One of the hardest parts of learning how to sell on Amazon is the process of gaining confidence in your inventory sourcing skills. When we’re looking for profitable items to add to our Amazon inventory, we might get caught up in worry that we’re making a bad decision. What if the price tanks? What if
How to Increase Amazon FBA Sales on Slow-Moving Inventory
We all want our FBA inventory to sell as soon as it hits the warehouse shelves, and in an ideal world we would never have to deal with monthly storage fees or long-term storage fees for any of our inventory. But the reality for all of us as Amazon sellers is that at times we
How to use Scoutify to Find Profits in Amazon Restricted Items
It’s so frustrating. You’re out sourcing for inventory and finally find a profitable item, only to discover you’re restricted from selling that item on Amazon. Seriously?! When this happens to me, I usually just put the item back on the shelf and keep sourcing. I try to forget about that restricted item and move on with
How to Compete against Amazon and Win
I’ve heard it before and thought it was true. Well meaning people have said, “If Amazon is selling the item, then run away as fast as you can. You can never win against Amazon.” I followed this advice for many years thinking if I were to compete against Amazon, I’d always lose. It turns out they
How to Win the Amazon Buy Box for Maximum Sales
We left off on the previous blog post with my top 6 points that you need to understand about how the Amazon buy box works. If you haven’t checked out that post, I highly recommend that you read it first before moving forward with how to win the buy box. As a reminder, Amazon does
Decoding the Electronics Amazon Sales Rank Code
Most resellers rely on Sales Rank when making purchasing decisions. For reasons known only to Amazon, the category of Electronics often does not provide a category wide sales rank. Many times when scanning an Electronics product, a scouting app (like Scoutify) will return a sales rank of 0 or N/A (Not Applicable). In almost all
Case Study – Electronics Sales Ranks and Competing Against Amazon
In this blog post, I asked you, according to your own sourcing strategies, if you would buy a particular Electronic item or not. Here’s the item we looked at: Product: Adonit Jot Pro Fine Point Stylus – Silver ASIN: B00931DHKM Clearance price at Target: $3.94 Total available for sale: 20 NOTE: This post was updated
Using Feedback Genius To Generate Positive Product Reviews
Last time on the blog, I interviewed Karon Thackston about her new book, Review Advantage (she said her coupon code review10 is still live). In that interview Karon shared so many great tips and tricks (as well as what not to do) in order to get more product reviews for the items you’re selling on Amazon. Now we
How to Provide Box Level Details on Amazon FBA Shipments
If you’ve been reading your seller emails from Amazon, you know that starting November 1, 2016, FBA sellers will be required to provide box level details of the contents of their shipments to FBA warehouses. Failing to provide those details will incur a fee for your shipments of 15 cents per item. Additionally, Amazon has
Amazon’s Inventory Liquidation Program – How to Get Paid for Removing Inventory From Amazon
There are multiple situations where it’s in your best interest to remove some of your items from your Amazon FBA inventory. Here are just a few: To remove dead inventory that seems like it will never sell To avoid long term storage fees Because the item has become restricted and you can no longer sell it
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