian Global Sellers offered amazing discounts to millions of customers across the globe and sold tens of thousands of products within 30 hours through Prime Day!
Launched in 2015, Prime Day provides Indian sellers with a great platform to delight global customers with wide selection, low prices and a reliable and trustworthy shopping experience. Thousands of Indian sellers leveraged Amazon’s fulfilment services to ensure faster delivery to prime customers and scaled their business multifold within a short span of time during the sale. For many sellers Prime Day 2017 was the biggest day for their business and they witnessed huge spikes in their daily sales in a matter of few hours.
Talking about the immense success of Prime Day, Mr. Gopal Pillai – Director & GM, Sellers Services, Amazon India said “We are truly excited and humbled by the encouraging response we have received from our global customers and the overwhelming success of our Indian sellers. Through our Global Selling Program, we have enabled thousands of sellers to take their business across international marketplaces and furthermore, through our various spike sale events such as Prime Day we empower them to get access to a wide customer base and boost their revenues exponentially within a short span of time. Prime Day this year has been bigger and better than before for majority of our Global Selling sellers and we expect the same momentum to continue in future as well!”
Seller Highlights from Prime Day:
“We broke so many milestones on Prime Day. Single Day sale that saw an unprecedented jump of 75x our daily sales for the first time and then doing our lifetime best of 4X of our monthly sales number... best seller rank 1 in baby category for our products... there are countless things!!! It is an amazing journey that has started for us and we would like to leverage this success for more good stuff in future to plan and realize for.”- Crocnfrog, selling baby and mom products on Amazon.
"Prime Day 2017 was a very successful business day for us selling on Amazon. It over exceeded all our expectations & there was massive growth in comparison to Prime Day last year. Congratulations to the entire team at Amazon Globally to have created & more importantly executed an event of this stature, without a single hitch. It literally felt like Christmas, in July! We plan to be much more prepared for an even better & bigger Prime Day 2018. “- Bala Sarda- Founder & CEO, Vahdam Teas India.
In line with its vision to create transformative opportunities for Indian sellers to take their ‘Made in India’ products across the globe, Amazon launched its Global Selling Program with a few hundred sellers in May 2015. The program has expanded phenomenally within two years and currently has over 23,000 sellers selling over 65 million products to millions of active customers through 10 global Amazon marketplaces. To smoothen the selling experience for SMBs and enable sellers familiarize themselves with the tastes & Preferences of the local country and to launch relevant selection, Amazon’s global teams help sellers understand the demand patterns in various countries. The team gives guidance on how sellers can improve discoverability of their products on each marketplace. Amazon also has supporting content on its website on different international tax and custom processes to help sellers understand the processes clearly.
