Small businesses.
Thriving communities.
From small towns to major cities across all 50 states, Washington, DC, and Puerto Rico, independent sellers are making a real impact in the places they call home.
Collage of independent sellers featured in the 2025 Small Business Empowerment Report
From success to impact: how independent sellers enrich our communities
At a glance
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More than
60% of sales

in Amazon’s store come from independent sellers—most of
which are small and medium-sized businesses
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In 2025, independent sellers employed over

2M people

in the US to support their Amazon-related businesses
1 million
More than 75,000 independent sellers

surpassed $1 million in sales in 2025
export
US-based independent sellers

exported more than 580 million
items globally in 2025
sellers 50 states
There are Amazon independent sellers in

all 50 states, Washington,
DC, and Puerto Rico
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In 2025, Amazon helped US-based small businesses
get more than

$1 billion in financing
Perspectives
Inside the seller experience
What started with a terracotta foot scrubber brought back from Pakistan has grown into a 35-year-old wellness brand managing more than 110 SKUs in the Amazon store — and expanding globally.
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Amazon resources to fuel the growth of independent sellers

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Two men very pleased with interacting with their mobile and desktop Amazon Seller Assistant
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Product Opportunity Explorer helps independent sellers identify unmet demand and new growth opportunities. With this tool, sellers can analyze trends in customer searches, purchases, reviews, pricing, and more. With new AI capabilities, the tool analyzes billions of customer interactions—searches, clicks, and purchases—while considering their existing portfolio to deliver clear recommendations on similar but unique products. Sellers can see which features matter most, where demand is trending, and what customers expect to pay right away—insights that once required weeks of research. With one of its capabilities, Unmet Demand Insights, sellers can see where customer needs aren’t being met. For example, identifying that customers searching for cooling beach chairs want specific features like ventilated fabric, sun canopies, and solar-powered fans.
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With Amazon Supply Chain Services (ASCS), Amazon is opening its full portfolio of freight, distribution, fulfillment, and parcel shipping capabilities to businesses of all types and sizes, not only Amazon sellers. With ASCS, Amazon is expanding its third-party logistics capacity to support businesses in industries such as health care, automotive, manufacturing, and retail. Any business can now move, store, and deliver everything from raw materials to finished products using the same supply chain that supports Amazon and independent sellers.
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With Amazon’s listing creation tool, independent sellers can create high-quality product listings by describing their products in just a few words, uploading an image, or providing a URL from their existing website. The tool generates titles, bullet points, and descriptions using customer insights and shopping data that resonate with customers.
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Seller University is a free educational resource designed to empower independent sellers to create successful businesses. Sellers can learn how to list, price, fulfill, and advertise with Amazon, or explore advanced topics to take their selling to the next level. With videos and downloadable guides that span across 35 topic areas in 21 languages, sellers can stay up to date on tools, processes, and opportunities.
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Every day, customers can discover small businesses while shopping in the Amazon store—by looking for the Small Business badge on listings and interacting with Rufus, Amazon’s generative AI-powered conversational shopping assistant.

When shoppers ask about small businesses, Rufus can direct them to relevant pages, such as Support Small for storytelling and education, and the Small Business Shopping Hub for deals, seasonal picks, and more.