MerchantSpring Marketplace Masters

In this episode of Marketplace Masters, Paul Sonneveld welcomes back Chris Turton, Managing Director of Ecommerce Intelligence in the UK, for a candid revisit of a conversation they had eighteen months ago, when Chris was distinctly unconvinced that AI was moving the needle for agencies. The fear in the market is familiar: AI makes execution faster and cheaper, clients expect fees to come down, and agency margins get squeezed. Chris thinks that’s the wrong hypothesis. For his agency, AI has b...

In this episode of Marketplace Masters, Paul Sonneveld is joined by Gregor Leopold, CEO and founder of Global AMZ in Munich, for a practical walkthrough of the first 90 days after taking over an Amazon vendor account. The brief was deliberately specific: not top-line strategy, but sequence. What do you do first, and what comes after? Gregor starts with the audit he insists on for every client, including the ones convinced everything is already running well, and the things it consistently unco...

In this episode of Marketplace Masters, Paul Sonneveld is joined by Scott Ohsman, VP of Digital Commerce at Quickfire, for a candid look at the first 90 days of an agency-client relationship. Scott has 30+ years in the game and over 200 Amazon brand launches behind him, and his premise is uncomfortable: by the time a client tells you they're leaving, they decided months ago, usually in the first couple of weeks. Scott walks through where those weeks go wrong. The handoff gap between sales and...

In this episode of Marketplace Masters, Paul Sonneveld takes on the oldest debate in the Amazon world: 1P or 3P. Joining him are Sebastian Barrios and Stephan Putter of Leadsphere, a Mexico-based agency and certified Amazon Commerce partner running hybrid vendor and seller setups for brands across Amazon and MercadoLibre. Their argument: the best brands stopped choosing. 3P is your risk, experimentation and demand-creation channel. 1P rewards proven products. The real work is deciding, SKU by...

In this episode of Marketplace Masters, Paul Sonneveld sits down with Alasdair McLean-Foreman, one of Amazon's earliest third-party sellers and founder and CEO of Teikametrics, to unpack Amazon's July 27 listing overhaul: titles cut from 250 characters to 75, a new 125-character Item Highlights field, and AI rewrites that went live automatically if brands didn't respond in time. Ten days in, the results are a mixed bag, with some sellers reporting sales drops and even brand names stripped fro...