Selling Online - Amazon FBA Podcast: Recent Episodes
Quin Amorim
QA Selling Online | Podcast About Private Label and how to start an online business selling physical products.
Quin Amorim is the host of this Amazon FBA podcast, he started selling online in 1997 and he creates private label products and sells online, mostly at Amazon FBA.
If you want to learn for free how to private label products and how to sell online, using Amazon FBA, Facebook ads sales funnels, and Shopify stores.
Today’s guest, Jay Gibb, is a former software engineer and the Founder and CEO of B2B SaaS company, CloudSponge.
Together with his team, Jay has helped thousands of ecommerce store owners optimize their word-of-mouth sales since 2010.
Jay is an expert at helping e-commerce stores build the right features to reduce customer acquisition costs and increase sales.
Welcome to the show, Jay!
- You live in California, but you studied at SAIT? How did you get into software development? Do you still code? What is Cloudsponge? One easy way to boost sales in 2022? How to seamlessly allow shoppers to share wish lists, registries, and coupon discounts without leaving your website. It's harder than ever to get someone to share anything that is not a cat video or a hate message. How to we get people to share? How do we convince the user to upload their contacts? When a customer uploads their contacts who has access to them? early stages of LinkedIn they would ask us to upload our contacts to find who was already there, and then they would mass spam everyone Does it have affiliate tracking capabilities after the share? Do I need to know how to code to install it? what if my email is like protonmail?
https://www.cloudsponge.com/qa
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jaygibb
Ben Leonard, best known as the founder of Beast Gear, Ben Leonard is the classic millennial entrepreneur. He built a business on a laptop, in a cupboard, in his spare time. The difference? Ben grew an international 7-figure business and successfully exited after 3 years; the business holy grail.
Now Ben is doing it all over again and helping others to do the same with his ecommerce brokerage (www.ecombrokers.co.uk)
- Tell me about your journey to where you are now What does Ecom Brokers do? Why sell your ecom business? How to build your business so it is sellable and valuable? What tips do you have to make the business transferable (So it doesn't need me)? How to actually plan and execute your sale (and how not to!) Biggest mistakes people make What's the average multiple of an Amazon business today? Can a business without 12 months of trailling data, be sold at a fair price? Inventory is paid at landed cost, or sell value? what if I have a unique and patented product does that add much to the multiple? Do buyers still care that my brand is on Costco and Walmart shelves? Tell us about the ecom brokers movie!?
Links and Contact For Ben
Ben@ecombrokers.co.uk
https://www.instagram.com/benleonardpro
https://www.instagram.com/ecombrokers
https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjleonard/
Andy Hooper CEO of Global ECommerce Experts has been successfully expanding e-commerce brands into new markets for over 15 years.
⦁ Before we start, tell me what is a Petty Officer of the sea cadets⦁ Tell us about our journey⦁ Expanding your brand into Europe⦁ Has Brexit affected the expansion to Europe?⦁ is it worth selling on Amazon Europe?⦁ What is needed?⦁ Does Amazon collect taxes automatically?⦁ if I sell in Europe on Amazon and Shopify, do you recommend having Amazon fulfill my EU Shopify orders?⦁ Having inventory in 3 or 4 places becomes expensive, where should we store it?⦁ Is it cheaper to advertise in SOme European countries?⦁ For a US or Canadian company shipping products into Europe, what do we need?⦁ Do I require 1 VAT for all of Europe or does Germany require their own?
Links to Andy Hooper
https://globale-commerceexperts.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyghooper/
Brent Zahradnik Founder of AMZ PathfinderBrent started Amazon ads in 2015 and he already had a Google ads background.
⦁ The only guest to have been here 4 times⦁ Are you still in France?⦁ How many people do you have on your team now?⦁ What's new in the Amazon PPC world⦁ Do you use 1 ad per campaign? for relevancy⦁ Do you see better results with DSP or SP?⦁ How about DSP for external services, like yours for example?⦁ do you use Amazon Advertising Manager for anything? I created rules⦁ Do you have any clients that require the geographical ads, like Tire shops?⦁ If a new seller comes in and launches another Vitamin C, do they have any change running PPC?⦁ Can we still launch a product with only PPC?⦁ Do you do external campaigns bringing traffic to Amazon?⦁ Do you take them to your listing or the store?
Links from this episode:
https://www.amzpathfinder.com/https://sell.amazon.com/grow - Amazon Growth for new sellershttps://rytr.me/ Ai Content writer
Robyn Johnson Founder and CEO at Marketplace Blueprint, and owner of Best from the nest
⦁ We are together in the SEMrush / Sellzone lifetime VIP circle⦁ I see you are also a professor on the SEMrush Academy free course⦁ You are a VIP contributor for the search engine journal, how long have you been writing there?⦁ Robyn, I heard you started with $100 tell us the story⦁ We both know the days of starting with $100 are gone, do you think starting with $10K today would be as good as $100 back then?⦁ How did Marketplace Blueprint get started?⦁ I just looked at your site and I see you use Wikipedia-style links to your own content, I like that for SEO.⦁ A question I never asked anyone before: What terms do you put in the backend? is it stuff you don't want people to see in the front? Do you repeat them?⦁ What's number one for you? Main image, Title, or reviews?⦁ Since you have been around for a while like me, Do you still name your Amazon images with keywords? Alt tags⦁ What is the low-hanging fruit for people that want to optimize their own presence on Amazon?⦁ Do you still sell on Amazon or are you 100% on Marketplace Blueprint?
Robyn Johnson Links
https://marketplaceblueprint.com/show/https://www.linkedin.com/in/robynjohnsonaz/ Robyn's LinkedInhttps://www.semrush.com/academy/courses/how-to-sell-on-amazon-the-ultimate-step-by-step-guide-with-robyn-johnson - Free Course
amzrobynhjohnson
Michael Epstein sold his first company in 2013 and served as CMO of multiple ecommerce brands.He's a principal at PostPilot, a platform that allows you to send personalized postcards automatically at scale, as easily as you'd create an email campaign.
⦁ How did you get started with ecommerce⦁ What was the biggest exit you were involved in?⦁ What is PostPilot?⦁ I hear that Ezra Firestone uses PostPilot⦁ Getting clients for software is different than getting clients for physical products?⦁ Do I upload a list of names and addresses and you guys send my cards?⦁ Can I design my own cards inside your platform?⦁ Is it possible to do handwritten messages?⦁ What analytics can we get from a system like this? Open rate?⦁ Michael, please share his insights into acquiring and retaining customers⦁ Going back in time to old strategies like using snail mail seems to work often.⦁ How to Level Up your Lead Generation and Close More Deals with Handwritten Cards.⦁ How to Bring Direct Mail Into the Digital Age and Increase Ecommerce Brand Retention and Profits.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mepstein1/https://twitter.com/mepstein311https://www.postpilot.com/
Founder of Science Natural Supplements Cody Bramlet
Cody Bramlett is a “recovering personal trainer” turned eight-figure nutritional supplement brand owner.After scraping by as a personal trainer and gym owner, Cody’s supplement empire all started with solving problems with his own His father's chronic inflammation.
Cody's dad had pain because of his diet, stress, and being generally overweight. He custom formulated products such as Turmeric with BioPerine that stopped his Dad’s chronic inflammation.
Cody now also teaches other driven entrepreneurs how to profitably start, scale, and sell their own nutritional supplement brands through his coaching and mastermind called, Supplement Millionaire
⦁ How did you get started in being a personal trainer?⦁ How can anyone overcome the competition in the supplement space?⦁ What certificates are mandatory when creating a supplement?⦁ San diego capital of affiloiate⦁ What is the average CPC when running ads? or Customer acquisition Costs?⦁ Keys to Establishing a Profitable Supplement Brand Business
https://www.linkedin.com/in/cody-bramlett-8222b71b0/https://www.facebook.com/sciencenaturalsupplementshttps://science-naturals.com/shophttps://supplementmillionaire.com/mastermind/cart
Touseef Riaz, CTO at Inventooly, a tool that helps with inventory management and Forecasting (AI-based forecasting) across multiple channels including Amazon, Walmart, and Shopify.
Brother of Omer Riaz, Founder of Urtasker - One of the biggest Amazon agencies
Questions for Touseef Riaz
⦁ Do you work with Urtasker?⦁ How big is the Urtasker team now?⦁ So, what is this new tool Inventooly?⦁ The tool predicts my future sales so It can estimate how much inventory is needed?⦁ What is the Strategic Procurement Management?⦁ Does the tool take into consideration historical demand in certain periods, like Christmas, summer, winter, labor day…⦁ I'm assuming we will tell the tool how long your manufacturing time and shipping time are.⦁ Will it track my shopify Shipstation, inventory, Amazon, Walmart (Deliverr)⦁ Did I read something about automated reordering? will it work with PL on demand? will it order a full box?
https://inventooly.com/
Frederick Vallaeys CEO at Optmyzr and One of Google’s first 500 employeesFred spent 10 years at Google building AdWords and teaching advertisers how to get the most out of it.
- How did you start with Google back in 2002⦁ it's safe to say you are Google certified lol⦁ What was your job at Google?⦁ How did Optmyzr start?⦁ Did you have a day you realized it was going to work?⦁ Tell me how Optmyzr works⦁ Do I create the ads in your platform and it sends them to Google or do I create them the old way and the tool optimizes it?⦁ Can I connect with Amazon?⦁ Does the SEO of the landing page, interfere with the CPC?⦁ What are the most common mistakes you see people do in PPC
Links to Fred Vallayes Stuff:
Book: https://www.amazon.com/Unlevel-Playing-Field-Biggest-Mindshift-ebook/dp/B09QMTY7PN/Optmyzr site: https://www.optmyzr.com/
Ganesh Krishnan founder of AiHello
AiHello uses Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning algorithms
⦁ How did you get started?⦁ Are you still a seller?⦁ Is AiHello actual Ai?⦁ With the number of new sellers every day, getting new customers to your platform is easy?⦁ What's an example of cost per acquisition?⦁ Very important for me is to dominate a keyword and not simply get sales from it. Can I tell my ai, at the keyword level what my intentions are?⦁ If I have multiple accounts can I connect them all to one login, or do I need 1 account per Account?⦁ How many team members can I add, and can I limit their access if I want to?⦁ On Autopilot, You don't bill according to ad spend, that's interesting. your commission is on the ad revenue⦁ When I have hundreds of campaigns, with a dozen ads in each campaign, running with 100 keywords in each ad, it turns into millions of operations needed to manage it all.⦁ What is the order fulfillment function?⦁ How does the Hybrid function work?
Links To AiHello
AiHello - https://www.aihello.com/
Dr. Travis Zigler is a recovering optometrist turned ecommerce entrepreneur. He is the founder of Eye Love and an Amazon PPC specialist.
Due to the success of Eye Love (over $5.4 million in 2021), others have asked if Dr. Travis would help them grow their business online, and more specifically with Amazon, which led to the creation of the Profitable Pineapple Ads Agency
Questions Asked to Dr. Travis Zigler
⦁ How do I fix my chronic dry eye?⦁ How did you get started on Amazon?⦁ Why should someone list their product on Amazon?⦁ How do you differentiate your product on Amazon?⦁ What is the easiest and most effective Amazon Ad you can create?⦁ How to use Amazon PPC to scale Amazon sales.⦁ Tell us a little more about the charity you started and the mission work.⦁ What is the secret weapon in Amazon PPC?⦁ What is the most important piece of Amazon PPC?
Dr. Travis Zigler's Superpowers
- Selling on Amazon - He does over $4 million on Amazon per year and just shy of $1 million on Shopify per year Amazon PPC - We manage about $1 million in ad spend per month across all our clients Building an Audience of Raving Fans (Building a YouTube Channel and Facebook Group) - we have a following of around 100,000 that we’ve built over the last 5 years. Blogging and Affiliate Marketing Helping Business Owners Scale Their Business and Get Out of Their Own Way :)
Links to Dr. Travis Zigler
Profitable Pineapple Ad Agency and Free Amazon PPC Course: http://profitablepineapple.com/Blog: https://salesfunnelhq.com/YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCEH606Bwri3_8EJDpYm-qtwAmazon PPC Pros Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmazonPPCpros/Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/drtraviszigler/Free Course on my Google Ads Strategy: https://salesfunnelhq.com/increase-amazon-fba-sales/
Chase Harmer Founder and CEO at ProfitPayAn entrepreneur since the age of 19 - learned from the school of hard knocks - raised 25 million
Almost died but came back to life to make a successful company from the ashes
⦁ ProfitPay isn't your first venture, what's your story before profitPay⦁ ProfitPay is a payment processor, like Stripe or PayPal?⦁ So I can use PP on my shopify, Woocommerce…?⦁ The logo is a flying pig? Why?⦁ You have a virtual CC with cashback! How does it work?⦁ Can I use it to pay my suppliers in China, India, Portugal, then pay staff in Pakistan and Philipines all with different currencies?⦁ I saw something on your site that has me super excited. Cashback on media buying.⦁ Can I issue cards to my staff and have spend alerts sent to me?⦁ As someone that's in the fintech industry, I can assume you are a crypto fan?⦁ Does ProfitPay have any crypto pay options yet?⦁ How to raise 25 million
Chase Harmer and ProfitPay links:
Chase Harmer on LinkedinProfit Pay
Anita Mar is a registered Trademark agent and the founder of Trademark Angel
⦁ How do you know if you need to protect your business name?⦁ The most interesting legal battles she has seen and how to protect yourself.⦁ Do you know how many trademarks you have done?⦁ Benefits of getting a TM in China?⦁ What if I want a brand that is already trademarked in another country?⦁ Does an EU trademark capture all European EU members? ( 27 countries)⦁ How long is it taking now to actually get the TM⦁ Amazon brand registry is only looking for TM serial numbers, so within a few days of applying you can get registered, but what happens if the TM gets refused?⦁ A competitor is using your trademark outside of Amazon? What should you do?
Anita Mar's Links
https://www.facebook.com/trademarkangel/https://www.linkedin.com/in/anitamar/https://twitter.com/trademarkangelhttps://trademarkangel.com/
He is an active Amazon Seller and has also coached other Amazon Sellers on how to grow their business. Isaac Kuhlman - Co-founder at Real Coaching
- Isaac, how did you start your eCommerce journey? Selling since 2013 Do you remember the moment you realized it was going to be more than just part-time? Do you mostly Private label? What is the biggest mistake you see new sellers making? Who do you coach? starting sellers, advanced, or both? How is your coaching? Zoom calls, in person, 1vs 1? Since you are a seller, do you have clients who hold back info from you? since you could technically launch the same thing What niches do you recommend and what do you tell them to stay away from? Do you recommend staying away from oversized? Do you know a way to get away from the new sea can rates?* Something I've been working on is Ad rules, have you tried, and if so any success?
Links to Real Coaching and Isaac Kuhlman
https://goteamreal.com/email: realvipcoach@gmail.com
Company: REAL Coaching
Lesley Hensell Co-founder of Riverbend Consulting
An Amazon seller turned consultant, Lesley and her team at Riverbend solve critical problems and offer growth strategies for sellers on Amazon and other eCommerce platforms
- Lesley, how did you get started with eCommerce? When did you realize it was going to work, and you could finally leave the 9-5? How does one become a high-quality seller on Amazon? What's the best way to deal with the storage limitations? Black hat and dirty tricks are growing like crazy, is there a way to defend ourselves? Platform manipulation, everything we do to increase rank could technically be manipulation Listing quality score - H10 vs reality* Holidays are coming up Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Christmas, what advice do you have for sellers during these days, or preparing for them.
Links to Riverbend Consulting and Lesley Hensell
https://www.instagram.com/riverbendconsulting/https://www.linkedin.com/company/riverbend-consulting-amz/https://twitter.com/RiverbendConsulhttps://www.facebook.com/RiverbendConsultingLLC/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCx_LV0OmSG0NW3DwhenvW6A
Directly from LV Nevada founder of Branded Shareables, Edwin Dearborn
Edwin is on a mission to help business professionals attract their ideal customers.To that end, Edwin has written three books on the topics of branding, social media strategies, and influencer marketing.His latest book, Referology, details proven methods to exponentially grow one’s best clientele. source: referrals.
- How long have you lived in Vegas? Was Vegas a strategic location or simply a personal choice? I want to talk about your Ten Core Principles of Business Growth, but first, let's talk referrals I heard you are the referral guy, how does one get referrals? What are Ten Core Principles of Business Growth?* Edwin my favorite color combination is black and red, and your book 1 is red and the other black and red
Get your free book at:
https://brandedshareables.com/best-referral-marketing-book/
He is a commerce marketing strategist, analyst, and content marketer with more than 15 years of experience in email, mobile and social media marketing Director of Content at Omnisend - host of the podcast, Cart Insiders: Greg Zakowicz
What is Omnisend?
Omnisend email & SMS automation platform for eCommerce.More than 70,000 eCommerce brands use Omnisend
Questions
- Tells us a bit about yourself Can you explain Omnisend for those who don't know it I believe IOS 15 came out a few days ago, what are the changes and how can marketers adapt? I heard ios15 will not allow tracking open rates? So web beacons are disabled? Can you explain how it worked until now, so people know the difference? If the person enables the mail privacy protection, those emails will be considered not open? If I don't know real open rates, I can't keep my list clean? So no more Geo-targeting subscribers? So A/B testing subjects is out of the question now? What is Hide my Email? As a user, if I subscribe to a newsletter using hide my email, will I still get the content sent to my real email?* IOS 14 or 14.5 had already some issues with FB targeting but apple changed them to accommodate FB, will they do the same this time?
Links and Contact for Greg Zakowicz and Omisend
Greg@omnisend.comOmnisend
Rael Lowenthal Head Of Sales at Zee
- What is an Importer of Record and how does it apply to Amazon FBA? What is Zee and what service or services does Zee offer to Amazon sellers? Why Zee, was it just because you guys were lucky enough to get the domain? In which countries does Zee support an Importer of Record service for Amazon sellers? Who are Zee’s target clients? Is there a certain size that a seller has to be in order to use Zee? What is the difference between Zee and a Freight Forwarder? How long does customs clearance take on a typical shipment with Zee? Can Zee assist sellers in setting up EORI and or VAT registrations in the EU? Can Zee act as an Importer of Record when a seller wants to use a freight provider of their choice? If so, how does this process work? do you offer import compliance? can I put zee in contact with my manufacturer and just get a turn key solution delivered to where I want?
Joe Valley is Co-Owner of Quiet Light Brokerage
1 best seller in 7 AMZ categories - The Exitpreneur
Joe has 5 steps of negotiation with Aggregators
What we talked about
- Every FBA business has been or is being approached by Aggregators
- what are aggregators
- how do they get money?
- In most cases, more than half of the money you ever make in a business is the day you sell it
- Chapter 13 ais FBA Roll UPS - can you explain what this is
-is an earn-out ever favorable for the seller?
- hired to manage your ex-company
- Joe talks about add-backs
- how long from start to finish
Links to Joe Valley
https://www.exitpreneur.iohttps://quietlight.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-valley-833ba48/
CEO of Buyboxer, a top 100 Amazon seller. Founder of Smart Scout and Host of the Smartest Amazon seller podcast. Scott Needham
Scott has been here before in 2019 episode 325 so you can check that one out after if you didn't already.Scott Needham is a top seller, and been selling on Amz since 99 but started FBA in 2009 ( so a lifetime ago)Welcome, Scott.
- When you were here in 2019 pre covid, you had 150 people working for you, how much did covid affect that number? Scott, I saw a video you did, at the warehouse at night where you did a workout in fast forward doing all the tasks How is Buy Boxer doing since we last spoke You developed a tool that is available to the public. Is it fair to assume it's something you built for yourself originally? This tool is called Smart Scout. We all know there are a ton of AMZ seller tools out there, but some are just copies of the previous one. How is SmartScout different? There's one feature that I had a lot of fun checking out, and it's the map of sellers per location. I found all my neighbors with that. Every tool now has a free online course included, do you have one too? (are u the instructor) I didn't try the tools yet, but I read about it, can you explain the Traffic Graph What's the arbitrage finder?
https://www.smartscout.com/
Discount: smartpodcast20
Mac Schlesinger went from minimum wage warehouse worker to Amazon Tycoon within a few years.Mac’s Amazon journey began over 10 years ago. He started off buying discounted goods from the local shopping mall and selling it for profit online.He became fascinated by the world of e-commerce and began to experiment with simple strategies like selling retail arbitrage, drop-shipping, and selling his own private label products.
After growing his own online business to 7+ figures he discovered the key ingredients to hacking the Amazon game.Best Seller Listers was born.Mac Schlesinger's mission is to empower Amazon sellers with the right services, tools, partnerships, and insights to help them launch, build, and grow their sales.
• Mac how did you get started with selling on Amazon?• when did you realize selling on amazon was going to work?• How do you get listings ranked to page one?• What are the best categories to get into now?• you use human psychology in the listing copy? Please explain• What are the big brand's blind spots?
https://bestsellerlisters.com/845 288 1740
Joining us today is Ian Bower, founder, and owner of Graphic Rhythm, and other businesses that revolve around design, copywriting, and Amazon marketplace selling.When Ian isn’t working, you can find him outside hiking, camping, and spending time with his wife and children.
- How do you go from being a chef to founding a design company? Being a chef is one of those things that never really goes away, right? How does Graphic Rhythm work? How Graphic Designers Can Monetize Their Work How To Sell Identity Design to Your Agency Clients What Are the Conversion Triggers of Amazon Customers How To Create Amazon Images That Convert You do A+ content as well? How does the payment work, is it on an image basis, hourly basis, or monthly subscription? How does it work if you are dealing with someone in shoes or clothing where every item has 25 variations, is the price per parent SKU or all children? Does the designer connect to my seller central to do the changes? How does it work for an agency 1 A+ content per brand
https://www.graphicrhythm.com/
Glenn Lundy Grew a Dealership 800% In Five Years
Glenn Lundy has 20 years of experience in the automotive industry, Glenn lead a dealership from 120 cars a month to an 800% increase in sales in five years, becoming the 2nd largest used car franchise in the country.
Glenn has been spotlighted on ABC, NBC, and CBS, and is an expert in dealership culture development, and leadership training.
He is a husband to 1, a father to 7, and the host of the wildly popular Facebook Live show #RiseAndGrind.
His unique style makes him one of the most coveted GMs in the business. Glenn has the unique ability to help identify the areas for growth in your store, and teach creative ways to invoke your dealership's spirit.
- How did you grow your dealership 800% in five years? * what make of car was the dealership? How do I know I'm the best version of myself? Tell me about the power of a morning routine? * What's it like being an entrepreneur and father to 7? * Tell me about your time being homeless and when you attempted suicide? * What are some of the biggest lessons you learned studying successful people? no snooze ever 1st hour no phone gratitude write down goals physical exercise* Send out an encouraging message to lift someone else
Links for Glenn Lundy
themorning5.comGlennLundyLLChttps://glennlundy.comofficialglennlundy@facebook.com@glenn_lundy on InstaTwitter - @glennblundy
Tarik Berrada Co-founder and CSO at Chez M19 an AI-Powered Advertising Technology for Amazon sellers.
- Are you in Paris Tarik you are a data scientist? When did you realize you had a passion for data? How did all this get started? I see you have at m19 people who used to work at Google and a few ex Criteo and even a Former Senior Manager at Amazon Advertising, how did the team get together? I tried some ai companies before but one didn't even have ai, just bulk If then statements all performed once every 24 hours at 4 Am What do you love most about your tool?* A tool like that has huge staff costs engineers
m19.comTarik@m19.com
Product and Factory Inspections With Mitchell Johnson at V-Trust Inspection Service
- Mitch, how did you get started, what's your story? how long have you been living in China? What is V trust? Can you explain how an inspection/ independent assessments work? Pre-shipment is the one you do when dealing with a trader How big is your team? How does factory audit work and why do we buyers need it? do you inspect certificates Buyers don't know much about compliance what are the most common mistakes Try to verify colors by code* Get samples sent to your inspection company
In 2020 alone, the inspections and audits their 350+ full-time engineers conducted exceeded 100,000 man-days all over China, Vietnam, India, Thailand, Bangladesh, Cambodia & Malaysia.
https://www.v-trust.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/company/v-trust-inspection-service/
Nacham Lieser Founder of ConnectBooks
4Billion + In Amazon transactions processedHe is the go-to guy when sellers want to get real clarity in their business.
- How did all this get started? The nightmare of sharing products from one account with a partner do you also sell on Amazon, or have you ever? What is the craziest thing you've seen in business? What is connectbooks? what are the 2 large equations you've been in the past year? Can I use it for Amazon in Europe? so, if I have QuickBooks and connectbooks will all my amazon tax be taken care of? How long until it's available for Walmart and Shopify? What was the biggest challenge you've had to overcome? silicon valley growth and having to upgrade servers* What is one of the resources you use the most often?
30-day trial + 90 days Code: PC3
https://www.connectbooks.com/
DAVID TAO
David Thomas Tao is an entrepreneur, editor, and voice actor based in New York City.
He is the Co-Founder and Editor of BarBend.com, a media brand that provides multi-platform coverage of news, analysis, training, and opinion in strength training and sports.
One of the largest and fastest-growing fitness sites on the web, BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting and is also a partner broadcaster for the 2019 Reebok CrossFit Games.
David is a 2019 Forbes 30 Under 30 list maker for Media. A veteran of the health & fitness industry, he has nearly a decade of experience building and running editorial teams in the space
David graduated from Harvard University and served for several years as Editorial Director/Chief Content Officer of Greatist.com.
In addition to his work in the health & fitness industry, David has been a writer for Fortune and Fortune.com, as well as a contributor to Forbes.com, Slate, and numerous other outlets across the web and in print.
QUESTIONS:
- David tells us your story before being a Forbes 30 under 30. Was life always easy? Graduating from Harvard is a big deal, how has that helped you in business? You were an intern at Rolling Stone Magazine? David, why Bar Bend? What is the landscape of niche content? How do you build a loyal niche audience? What are some strategies for partnering with larger organizations? What about content syndication? How can content businesses insulate themselves from seasonal shifts? How do you recruit writers and contributors?
COMPANY:
- BarBend is a news, analysis, entertainment, and opinion platform for what’s relevant in strength-based competition and training. And is an independent website with multiple contributors BarBend is the Official Media Partner of USA Weightlifting Celebrates diverse methods and modes of strength training and sport.
LINKS:
www.barbend.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/datao/
www.twitter.com/d_tao
www.instagram.com/davidthomastao
d_tao
info@barbend.com
Amit Rosenthal is the CEO of an 84-year-old freight forwarding and international transportation company, ROSENTHAL
- How long have you been in logistics? Since 1937? When did you realize Amazon was a big opportunity for logistic services? What services do you offer, do you actually do the transport or mediate it? what if I have products that cant be exposed to extreme cold temperatures? Since most Amazon sellers are inexperienced in international shipping is DDP the best solution? Can you explain what is DDP (Door to door) I see you listed on Amazon SPN Service Providers Network) does that give you high exposure? I don't know anything about incoterms customs regulations, duties like in any industry when something starts to boom you always see the inexperienced fly by night companies startup. Have you seen that too in your field?
Links
https://www.ros-ecom.com/
https://www.ros-il.com/en/
Amit's email:
amit@rosenthal-logistics.com
info@rosenthal-logistics.com
facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/amit.rosenthal.5/
twitter account: @RosenthalAmit
Michael and Kathryn Redman are sweethearts, best friends, and the husband-and-wife team behind Half a Bubble Out (HaBO), a marketing and consulting firm.
They’re also founders of HaBO Village, an 8-year hold membership website that helps leaders build Passion & Provision companies, full of profit, purpose, and legacy.
For more than 17 years, they have helped business leaders across the world grow their companies, both have taught at the university level and are frequent guest speakers at events
- How did you 2 meet? Looking back do you still believe going into business together was a good idea? Why Half a bubble out? What's the meaning? You just recently launched a hardcover, Why did you decide to write Fulfilled? What advice do you frequently give small business owners? What did you learn from growing too fast as a company? Why do you consider Vision to be one of the most important parts of a business to get right? I did my research and found Rabbit Hole Hay, tell me all about it What the heck is premium hay and what's the difference from the normal one? Where else do you sell? Amazon, Walmart? Do you also host a podcast?
Michael and Kathryn Redman's Links
https://www.facebook.com/HalfaBubbleOut/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelkredman/
https://www.instagram.com/halfabubbleout/
www.fulfilledthebook.com
Vitalii Khyzniak the Chief Growth Officer at Profit Whales - Tech-Enabled Amazon Advertising Agency.I’m obsessed with increasing profits for 7-9 figure Brands selling on Amazon beyond their expectations with the help of intelligent Amazon Advertising Technology that they developed at Profit Whales.
- Tell a bit about you What exactly is profit whales and what do you do Why you should keep investing in PPC? How to succeed with a limited budget? How to get a bestseller badge on Amazon with the help of Advertising? How to defend the bestseller badge? What are the common PPC mistakes to avoid? analyzing images to see low conversion How to launch on Amazon with PPC What is your favorite KW to start High volume, high relevancy Do you use broad phrase and exact in the same ad?* Amazon ACoS: Is It a Key to Your Amazon Ads Performance
Vitalii
https://profitwhales.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/vitaliikhyzhniak/https://www.facebook.com/v.khyzhniakhttps://www.instagram.com/khyzhniakDr amazon podcast
Jonathan Proulx has been able to master the game of selling brand name products on amazon and is now teaching others to do exactly what he did.John didn't start out this as a successful entrepreneur, for years before that he worked in the oil and gas industry with long hours away from loves ones and friends.After working for a year under someone else's rules he decided to go all in.
- Where in the Oil and Gas did you work? * Now you sell on Amazon, and it's mostly Wholesale, how did it start? When did you realize it was going to work In the oil sands, 90% of people make over 6 figures, so it is a scary feeling to let goTo make $200 online I need to sell 1 million What is amz soldier course? Canada prep and ship Prior notice with easy FDA
www.Canadaprepandship.comwww.Easyfda.comwww.Amzsoldier.com
Anna Davidson
An empowering Female Leader with years of experience in the eCommerce & Digital Marketing space.Anna is an Author of She Made It Happen, Speaker and Founder of Amazon 101 Academy and Your Freedom Podcast.Anna started selling on Amazon in 2013, and she has taught over 2000 students to build successful businesses.
She has a knack for being able to rank quickly on Amazon and outsmarting the competition.
Questions for Anna Davidson
- Anna tell me your story Did you sell somewhere else before Amazon? How were you selling, was it dropshipping, RA, wholesale, Private label? How did you decide to start selling on Amazon? Do you drive external traffic to Amazon? Before Amazon attribution how were you measuring results? What platforms do you use to get your traffic? Do you run any Influencer campaigns, and how? Are you still using rebate campaigns? What's your tip for quick ranking on Amazon do you go for a big keyword immediately? What is Inspired Mum? Whats is your mission
https://theannadavidson.com/amazon-101/
Jess Chan is the founder & CEO of Longplay, a full-service email marketing agency for e-commerce brands where they help businesses nurture, convert, and retain customers.Through their strategies, she's helped generate over $8.5M in revenue through email for their clients.Prior to Longplay, Jess was the CMO at an e-commerce company and she started Longplay to be the type of agency she wished she could have worked with.
- Jess how did you get into email marketing What services does Longplay offer, is it just an email sender like Mailchimp 1. Why should ecommerce brands use email marketing? 2. What are most e-commerce brands doing wrong in email marketing? besides not doing email marketing? 3. What kind of companies do you work with? How do you segment emails? do you have subdivisions inside each audience how effective is it to use somebody else's audience? will you come up with the promotion ideas? write the email copy HTML email has the same deliverability as the ones that are only text based Do you have experience with building ambassador programs? You don't have a "background" in marketing - how did you get to where you are today? What have you learned about growing a service-based business versus ecommerce?* In 4 years, you've gone from knowing nothing about marketing to owning a marketing agency and working with clients generating up to $70M in revenue. How has your personal growth journey looked through this process?
www.longplaybrands.com
https://www.instagram.com/jjesschan/
Blake Nubar, Holder Of The Record For Fastest Million Dollar Funnel
In just a few short years, Blake has generated over $17M in sales and in the process, he helped thousands of entrepreneurs launch a successful sales funnel.Blake has worked with sharks from ABC’s tv series “Shark Tank” along with HG and AMC TV starsBlake is on a mission to help as many people as possible achieve financial freedom with an online business.
Blake Nubar
- How did you get started? What is a sales funnel? Tell me about the time you received your 1st 2 comma award What did it feel like? When did you realize "Oh Crap, this is going to work" What is the best kind of business to start online? Do you have the record for the fastest 0 to 1 million in 43 days? If you were to do this over again, what is the first thing you would do? What is one of the resources you use the most often? What is Click profits? Freedom Fighters is your FB group? Your own site Blakenubar is not pixeled, is there a reason why? problem solved vs color of the button
Blake Nubar's Links
www.blakenubar.comhttps://www.facebook.com/blakenubar
Jason Klug moved to Utah and got a gig selling and developing Tablet and Ipad enclosures. That company sold and he started Klugonyx out of his 1 bedroom apartment. Full-service product development "firm" at the time.
Now he has a team of designers, engineers, management in the US, and an office in China with PMs, QC managers, and customer support.
Now they are not only serving customers but they are creating their own brands like Dorai Home.
Jason Klug
- Before starting Klugonyx you were developing tablet enclosures, are those like tablet cases? So this is not PL, you are actually developing products?! What did it feel like when you realized for the first time Klugonyx was going to work? What are some events or mistakes that you learned from that you like to pass on to clients as they launch their company? What happens if a product launch fails? What happens if you have an issue with a large order of products that need to be fixed and it has already been imported? Are there any products you wish Klugonyx had the opportunity to develop and which ones do you wish you didn't? What’s one of the biggest entrepreneurship lessons from failure you’ve learned so far in 2020? If you could time travel back to day one of your startups and have 15min with your former self to communicate any lessons you've acquired with the intention of saving yourself mistakes and heartache, what would you tell yourself? What's something a client fails to do that would set them up for success much earlier on prior to coming to Klugonyx? How do you stay productive with all of the brands/companies you run? What do you do when you’re not running them?
Jason Klug
- Website
www.klugonyx.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/klugonyx-group-llc https://business.facebook.com/klugonyx
@klugonyx
@doraihome
@thefoothook
Brent ZahradnikAmazon Advertising expert and founder of AMZ Pathfinder3rd time on the show. I think this is the record
- Prime day was just a couple of weeks ago, how did it go? Do you increate CPC on special event days, or simply increase the budget? Sell through rate and inventory... IPI for outside fulfillment in the UK if you increase your CPC on a particular KW for 3 or 4 days, when you turn it back down will it negatively affect your impressions? What are the latest changes in the PPC world Negative products on auto campaigns was pretty big saw somewhere that inside a campaigns search terms tab, there is an option to Add KW or negative Kw talking about features, video editing some people don't negative a single KW, instead they lower the bid, what's your stand on this? AMZ pathfinder has DSP Demand-side platform ( not drives) how is that going Saw a youtube video where this expert was talking about how to run DSP ads, but all he talked about was Amazon Display ads in seller central. so can you explain what is DSP? How do you get access to it* What other sites do you have access to with DSP?
https://amzpathfinder.comhello@amzpathfinder.com
Alasdair McLean-Foreman founder and CEO of Teikametrics AI company optimizing 4% of Amazon's total sales for over 6000 brands
Harvard graduate, that built his first million-dollar business from the dorm room the eCommerce sports brand HDO Sport, that became HDO Group.
Questions for Alasdair McLean-Foreman
- How did you get started with HDO? When you merged HDO Sport with Clever, you grew sales from 1.5 M to $5 mil in less than 2 years, can you explain the strategy Then we get to 2006 and you launch yet another fitness-related company "Traineo" can you talk about it? 5 years ago you launched Teikametricks. Why the name Teika Metrics? What is the flywheel? Can you give a quick overview of what a seller can get from Teikametrics? Do you have or will have anything for Walmart sellers? Bids are done by the hour?
Alasdair's Links
https://www.linkedin.com/in/alasdairmcleanforeman/ - Alasdair's Linkedinhttps://www.teikametrics.com/ - Teikametrics https://go.teikametrics.com/flywheel2.0 - Flywheel 2.0
Today's guest, Like many people, used to be overworked in a J O B where he managed 1 to 3 million dollars per month, and all he wanted was more free time to spend with family.
He is a influencer, a Savage marketer, Chief Growth Officer of BrandedMedia.io and the founder of VA Staffer
Questions for Jeff J Hunter
- Before we get into it, how do you get your FB posts to always be the top of other people's feeds? Jef I've seen you on TV, CBS, ABC, NBC News, you've even been on Russell Brunson's podcast, how the heck to do that? Does a business owner need a personal brand? What is the fastest way for someone to build their "Personal Brand"? Let's talk about VA Staffer, you started this almost 8 years ago, tell me how this happened? How to build a productive “remote team” to scale your business growth. How to create the perfect “SOP” (Standard Operating Procedures) How to apply what I call the “90-10 Rule” to Automate, Delegate and Delete the 90% of your tasks that are holding you back from the 10% that are your “zone of genius” Is a remote workforce productive without being in an office?* Jeff, who do you follow online as the nonofficial mentors?
https://vastaffer.com
https://jeffjhunter.com
https://linkedin.com/in/jeffjhunter
https://instagram.com/jeffjhunter
ANATOLY SPEKTOR is a serial entrepreneur, 6-figure Amazon seller, IT consultant, and the host of 2 podcasts
Anatoly Spektor was born in Eastern Europe, moves to Canada at the age of 21, changes his career to Software Developer, and works in some of the world’s most successful companies.But that wasn't enough, so he starts some side hustles: an Agile Consultancy and Amazon business.In 3 years Anatoly grows Agile Consultancy to 6-figures and in the next 3 years, the same happens with Amazon business.
In his free time, Anatoly runs marathons, does triathlons (Once as a challenge he completes one of the hardest triathlon races in the world Ironman Canada within 6 months of preparation), skis, surfs, and enjoys times with his wife and son.
Anatoly hosts 2 podcasts - “10 Million Journey” where Anatoly documents his journey of scaling online business from $200k to $10 million, and “The Unusual Jobs Show” where Anatoly interviews people with very unusual Jobs and covers their stories.
- Let's start from the beginning, where did you grow up in Europe? So you move to the warmest and expensive city in Canada, and become a software developer? Why Canada and why Software? You completed Ironman Canada? is it always in Penticton? How do you discover Amazon as a seller? How did you decide to become a Digital Nomad? What is your plan scaling your business to $10 million? What are some tools that you* Why did you decide to move from being an IT consultant to an entrepreneur? * Why you consider “having fun” as the most important thing in life?
COMPANY:
10 Million Journey Podcast
LINKS:
Https://www.10millionjourney.comhttps://www.theunusualjobs.show
https://www.linkeein.com/in/anatolysprktor
instagram: @anatolyspektor @10millionjourney @theunusualjobsshow
Founder Of Canexxia With Two Decades Of Building Businesses, Maceo Jourdan
Maceo Jourdan is a serial entrepreneur with two decades of building businesses by creating great products and great marketing.
An early pioneer in computerized trading, Maceo built one of the earliest high-frequency trading systems for the S&P 500.
Then, when "pay per click" marketing platforms burst on the scene he translated his work into massively successful automated systems for Google and, later, Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and LinkedIn.
- How did all this get started? Tell me about 2005, you decided to get a loan and start Retire3 Media? What was the biggest challenge or failure you've had to overcome? Now let's jump to 2017/ 2018, 2 years before COVID you come up with a healthcare system that allows people to stay home? How does Canexxia work? What's the story of making videos every day for 4 years? Let's get some audience advice: I'm just getting started - now what do I do? is there a secret to building a really big company really fast? What are some important things we must do now, to sell a company in the future? My marketing isn't working, what do I do? My sales are flat, how do I turn things around? Do I really need 60 pieces of content every day? What is the secret to hiring a great ad agency and actually make money from what they do?
COMPANY:
Canexxia Healthcare
LINKS
https://canexxia.comwww.linkedin.com/in/maceojourdanhttp://maceojourdan.com/
The Hypnotic Amazon Listing Copywriter - Diane Boerstler
Today we have with us a Single Mom that is also a top 1% Amazon listing copywriter.
She's worked with over 5000 clients in the last 10 years. and helped them generate over 5 billion in sales.
And today we are going to pick her brain
- Diane, you are a Single mom of how many kids?
- How old were you when you first became an entrepreneur?
- What got you hooked on writing high converting Amazon listings?
- What are the three biggest mistakes you see new or experienced Amazon sellers make when optimizing their listing?
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1 place for sales copy on your images
- What's one tip you can give for increasing conversions right now?
- What's your average conversion rate and the highest you've achieved?
- What's your success rate in writing listings that out convert the competition and meet client expectations?
- Is it true you offer a 10x Revenue Guarantee and 365 Days of Optimization Edits?
- Do you write anything besides Amazon listings?
NLP HypnoCopy - The Hypnotic Amazon Copywriter
http://www.hypnoticamazoncopywriter.com/
https://www.facebook.com/groups/AmazonCopywritingClub
https://www.youtube.com/c/DianeBoerstlerNLPHypnoCopy/
https://Amazonsalesguru.com
Keywords Related to Amazon Listing Copywriting
Hypnotic Amazon Copywriter, Amazon listing copywriter, Amazon optimization service, Professional Amazon Description Writer, Professional Amazon Listing, How to Write an Amazon Listing, Amazon listing management, outsource Amazon listing
George Hartley CEO and Co-Founder of Smartrmail, Machine Learning Mail
George Hartley is CEO and co-founder of smartrmail.com, a tool that helps eCommerce stores send better email marketing by using machine learning to personalize email.SmartrMail stores sent a billion emails that generated $90 million in sales last year for their stores.Prior to SmartrMail he co-founded Australia’s largest art marketplace, bluethumb.com.au. Bluethumb has raised over $2.5m, and helps over 10,000 Australian artists exhibit and sell their art to collectors.
- What's the backstory on
- growing 10% month
- What are the key things stores should be doing to grow sales?
- What's working in email marketing at the moment?
- what type of email is working, full page, or 2 lines?
- What's the worst email marketing mistake stores are making?
- How do you measure email as a channel?
- How do you grow your email list?
- pop up work?
Company: SmartrMail
https://twitter.com/gthartleyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/gthartley/https://smartrmail.com
Tags:
eCommerce, growth marketing, email marketing, Shopify, marketing automation
Jonathan Slain Recession Expert, Traction Implementer, Speaker, and Bestselling author of, “Rock the Recession
Jonathan coaches high growth leadership teams across the United States to implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System®
Jonathan was Valedictorian of his graduating class and had the highest GPA ever in the history of Shaker Heights High School, where he was also voted “Next Bill Gates and Least Likely to Lose his Virginity.”
- Did your school mates get it right about Bill and your virginity? your book came out towards the end of 2019 so it was the perfect timing for everyone who suffered a wealth downturn due to COVID how did you get into recession What is the Entrepreneurial Operating System? what makes you different than other coaches? You own the domain recession.com? Was that the perfect find, or a big investment? BTW love your video header on the website Why should I look forward to the next recession? Opportunity in chaos? What's the first step to prepare for a recession? How do I write a recession plan? If you have money in the bank during a recession, is it safe there? How bad will the Coronavirus recession be? When will the Coronavirus recession be over? Is it possible to become recession-proof? How does one get an awesome testimonial from Peter Diamandis on a book?
Jonathan Slain's Book:
“Rock the Recession: How Successful Leaders Prepare For, Thrive During, and Create Wealth After Downturns"
Jonathan Slain's links
https://Recession.comhttps://report.recession.com/lastform/1
Coupon code “FailFast” for your audience to use at www.recession.com/shop to get 25% off ANYTHING that I sell on my Rock the Recession site (our workbook, our report, and our do-it-yourself recession planning kit).
Social links where I’ll be linking back to your show and where you can link to in the show notes if you like:
- https://www.facebook.com/RockTheRecession/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/rock-the-recession/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAKdWaeESrylXXpQCD6DPQ https://twitter.com/RockRecession https://w...
Dan Murray-Serter Co-Founder at Heights, Plant Based Brain Pills
Co-Founder at Heights, Host of UKs Top Business Podcast, Secret Leaders
- Hey Dan at one point you were the number 1 business podcast in the UK, is that still the case? How did you do that? Secret Leaders is almost 5 years old! How did you get started in podcasting? Is it true your dad told cambridge university to piss off? What is the best thing that has happened to you since you started? What was the biggest challenge you've ever had to overcome in business? If you were to do this over again, what is the first thing you would do? What is heights? Brain food normally are fats, Do you have a plant based version for people like me? Im guessing this is not a private label supplement, so how long does it take to research and develop something like this? Did your own need for peak performance play a part in developing the product? What did it feel like when you sold your first one? I would try anything to get more Concentration, focust and creative thinking... but mostly focus What part of what you do, you love the most?
Dan Murray Serter's Links
https://www.yourheights.com/
Rob Horenstein is an experienced and successful Amazon seller who started fulfilling orders for his eCommerce stores from his college dorm room.
After graduating Rob became interested in expanding his business by also implementing an FBA approach.
Now he uses Egrow.io for all of his product research because of its simplicity and powerful features.
Rob is currently combining his passions for videography and teaching others by creating video tutorials and educational resources for the company.
Questions for Rob Horenstein
- How did you get started with Amazon Is it very hard to compete, since many of the top sellers recommend the tools they are affiliated with or that used to work 3 or 4 years ago? Database research strategies. How to use the KPIs in Egrow's Database Research Tool? Product tracking and rank tracking. Why are these tools important? Upcoming markets and trends for Arab world Amazon FBA (ae , sa). What opportunity exists in these markets? What are estimated sales metrics? How are they useful? How to find a profitable product niche with the KW & Niche Tool? Opportunities for bundling items and starting a brand.
COMPANY:Egrow.io
LINKS:
www.egrow.io
https://www.instagram.com/egrow_io/https://www.facebook.com/egrow.io/
Dee Deng is the co-founder and CEO of Right Hook Digital - an eCommerce growth & performance marketing agency; managing millions in ad spend for their growth clients across Australia and the USA.
Obsessed over 'delivering wow' – Dee leads his agency team of 50+ while sharing his team's learnings & insights; educating brand owners on how to scale profitably and sustainably.
Most recently, Right Hook has been listed as one of Australia's Fastest Growing Companies of 2019/2020 by the Australian Financial Review.
Questions for Dee Deng
- How did you get into marketing Zen mind beginner mind book Team of 50 how hard or easy is it to manage What did you learn from your first failed venture that landed you broke in 2016? What's it like building & running a 50+ person, international team? Right hook name where did it come from Why should entrepreneurs seek to understand principles over tactics/hacks? How should you scale up your operations without the wheels falling off? What is the eCommerce Revenue Engine and why does it matter?
Links for Dee Deng
https://instagram.com/realdoseofdeehttps://linkedin.com/in/deedenghttps://righthokkdigital.com
Chris Hamze took teelaunch from $800K in debt to one of the worlds top print-on-demand apps
Ian Sells is CEO and founder of Million Dollar Sellers Mastermind
Ian has been growing and scaling businesses since 2004
He sold an Amazon brand, he launched many more and also opened an Amazon consulting business, managing over $30 million in sales.
He is the CEO and founder of MillionDollarSellers.com (MDS) an elite, mastermind Amazon group with nearly 400 sellers representing over $4 billion in 2019 Amazon sales.
Ian Sells is the co-founder and CEO of RebateKey.com the online cash-back rebate and coupon marketplace
Questions for Ian Sells
- How did you get into selling on Amazon What milestones in your career helped refine your selling strategy? How do you weigh changing tactics between organic sales growth versus PPC and ad spending? From your experience, what are the biggest mistakes sellers make? We are living through 2 pandemics. Do you think there will be an end of the fake guru pandemic Looking ahead of the COVID pandemic, how do you think it's shaping online buying and selling trends? What is your favorite launch strategy When managing multiple brands, what have been your best practices for streamlining processes and sustaining growth? Do you have high hopes for Walmart as a 3pl platform? What are some of the toughest decisions you've had to make as an online seller? let's talk Rebatekey did you do the codding or hired? How do you keep the site clean from re-sellers?* How did your MDS group come to be so successful?
https://Rebatekey.comhttps://MillionDollarSellers.com
Alice Vaughn is the famous creator of Offensive Crayons, an adults-only box of crayonswith names like Boner Bill Blue, Miscarriage Maroon, and Privilege (White), the inappropriately- named crayons have been banned from Amazon for “insulting children and Caucasians”.
Vaughn is also the co-host and producer of the popular comedy sex positive podcast, Two Girls One Mic: The Porncast
Alice welcome to the show
- How does someone get into the crayon business? What the heck are offensive crayons? How did you find your manufacturers and designers? I searched Amazon and your brand name as big organic demand, but your brand is not there... and I see many opportunistic sellers trying something similar Where else are you banned from? What are some things that have made you viral? You posted the "bad press" on the banner of your home page?? What do you think it is that makes a product go viral? How have you overcome being banned from multiple platforms and still sell over six figures? What's the deal with Amazon? You used to work in trademark* What do people NOT know about the trademark that they should know
https://instagram.com/offensivecrayonshttps://www.twogirlsonemic.com/https://www.offensivecrayons.com/
Private Label Law With eCommerce Lawyer Robert Wright
Robert Wright is the founder of Wright Law Office, PLLC - a boutique virtual law practice that helps e-commerce sellers across the globe protect and scale their online businesses.
Since launching his practice, Robert has advised thousands of eCommerce sellers on how to protect their personal assets, bulletproof their brands, weaponize their works, and safeguard their sales online.
QUESTIONS FOR ROBERT WRIGHT
- Why did you want to become a lawyer? Why niche down to eCommerce (niche down because you did it years ago, today it would be niche up, lol) If you weren’t a lawyer, what would you be? What’s the biggest mistake you see people make when launching their business? What’s the biggest failure you’ve had in business and how did you grow from it? What’s the biggest challenge you’ve had growing your own business? What’s the most important thing a business owner can do when launching to protect themselves? I shared the other day online how people could get Brand Registered with a pending TM What kind of IP can a Shopify seller or Walmart protect Do entrepreneurs really need lawyers when they’re just starting out? Let's talk about hijackers, Is there a way to get rid of them?* Your website is genius! Less is more and that is a funnel that does not allow the customer to get lost
COMPANY:Wright Private Label Law PLLC
LINKS:
https://www.privatelabelprotection.comhttps://www.facebook.com/groups/830794267074638/https://www.facebook.com/robert.wright.12764
Raitis Purins Head of Marketing at Printful
Raitis is the Head of Marketing at Printful, one of the market’s leading print-on-demand/ drop-shipping business with more than 800 employees
The company has fulfilled more than 16 million items since its founding in 2013.
Raitis joined the team 3 years ago and has since then led the winning marketing strategy and execution and scaled the marketing team from 5 to 50 people.
He is responsible for content marketing, SEO, PPC, CRO, PR, and affiliate marketing.
Questions for Raitis about Printful
- First of all congratulations, I know you just became a dad What is a print-on-demand business model and why is it growing globally? Besides Shopify can I connect Printful to other platforms like Etsy or Amazon After I get an order the process is automated? What 3 tips would you give to anyone starting an eCommerce store from scratch? Is there a way for listeners to use print-on-demand to increase their brand recognition? How important is SEO for a new eCommerce company? Does Printful do FIFO first in first out, or can some clients gain priority? What is the lowest hanging fruit for SEO for people starting out* What are printful's fulfillment warehouse services
$5 off entering FAILFAST
www.linkedin.com/company/printfulwww.facebook.com/printful/www.instagram.com/printful/www.twitter.com/Printful
The Founder of AMZ One Step - Saddam Hasan
Having managed a portfolio of $200M+ per year with a background in Financial Planning & Analysis, Saddam started selling on Amazon due to his passion for data analytics.He is very active in the FBA community organizing meetups across Canada.The Founder of AMZ One Step - the leading Amazon Listing Optimization Agency in Canada with 30+ Employees.
Questions for Saddam Hasan
- How did you get started with Amazon, were you a seller first? How have the dynamics for creating a brand on Amazon changed over the last year? How should sellers do proper research on their products? Is it important to be Brand Registered on Amazon? What's the best way to approach your listing images? Is there a recommended pattern for the Title? (do you use the brand name if they are not known) Are there any best practices for A+ Content? What can sellers do to stand out in the search pages? Do you suggest split testing on images & content? What is the best way to measure success? Are there ways to improve indexing of keywords for your listing? How beneficial is it to get a storefront designed?* What about videos? Are they important for all types of products?
Links to Saddam Hasan
www.amzonestep.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/saddam-hasan-cpa-66754abb/
https://www.facebook.com/saddam.hasan
https://www.instagram.com/amzonestep/
On this episode of QA Selling Online we speak to Steven Pope, Founder of My Amazon Guy.In this highly engaging episode Steven discusses a wide range of topics including launching a product, how to increase conversion rates and in his own words ‘never give up’.
We hope you enjoy this episode of QA Selling Online and advise you to have a notebook ready as there are lots of tips to learn from Steven in this very informative episode.
- 0 - 54 – Introduction to the show 55 – 2.21 – Steven talks about making his YouTube videos. 2.22 - 3.51 – Stevens's role as a television reporter. 3.52 – 5.25 – Teaching chess 5.26 – 7.40 – Does Ecommerce experience give you an advantage? 7.41 – 8.31 – How Steven got into Amazon. 8.32 – 9.53 – Momstir brand. 10.00 – 10.56 – Hot Sauce! When a product fails. 11. 00 – 12.28 – Let the margins make the decisions. 12.30 – 18.31 – Launching a product. 18.33 – 20.42 – Treasure hunt and external traffic. 20.43 – 22.16 – Reviving a product. 22.17 – 26.18 – Techniques to increase conversion rates. 26.21 – 28.09 – Knowing your audience. 28.10 – 31.15 – Hanging in there. 31.16 – 34.10 – Sharing knowledge. 34.11 – 38.00 – Favourite tools. 38.01 – 43.10 – Problems with refunds and registration to Amazon. 43.11 – 45.53 – Acknowledgements and promotion.
LINKS:
https://www.youtube.com/MyAmazonGuyhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/stevenpopeecommercemanger/https://twitter.com/myamazonguyhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/my-amazon-guy/https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClUSEsDS2sdgNJfCcCM_5Uw
https://myamazonguy.com/seller-central/growing-sales-on-amazon/
A former US military intelligence officer - JONATHAN HAWKINS
Directly from Huntington Beach, California Jonathan Hawkins is the CEO of The Hashtag Agent.
He was ranked in the top 1% of real estate brokers in the country.
Jonathan received the Presidential Call to Service Award on behalf of President Obama, and presented to him by a US Army General, for his countless hours of philanthropic work.
Also a member of the Genius Network, the highest-level marketing group in the world
The Hashtag Agent is a social media training and consulting company developed specifically for the real estate industry. Our mission is to take the guesswork out of your social media strategy in order to create a business and life you love.
- Tell me about your background what is a military intelligence officer? Why go into training and speaking? What's the job of a real estate broker? What makes The Hashtag Agent different from other social media training companies? I heard you say something that really relates to me. It was about taking care of the people who already love your posts and your brand... what are your favorite tools How do you generate leads for your own business What does it take to become a top 1% real estate broker* #WhoYouHireTrulyMatters why is this such an important hashtag?
Social Media
- Instagram.com/JonathanHawkinsOfficial Facebook.com/JonathanHawkinsOfficial Youtube.com/jonathanhawkinsofficial Twitter.com/hawkinsx linkedin.com/in/jonathanhawkinsofficial
Etienne Sanz de Acedo is the CEO of the International Trademark Association
Etienne Sanz de Acedo is the Chief Executive Officer of the International Trademark Association (INTA), a global association of brand owners and professionals dedicated to supporting trademarks and related intellectual property (IP) to foster consumer trust, economic growth, and innovation
He is responsible for the administrative operation of the Association’s offices, the supervision of all staff, and the development and administration of the annual budget.
Mr. Sanz de Acedo holds a law degree from the University of Alicante, an LLM in European Community Law from the Université Libre de Bruxelles in Belgium, an executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa Business School in Madrid.
Company: International Trademark Association
- INTA was founded in 1878, and is headquartered in New York City, with offices in Brussels, Santiago, Shanghai, Singapore, and Washington, D.C., and representatives in Geneva and New Delhi INTA is led by a Board of Directors composed of up to 36 representatives of member organizations. Members include more than 7,200 trademark owners, professionals, and academics from 187 countries.
Questions for Etienne Sanz de Acedo
- What global trends are challenging brand owners today (e.g., innovation, changing consumer behavior, emerging technologies), and how can they respond? As counterfeiting proliferates around the world, how can brand owners, government officials, and consumers get ahead of the problem? We often hear that entrepreneurs think of protecting their intellectual property last, rather than first—why should it be incorporated early on into their overall business strategy? What's is the message entrepreneurs and small business owners need to hear? Given that one of the greatest threats to brand owners is the proliferation of counterfeiting, do you see progress being made on that front? What are consumer expectations, including emerging consumers like Gen Z, in terms of a brand’s corporate social responsibility, and are these efforts key to consumer loyalty and trust? INTA has started its own podcast, Brand & New...how does that relate to innovation and change, and the IP community? Are there some countries in particular that you can point to where you are optimistic that new or pending trademark laws will significantly advance IP protection? As brand restrictions spread to more countries and across various sectors, what are the implications for brand owners, consumers, local economies, and society at large?
Links:
www.inta.orgSocial Media: @INTA, GoINTA, INTAGlobal
Richard Fletcher, an online coach who’s helped people to get to 20k of business a week or two, just by tweaking their social media
Over the last 15 years, he's sold a vast number of products online - from physical products to info products, to high ticket coaching programs and was even a dating coach for men
QUESTIONS:
- What was your first business or side hustle (not necessarily online) tell what is a dating coach - people would ask you how to date or find a date? How much competition is there in dating coaching? How did you get into selling physical products and where were you selling? how did you jump from the $500 coaching to your $5K course Tell me a little bit about your business What is “magic sauce”? What makes you qualified to tell people how to run their business? How do you actually make money then? Tell us about the 10K in a week guy? What about the photographer? Who even pays fifteen grand for wedding pictures?
LINKS to Richard Fletcher's content
https://magicsaucemarketing.com
- FACEBOOK PERSONAL: FACEBOOK.COM/RICHARDGRAHAMFLETCHER FACEBOOK GROUP: FACEBOOK.COM/GROUPS/MAGICSAUCE/ LINKEDIN: LINKEDIN.COM/IN/RICHARDGFLETCHER/* INSTA: INSTAGRAM.COM/MAGICSAUCEMARKETING/
When new brands get on Amazon in 2020, they can't just type their brand name into the "brand" tab...Instead some people enter the word "Generic" or even "NA".This is a mistake and will make your life harder in the future.
To know more please listen to this episode
Robin Dreeke was the head of Behavioral Analysis Program of the FBI
A 28-year veteran of US federal service, including the United States Naval Academy, United States Marine Corps, and 21+ years of working counterintelligence secret agent as well as a former head of the Counterintelligence Behavioral Analysis Program of the FBI
Robin received advanced training and experience in the area of social psychology and the practical application of the science behind relationship development and trust, ultimately leading the FBI's elite Behavioral Analysis Program
Robin Dreeke is also the founder of People Formula
Robin I was just starting to think my life was super exciting, and then I find out that while I was typing a few words on my keyboard you were out there convincing a Russian spy to switch sides
- How does someone become a spy? Do you apply like a job? Illegal Spies vs Legal Spies with diplomatic immunity (is there such thing as legal spies) What benefits would you have from successfully recruiting a Russian spy? (your country) Spies in the US are measured in the hundreds or thousands? What can a spy working a normal 9 to 5 job and living what seems a normal life, what can they possibly gain? Do the FBI and CIA share connections and information or internally are they like rivals? Selling physical products or services can the same techniques be used What are the things that will make another human trust you quicker Is it possible to accurately read someone by their behaviors?* I always wanted to know How a special agent would feel when watching movies that make the FBI look like the bad guys?
Robin Dreeke
Building trust - training
Robin Dreeke Books:
It's not all about me The code of trust Sizing people up
The People Formula Training: https://www.peopleformula.com/online-traininghttps://www.peopleformula.com/
Amazon Product Bundles 2020
There's a new feature being tested for Amazon FBA, that helps create bundles and bundle listings.
So far it doesn't seem exciting. But...What if I told you, items in the bundle don't have to be sent to FBA pre-bundled!
Amazon customers will visit the site and see a bundle, but your product is stored in the warehouse as single units, no matter the number of items.
Until now, if you wanted to create a multi-pack, a single product, or a multiple SKU product bundle, you would have to send the inventory to Amazon already pre-bundled.
So far so good, but there have been a couple of instances where we thought this could be used in a bad way. Some sellers may try to take advantage of creating multiple buy box combinations, therefore creating millions of new listings of branded items.
Until now one of the rules is that bundles must consist of FBA items. All FBM (fulfilled by merchant) already had unlimited possibilities to create bundles, as long as they had a bundle UPC or a GTIN exemption.
Amazon New Product Bundle
One of the most exciting news ever unless the amazon seller as only one individual item and has no other product to create bundles on Amazon.
If you don't have access to the Beta of the Amazon Product Bundle feature yet in 2020...You can already start preparing or planning on what bundles to create, what will be the price of your bundles, or if they will be in the same category
This will save so much time, and the most important thing is that it will free up cash flow from having to send in pre-bundled SKUs of your highest-priced items
Two more things before creating your product bundle on Amazon
- Always check the Amazon Bundle Policy before submitting any new ones. And... Always profit when Selling Online Listen to our last episode with Norm Farrar
Norman Farrar is a serial entrepreneur who provides online marketing and managed eCommerce solutions for brands.
He has worked with Fortune 500 companies such as Coca-Cola, Mercedes-Benz, and 20th Century Fox. S
Since the early 1990s, Norman has focused on helping entrepreneurs optimize their operations and unlock their business’s potential.
- when you started in the '90s were you doing eCommerce full time? Is there any room left on Amazon? How can you ensure you are getting the best price when sourcing a product in China? Do you feel like at some point it's bad to negotiate more on price? What are your favorite Amazon launch & rank strategies? What are the biggest mistakes Amazon sellers make on their listing? Tell me about PrReach In your case, Pr is not for Public Relations but for Press Release? some of the newer people may not know what a PR is, can you explain I used to get press releases on a monthly basis around 10 years go, do they still work? All press releases I got were written back then, and tbh I never did video PR How are the press releases distributed? How many people do you have in your team?
Norman Farrar' links
https://Honuworldwide.comhttps://normanfarrar.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/normanfarrar/
Contact Norm
norm@prreach.com
How to live stream products on Amazon, without showing your ugly face.
Amazon Influencer Program is a program where Amazon verifies your social media like Facebook, IG, or Twitter and gives you a verified Amazon profile and the option to build your own Amazon affiliate store.
I've been an Amazon influencer in the UK for a couple of years although I never used it or even logged in, but I also got the Amazon influencer store in the US in 2019 and have a VA building it up.
I'm short the influencer is an affiliate that has a following and anyone who visits their store will get "cookied or Pixeled (for lack of a better word), then if they buy a product after this, the influencer receives a commission that could be 4% or 6% depending on your earnings and the product category
The beauty of this is that some influencers have access to amazon blog posts called "Editorial Recommendations" this is a feature called "Onsite Associates Program".
When an influencer has access to that, they can write something like:
The top 4 best collagen powders under $30 - and fill it with their top 4 recommendation.
If you go to Amazon. com on a laptop and type collagen, you will find one of these posts on the first page.
So technically any product entered into an Editorial recommendation list, will jump to the first page.
Another thing Amazon Influencers can do is create the #FoungItOnAmazon hashtag.
This hashtag is visible on the Amazon buyer menu and will direct anyone who clicks it, to the influencers choices in fashion and home decor
So if you are in one of those niches, get yourself in there.
But to get to the live video as this is what this episode is about…Go through the Amazon influencer list and find people who have been creating videos of similar products.
Make sure this influencer is not the face of a competitor brand.to do so all you have to do is look at the previous videos and see if they mention more than one brand in the same category.
Contact those influencers and ask if they want to make a video of your product. In order to get a high reply rate back make sure to ask how much they would want.
Justin Goodbread has 20+ years of experience starting, buying, owning, and selling businesses.
Justin is a two-time winner of the Investopedia Top 100 Advisor award and Exit Planning Institute’s Exit Planner Leader of the Year.
Justin Goodbread, CFP®, CEPA®, CVGA®, owner of FinanciallySimple.com, is a nationally recognized financial planner, financial educator, wealth manager, author, speaker, and entrepreneur.
Recently, Justin published his first book: The Ultimate Sale. In it, he shows business owners how to create long-term value and accelerate growth in their company with the ultimate goal of selling the business for top dollar when the owner wants to retire.
QUESTIONS:
- I have heard you say that business owners need to think about the end of their business at every stage of their business, including the startup. What do you mean by this? How are businesses valued? * What are the things buyers and investors look for in a business? How can our listeners assess which area of their business needs the most attention… the biggest bang for the buck? What can our listeners do in their business that creates REAL value? So, you work with many businesses. Which area would you say is the #1 problem area common to everyone? Some might know they have this issue to some degree. How do they determine if they have these (or other) problems that are hurting their business? What can they do about, especially if it is a recurring problem?* What is strategic planning?
LINKS:
- https://heritageinvestor.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/financiallysimple/ Twitter: @JustinGoodbread, @Knoxadvisor LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/justingoodbread/ Instagram: @financiallysimple, @JustinGoodbread YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/FinanciallySimple Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/financiallysimple/
Yev Marusenko, Ph.D. - Founder - Zontracker
- How did you get into marketing You were doing marketing for a PL company in 2015? Amazon Attribution is basically the Amazon pixel? Can we use Attribution for Influencer? What the heck is Zontracker Attribution Wharehouse storage is like having a physical location in google maps It seems like You worked with or around data most of your business life is that a passion How did you come up with your tool?
https://www.zontracker.io (Amazon purchase tracking)
https://www.amzjet.com (Amazon geo-rank)
Amazon Advertising With Brian Johnson - Canopy Management
Brian has sold physical products online for 13 years,launched an Amazon-focused advertising consulting practice in 2015, and now managing over $250M in advertising.
Brian founded several communities and companies related to Amazon PPC including Amazon PPC Troubleshooting community on Facebook, Amazon PPC Consulting Association, PPC Scope ad management software, Sponsored Products Academy professional training course, and the Canopy.Management advertising agency.
QUESTIONS:
- what has changed in the recent year for Amazon advertising, what should large brands know about starting to sell on the Amazon channel? can launches be done with only PPC Conversion rate without reviews performance of Old campaigns vs new campaigns if I'm using 100 kW on an Ad and 90 are not getting impressions, is that ruining the other 10? You used to do a discovery campaign on auto and then use that data for the manual PPC, is it still the best way? I saw that you were doing something with Russell Brunson but I missed it, what was that? Amazon charges me for ads several times per day in multiples of $500* Is there a way to see how much a competitor is spending or bidding?
COMPANY:
Canopy Management, Sponsored Products Academy, PPC Scope
LINKS:
www.Canopy.Management
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-r-johnson-82b851156/
https://www.facebook.com/BrianRJohnsonOfficial
https://app.ppcscope.com/
WILL ZHANG Expert in Software Engineering, Omnichannel App Development, DevOps, Cloud Computing, Big Data, Blockchain, Machine Learning..
QUESTIONS for Will Zhang:
- The name of your company is fintelics, what does it actually mean? Recently fintelics became one of a few aws advanced level consulting partners, what does that actually mean as a business? You are very knowledgeable and passionate about building cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solutions, what are they? What are the benefits of those? You are able to achieve so much in such a little amount of time, you won awards, helped several enterprises and startups during your venture, how are you able to achieve so much in a rapidly changing industry in such a short period of time? do you worry about machine learning an AI? You won the award leading expert in omnichannel solutions, what does it actually mean? What is the value of using blockchain from a public and private chain perspective?* What are the specialty or strategies that separate you from other consulting firms and development companies?
LINKS:
https://www.fintelics.com/Fintelics LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/fintelics/?viewAsMember=trueFintelics Twitter - https://twitter.com/Fintelics1Fintelics Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/fintelics/Will LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/will-zhang-abcd-architect/Will Zhang Twitter: https://twitter.com/RealWillZhangWill Zhang Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/Will-Zhang-106293037640901/?view_public_for=106293037640901
Brent started AMZ Pathfinder in 2015 an Amazon advertising agency.
Today he is here to talk about Amazon Ads during Covid 19
Tim is a graduated developer with an MBA from a California State University.
In 2008 he co-founded Octoline, a virtual PBX SaaS service. He later foundedJivoChat in 2012 with Nick Ivannikov (CTO).
Combined with a set of CRM features and an internal company chat, JivoChat is a powerful tool to remove the hassle of providing omnichannel support for clients and making communications efficient and transparent.
Since 2019, JivoChat has become a multi-national company with teams andmarkets located in Europe, North and Latin America and Asia. The JivoChat app is localized into 25 languages and has clients from almost every country.
The JivoChat is a one-stop-shop app for all communication needs of small and medium-sized businesses. In minutes business owners can set up for their teams live chat on website, team email, company phone with SMS support, Apple Business Chat and Facebook accounts.
Links
https://www.jivochat.com/
Joshua Dick has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College and an M.B.A in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
Over fifteen years, Josh transformed a small family business into a global market leader in the coffee industry with customers in over 70 countries and distribution facilities on three continents.
In the process, sales grew more than 25 times while earnings multiplied over 275 times.
After the sale of the business, Josh moved to Florence, Italy where he now lives with his wife and three daughters.
QUESTIONS:
- How did you set out to build your dream job? What is your philosophy on focusing on one thing? What is the reason you wrote a book based on the metaphor of a lobster's molt?* How was your experience of expanding a business internationally with sales in 70+ countries and opening distribution centers on 3 continents
LINKS:
www.joshua-dick.com
IG: @JDGROWLIKEALOBSTER
FB: facebook.com/joshua.dick.lobster
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joshua-dick-04484a12/
Burak Yolga, a specialist in international logistics, product sourcing, and navigating the complicated global marketplace – making him the ideal guest to talk about the implications of the Coronavirus on e-commerce seller
QUESTIONS for BURAK YOLGA
⦁ Before we get into business, how are things in China, with Corona? Is it true that China has everything under control? ⦁ Is everything shut down right now? ⦁ When do you think will China open? (As a company owner in China, you must know the real situation?) ⦁ Life in China before & after Corona? (What is the current situation) ⦁ Are you ready for the year ahead? – When Corona is over, there will be capacity bottlenecks (both in factories and logistics providers?) ⦁ shipping essentials? ⦁ How to manage your global supply chain from China to the US in today's uncertain environment. ⦁ What should you pay attention to when selecting your freight forwarder? ⦁ how do you think this will impact future shipping worldwide and rates? ⦁ people are still afraid of sea freight as it seems complicated when a buyer hires a freight forwarder will this company take care of everything? ⦁ How much can a freight forwarder cost? ⦁ How should we negotiate with suppliers? ⦁ Selecting a freight forwarder do I have to worry about quarantines, fluctuations and port closures? ⦁ Amazing advice about harmonized codes ⦁ When it's time to ship FOB, DDP, Exworks, CIF (cost insurance and freight)
COMPANY:
Forceget Logistics
⦁ a global logistics company with expertise in international parcel, air and ocean freight, road and rail transportation, based in China and Hong Kong.
⦁ Forceget can assist you exploit global efficiencies providing large scale of products and services such as logistics, sourcing as well as auditing.
LINKS: http://www.forceget.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/burakyolga/
It is very important to not change your products categories during this unfortunate event of dealing with Corona virus
Amazon does not allow categories that are nonessential to ship products the FBA, and during that time they will have a very close eye on who is changing categories and why!
If you already had a product in the wrong category before this, you may suffer the consequences
In this episode, Quin shares some of the issues happening
Yesterday Amazon announced that they would be prioritizing FBA shipments.This means that certain categories will not be able to ship anything into Amazon FBA warehouses until April 5th
Some of the more "Essential Categories" and products with high demand, will still be allowed to ship.
What products am I able to ship to FBA?Amazon Seller Central
We are prioritizing household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products coming into our fulfillment centers so that we can more quickly receive, restock, and deliver these products to customers. Most of the products we are accepting at this time are in the below categories.
Baby ProductsHealth & HouseholdBeauty & Personal Care (including personal care appliances)GroceryIndustrial & ScientificPet Supplies
Remember:
Listing products in an inaccurate category is a violation of our listing policies and may result in account suspension.
Larry Ludwig has had a long, successful business and entrepreneurial career. He is always at the forefront of technology, digital marketing, and online business.
He helped create some of the first websites for the likes of JPMorgan Chase, LensCrafters, Minolta, T. Rowe Price, IBM, and ING Bank.
In 1998, he went on to work for the successful startup Commerce One, where he helped integrate a B2B solution for companies, including Eastman Chemical and Schlumberger.
In December 2009, Larry created the website Investor Junkie to help satisfy his own needs and the needs of others to find unbiased investment content. From scratch, he created the leading investing review and comparison site, generating revenue only from affiliate marketing. In July 2018, Larry successfully sold Investor Junkie for $6 million.
When not joyriding in his Porsche 911 Turbo S, his current passion is helping other business owners leverage technology and digital marketing.
- Today are there people who don't think affiliate marketing is a real business? There are 2 ways to be in the affiliate business, Biz owner or Publisher, what's the best way? How SEO is still an effective way to get traffic Why you shouldn't rely on SEO for traffic only? Why should every business do affiliate marketing?* How is building an online business changing?
https://www.facebook.com/larryludwigpage/https://www.linkedin.com/in/larryludwig/https://twitter.com/lludwig/https://larryludwig.com/https://larryludwig.com/podcast
Walmart Fulfillment Services (WFS) is a new program that allows sellers to store their inventory at Walmart fulfillment centers. When a customer places an order on Walmart.com, WFS picks, packs and ships the item(s) to the customer on a seller’s behalf. WFS also handles all customer support and returns for these orders.
Product video engagement metrics now in Seller Central
You can now see viewership metrics for videos you have uploaded in the Video Management Library. Track your views and engagement data to create content to influence customer purchases.
Product video engagement metrics now in Seller Central
You can now see viewership metrics for videos you have uploaded in the Video Management Library. Track your views and engagement data to create content to influence customer purchases.
Does Amazon Still Profit When they Lower The Buy Box #342What are some of the ways Amazon can lower the buy box below cost and still make money?
- Amazon owns the platform so they don't have to pay the same fees as a seller Amazon gets premium rates from sellers who join the vendor program Amazon can ask vendors for funding requests to pay for discounts on their own product
AmazonFBA
Inside your Seller Central, anything that happens is your responsibility
If you are dealing with a marketing agency make sure they are not emailing your customers using the Amazon internal email
All customer information you get inside your seller central is private and confidential information and you are not allowed to share it with any 3rd party website
Make sure to listen to the whole Amazon Podcast
Harrison Hunter Reid is a serial entrepreneur, international speaker, and world traveler. The purpose of his life is to be radiant love, share extreme abundance and inspire others to feel fully alive. Harrison is an expert in making things easy, actionable, and fun. He helps his students transform their health, take control of their minds, and create enterprises destined for success; all with ease.
Harrison went from being fired from every job he ever had to currently running 2 businesses. One that is relieving the global obesity epidemic by selling snack foods that satisfy our cravings in a radically healthy manner. The other helps American financial institutions structure their benefit programs to instantly generate substantially more income for both their employees and owners.
⦁ Were you always a successful entrepreneur?
⦁ How do you stay so motivated, what drives you?
⦁ Tell me abut the radically heathy snacks
⦁ does Food affect Employee Performance
⦁ What was the biggest challenge you've overcome?
⦁ What is the excitement mindset?
⦁ How do you approach food?
Here are some of the things you can do in 202 inside seller central when it comes to Amazon Sponsored Ads.
- Targeting full categories or subcategories Targeting competitor products Targeting low review products* Targeting product with a higher price than yours, products that are nor prime eligible, or even ASINs that
Brent Zahradnik
In the summer of 2015, he founded AMZ Pathfinder and started doing direct ad management for brands selling on amazon. Fast forward to 2020 and he has grown the business into an agency with 12 team members.
They still focus entirely on amazon advertising in all shapes and forms and focus on the American and European markets with native speakers of all languages on the team.
- AMZ pathfinder Is the original name or have you changed it? What are some common mistakes sellers make What are some myths about sponsored Ads Would it make sense to create several Ads targeting only 1 keyword each when someone is targeting the same keyword on Broad, Phrase, and Exact, are we outbidding ourselves? what 3rd party tools do you use? When you started in 2015 the average PPC was about 30 cents, can you still get any impressions at the rate today? We are spending about $70K month on Amazon ads right now What are amazon businesses doing wrong with their on-platform advertising? (like common mistakes seen across accounts we audit for instance) * What should they be doing in 2020? * What is the right mindset or way to think about amazon advertising fitting into the bigger picture? * Where is amazon taking advertising in 2020 and beyond?
Links:
https://www.facebook.com/amzpathfinder https://www.amzpathfinder.com/
In today's episode, Quin explains why you shouldn't have a huge image with thousands of pixels as the main image of your Amazon listing
How to get the biggest thumbnail possible, and how to account for the loading time of your images on visitors slower internets.
Amazon Listing with 4000 Pixel Main Image
How Amazon pages use "lazy loading" and your images will load blurry for the first few seconds, if they are too big
Please listen to the show and remember to leave a reviewQuin
If you are going to launch a product on Amazon you should launch it, not just test launch it. A test means you are not fully committed, and when someone is not fully committed things tend to not have enough effort put into them.
And DO NOT create your listings a month before your product is ready, because your listing creation date your be timestamped in the Amazon catalog
Make sure to listen to the episode.
As for the link promised for my speech in Edmonton here, it is:https://www.meetup.com/Amazon-Sellers-Meetup-AMZ-One-Step/events/267957045/
Trish Saemann is a digital marketing expert who is intent on helping you make more money and absolutely love your clients.
Graduating with honors from Georgian Court University and the internationally recognized Goldman Sachs 10ksb program.Trish Saemann is also the founder of two companies: GoBeyond SEO, a digital marketing firm, and "Creative Clarity", focusing on educational products for entrepreneurs and group coaching.
- Trish, how did you get started? * What do you mean by saying "Get More Clients You Love?" * What's the difference between this and a standard marketing plan? * How does this plan help a business scale? * What is something an entrepreneur can do right now to start getting more clients they love? Why does loving your clients matter? * Does your plan encourage entrepreneurs to turn down business? Isn't that dangerous? How do you get clients for your business? What are your favorite tools? What's the most common mistake you see other marketers do?
Links to find Trish Saemann:
https://www.linkedin.com/in/trishsaemann/
https://www.instagram.com/dishwitrish/
Tools:
Schedule 1 - Productivity
G suite - Google suite of tool
Kajavi - Training
Team Work - Team management
Training Course:
https://getmoreclientsyoulove.com
Steve Adams... The digital entrepreneur co-founder of Squidpixels
THE “SALESMAN” YEARS, AS A CUTCO CUTLERY SALES REP
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- Dropped out of college to follow his Mentor to Miami * - Earned Over Six Figures a Year Selling Kitchen Knives - Became the #1 Sales Rep (Silver Cup Champion) - Awarded a Rolex Submariner (Ultimate Club Member)* - Inducted into Hall of Fame (Court of Honor Member)
THE “FRANCHISEE” YEARS, AS A MAGAZINE PUBLISHER
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- Founded & Launched 3 Different Local Print Publications * - Grew EACH Magazine to Over Six Figures in Annual Ad Revenue * - Hosted a Weekly International Training (Making LIVE Cold Calls) - Co-Founded a New Business with Wife as 50/50 Partners - Grew SquidPixels.com from ZERO to Six Figures in 6 Months - Purchased a Book of Business from another Creative Agency - Currently Scaling w/ Double Digit Growth & Single Digit Churn
https://www.squidpixels.com
Rytis Lauris CEO of Omnisend
Rytis Lauris is a co-founder and CEO of Omnisend, the powerful marketing automation platform that's focused on moving eCommerce marketers beyond the generic email marketing tools.
Omnisend is a bootstrapped business and is successful without any additional investments, and has become a top-rated app in the Shopify App Store
It has also been listed in the G2’s selection of top 20 Products for Marketers 2019 and the top 100 Software Companies in EMEA.
As a successful entrepreneur who has spent more than 10 years building and bootstrapping startups and being in the ecommerce field, Rytis discovered ecommerce marketers have very specific needs around automation.
Rytis Lauris CEO of Omnisend
Since 2014, Rytis has made it his mission to use Omnisend to help and empower small and medium-sized ecommerce merchants. He has shared his knowledge and expertise in numerous podcasts, such as The Top Entrepreneurs in Money, Marketing, Business and Life podcast by Nathan Latka and ecommerce Allstars podcast, and ecommerce conferences, including Litmus Live and Meet Magento.
Today, Rytis has his hands full managing the fastest growing marketing automation platform in the industry, keeping this innovative tool on the absolute cutting edge of what technology can offer in terms of omnichannel marketing. When he’s not being an omnichannel powerhouse, Rytis can be found bike riding and achieving his personal goal of reading one book a week.
Company - Omnisend
- Omnisend is the all-in-one eCommerce marketing automation platform that helps you sell more by converting your visitors and retaining your customers. Reach your customers with personalized messages using our powerful automation workflows and boost your sales Grow your subscriber list with a wide variety of signup forms and send converting newsletters created with the easy-to-use editor* Omnisend works with all eCommerce platforms including Shopify, Bigcommerce, Magento, WooCommerce, and others.
Questions:
- What is omnichannel marketing and why is it so effective? Why should eCommerce marketers rely on omnichannel marketing? * Why isn’t email marketing alone effective anymore? What channels are the most effective?* How can personalized messaging improve eCommerce sales?
www.omnisend.com
Social Media - @rytis.lauris
How To Rank Big Keywords With a Special Search Find Buy, by Quin Amorim
Find an influencer in your niche that will make a video challenge, explaining to the audience what to search for, and how.Almost as if the product was hidden on purpose.
What are the 12 Days Of Nuggets? Over 40 influential online sellers share their best tips to grow a business or sell more.
Quin Amorim and Mike Zagare explain it all
The main goal is to raise 1 Million Dollars to donate to a team of Ex CIA and FBI members who are fighting child sex slavery (Operation Underground Railroad)
You can get all the free nuggets or donate at: https://daysofnuggets.com/
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David Hoffmann
- David is a serial entrepreneur building multi-million dollar companies He has led the international trade powerhouse Global Regency as CEO for over 15 years he is considered an expert in China sourcing, supply chain, private label, and brand licensing. In 2016 David launched GlobalTQM.com under the Global Regency umbrella, to assist SMEs, start-ups, and entrepreneurs with quality management issues and sourcing from China with a range of educational and mentoring programs and actual done-for-you services with his resources of +57 people in China Experienced in business, operations, automation, digital marketing, David’s single biggest skill is his ability to master productivity and share the experience.
Questions/Topics:
- When did you know you wanted to take an entrepreneurial
path? What have you taken from your early working expreience,
to your startup career? What are some hidden risks of importing from China? Can you discuss success stories of business migrating to
China manufacturing, and the pro's and con's of such a move? Biggest challenges of sourcing from China Navigating trade shows and suppliers S.M.A.R.T. questions to ask your suppliers Intellectual property protection 10 rules to do business in China* What does it take to do business in China?
Company:
GlobalTQM - Your Team, Your Office & Your Expertise
On The Ground In China.
- MENTORING AND TRAINING Your shortcut to success, and doing it yourself, with access to professionals SUPPLIERS & SOURCING Uncover the red flags & the hidden problems NEGOTIATION TRAINING: Negotiate with suppliers like a pro* COMPLIANCE & LAB TESTING Avoid expensive recalls, damaging lawsuits & fake compliance documents
Links:
www.globaltqm.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/globaltqm/https://www.facebook.com/GLOBALTQM/
David Hoffmann
- David is a serial entrepreneur building multi-million
dollar companies He has led the international trade powerhouse Global
Regency as CEO for over 15 years he is considered an expert in China sourcing, supply
chain, private label, and brand licensing. In 2016 David launched GlobalTQM.com under the Global
Regency umbrella, to assist SMEs, start-ups, and entrepreneurs with quality
management issues and sourcing from China with a range of educational and
mentoring programs and actual done-for-you services with his resources of +57
people in China Experienced in business, operations, automation, digital
marketing, David’s single biggest skills is his ability to master productivity
and share the experience.* David left the corporate world working for public
companies opening retail stores around the country while overseeing buying, and
marketing as a director, to pursue entrepreneurship and left for Hong Kong in
2002, where he remains.
Questions/Topics:
- When did you know you wanted to take an entrepreneurial
path? What have you taken from your early working expreience,
to your startup career? What are some hidden risks of importing from China? Can you discuss success stories of business migrating to
China manufacturing, and the pro's and con's of such a move? Biggest challenges of sourcing from China Navigating trade shows and suppliers S.M.A.R.T. questions to ask your suppliers Intellectual property protection 10 rules to do business in China* What does it take to do business in China?
Company:
GlobalTQM - Your Team, Your Office & Your Expertise
On The Ground In China.
- MENTORING AND TRAINING Your shortcut to Success, and
doing it yourself, with access to professionals SUPPLIERS & SOURCING Uncover the red flags & the
hidden problems NEGOTIATION TRAINING: Negotiate with suppliers like a pro* COMPLIANCE & LAB TESTING Avoid expensive recalls,
damaging lawsuits & fake compliance documents
Links:
www.globaltqm.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/globaltqm/https://www.facebook.com/GLOBALTQM/
Is it possible for a customer to buy your products on Amazon, without searching for them?
The link to Amazon FBA programs in Seller Central is: https://sellercentral.amazon.com/fba/programs
He is an entrepreneur who built three multi-million dollar businesses by age 40.Carl Gould has advised over 100 of the Inc. 500/5000 Fastest-Growing Companies.Some of the companies he’s helped are companies like Walgreens, Walmart, American Idol, USA Olympic Track, IBM, McGraw-Hill, and the US Army.
Carl has written multiple books on the subject of business strategy, leadership and sustainable growth.
He co-authored “Blueprint for Success” with Stephen R. Covey and Ken Blanchard; and his best-selling book, “The 7 Stages of Small Business Success”, lays out the formula for HyperGrowth.
Learn how some of the supplements on Amazon do not have any kind of quality certification, and lots are being imported illegally from China
Many Amazon sellers, looking to make a quick dollar are ordering private label supplements manufactured in China without any kind of quality and could be putting lives in danger
Listen to the full episode where Quin explains what he is seeing every day online
Danny Carlson is a 27 year old entrepreneur, podcaster, Amazon FBA seller & lifestyle architect.
He started his first business producing extreme downhill longboarding videos in 2014 & has since grown the Amazon FBA Agency "Kenji ROI" to more than 10 team members.
Kenji ROI has served over 500 Amazon sellers & created photos, video, copywriting, & graphics for over 1240 listings.
Danny is also the host of the Actualize Freedom Podcast & the Danny Carlson Podcast completing more than 60 interviews with names like Daniel DiPiazza, Steve Sims, Manny Coats, & Kevin King.
Danny Carlson also regularly speaks on live webinars, other podcasts, & business events
Residing in Bali, his off time is spent doing standing acrobatics, ripping sport motorcycles, & training at Nirvana Strength.
Questions:
- Amazon product photo tips amazon keyword optimization tips amazon copywriting frameworks* Scaling teams through SOPs and automated systems
Company - Kenji ROI - Actualize Freedom
- Agency to help Amazon sellers create an advantage through product listings. Offers Obsessively Optimized Copywriting, Product Photography, Videos, & PPC The Team Has Produced Over 500 Amazon Listings Responsible for Multi-Millions in Annual Sales.
Links:
www.actualizefreedom.com https://www.instagram.com/danny.k.carlson/?hl=en https://www.kenjiroi.com/
Amazon now added a button on every FBA order where you can click and request a review
Request review
Scott Needham Bio: ⦁ Founder and CEO of BuyBoxer. ⦁ developed automation for selling on Amazon for 7 years. ⦁ currently, doing $60m a year. ⦁ Developed and launched a solution for auditing Amazon to secure reimbursements for sellers. That company is called Valence Services. ⦁ Has a podcast called "The Smartest Amazon Seller" ⦁ Primary focus: Data acquisition (APIs), Inventory management, Amazon Reimbursement Management, and product page analysis.
QUESTIONS: ⦁ How did you grow into an 8 figure Amazon business? ⦁ How do you use Coupons when launching a product? ⦁ Where do you see the Amazon landscape going? ⦁ What types of Reimbursements does Amazon owe you? ⦁ What are some common mistakes that lots of sellers make?
About BUYBOXER:
⦁ Account Management and Ad Marketing Services.
⦁ deliver ever-improving results and exceed expectations with expert staff who know how to succeed in the Amazon channel.
⦁ A team of 150 driven Amazon professionals
⦁ BuyBoxer started out as a family run business. Has over 400 partners, 5 million products sold annually, and at any given time up to 100k different products in Amazon's FBA program
⦁ selling on Amazon since 1999, FBA since 2009
⦁ grown to be the largest Amazon seller by several measures
Scott Needham LINKS:
Instagram - @smartestseller Website - https://www.buyboxer.com
A question for youHow do you organize your To-Do list?What tools do you use?How do you organize your team??
Selling eCommerce and Amazon Businesses with Chris Shipferling
Chris Shipferling's Bio:
⦁ Managing Partner at Global Wired Advisors ⦁ advises and supports organizations of all sizes in selling their digitally native or Amazon-based businesses ⦁ also serves as the Head of Business Development, leveraging his background in sales and digital marketing to grow the Global Wired brand ⦁ Chris and his partners recognized a need that was clearly not being met by existing solutions on the market; specifically, sellers were not satisfied with the level of service provided by traditional business brokers
Questions for Chris Shipferling
⦁ What do I need to do to prepare my business to sell? ⦁ Common myths about selling your company ⦁ Wall Street’s view on selling your digital business ⦁ Who are the buyers of Amazon and digitally native brands? ⦁ How do macroeconomic conditions affect M&A for eCommerce brands?
About GLOBAL WIRED ADVISORS
⦁ unique Digital Investment Bank/Intermediary ⦁ Supporting digital and e-commerce business owners through the process of selling their companies ⦁ wealth of knowledge and experience in building, growing, buying, and selling digitally native businesses ⦁ closed many business transactions ranging from 1 million to 40 million+
Links:
Website - www.globalwiredadvisors.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/globalwiredadvisors/
I had a question from Luis about fulfilling items himself to please some of the Non-Prime customers on Amazon.
Have a listen to this episode and let me know if you have any questions related to Amazon Merchant Fulfilled
Quin
How I lost my Wish account to someone in Bangladesh, and now someone has all my info and credit card.
Also listen to how I don't even know my passwords anymore, and now every single one is created and managed by LastPass
For the first time this week Quin heard about the open-source Linux operating system, UBUNTU.
It took nothing more than 5 minutes for Quin to replace a Windows 7 computer with the Ubuntu Operating System, and Quin fell in love with it!
Quin Amorim is back with more news about Amazon FBA black hat happening.
Is Amazon going to clean up in 2020 or will they still allow these Chinese black hat techniques?
In October 2016 Richard Jacobs started The Future Tech Podcast and has now interviewed over 1800+ companies in artificial intelligence, stem cells, 3D printing, gene editing, bitcoin, blockchain, the microbiome, quantum computing, virtual reality and space exploration and more.Richard also has 10 years of experience as CMO (chief marketing officer) of Speakeasy Marketing, Inc, a firm that has helped over 900 attorneys nationwide to improve their law practices.
Some questions:
- What made you start the podcast in 2016 Why such topics when you were clearly working with attorneys for 10 years It seems like the perfect guest for your show would be Elon, has he been contacted yet? What's your background? Sleep apnea and snoring To have submitted a patent on a pillow you must have something out of the normal? What is different from any other pillows is The Good Night's Sleep Project just the pillow? Falling asleep fast means I am sleeping well?
Link:
https://www.goodnightssleepproject.com/
Ryan Mulvany is an Amazonoholic. It started with used books. Then new books. Then toys and games, foods, soaps, beauty products, tech...And yes, even Justin Bieber pillowcases at one point.
In 2013 he founded Quiverr that provides Amazon solutions for the top recognized Consumer packaged good OrganizationsFrom 2014-2017, they were San Diego’s 3rd fastest growing company. And Amazon awarded them with a Platinum Seller Status.And in 2017, he sold the entire business to a strategic partner, Advantage Sales and Marketing.
Some questions for Ryan:
- How did you get into Amazon? * In 2009 did you know what Private label was? What is a platinum seller status? Do you private label products What is the state of private label selling on Amazon? * What brands are winning today on Amazon? * What are big brands doing to compete with private label sellers on Amazon? * What was it like to be acquired? How many SKUs did you have? What tools do you use? When launching a new product do you do giveaways, or what is your 2019 technique How do you find clients for Quiverr When the listing has 20 sellers* Amazon transparency program
Links to connect with Ryan Mulvany
Connect: www.ryanmulvany.com
Nick Covey is the founder and CEO of Creture Apparel.A clothing brand dedicated to helping others find and pursue their authentic calling.
Through the accumulation of reading over 200 books, being a former professional football kicker, and starting multiple companies throughout college. Nick realized that he was pursuing things for the sake of other people, and not for himself. He has now gone on to create one of the most meaningful and impactful clothing brands in the world and live's a life of true authenticity.
Because of this awakening and realization, he now helps others find their unique talents and gifts from the insights he's learned so they can become a Creature in their own life.
Nick has spoken to multiple high schools spreading his message.
- Was Creature your first online experience? How did you get started with the online world? What's the size of the company now, if you can disclose? What are the challenges of starting a clothing brand? The fact that every item has probably 5 or 6 SKUS does that require huge capital? Do you get any loans starting out? I'm guessing this is a private label brand Top 10% Shopify sites withing first couple months Who runs your FB ads, is it you? What do you do in the business? How many hours per week? What would you say to someone that wanted to launch an apparel company What is project 5 magazine?
Tools:
Blurb.com magazine Shopify.com Jilt X.ai Asana
Links:
@officialcreture
www.cretureapparel.com
Jana Krekic is the founder of YLT Translations
Jana Krekic is the founder of YLT Translations, an Amazon dedicated translation agency. With a translation background and 5 languages she speaks.Jana decided to quit her regular job, working in the leading Danish e-commerce, to start her own agency. Jana has been working with 7-9 figure sellers in the past 2 years and provides all type of translations and services that sellers need in order to expand successfully to international markets.
YLT stands for Your listing translations
Some of the questions I asked Jana Krekic
- What are the top tips when people expand internationally? Should you use Google translate? Should you hire translators on Fiverr? How to do keyword research properly for foreign markets? What are the most often mistakes people to make when launching products in international markets? What is your keyword placing strategy? What markets should you launch your new products to? How important is localization for your listing? How important is the keyword research for a good listing?* How to know if your product is a good fit for another market?
Tools:
Helium 10 - Use QAMORIM10 for a lifetime discount Amz suggestion expander
https://ylt-translations.com/https://www.facebook.com/YltTranslations
Contact:
info@ylt-translations.com
Use code QA20 for 20% discount on all services
Micah Fraim runs an accounting firm that focuses exclusively on online business, like Amazon FBA
He has also written the two best-selling tax books on Amazon, which have sold tens of thousands of copies.
His clients are typically six and seven-figure online businesses and have millions of YouTube and Facebook subscribers between them.
His advice has been featured in TIME, Forbes, Nasdaq, and quite a few other major publications.
Some questions Micah Fraim answered
- How to deal with economic nexus/out of state sales tax Tax obligations for overseas sellers selling into the US What are Trump's tariffs for importing from China If overseas sellers should set up a US entity and if so where? Managing inventory fluctuations for tax purposes Can we buy lots of inventory in December to get tax deductions for the next year? US LLC selling in the UK, what are benefits to setting up a UK Ltd from a VAT perspective Correct corporate setup for tax purposes How to minimize your tax bill in general Importance of not lumping in advertising as a COGS for your internal reports/breaking it out from true inventory costs favorite tools* Size of your team
Social Media URLs (LinkedIn, FB, Instagram, Twitter…)
https://www.facebook.com/micah.fraim https://www.linkedin.com/pub/micah-fraim-cpa/1a/80a/a26 https://www.youtube.com/user/micahfraim/videos https://twitter.com/MFraim89 https://fraimoba.com
Tools Mentioned In The Podcast
- Taxjar * Xero accounting* Quickbooks
We all get emails from sellers that want us to get their product, leave a review and they will refund 100% on Paypal if we leave a 5-star review.
Until now we didn't know where they were getting our emails, and I assumed it was from my seller profile, but...
It is from buyer accounts.
The reason that I know is that my buyer name on Amazon is "Amazon Seller 36" and they address me on the email as Dear Amazon Seller 36.
Now what is left to know is how this is done.
if you know contact me a qasellingonline.com
The story of how Omer Riaz launched his service for online sellers " Urtasker"
CEO at Urtasker.com Omer Riaz
How did you get started providing services to eCommerce sellers?
Amazon PPC Management
Work with Amazon PPC experts to optimize and monitor your campaigns and maximize return on investment.
~ Amazon & eBay Account Management Stay ahead of your competition by hiring our Amazon expert team to manage your Amazon Account.
~ Shopify Store Development and Management Here you will get help from our superb Shopify team to design and manage your Shopify store. Our specialists operate continuously to guarantee that your web store is up-to-the-minute
Links
https://urtasker.com https://www.facebook.com/groups/amazonppctricks/
10 Million Per Month in Direct Sales With Jason Brown
Jason Brown Impressive entrepreneur, top-earning marketer and co-owner of Drip
Who is Jason Brown we know you as a successful millionaire entrepreneur, but you used to be broke. How broke were you and when was this?
- were you surrounded by negative or toxic people? Are you afraid of failing? Do you consider yourself lucky? what is your relation to Drip What is imarketslive How do you stay focused in this world of distractions People over profits mentality what was your biggest failure how do you listen to your customers? there is a ton of email spam going around for Crypto, what are they trying to sell? God gave you a blank canvas (on your iG) do you set goals? like yearly, 5 years and is it in your head or paper? do you believe we need to have the right mindset * Now that you are on top are you finally going to relax? You've been to 42 countries over the last few years, what do you do in each? What is your biggest breakthrough? * What do you think helped you push through the downtimes of your journey? * How did you handle going from $70k in debt to millionaire in such a short time? How do you keep grounded and remain humble? How do you balance multiple businesses and projects?* Do you deal with people, what is the key to balancing so many peoples personalities at once? * When adversity hits how do you think? What is the #1 thing you would tell someone looking to win big
Here is how to get celebrities to give you shoutouts.
just visit Cameo and you can thank me later
https://www.cameo.com
Quin Amorim answers a question from Jeff on how to manage your Amazon Seller inventory without using software.
Jeff Fenster
Juris Doctor from Thomas Jefferson School of Law, a serial entrepreneur who was named a top 100 entrepreneur under the age of 35 in America when he was 30. He's been recognized nationally for his business creations ranging from a Payroll & HR company, Digital Marketing Agency, Recruiting Agency, the list goes on. - Jeff Fenster Combining his two biggest passions – entrepreneurship and healthy living – Jeff created his most recent innovation, Everbowl. He has built this explosive brand utilizing his personal philosophy of making friends and having fun and this has translated into a fun, vibrant culture at Everbowl.
This philosophy has allowed Everbowl to be named one of America’s Top 40 Hottest Fast Casual Startup’s by QSR and a top 100 Mover and Shaker in the Nation by Fast Casual.
Jeff has recently launched a Superfood infused coffee company – Superfuel Coffee; A construction company – WeBuild; and a Superfood import company – Real Happy Foods.
Paulina Masson is a software developer and a serial entrepreneur.
She has been a speaker on AMZSellerSummit, PrivateLabelSummit, Seller Sessions, European Seller Conference and many more live and online venues.
Her most famous talk is "Pricing Strategies for Amazon Sellers", which was held as a private training for Illuminati Mastermind members.
Here is the recording: https://youtu.be/nSADbgCeALg
⦁ Paulina How did you get into Amazon
⦁ You own a Software company for amazon sellers but you also still sell online?
⦁ What is shopkeeper?
⦁ it used to be AMZping, why the change?
⦁ That is a very strong domain, did you have to fight to get it or
⦁ You were for a short period a software developer at IBM and electronic arts in Vancouver, does this mean you coded shopkeeper yourself?
⦁ How big is your team in Shopkeeper?
⦁ Gift wrap most sellers dont think about it, but this is a charge back to the seller and its not small
⦁ Paulina, one of the things you are known for is reviving a dead product. Isnt it harder than launching a new one?
$24.99 vs 25
- Use coupons to provide compelling discounts Try sales pricing, but don't expect too much Increase prices on items that are just below the Amazon free shipping amount How to use the free shipping minimum spend in your pricing strategy Use consumer psychology when working out the pennies You can drop product prices quickly, but only raise them slowly Understand your break-even point when setting a price for profit Understand the different types of Amazon customers and price accordingly Compete on pricing, but don't try to be the cheapest Offer products to Amazon business buyers Carry out split testing to refine your pricing strategy
Links
Https://shopkeeper.com and type STINGRAY180
Mike Zagare and PPC Entourage
Amazon selling isn’t new. But doing it well and profitable has been out of reach for a lot of people.
Mike Zagare and PPC Entourage have flipped that script, and they’re helping Amazon sellers around the world not just make money… but make a profit.Mike is a serial entrepreneur and recovering physical therapist who now helps other entrepreneurial-minded people turn their selling gig into a serious money maker.
For anyone who is sick of the 9-to-5 grind, Mike feels your pain. He was there once. Now he’s taking the tools and tactics that helped him escape that grind and turn a 40-thousand dollar a month side hustle into a 400-thousand dollar a month legitimate business
Some Questions for Mike Zagare
Mike, how long has it been since your last 9 to 5? • How I shed the constraints of my 9-to-5 and found my purpose • The 7 most common mistakes and pitfalls for early sellers • Best practices for optimizing Sponsored Products campaigns • Underutilized strategies for managing larger brands • New and unique ways to drive traffic in today’s crowded seller’s market • Best practices for expanding upon Sponsored Product campaigns -It is very common these days to launch products with only PPC, how much harder and expensive is it to do campaigns with products who don't have reviews yet? -Long tail keywords do you target them with an `exact match? -Some people are not using broad match anymore, do you think this is a good strategy?
- Entourage margins, does it account for all Amazon expenses including PPC, refunds, storage, and allows us to enter landed cost too? Headline search ads, do they hold any keyword ranking power? What is the entourage spotlight?* How do I test my images, is it like A/B testing or is it shown to a group of people outside of Amazon?
Links:
entourage seller community - https://www.facebook.com/groups/ppcentourage/
mike@ppcentourage.com
https://ppcentourage.com/
PPC EntourageMargins - https://ppcentourage.com/lp-margins/
Adam Hudson Co-founder of Reliable Education and a seven-figure Amazon seller
Adam Hudson is the co-founder of Reliable Education and a seven-figure Amazon seller.
His companies have funded over 7,000 interest-free micro-loans to entrepreneurs in third world countries and they have also funded thousands of free eye surgeries for the blind in Indonesia, a country where more than 4 million people are blind because of curable eye diseases.
- What was your start with Amazon? Why micro-loans? Interest-Free loans? What are the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs mistake? How to start selling online? How does Reliable Education grow? there are over 3 million sellers on Amazon right now, does this mean its too late to start? How easy or hard is it for a US company to launch on Amazon Australia? What are some things we need to know when sending our products to AU I don't sell in Australia yet, but I hear that the pick and pack fees are even higher than Canada, is this correct? Do all the tools we use here work in the AU market, Like JS, Helium 10, Viral Launch?
https://www.facebook.com/ReliableEducationAcademy/https://reliable.education
Author, Filmmaker, & Agency Partner at Vitals Agency
Also a Producer and Co-host of the Fizzle Show
Blogger at megafisbein.com
Questions for Aiden Fishbein
- How did you arrive at where you are now; a successful agency owner and co-host of the Fizzle show? What's it been like to work with disorganized creative entrepreneurs? What is engineered disruption? Movie nightmare alley? The emails you sent to the people who scrape your email from Linkedin? How has your project retrospective process (post mortem) helped shift your perspective on success & failure? whats one thing you have taught yourself? Why is documenting wins more important than understanding losses? Describe your branding philosophy, and what does "Step 0" mean? Describe your personal development philosophy Why do you believe entrepreneurship is inextricably linked to personal development Why is this topic different/more important than most people think favorite tools for the agency?* how are you generating leads besides ads?
Keywords:
project management, branding, creative entrepreneur, blogger/blogging, podcaster/podcasting, business coach, agency, digital marketing, design, film, writing, personal development, growth, lifestyle design, lifestyle
Sourcing products from China for your Private Label business sometimes could be a lot easier and cheaper by using trading companies.
There's a myth out there that the trading companies are more expensive, when the reality is that, even tho they markup the price they get, they can often get price much lower from the manufacturer that we can.
I put in 2 hours per day into my Amazon business, is this enough to make it a profitable business that will allow me to quit my job?
Excellent question and the answer is not going to be straight forward like you expected.
How bad do you really want to grow this business?
Number one thing I ask is what are you doing the other 22 hours per day?
How much do you need to make in order to quit your job?
You need to know that when you make 10K per month, that means you are taking home 2500 or 3000, and if you do use that amount, next month your business will not be able to make 15k or 20k, because you took money out and stopped the growth.
Today I bring you the
top 7 mistakes of Amazon FBA Sellers
1 – Not knowing the costs
This is my biggest pet peeve when it comes to selling onlineMost Amazon FBA sellers think they have huge margins but, they have not taken into consideration all the costs associated with selling online.
I often hear people say something like:
“I am selling a product for $8 but I’m getting 60% margins” This is nearly impossible!
Just think about it, Amazon takes 15% of your gross, then you have $3 of pick and pack fees (unless you are in small and light) That right there is almost 40% and if you add the 15% commission you realize Amazon is taking already 65%.
Then you need to account for the price of purchasing the item, let's say its $1 to make things simple and another $1 to ship it to the US and clear customs.
Your total costs so far are already over $6 and you didn’t even account for the PPC, returns, taxes, giveaways (if you are doing any), your packaging, photography or 3D rendering, Logo design to put on the package…
Man, you may be losing a couple of bucks every time you sell an item!
Here is my advice, if you are selling a cheap item like that, try to bundle 2 or 3 so you can skip the pick and pack fee and only pay it once, or try to make it a premium looking product and sell it for $12 instead of $8
2 – Sourcing the same products as everyone else
Most people have
listened to the same podcasts or youtube videos from sellers like me who have
been selling on Amazon for many years.
But what worked for us in 2015 is not what works in 2019.
If everyone is sourcing a small product, without moving parts, that is unbreakable, is in the top 1000 BSR… that means out of the 4 million sellers and thousands of new ones coming in every day, it's almost sure that at the same time you are sourcing a new product, so are 100 other sellers.
When this happens the
only difference is going to be the brand name and probably the logo on the box.
Think outside the box, and if possible source products that instead of being cheap and have a very low BSR, are a bit more expensive or have a higher BSR with low competition. You can be the big fish in the smaller pond, instead of a guppy in the ocean, because everyone can eat you at any time.
3 – Assuming and believing
We all are part of Facebook
groups and masterminds where often sellers share something they hear as if it
was true, without testing it.
Test things for yourself!
I know it is a bit
more time consuming, but just because someone says for example “Giveaways don’t
work anymore”
It doesn’t mean its true. It could be that that person didn’t give away enough units, or used the wrong URL if they even used a special URL for the giveaway. It could be that that person didn’t even do giveaways, and is just firing it out of their mouth to sound smart. Or it could even be, that they have a product without any demand! There are people that have products so bad, that not even for free they can give them away! And, instead of listening to the market they just blame the giveaway or the FB group they used or blame the cat or the dog…
I’m not saying that
giveaways are as effective has they used to be, and this is not even about
giveaways… It is about believing everything you hear without testing.
4 – Asking for a review before starting a conversation
CEO of Ketogenic.com, author of The Ketogenic Bible, and president of the Applied Science and Performance Institute
By age 26 has already built a few multi-million dollar global businesses, graduated with a Ph.D. and played professional baseball.
Host of WTF Podcast - What the Fat
- Ryan is there anything you don't do? * Tell us your story, who you are as a person how did you get started with keto? How long ago did you start Ketogenic? was the domain available? What are some things you’re working on that you are excited about? What made you want to start a business? What drives you every day? * What is your life purpose? * What advice would you have for people just starting out? * talk about your carnivore experience? can plant-based people be on keto? Do you do any fasting or do you recommend fasting? is it true that fasting increases HGH? what is ketogenic certified? What is your point of view on failure? Tells us about one of your failures Why no ingestable products on your site I expected to see? Fasting has been seen to be powerful when impacting our cognitive clarity* Keto club is a locked section of your site. What's behind those closed doors?
Loves spending time with his best friend, Scoot the Keto Pup, jet skiing, and traveling around the world.
https://www.instagram.com/ryanplowery/
Hello Quin, I've been listening to your show for almost 2 years, but I never hear you mention God. I'd like to know more about you personally. Is it possible to shed some light into those areas?Thank you for all the free information you provideMaria
Selling on Amazon FBA, Shopify, Woocommerce, or anywhere online there are always a few "Showoffs" that post sales volume screenshots. That means nothing!!!
STEPHEN SOMERS is a 7-figure Amazon seller and serial entrepreneur. Also co-founder of Marketplace SuperHeroes, an education platform that teaches members how to create a 5-7 figure income stream selling products on Amazon.
STEPHEN SOMERS
How long has it been since you were last an employee? How easy or hard was that change?
Did you think that having a job was crushing your dreams?
How did you start selling on Amazon?
Did your first product launch succeed?
How do you scale an Amazon business? Is it by adding more and more products?
what % of your selling is done outside of Amazon?
Confirm Dismistify this: when you get to 7 figures selling all your cashflow problems go away!
Should I get a trademark before I start?
Should I create a LLC before my first sale?
what kind of adversity in a fast-paced startup? How to overcome that?
If I was starting today How to get started with any new business online the RIGHT way
How to build the connections and relationships needed to go beyond failure in business.
Getting beyond self-limiting beliefs that are keeping you stuck in life and business.
How to take massive action in your life and business every single day and keep on moving the needle.
The daily rituals and routines that you need to start right now to achieve success.
How Stephen failed as a musician and discovered online business as a way to move forward.
How Robert's company failed and from the ashes of that company, the guys built a new Amazon business.
How MPSH Freight Partners failed and how they created a freight service to overcome that.
He and his business partner, Robert Rickey, are both 7-figure Amazon sellers and serial entrepreneurs.
The guys have built Marketplace SuperHeroes which now has over 3,800 members, as well as a full Freight Company and Accountancy Service for Amazon sellers.They have spoken all over the world Selling "boring", everyday items across multiple markets.
Helping our community of Heroes create home-based lifestyle businesses selling simple, everyday products globally on Amazon.
Our aim is to create the #1 platform for aspiring entrepreneurs to come to learn how to build a real business from people who have ACTUALLY done it."
Genuinely passionate about seeing our members become true business owners rather than just ‘another Amazon seller we are painfully focused on making sure that our members learn the skills required to become world class business owners
Links: https://marketplacesuperheroes.com https://marketplacesuperheroes.com/next-generation
Henson Wu The Ceo of Feedback Whiz
Henson and his co-founder developed tools to operate their own business on Amazon and eBay, and now they have released the tool to Amazon Sellers.
How Henson Wu Started Feedback Whiz
How Henson marketed Feedback Whiz to find new users
Links:
www.feedbackwhiz.com
www.linkedin.com/in/hensonwu
Most entrepreneurs struggle with staying focused on a task until it is complete.Today I am going to reveal to you some of the tricks I use in order to keep my focus and get stuff done.
1 – Have a Good Rest
Make sure you are well rested, humans, focus ability is at its peak the first few hours after having a 7-hour sleep. So, make sure you get your beauty sleep in order to keep your brain energized in top performance.
2 – Hydrate your brain. Drink lots of water!
Most people say they can’t function until they get their coffee, and that is true, but most of the cases it’s not even because of the caffeine. It is because your brain needs water and lots of it. So when you get your morning coffee, before even drinking water, that is where the body will take the water from, to feed the brain. Remember that your brain on its own burns 20% of your calories, so by keeping a super active brain and body you can even shred a few pounds. Also, remember to drink lots of water throughout the day, and fill up before bed so you allow your brain to dream.
3 – Create a Schedule
Most people still have a job and a boss to answer to, and that is fine. But, you are limited to the schedule that they give you, for example, 9 to 5. So, after 5 and until 11 you should schedule your own work. Write down what tasks you need or want to do. Don’t worry about the order yet, because when you first write down the tasks, normally people write down what they thought of first, but it's not necessarily the most important or the most urgent task. After you write them down, look through them and see if there is one task that needs to be done before you start any other, and make it a priority. Then filter the rest of the tasks and see what are the most urgent ones of the leftover tasks and number them all.
Since I am a PC guy I
use a free Microsoft app on my laptop called “Microsoft To Do”
4 – Perform one task at a time
Most people think they are good at multitasking or that they need to multitask, but the reality is that humans are not meant to multitask. When you start multitasking 2 things could happen: - You perform all tasks with half the quality and the attention - without even knowing it, you are allowing your brain to think of more than one thing at a time, therefore it can wander away and start thinking about bills, or Game of Thrones, or even about how hungry you are. Look at your task list and go one by one performing that task and scratching it out when you are done. Scratching out a complete task feels great and it will give you an injection of endorphins, just as if 1000 people liked your Facebook profile pic. There is a book I recommend you reading about performing one task at a time, and it’s called “The One Thing” If you can’t focus enough to read it, get the audio version, or listen to it for free on Youtube.
5 – Listen to Alpha waves
I often turn on YouTube on a separate page, search for “focus Music” and you will find 3 to 8 hour long videos of Alpha Wave sounds, that are meant to stimulate your brain into staying focused. These videos normally don’t have ads so you will not be interrupted. Most people I tell to try this have experienced awesome results
6 – Take frequent breaks
There’s research that has proven that the human attention span is decreasing over the years. So if you are performing long tasks, after a while you start losing your focus on that task and your mind starts wandering. There’s a thing called the Pomodoro technique,
A special interview with Todd Cahill, an amazing person with an incredible story and a endless knowledge.
Please listen to the full episode so you don't miss a thing
Today's guest wants to leave a strong footprint in this world.
He is a life coach, the published author of You vs You, and the father of 3
TODD CAHILL
⦁ Married to your beautiful wife Kristin and Father of three. What are their ages? ⦁ Tell us a bit about yourself ⦁ You guide people by creating a step-by-step plan, to help them find and achieve their true purpose. Can you break this down a bit for us? ⦁ Your motto is “Beyond Driven" but its also your personal brand. Tell us about Beyond Driven what is it, and how you help people with it ⦁ What is your perspective on Success VS significance? ⦁ What is You VS You? ⦁ You have an amazing book trailer just like a movie. That is such an amazing idea. ⦁ How can we become more self-aware? ⦁ was there a point you thought you were going to give up? ⦁ Looking for an honest answer here Todd, everywhere I look on social media you have thousands of people following you. Even Dean Graciosy follows you! Is it all because of the motivation you give, or does it help that you look like freaking Thor from the Avengers, haha? ⦁ Your book is very special to you of course. You don't have a self-published book. Tell me What's the process of writing your book, being signed by a publisher and launching your dream? ⦁ How do you find a publisher and what do they require? ⦁ You meditate, you work out every day and live an adventurous life with his wife. That is essential to have a healthy mind, body, AND relationship. How often do you guys have dates or go in adventures? ⦁ Besides your own book, what is one book that you really liked and even read more than once? (Mine is Outliers Malcolm Gladwell) ⦁ I believe You have prepared something for the listeners?
Podcast: It's Not Out There, It's In You
Book You vs You
YOU vs YOU Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5PzVuXcF0g
From Austin Texas, we have with us the President and founder of Gembah - Zack Leonard
Gembah is a supply chain as a service company. Zack Leonard and Gembah help businesses and individuals create and manufacture products. Their turnkey solution brings peoples ideas to life with our local design team.
Once those ideas are on paper, they send it to our overseas team to find the best factories to make your ideas become reality.
Gembah has HQ in Austin, TX with an office in China that manages all our overseas team in places like Vietnam, India, etc.
- Why did you start Gembah? How can you tell if a business has a scalable overseas supply chain? If someone comes to you with a product idea, what happens next? How do you help private label or Amazon FBA Sellers? What’s the value of having great product designs in terms of manufacturing? What some of the pros/cons of manufacturing in China vs Vietnam? What about products that don't exist yet? if I have ideas in my head but don't know how to create them? How about inspections before paying the last 70%? Can I stop my manufacturer from selling my product to others? I had the images of my product on Alibaba posted by different manufacturers Do you still sell online?
HERE ARE JUST SOME OF THE SERVICES Zack Leonard CAN PROVIDE at GEMBAH
- Payment facilitation to manufacturers Freight forwarding Customs/duty/tax analysis Importing Compliance/testing
Keywords:
Design, sourcing, overseas production, tech pack, manufacturing, production management, private label, Amazon sellers, supply chain management
The one name man master of Sales and Closing, Expert Keynote Speaker, From being Canada’s #1 pharmaceutical sales representative to creating a multimillion-dollar coaching program.
His ambition, drive, and confidence has led to his domination in the industry and his world-renowned abilities for all things sales
Kayvon the sales savant from 150k in debt to 100k in month
- Who is Kayvon the person? why only one name? Have you always been super confident? How did you get to become the One Call Closer? What is the #1 secret all sales peoples need to know? What is the difference between selling and closing? * What are some tips for High Ticket coaches How do you set up the call with authority * He started his passion for selling at the young age of 13 where he got his first sales job as a junior sales assistant at the local furniture store. should I sell high ticket items or low? * what systems do you use in your business to generate leads? read 400 books, did over 800 presentations on over 100 stages over the world even spoke Business Expert Forum at Harvard University. Where do you want to go from here?
STOP SELLING, START CLOSING
kayvon.com
Todays Guest is a college drop out who is the owner of an Inc 5000 company! His company Quest Education is ranked #296 of the fastest growing companies in America!! How cool is that?
Let's welcome Daniel Blue, What's up Daniel? Daniel, I want to talk about your company, what it does, and how you achieved such insane growth, but before let's break down who you are, Let's hear your story Ok, let's talk business: -You were the VP of sales of iSelfDirect is that the same company that became Quest Education?
- why the rebranding? when you have an existing "somewhat" known brand, Rebranding could be scary because you already have a customer base that knows and trusts you… how well or badly did rebranding go. Did you receive funding? Are you comfortable disclosing How much funding and when? Daniel, so the listeners can have an idea of the company's growth, can you let us know some metrics like company value, revenue, yearly percent growth whatever you can share with us founded in 2014 made $114K and now around 2.5MM How big is your team? What is it about sales that you feel is most important? What are self-directed retirement accounts? Why are self-directed retirement accounts important? Are you the leader at your organization? How do you see yourself as a leader? Is balancing entrepreneurship and fatherhood challenging? How did you become one of the fastest growing companies in the country? you teach not only business owners but also individuals take control of their retirement plans. * Are these traditional methods or do you have your own methods or systems? Let's talk about the issues you had in business, Daniel! * People love talking about overnight success and luck, but I believe we make our own luck and every overnight success is built from a mixture of hard work and failures. * Did everything in Quest Education workout as easy as it may seem to an outsider? Daniel, My personal opinion is that Society is starved for hope when it comes to financial freedom, so we see everyone is following the exact same gurus who take pics in front of Lambos and Private Jets. The question is: Could it be that we are all obsessed with the wrong kind of financial motivation because of what we imagine that other people's lives are like, due to social media? And is that showoff mentality what is causing the families debt to skyrocket? What is the number one reason why people are struggling with their finances?* What are your favorite tools to use in business * Quest education can be found at YourQuest.com. is that a fully custom platform or does it run on 3rd party software
Daniel Blue has worked with over 1,200 business owners Most American’s don’t know what a self-directed retirement account is but Daniel is determined to change that and bring awareness to how beneficial having one can be...
Traction book
Felling blessed, as Amazon offered an FREE PPC manager for one of the accounts.
Apparently the Ad spend has gone up rapidly and they offered to help out.
My selection of free tools I use for the making, automation and marketing of podcasts
1 Audacity - Free, open source, cross-platform audio software Audacity is an easy-to-use, multi-track audio editor and recorder for Windows, Mac OS X, GNU/Linux and other operating systems.Developed by a group of volunteers as open source
2 Levelator – Free software that will level your sound for when you have more than one speaker and they have sound levers higher or lower. So what is The Levelator®? It's not a compressor, normalizer or limiter although it contains all three. It's much more than those tools, and it's much simpler to use. The UI is dirt-simple: Drag-and-drop any WAV or AIFF file onto The Leveler's application window, and a few moments later you'll find a new version which just sounds better.Have you ever recorded an interview in which you and your guest ended up at different volumes? How about a panel discussion where some people were close to microphones and others were not?
3 Zoom – Here you can record the video and sound if you are interviewing someone remotely. Because why wouldn’t you want to have extra content to make a video. This is also a free tool
4 Wordpress – Yes you can get a WordPress blog to post your show notes that will generate SEO and Google ranking, so eventually you start getting visitors to your site that you can capture emails, or even monetize with ads.
5 Zappier - Zapier is an American for-profit corporation and a web-based service that allows end users to integrate the web applications they use. Connect the apps you use everyday to automate your work and be more productive. 1000+ apps and easy integrations
Hi Quin, thanks for sharing all that you do. I am trying to set up the super URL and give a discount to my warm audience. I wanted to give 90% for the first 10 days to my super engaged audience. But do I do it via a coupon (then do all of amazon customers see this the coupon, which i don't want) or could i create a promotion using the social media promo code that way only people I give the code to can use it.I would still use the super URL, then have them use the promo code created in the social media promo tab.Also there is not a way that i could find to discount more than 80%
Helium 10 Gems Page at: https://www.helium10.com/gems/
These are 5 tools (plus a bonus one) that I use daily in my eCommerce businesses to help me save time or achieve goals...
35 Years ago I was shopping at Walmart and stole a Dinky car!
When I got home, my mom reported me to the store by phone, and they said I could keep it... But instead my mom put in on a shelf and made me look at it for the rest of my life without ever touching it...
You talked about Amazon live video on the podcast, and im wondering if is it a good idea to get into as a new seller?
Well, it is basically an infomercial, for free, on the biggest Ecom platform in the world!
What do you think?
In this episode, Quin is talking about Amazon Sponsored Products with the variant of Product Targeting.
This is when you have the ability to target your competitor products! This is not a new feature available to Amazon sellers, it has been around for a long time inside Vendor Express and the Amazon Marketing System (AMS) Quin also used to use this inside the Amazon author central for his kindle books. What is new about this feature is the fact that it is available inside Amazon Seller Central now, since late 2018
What can you do with Amazon product targeting advertising?
Just like the name says, you can create ad campaigns that will target competitor product pages instead or targeting keywords or search terms.
How to create a product targeting Ad campaign
- Go into you campaign manager and click the orange button that says "create Campaign" Sellect Sponsored Products Enter your budget Pick if you want Up and Down bidding (Not recommended as of now) Choose Manual Targeting Select Product Targeting Pick your product (the one you want to advertise) Enter your competitor's ASINs or serch for the ones you want to target Let it run for at least 3 days and keep monitoring* Let me know if it worked
Please listen to the episode to find out a couple tips Quin recommended to make it more profitable
Start Gratefull, Stay Positive, and Always Profit
He is from England but lives in China for the last 6 years. FBA4U - The ultimate amazon seller Hub CHRIS DAVEY
Listen to the podcast to learn how Chris has been sourcing products for over 20 years and how he moved to China for work, where he know runs his Amazon business.
Listen to the end to hear some great tips
- Who is Chris Davey Why are you in China? Why do I need a VPM before going to China? What do you do with FBA4U How long have you been selling on Amazon What Amazon markets do you sell in? Do you walk in factories to source products* What advantages does it have to be in China when it comes to choosing products or suppliers?
Find Chris at FBA4U.com
Chris's event is now being sponsored by Amazing.com and Global Sourcing
Episode is being transcribed...
Professional Amazon FBA seller Quin Amorim host of the QA Selling Online Podcast, and Bradley Sutton, the Success Manager at Helium 10.
Helium 10 is an all in one software for professional Amazon sellers, and if helps new and experienced FBA sellers get a boost over their competitors.
Quin and Bradley discuss how to find the best keywords and a break down of each tool.
"For any serious Amazon seller looking to make six or seven figures, Helium 10 is your best friend and ally in your fight to be the "Best Seller" in your product categories. This Amazon optimization tool suite is specially designed for sellers looking to grow their Amazon FBA businesses exponentially."Helium 10
HELIUM 10 TOOLS:
REFUND GENIE – REIMBURSEMENT FINDER With a click of a button, Refund Genie allows you to find lost or damaged inventory Amazon may have not reimbursed you for. It generates reports super-fast so you can collect on those funds and get back to growing your business. MAGNET – AMAZON KEYWORD RESEARCH TOOL Magnet is a super-powerful, best-in-class keyword research tool that the big Amazon sellers use to pull the best keywords for their product listings. With Magnet, you no longer need to waste time jumping from tool to tool in hopes of getting the best keywords. Just enter a seed keyword and let Magnet attract the best keywords in just a few minutes! MISSPELLINATOR – MISSPELLING EXTRACTOR Misspellings are one the most underrated cash generators when it comes to listing optimization. By utilizing misspellings in your product's back end search terms, you can grab great rankings and easy sales. Talk about low-hanging fruit! But not just any misspellings -- use the most used misspellings. Misspellinator makes it super-fast and easy to get to top misspellings for your keywords. FRANKENSTEIN – KEYWORD PROCESSOR Frankenstein Is the most powerful Amazon keyword processor on the planet, allowing you to take thousands of keywords, and in mere seconds, process them into cash-generating keyword lists. By running de-duplication filters, removing unwanted characters and words, and sorting the keywords by popularity, you can easily process huge lists of keywords that are perfect for your product page or back end keywords, helping you pull in massive traffic and sales. SCRIBBLES – LISTING OPTIMIZATION TOOL Scribbles ensures your listings are 100% fully optimized with the best keywords to add to the front-end and back-end of your product page in seller central, to help you attract more traffic and generate more sales. Scribbles ensures you never miss or accidentally skip using a valuable keyword, and helps you easily write ultra-optimized titles, bullet points, descriptions, and sales-generating back-end search-term-keywords, so you can be sure that all your keyword research has been put to good use. Selling in multiple categories? No problem! Scribbles allows you to modify text field lengths so you can utilize our tool regardless of the character limitations on your specific category. Increase your sales with well optimized listings using Scribbles. 5K CHECKER – KEYWORD CHECKER Manny Coats said it best in his podcast, "5K Checker is a HUGE time saver! What takes you 4 hours to do manually can be done in 30 seconds with 5K checker." This tool allows you to quickly and easily figure out which of your back-end and front-end keyword-search-terms are actually being indexed by Amazon and which ones are going to waste (or even causing the good keywords NOT to rank). With 5K Checker you can do hours’ worth of work in seconds! Secret Tip: Enter your competitors ASINs and check what keywords they do and don't rank for. BLACK BOX With Black BoxNew product finder and product research tool, you can set search filters to tailor your resu...
Today I received a question from Luis asking about tracking ROI from Facebook Ads directed to Amazon
There are 2 ways to track your Facebook Ads conversion for Amazon FBA listings.
The first one is to create an Amazon affiliate account and start selling your own items from the affiliate accounts.By doing this you will get affiliate tracking and analytics from Amazon that tells you how many sales came from each link.
The second way to do is is to track the product on a daily basis using the Amazon reports, measure the conversion rate and the numbe of daily views to your listing, and as soon as you turn on your Facebook Ad campaign you will see what the increase in traffic and the conversion rate.
By doing this you will see that for example if you were getting 2000 visitor per day to your listing at 48% conversion rate, and now you get 2500 people per day at 48% conversion rate, you know how many extra sales you generated from the Facebok Ad.
This is not 100% accurate but it will give you a pretty close estimate of the ROI generated by your Facebook marketing campaign
The second question was:
How can you track sales on Amazon generated by organic search terms?
Well, I only know of one way of doing this, and it involves using an Amazon Tool by Helium 10, called Cerebro
Cerebro will do the equivalent to a reverse ASIN lookup, but it will also show you what keywords you, or your competitor are paying for, and what keywords are generating organic sales.
And on top of that, it will also show you where you rank for each one of those keywords, the search volume of each search term, How many products are competing for the same search terms and how many giveaways you would need in order to rank on the first page of Amazon for each keyword
Cerebro is one of the many tools available at Helium 10, and I arranged a discount for you:
If you want a one time 50% discount use code: QAMORIM50
But if you want 10% discount per month for life use QAMORIM10
That is all for today, so remember:
"Start Grateful, Stay Positive and Always Profit"Quin Amorim
Joe is Using A Failed Private Label Product To Capture Emails.
Joe created a sales funnel where he entered his failed Private Label product into a Free plus shipping page.
In order to get the free plus shipping product, the customer has to enter their info (name and email) into the optin form, so Joe Can capture this information.
By capturing the email, the plan is to at least break even with the shipping cost, and then offer the customer an upsell of another unit at a discounted rate. And here it starts to become profitable.
This is a great idea that Joe had, because you will always be able to advertise to these customer for free n the future.
So, if you have a Private Label product that isnt doing good on Amazon FBA or if you product used to be on Amazon and you ended up removing it to save on Long term Storage Fess, then you can use it in the same way to capture your clients info.
Dan Meadors started selling on Amazon with $600 and has now passed 20 Million in totals sales, using his Wholesale Formula
What is wholesale on Amazon FBA?
QUIN: Today, we have another special guest, who in his twenties had already flipped over $50,000,000 in real estate. He launched over twenty-three brands that were over seven figures. Nine of those, over eight figures. He is also the Founder of one of the biggest men's grooming beard brands and the Founder of the Online Sellers Summit. Nate Lind is here with us today.
How's it
going, Nate?
NATE: I'm
good, Quin. Thanks for inviting me. I love to be a part of your show.
QUIN: It's a
pleasure to have you here. I mean, I love everything that you do because it's
so similar to what I do although maybe the numbers may be slightly different.
So in your twenties, were you flipping houses? Is that what you were doing?
NATE: Yeah, so
I got out of college and I was just working a 9 to 5 job.
I was gonna be driving down to the Federal Aviation Administration in
Washington DC. I read this little book called “Rich Dad, Poor Dad” and it
totally changed my life.
As quickly as I could, try to get myself out of having a day job. And was
interested in real estate.
I actually went to a CASHFLOW 101
game. The very first game I went to. And at that game, I ended up finding a
mentor who then later became my partner. And we ended up selling a whole bunch
of real estate together. So this was in 2002 through 2008. Had a really good
run there.
I bought and resold 75 houses by myself, that time with the business partner
who was a money partner. And I had 70 wins, 2 losses, and 3 draws.
So there's 3 draws with lawsuits to so (laughs) we learned a little bit about
litigation at a young age as well.
It's unfortunate but America's highly litigious.
QUIN: Yes, of
course. That is pretty incredible. Seventy-five.
NATE: Yeah.
QUIN: So I
read the book Rich Dad, Poor Dad of course but I was 40 when I read it. I
always knew about it. Took me until I was 40 to read it.
And it was actually the audio version. I had owned four homes at the same time,
and I lived in 3 of them.
NATE: (laughs)
QUIN: So I was
not doing real estate investing, it was just kind of my own stuff. And then
since then, I got rid of 3 of those.
So I just have one and I don't even live in it.
NATE: Yes, so
it's a rental and then you live in a place or rent in another place?
QUIN: That's right,
yeah.
NATE: I love
that model. I mean, I don't own the house that I'm in right now either. You
know, this whole like misconception about your house is your biggest asset, I
like how Rich Dad, Poor Dad, you know, how Robert Kiyosaki kinda like puts a
spin on that.
Economically, if it is better for you to buy than rent, then buy. Then
opposite, rent. So it just depends on your situation. Every situation is
unique.
QUIN:
Absolutely. And you said that you had a partner and that was the money partner.
So you come up with... at the time, was there the 5% mandatory down payment or
was it you can start with zero?
NATE: We were
doing what's called subject to real estate purchasing. So we were buying the
property subject to the existing financing that was already in place. And so
typically, these are people that were in some kind of a distress situation. So
death, divorce, downsize, disease, disability, those are the things that were
causing some turmoil in their lives.
Most people when they join an MLM (Multi Level Marketing) are thought all the wrong ways to approach leads.Their uplines "most" of the times have zero experience, so they give them the same copy and paste message that they have been using unsuccessfully for a long time.The reality is that you need to build some time of relationship before going in with the "opportunity"
The good old techniques:
"Would you like to make more money?""Do you leave income opportunities open""If you breathe, this is meant for you..."
This is pure and simple terrible...
QUIN: Welcome, everyone to the podcast. Today we have a guest who's a YouTuber, an Amazon sellerLuke Wechselberger!Luke, what's happening?
LUKE: Hey, what's up. You
got my last name right, that's why usually I just go by Luke W. but
Wechselberger, it's a long last name. 13 letters.
Didn't
want that one growing up too much but I'm happy to be on the podcast. It is my
first ever podcast. I'm really excited to just kind of let loose some of the
topics that I've been doing in entrepreneurship and all of the above. So, thank
you.
QUIN: Perfect. So Luke is
in greater Seattle area. Is that right Luke?
LUKE: Yeah, I've grown up
in Seattle Washington most my life. Went to college out on the eastern side of
the state at Washington State University. Did some Broadcast News Journalism
and quickly realized I need to get in to entrepreneurship.
QUIN: Awesome. So you
started early on as a woman's shoe salesman.
So
tell me about that experience.
LUKE: So that was one of
my earlier jobs in between college transitional periods, you know summer job
type of thing. And you know, working in Nordstrom's a lot of people know that
company.
They're
really big. They're prestigious. And I mean I thought it was a great summer
job, you know, meet a bunch of women and sell some shoes. And I knew selling
things was very important in life, you know. We're all selling 24/7, whether we
realize it or not.
You
know if you're asking your mom to go out and stay out later at night or
something, you're selling her on that idea. And selling is just something that
you know can come natural to a lot of people. And when you get better at it,
you can really actually find a way to enjoy it. But women shoes, that was just
a summer fling. A lot of ladies came and past, but it was a good time. (laughs)
QUIN: I bet. Yeah, good
for you Luke. So around 2017, the summer of 2017, you started with
Amazon. Tell us about that. Kind of how did you hear about Amazon and what
made you jump into it?
LUKE: So I'd figured out
more about entrepreneurship actually in February 2017. My birthday was January
19th. I remember the day exactly. I woke up. It was February 27,
snowing outside. We don't usually get snow in the Seattle area but I saw on ad
for Tai Lopez's social media marketing course.
Okay,
he sold me on it. It was in a transitional period between me either going to
the broadcast news sector of journalism and everything or me finding my own
route and making my own life for myself. And I knew I wanted to do that so I
signed up for that course. It was a thousand bucks. And went through
everything. I mean I learned a lot and I started to help other businesses and
actually be a social media marketer and having a few clients, making some
decent money but I was building their brand and not necessarily my own.
So
in the whole space of entrepreneurship watching YouTube videos. I came across
Tanner J Fox, which a lot of people may already know. He's one of the big up
and comers on YouTube. He's got 120,000 subscribers now. And I started
following him from day one. His first video ever came out.
I
followed him from the beginning. And it's like when you model other people that
are successful, you can almost just replicate what they're doing and start
getting their success. So it was so easy through YouTube to just watch these
White Hat services while selling online on Amazon or any other platform, is the only way to ensure your brand's future
grey hat on Amazon FBA
Amazon live available for Amazon FBA sellers.
Amazon.com/live
https://www.amazon.com/live/howto
Amazon Livestream available for FBA sellers
How she got optin emails without even knowing, but there was something wrong with the emails...
How to sell FBA and FBM on Amazon at the same time.
Hello, my friend. Welcome to the show. This is Quin.
I bet you've never heard a podcast with really, really big background noise. Well, that's the case today. I am recording outside.
There is some equip equipment running at a distance, so you may hear the random backup alarm or whatever but just bear with me. This is a fun experiment. And It's nice and sunny.
I live in Northern Canada, so you guys know it's gonna be really, really cold all winter. And we're talking about -40 degrees. And that is Celsius and Fahrenheit because that's the point where both meet, Celsius and Fahrenheit. If we're talking about -40, they're exactly the same. All right. Anyway, today it's only -3. Super sunny so it feels like summer to me, so I'm outside podcasting.
Now, I had a question which is a really good question and it was sent to me on a comment on qasellingonline.com.
So if you want to do the same, go ahead. Qasellingonline.com. All right. The question came in from Mary Ann and I'm gonna read it.
"Hello, Quin. I've been listening to the podcast for
almost six months and I am almost caught up now. I have a question for you
about FBM and FBA. I see some sellers can do both on the product but I don't
have that option. How can it be done?"
Well, Mary Ann thank you very much and good job catching up to the podcast in six months. So that was very good for you. You binge listen and that makes me very excited.
For those listening that don't realize FBM is "Fulfilled by Merchant" and FBA is "Fulfilled by Amazon". When you see some sellers that have, doesn't matter if it's private label product or what it is, you can sell it as FBA and FBM.
The way to do that... and you probably never noticed it yet, but when I tell you, you're gonna realize how easy it is.
You open your listing. So like I said, it doesn't matter if you have a private label product or if your wholeselling or whatever, right. So go to your inventory. On the top left of your seller central you're gonna click on inventory and then go down to manage inventory. And when you open "manage inventory", now you're going to get a list of all the products that you have for sale. Right.
And the ones that are active are going to show up first and then by default, I guess on mine, the ones that have the highest quantities are the ones that are going to show up first. I have it in that order. You can set yours to be, I guess, in different orders. And I do that because the number of the availability of my stock to me means it's normally the one that sells the most. That's why it has more inventory, right?
Now look at that line of each product and go all the way to the right. And at the end of each line, you're going to have the edit button with a drop-down menu. So click on that dropdown and you're going to see an option there. And I'm in there right now, that says "add another condition." Click on "add another condition." And this is going to open a page where you can select a new price for the product and you can select a new option if the product is new, used.
So this is what you're going to do if you have used a product that you want to sell that's your own or somebody else's, you're going to create exactly the same thing and then set their new as used or used as new and/or new or just used or collectible. You can choose here. You can choose the price that you want.
And then at the bottom of that, you're going to see the option to pick if you want Amazon to fulfill it or if fulfilled by you.
How some "Successful" Entrepreneurs and Influencers are broke and playing the Fake it until you make it game!
In my Amazon PPC Auto campaigns I see some ASINs in the Amazon Search Term Report, what does this mean and what can I do with them?
How to get reviews on Amazon Since I don't have a miracle powder, a magic wand or a black hat technique to share, I will let you know of a small trick I use ( this is obviously an Amazon approved technique) The technique has to do with my email follow up. Lets start from the beginning, first you need to get a software...
He’s had over 1500 blogs running google ads, he launched over 5000 books (yes 5000), he did a documentary and was number #1 hip-hop artist in Poland and had 4 more songs in the top charts!
Tom Libelt
A sound engineer in New York who became the top Hip Hop artist in Poland and controlled the charts for over a year
By the age of 7.. he was smuggling liquor back into the country (was supposed to cry and scream if the immigration wanted to check).
Tom Libelt’s first computer was a Commodore 64!!!
FIRST BUSINESS VENTURES
Tom Libelt ran a record store with two older friends.
Became a DJ and played at colleges, bars, radio stations, clubs, and raves got an internship at Unique Recording Studios in NY.
In NY created a group, rapped and engineered the music.
Had 3 hits in the top 10 on the local polish radio… one was #1 for almost a year.
Read the 4 Hour Workweek and couldn’t get the idea of being location independent out of my head.
Moved to Atlanta and bought a coffee shop in the suburbs. Ran that for almost a year but…
Tom Libelt was browsing the web and heard about Adsense Niche sites. Created a couple… made a few dollars and started pumping out around 50 every month.
“Six months later I made my first $1,000 and after that had months where I hit close to $10,000…”“One of the blog networks that I used for SEO became too popular and Google shut it down. That left me with 1,500+ blog posts and a team of writers with nothing to do.I told them to start writing books and left them alone. That became profitable and we went on to writing 5,000+ books and making $250,000+”
Tom’s businesses were running well and he became bored. Got a great team together and we made a documentary about the realities of building/running businesses when on the road.
Watch it here: https://yourownwayout.com/
PODCASTING
Over the last few years, I got into podcasting.
Smart Brand MarketingWe Create Online CoursesCrypto Moon Radio
Interviewed JLD and Ezra Firestone, Ryan Danial Moran
NEW VENTURE
I took my new marketing skills to help others build online courses and market them
We can create an online course for you in 14 hours of your time.
Questions for Tom Libelt
- What platform do you use to get clients? How many people do you have working for you? All Vas? Do you sell physical products or all digital? Do you have your own courses or just promote clients courses? Ask about creating courses in 14 hours Best course platforms (CF, Udemy, Thinkific, teachable, etc) Have you heard of google course builder (edu.google.com) what is it? Pre-selling what the best way to pre-sell, how can you show guarantees Reviews testimonials and feedback on the course before launching?
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Quin opens up to tell us a story of one of his failures while selling Online before the Amazon FBA days
How to get video to your Amazon FBA listings
There are 2 ways to get a video on your Amazon FBA listing.
The first one is to get it uploaded by an Amazon Vendor. You can be an Amazon \seller or you can be and Amazon vendor, or even both.
Amazon Vendors can upload video to any Asin, so you can request thata venmdor will upload a video for you.
Several chinease sellers are selling the idea on Fiverr for $150 you can get them to post a video for you.
The second way is to create a GIF image in a sequence and upload to your listing for free
Fins a GIF creator site and upload your image sequence to form a short repeating Video and upload t an image slot that is not the main
A question from Anthony about what software tools I use to automate my Amazon FBA PPC and the tool I use for multichannel management
My tools of choice are PPC Scope a tool by Brian Johnson and Brian Burt
The other is Sellics and this tool does a ton of other things related to selling on Amazon
Multichannel software is Selleractive.com
Today’s guest is an Amazon SEO Consultant
He is the founder of an organic SEO & Amazon marketing agency based in the UK, specializing in ranking products within Amazon & Google in some of the most difficult niches in the world.Tom Buckland
Tell us about you as a person, who are you and where are you from.How did you get into Amazon and whenDo you sell as well or only support other sellers?Do you do private label, wholesale RA or OA?Amazon rankings, everyone wants to rank but only a few make it to the first page, what’s the secret?
SEO Tips to rank quicker
2000 char description or EBC enhanced Brand Content?FBA in the futureWhat is something you normally see people doing wrong?What one tool you use, that you can’t go without?
Amazon marketing for sellers
sales velocity and conversion
Is it easier to rank when we use the same keywords in the title, bullets, disc, and backend?
Does it impact more if my keyword is in the same order as the client’s search term (written in the same order – wireless Bluetooth speaker vs Bluetooth speaker wireless
How do you do giveaways, do you use giveaway sites, email lists or Facebook groups?
Find Tom at:
Amazonseoconsultant.com
twitter @tombucklandseo
Luiz sent a message about the main image on Amazon.
If I am selling wine glasses can I have the glass full of wine?
Why You Should Post Original Content on your social media.
Copying content from influencers to your Facebook page will not make you an influencer
If you have questions related to taxes send them to QAsellingonline.com
If you are a Tax expert you can also use the contact form to get in touch and come on the show answer some questions.
Regards
Quin
My 5 Year Old Took Over The Podcast and started talking about her animal business and her food business.
must listen to know more
I live in the UK. Should I sell my Amazon FBA products in the UK or the US?
The short answer is: Sell in both
But in reality is, if you are starting out, start in your home market.
Try things out and test. If something doesn't work, you can always request Amazon to send our product to your home, while if you are selling in the US and that first product fails, Amazon will not ship it to your UK address.
The US market is a lot bigger than Amazon UK, and very easy to get into, but it’s also the most competitive Amazon market in the world.
So, before jumping into the US, gain experience in the less competitive UK, then you could even consider Germany. But don't launch in 2 countries at once, because your launching efforts will be less effective in both platforms
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Not talking about the best product, or the highest demand!
I'm talking about thinks that you cant see or measure, like feelings.
And I think it is passion for the business.
Not passion for the product, because I never fall in love with a product, just in case I want to terminate that product. If you watch the Dragon's Den or Shark Tank, you often see people that were in love with a product or an idea, and ruined their whole life or bank account to make that product work.
I believe that we have to be passionate to a certain point, but we need to know when to let go of products or ideas that are not working and will eat our cashflow.
But, the passion I'm talking about is a passion for the business itself, loving what you do, love to research products ( I even do it for free to share on my IG now)
Love to update and create new listings, to upgrade product photography and even love for the competitors!
Yes, if you have a honest and strong competitor it is a great motivator to keep you going and give them a good fight, that is so exciting!
Some of the things you need to know when starting to sell private label on Amazon, or even if you have been selling online for a while
The amazon listings with thousands of reviews are an indicator of huge amounts of sales, and a fierce competitor, but... there could be room.
There are ways to mitigate the advantage they have.
Please listen to the show
Quin is looking for guests to interview on the QA Selling Online Podcast.
If you or anyone you know is selling online on any platform, please contact Quin at:
QASellingOnline.com
Quin's Instagram
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Thanks
Ally
Increasing your sale price on Amazon will reduce your conversion rate, increase your BSR and take away your sales velocity, so dont do it!
Today I rant about the hate between some Vegans and some meat eaters.
Trying to force anyone to believe in what you believe will never work in your favor.
Just live your own life and lets others live theirs.
If you decide to explain your "why" do it in a positive way, and keep your ears open, or else nobody will listen to you
Amazon Seller App Special Features for FBA Sellers
What are some of the special features in the Amazon Seller App that I didn't know, and some that I knew but are great to use
What happened to QA Selling Online Podcast with Quin Amorim
While creating a Mirror Feed for the RSS of the Podcast I resubmitted the whole show
Hey Joe, welcome back to the show.
And yeah Anheuser-Busch beer factory, I always imagine what cool jobs are happening in a place like that.
Glad to see you launched 2 products but unfortunately one isn't doing great, so lets see what we can do about that.
The good news is after this payment in February, there won't be any more payments for products that have been at the warehouse for under a year. But after 12 months it will start being charged again.
You have a few options here:
- Drop the price and try to sell out (which sees like you did already)* Create a removal order (This will cost you about 50 cents per unit) if you do this, and you want to continue to sell this item, dont remove them all. Leave 60 days of supply at Amazon and remove the rest * Increase PPC or make it more effective (this is what you asked about in your message)
So lets talk about the PPC.
Normally I start with an automatic campaign, and let this run for a week or so, depending on how much traffic the ad is getting.
What this does is, it lets Amazon tell me what the search terms being used by the customers are. And from here I use those search terms in my manual campaign, plus keywords generated from those search terms.
Each Manual Ad can have up to 1000 keywords, and some products can have 2, 3 or 4 ads with 1000 keywords each.
One of the tools I use for keywords is free and it's called Keyword.IO you enter your search term, pick amazon.com and let it generate results, then enter a new search term, etc
Now when creating the manual campaign, you can create several ads inside that campaign, and name accordingly so you know which one is whitch.
Now, there are a few things that also work in favor of, or against PPC campaigns but they are not controlled inside the Campaign manager. It is the relevancy of the keywords to the category.
Sometimes people post an item in a different category than it belongs, trying to escape competition, but Amazon's algorithm tracks relevancy and in a case like that, your ad doesn't even show up when people search (even if you have the highest bid)
At this stage you probably already ran an automatic campaign, so you can go to that campaign and download the advertising report, even if the campaign isn't active anymore.
The main reason I don't like selling products under $20 is because since they are so cheap to source, millions of new sellers will have the ability to source them as well, and then the PPC bids start going up and you end up having to bid $2 for a keyword that is going to give you $1 profit in the end.
Another of the external factors I believe influences PPC is the CTR the click-through rate, is the percentage of people that the add was shown to, vs the percentage that actually clicked on it (basically its the ad's engagement)
On other platforms, the CTR has to do mostly with the copywriting and the image, while on Amazon it has to do solely with the Thumbnail and the title of the product. So if you have a good image and all the white space around the product is cropped out, your thumbnail will stand out more.
So on a manual campaign create an ad with up to 1000 keywords, at this time you are going to use the campaign's suggested bid, then as time goes by you will tweek each keyword up or down depending on the ACOS and the number of impressions you get.
For example, if keywords don't receive any impressions, it means the bid is too low or not relevant...
Here is what not to do with a startup Digital Marketing Agency, Facebook Advertising or Social Media Marketing Agency - SMMA
Quin talks about a failed experience he had when starting up creating ad campaigns for clients.
Make sure to listen and subscribe
If you are selling online in 2019, this is the ecommerce podcast you want to be listening to.
Quin Amorim has lots of changes in mind and a plan to change the world.
Stay tuned and make sure to subscribe
In today's episode Quin explains a new feature for Amazon FBA sellers.
well… it's not really a new feature, it is just an update inside the Amazon Seller Central.
When you go to edit or create a new product the page that you will see now, is a full page following the normal Amazon simple white look.
Beside the regular features you already had when cregating a new product in your Amazon seller central, you also have a couple new things.
These new things are:
- the option to see the before and after when editing something The option to see the locked itmes (the things that cannot be changed without talking to Amazon seller support The look of the whole thing whith the menu on thop of the main page* And the pictures on the listing vs the pictures uploaded by you
To know more you should visit your Amazon Seller Central account and try to edit any of your existing FBA products
Thanks
Ally, in behalf of Quin
The simple answer is No.
Most Prime buyers turn on the Prime filter, so when they do a search on Amazon, if an item isn’t prime, it won't even show up on their search.
If you are competing for the “buy Box” (this means more than one seller on the listing) Amazon will award the buy box to the prime item, if the prices are the same. This means if 2 sellers are selling the same item for the same price, and only one is prime, he/she will get the sale when the buyer pressed the “add to cart”
If an item is Fulfilled By Amazon, by default it will be Prime. But in some cases, if you live in the US you can do Seller fulfilled prime. To do so, you need to qualify and be able to deliver your products as quick as Amazon woud.
Amazon is amazing at providing us all with the instant gratification, that we seem to all love and be addicted too.
As a professional Amazon seller and a very big buyer, I will not sell anything that isn't prime, and will not by items that are not prime. (If I can wait 20 to 60 days for the item, I might as well get it from eBay lol)
I hope this answer was useful. If it was please upvote and follow
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Host of QA Selling Online Podcast
How to launch a podcast using a blog
In this episode I explain step by step how I launch my podcast 5 days a week.
If you need any help contact me and I will gladly help
How I Use A WordPress Site To Host My Podcast
Yesterday I updated my WP blog t the newest version so it reminded me to mention it on the podcast.
I will make an episode tomorrow explaining how I use WordPress to launch my podcast on iTunes Google Play, stitcher, iHeart, etc
Host My Podcast
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2019 Amazon Seller Fees and Long Term Storage
2019 Amazon Seller Fees and Long Term Storage
Hey Quin, I started listening to the podcast only 5 months ago, but almost caught up to the latest episodes.
I am starting my Amazon FBA business by doing retail arbitrage, and I recently found a place that has pots and pans always at 70% off. Do you think I should start with those or should I start with something smaller?
Thank you for the question, Albert.
Cookware is not one of my favourite things to sell, and besides that all cookware companies always have a minimum discount of 70% off.
Check it out at Walmart, Canadian Tire, Target or any other big store, you will see that they are always at a minuimum discont of 70%.
I think a long time ago, a manufacturer created a 70% off for pots and pans, and after that nobody could go back to the regular price, so now everyone adds 70% extra and then just gets removed at checkout.
70 is the new zero!
Facebook as a new feature for the advertisers
It is a new section under custom audiences witch is custom audiences with LTV Life Time Value
Make sure to listen
Amazon FBA Seller Outlet Deals
Hello from Fulfillment by Amazon,You’re invited to take part in Amazon’s Outlet Deals to drive sales of your overstocked inventory.This invitation-only opportunity can help you reduce your excess inventory without paying additional fees. If selected, your products will appear on Amazon’s Outlet page for up to three weeks. Outlet Deals provides Amazon shoppers with product offers of at least:• 30% off the previous day’s lowest Buy Box price and • 30% off the average Buy Box price from the previous 30 daysHow to participate:1. Review the eligible ASINs in the attached file called, "itemlist.csv."2. Enter your proposed title and deal price into the Amazon Outlet Deals Template (attached). 3. Submit the completed form within one week of receiving this invitation to fba-seller-connect@amazon.com
Eligible ASINPriceXSFT3345$ 54
The above is not my real asin, its just a random example I typed
Why You Need An Internet Lawyer If You Do Business Online
Internet Lawyer to Online Businesses, Richard Chapo
I am super excited today because Today's guest is someone every online entrepreneur needs, but most don't even know they do.
He is a lawyer, but not any lawyer, he is an internet Lawyer to online businesses.
Richard Chapo is a business lawyer in San Diego who has been practicing for 25 years.
Richard advises small and large online businesses on how best to comply with laws such as the DMCA and FTC regulations applicable to conducting business online.
Richard Chapo is a massive hockey fan and avid traveler having lived in such exotic locations as Siberia.
Some questions:
- How did you get started? Was it always your plan? When did you realize you wanted to be an internet lawyer?
- What is the most common case of online lawbreaking?
- copyright and trademarking, is that something you do?
- What can people trademark?
- Do online business owners need insurance? what kind of insurance?
- Buying an online business, what do I need to know?
- Have you worked with any amazon sellers yet?
- As an internet lawyer, Richard Chapo do you just need to know the law or do you also need to have a deep understanding of web development coding, e-commerce, etc?
- Everyone has heard of GDPR, do you think most online entrepreneurs are aware of what it means?
- If an online business has 2 or more founders what do they need to have as contracts?
- Entity formation, we all hear advice about forming an LLC in Delaware, is that legit advice?
- Terms of service and privacy at the bottom of our websites, is it mandatory?
Richard Chapo can be reached through his website SoCalInternetLawyer.com.
or on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardachapo/
Thanks for listening and reading, please subscribe and review the show 🙂
Internetlaw #privacylaw #DMCA #GDPR #foundersdocuments
Internet Lawyer to Online Businesses, Richard Chapo
The Bad, Old and Useless Online Ads
I just finished listening to an ad on Instagram and it was the most ridiculous Ad I've heard in a long time.
People are stuck in the 1980 advertising mentality of asking questions in their ads:
Are you sick of having bills to pay?
Do you struggle to pay rent?
Fear no more, we have the solution for you!!!
That has to end, and advertisers need to think outside the box.
Please listen to the episode to know more
Another great interview where Quin Amorim and Jenny Hale talk about Social Media
Jenny Hale is a social media mentor for the US military.
Jenny started her career working with the military community and over time she realized she wanted to help more.
Jenny lived in the barracks, she rappelled down towers, and even took pictures inside the gas chamber!
So much that after college and being a photojournalist, Jenny attempted to enlist, more than once!
But unfortunately, due to some childhood medical issues, that would prevent her physically to do what she needed and wanted to do, Jenny was not accepted.
But, since Jenny Hale fell in love with the military and found her purpose, she was not going to give up that easy.
She couldn't walk away, she had a purpose, so she had to work with the military and makes sure its more than a 24-hour job.
Now she pivoted and found a way to do what she wants, around who she wants.
This is such a great interview with Jenny Hale, that I recommend listening, rather than just reading the show notes.
Jenny Works with various military spouse/veteran entrepreneurs to reach social media and marketing goals.
Jenny Hale offers coaching, social media management, content creation, and public relations services to the military community entrepreneur and specializes in serving businesses with military-focused products/services.
Studying online algorithms, like Facebook, Linkedin, Twitter, Jenny knows what kind of behavior these algorithms are favoring and exactly how to engage with them. If you want to know more and need a hand with your marketing, please see below Jenny's social media presence:
Book:
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Where to find Jenny:
Facebook page
Facebook Group
Twitter
Website jennyhale.com
LinkedIn Jenny Hale
Thank you for listening to Quin Amorim's interview with Jenny Hale, I hope you liked it, and please share the show.
Several Amazon Sellers
When a product is sold by numerous Amazon sellers, how do I know which is the best one to buy from?
Quin Amorim's answer:
You don’t need to choose!
If there are several sellers on the listing, Amazon will award the “buy Box” to the cheapest and the one in stock at their FBA warehouse. This means you don’t have to pick, just click the buy now button (or add to cart) and Amazon will ship you the product.
The product being sold is the exact same, no matter who the seller is, so, in reality, the best is always the cheapest.
Reading the reviews will be completely useless (in this case) because the reviews are for the product and not for the seller.
Just click “Add to cart” and let Amazon choose the cheapest for you. Don’t worry, you are 100% safe with Amazon, and if anything is wrong with your order they will refund you 100% of the value every time.
Selling Food Products on E-commerce Websites
Selling Food Products on E-commerce question from Kanchana:
I'd like to get advice on e-commerce. I have a product that I would like to start selling online. The product is food-related
Quin Amorim's answer:
Hi Kanchana, Excited to be connected with you on LinkedIn Career Advice.
The easiest and fastest way to launch any product online is on Amazon (for now)
Amazon will charge you 15% of the gross sales, but in return, they already have 360 Million users with credit cards on file 🙂
When launching a food product there are several things that you should know.
– You need to know for sure that the product is safe for human consumption
– You'll need to have a label with a description, quantity, ingredients, expiry date, name and address of manufacturer or distributor, directions of use, nutrition facts and even storage instructions
– Product liability insurance (this can cost a couple thousand bucks per year, but if you are selling in the US, there are risks of being sewed)
– To sell food-related products on Amazon you need to request to unlock the Grocery category (They may request vendor receipts or FDA registration)
Grocery and Gourmet foods is an amazing E-commerce category, but also very challenging and competitive (unless the product is unique)
Feel free to ask any questions you may have, and I'll try to help 🙂
Regards
Quin
Selling Food Products on E-commerce Websites
Should I rebrand and name the podcast something else related t selling online, or selling on Amazon, or even Shopify or E-commerce in general
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Blackhat techniques from some Amazon sellers
Here are a couple of the latest black hat techniques being used in the Amazon FBA marketplace.
Both involve your listings that ran out of stock.
Sellers that have software that tracks out of stock listings, then they create a variation of the product in that listing (even if the product is not even slightly related)
This way they can create variations of the existing listing and keep all existing reviews.
How was your first attempt at dropshipping?
My first attempt at DropShipping was over 20 years ago back in 1997.
I would go to a store that sold handmade wooden statues and I would take pictures with my camera (smartphones didn't have good cameras).
Then I would upload the pictures to eBay USA and try to sell the items for 2 or 3 times the price.
When someone would buy my item I would run back to the store and buy it, then ship it to the customer.
The reality is that every item was unique, and often I would get to the store and the item I wanted had been sold! lol
It took 10 more years until people started talking about it all over social media, and finally, some tools started to be developed.
Amazon FBA Consulting and Seller Central Account Management
Amazon FBA Consulting Done Right
I often get asked if Amazon FBA is too saturated, or if it is still worth it to launch new FBA products on Amazon USA.
Well, I have some great news to share today about one of the Amazon Accounts I manage.
Trevor handed his account to me in 4 months ago when it was doing $10k per month with 2 products.
Over the last 4 months, I removed one of his losing products, launched 2 more and today he is doing a bit over $50K per month.
This goes to tell, that Amazon still has a ton a space to grow, a ton of space for new products and a ton of space for new sellers.
With that being said, it is true that there are a lot more sellers and a lot more products all competing for the first-page rank.
The important thing is to have a different product than everyone else, a quality product, a brand, an eye-catching product and of course a perfect listing and a great product launch.
Yes, it is easier said than done, but the reality is that it is still 10 times easier than launching a product outside of Amazon or 100 times easier than opening your own physical store.
Remember to think outside the box! When you use the same tools as everyone else, and you are looking for a product at the same price as everyone else, in the same category as everyone else, you will get poor results, or below par results.
Make sure to visit other sites, don't limit your product sourcing to Amazon and Alibaba.
Have a weekly tour of Kickstarter, a couple hours on Etsy, have a look at one of the biggest growing e-commerce sites: Wish
Remember that every site you visit will tend to show you their best selling products first. Filter through those products looking for something out of the ordinary and then search for that on Amazon using all your tools, like Jungle Scout, Helium 10, Unicorn Smasher, etc
So, my answer is, Amazon still has lots of room for new products, and new sellers.
If you are looking to launch or grow and are not really sure how, get in touch with me right here at QASellingOnline.com
Amazon FBA Consulting is one way to get there faster
Start Grateful, Stay Positive, and Always Profit
NEW Amazon FBA Targeted Advertising PPC
Amazon FBA has rolled out targeted advertising for Sponsored ads pay per click.
You can now target your competitor's products and brands and place bids to be shown on their search page.
You can find the current beta version under your advertising panel in Seller Central
Amazon FBA Targeted Advertising
Bad Marketing Techniques That Kill Trust
Today Quin talks about some Bad marketing techniques or strategies that should not be used because they are killing conversion and destroying trust with your costumers or followers.
One of the black hat marketing strategies he talks about is the furniture giant The Brick, sending letters in the mail with a credit card attached announcing 0% interest when the truth is the interest rate is 37%!!!
Quin also mentioned that these marketing techniques are similar to the ones that killed Godaddy from being number one to being the most hated domain registry on the internet. From fake add to carts and subscriptions to requesting payment for your email and phone number to be private, while every other register provides that for free.
Bad Marketing Techniques
Make sure to listen to yesterday's episode 9 Emotions to get Engagement On Your Social Media
How to get people to engage with your social media accounts, and why you need to have social media to sell more.
Social media management is a way to get free advertising for your products.
Make sure to listen to this episode and please leave a Podcast review on iTunes, Stitcher, Google Play, etc.
Thank
Quin
Wholesale on Amazon FBA
I didn't get any advice because when I started there were no free gurus!
But I've learned that every company wants to sell!
If you tell them (or show) you can sell, everyone will let you sell their products.
Always make sure to get at least 45% off retail value and always aim from products that sell for over $19 (because of fixed fees)
If the retail price is below $19 then bundle 2 or bundle it with a similar product.
For shy people, start with emails.
If you are a good talker, make phone calls.
Ask for a sales manager, their job is to sell, so they will understand where you are coming from.
Let them know you have a "professional" amazon seller account (we know everyone has a pro account, but they don't)
Let them know you pay upfront (some companies say no, assuming you want net 30 payment).
After 6 or 7 orders you may ask for some payment terms.
Find products that the manufacturer sells themselves, but are not Prime (since they have distribution they do FBM instead of FBA) you can outsell the manufacturer selling his own product
If you don't have a website, get one.
Get a simple a simple 5 page
When you email a manufacturer, put your URL in the signature.
They Will click the link to research you!
Make it look professional and have lots of related products.
If you are starting out, don't leave the website empty, find products online and put those pictures on your site with the description, even if you don't wholesale them yet.
Don't worry, you won't sell any if the site is new, and if you do, just drop ship it from Amazon.
Start with your geographical area so you save on shipping costs.
Drive around your city and take notes of every business that could potentially manufacture something.
Go home and research what they do, and get their contact information.
He is a digital marketing expert who has consulted with million dollars companies and started his business from the back room of his mother's house.
Founder of The Massive Action Movement Prinston Hicks
Digital marketing, Search engine optimization, business development, online marketing
He is dedicated to creating a future where people have total control over their life.
He is the Founder of The Massive Action Movement
Prinston Hicks
How did you get started as an entrepreneur?
What do you think entrepreneurship will mean to society in the future?
What do you think is important for any aspiring entrepreneur to know?
Who are some influencers that have helped you?
What impact do you want to leave on the world?
Website: www.takingmassiveaction.com
Instagram: @prinstonhicks
Favorite book: An Iron Will Book by Orison Swett Marden
How ACOS can limit your growth.
I see many people on the Amazon Facebook group post screenshots of their PPC campaigns with low ACOs and I can never get anything as low as their 2% or $% or even 10%.
Any tips to help me lower my campaigns ACOS?
I believe that ACOS is limiting most seller's growth. what I mean by this is that most people keep a close eye on their campaign acos, and that is very deceiving.
The campaign's acos is the average advertising cost of sales of ALL your keywords in that campaign. But people forget that advertising will get you paid sales and organic sales growth.
By turning on a PPC campaign with the word "Bluetooth speaker" you will be paying to show up on the first page for that search term, but everytime someone clicks on your listing and buys your speaker, your relevancy score for that keyword will increase, therefore giving you more organic reach.
Amazon's algorithm works just like all any social media platform's algorithms.
They get excited with engagement.
The more engagement a post on Facebook or Instagram gets, the more exposure your next post will get.
The same happens with Amazon. You want to sell your Bluetooth speakers and use that has a keyword on your listing.
Every time someone finds your listing by searching for that term and then buys that item, they are generating engagement with your listing through that keyword.
So, the next time someone searches for B speaker, instead of being on page 36, you could be on page 35.
And sales generated from a search that triggers your PPC campaign for a specific keyword will count as engagement (I'm using air brackets for the word engagement)
Engagement with a keyword (ie a purchase) is the number one way to increase relevancy.
There are other ways, like the add to cart, and then add to list, and I believe that even adding questions could be a factor (still testing)
SO, your acos could be higher than the ones you see, but if you divide all the daily sales organic and paid, by the daily Ad costs you will get a better view of how much you are profiting.
A couple more things...
Those screenshots could be by someone that has spent $2 in PPC and received 1 sale. It's not always enough statistical data to show real acos. Or even someone that is trying to sell you on a PPC management service.
Answering your question:
Open your campaign (I'm guessing you have manual campaigns) and go to the page that shows you the acos per each keyword.
Hopefully, you have enough data here to show you what keywords are eating your money and what keywords have the lowes acos.
Some keywords with lower relevancy will cost you more and at the same time, those are probably the ones that have the highest bidders anyway.
Sometimes when I see keywords that are too competitive, I remove them from my campaigns so I can focus on easier to rank keywords (like longtail keywords) (explain Longtail)
And after I rank for the easier ones, I can use that momentum to target the highly competitive ones and even some 1-word ones.
Another way to do this ( a bit more complicated for those who haven't advertised outside of Amazon) is to get external traffic from Google, FB or Instagram and get this traffic to land on your Amazon store as if they searched for that keyword.
Founded the highest independently rated Apple trade-in company.
Ceo of the World’s most trusted Apple trade-in company - Brian Burke
Brian Burke is currently President and CEO of SellYourMac.com (SYM), the world’s most trusted and
Tags: #Apple, #Mac, #Macbook, #Macbookpro, #selliPhone, #selliPad #sellmac
Brian Burke is the President of SellYourMac.com.
At the age of 6, he started his first business selling jewelry on the street. At 13, he graduated to trading stocks.
For the past decade, Brian’s company has been helping people earn extra cash by making it fast, safe, and easy to buy, sell, and service their Apple products.
SYM has paid out $20M and has helped over 100,000 customers.
Brian is a dynamic and ultra personable individual who strives to help his community through business and service.
He is always on the cutting edge of technology and loves helping other individuals and organizations stay up to date on their Apple products with his company SellYourMac.com.
Brian is striving to reach new heights and educate himself on topics he finds interesting. Brian has become a Sommelier, an Apple Certified Mac Technician, a Notary Public, an Ordained Minister, a Certified Scuba Diver, and has received his Boating license.
Brian truly loves learning and sharing his knowledge with others! Brian volunteers his time to the Professional Leadership Network, Adopt a Class, and Cincinnati Youth Collaborative, three local non-profits.
Some Questions for Brian Burke:
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Why did you decide to start SellYourMac?
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How does the trade-in process at SYM work?
- What are the top 1-3 actionable steps you have used to achieve the revenue model you have described in this episode?
- What can we look forward to, in the near future, from you?
- What do you do to help the community?
- Was there a challenging time or situation that could have devastated or even ruined your business but, you overcame it?
Brian Burk's Book recommendations:
Vivid Vision by Cameron Herold
Scaling Up - Book by Verne Harnish
CEO Tools 2.0: Book by Jim Canfield and Kraig Kramers
Where to find Brian:
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianburke4/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sellyourmac/
Thanks for reading and listening
Quin Amorim
Thank you Pat Flynn
Today I want to give credit to someone who helped me growing my online businesses and coming out with a podcast in order to help others myself.
Back in 2011, there was an event called FinCon and it was the very first FinCon ever
On that stage was a nervous young man, who was also speaking on stage for the very first time of his life.
His name is Pat Flynn, and nowadays most online entrepreneurs know Pat since he has helped thousands and he has become an online influencer.
Pat also hosts a couple podcasts, The Smart Passive Income Podcast and Ask Pat.
I remember wanting to launch my podcast, but every time I hear the recording of my own voice I thought I sounded silly, and at the same time I had a bit of the so-called Impostor syndrome (this is a feeling people have when giving advice or helping others, that sometimes doubt settles in your mind and you start asking yourself, who am I to give advice. and this can be the killer of a podcast, or live videos or even speaking careers.)
But I heard Pat's very first episode, where he struggled with the exact same feelings, but he ended up launching it and eventually everything becomes easier, and we start to tolerate the sound of our voice and to realize that in order to help others you need to realize the knowledge you have can make a difference in someone else's life, even if they end up never telling you that.
Pat grew so much as a person and as an authority in online passive income generation.
8 years after speaking o stage at FinCon, he is launching is own conference called Flynn Con
Just for the record, this is not an advertisement and I don't have any affiliation with Pat's event.
July 26–28, 2019 San Diego, California.
Family friendly event
surprise guests
Patt sent out one email and the event is already 50% sold out.
There is going t be a regular pass and a VIP pass that will give a front seat to the whole event, lunch with Pat, photo Op and early access to QA and smartbar
https://pages.smartpassiveincome.com/flynncon/
FlynnCON1.com
Top Social Media Marketing Influencer CEO of iSocialFanz Brian Fanzo
He's a millennial keynote speaker who has worked with the department of defense in cybersecurity, he's helped launch digital strategies with brand's like Dell, Adobe, Applebees, IBM, you name it! Brian Fanzo
Top 10 Social Media Marketing Influencer Brian Fanzo founder of iSocialFanz
Today's guest is one of the top 10 social media influencers in 2017 according to Onalytica stats.
I would like to welcome Brian Fanzo.
- Father of 3 girls all under the age of 8
- the host of 2 podcasts
- Been to over 70 countries
He is on youtube, huge on Twitter, halfway to maxing out LinkedIn connection limit, Tumblr, Instagram, Facebook, etc
Brian Fanzo has the "Caos is the new normal" mentality
Here are some of the points Quin Amorim asked about:
- Storytelling at the NSA
- Spoke at Social Media Marketing World - That's one of the worlds largest events
- How nervous are you before going on stage
- How do you prepare for the stage?
- Apple beest story 1 billion page views
- What are your favorite platforms for marketing besides FB who we know is the 500 lbs gorilla
Brian Fanzo inspires, motivates and educates businesses on how to leverage emerging technologies and digital marketing to stand out from the noise and reach the millennial and generation z consumers.
He has a diverse background working for the Department of Defense in cybersecurity, then as a technology evangelist at a booming cloud computing startup and is currently the founder of iSocialFanz which has helped launch digital and influencer strategies with the world’s most iconic brands like Dell EMC, Adobe, IBM, UFC, Applebees and SAP.
A proud pager-wearing millennial and Dad of three girls, Brian hosts two podcasts (FOMOFanz & SMACtalk), has traveled to over 70 countries and has spoken at many of the worlds largest events including SXSW, Social Media Marketing World, CES, Mobile World Congress.
Brian's Books:
Jab Jab Jab, Right Hook - Gary Vaynerchuck
Youtility - Jay Baer
Know exactly what to say - Phil Jones
Growth hacking with Vin Clancy
What is growth hacking with Vin Clancy?
Today’s guest is one of the most infamous marketers in the world, known for his cutting-edge growth hacks and genius business ideas.
growthhacking #growthhacker #Vinclancy #QuinAmorim #FailFastPodcast #Growthtips #growthhackingtips #Podcast #podcastinterview #bestgrowthhacker #bestgrowthhacking #AceTheGame #GrowthMarketing #digitalmarketing
He has been featured in publications like Fortune, Buzzfeed, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman, Wired, Vice, Inc. and many more.
He founded the online magazines Planetivy.com & screenrobot.com, which received nearly 20 million page views with zero marketing spend in their first two years
His growth hacking book raised over $100,000 in pre-orders alone
Vin CLANCY
Here are some of the questions for Vin Clancy:
- What is growth hacking?
- What are the best growth hacks of 2018?
- How can an entrepreneur make money with growth hacking?
- Tell us about your new growth hacking book, Ace The Game
- How would an entrepreneur use your new book to make money?
- What growth hacks have you used in the past Vin Clancy?
- How Vin Growth hacked a Facebook group to 11,000 members
- How to earn 6 figures without a book publisher
- How Vin spoke at 100 events in 1 year without an agent
- How he earned the same US visa as Justin Bieber for extraordinary skills
Vin is on a mission to speak truth to the many lies some internet marketers tell. He’s ready to debunk myths and share growth hacks for any industry related to your audience.
Growth hacking’s “enfant terrible”, Vin Clancy is one of the most infamous marketers in the world, known for his cutting-edge growth hacks and genius business ideas.
Growth hacking with Vin Clancy
Vin Clancy The world’s most infamous growth hacker at Fail Fast Podcast with the Master Of Failure Quin Amorim
His growth hacking book raised over $100,000 in pre-orders, which he supported with a 100-date speaking tour in ten countries around the world. He has spoken in over 40 different cities in ten different countries. He has been featured in publications like Fortune, Buzzfeed, The Daily Telegraph, The New Statesman, Wired, Vice, Inc., and many more, and coaches founders to growth hack their own businesses. (He hates boring people in business, which is, frankly, most people in his field. But he is very polite as he is English).
His talks at conferences and events around the world focus on marketing, sales, social media, and writing. (But they aren’t a “sit down and daydream” affair like most talks, people have legit called them life-changing. He has a wall of tweets and private messages saying this)
His “growth hacking in real time” talk was voted best talk at SXSW V2V in Las Vegas. (The more experienced speakers hated him for this, he was the punk kid in tight pants and great hair who made a mockery of their “serious” presentations, completely by accident).
He founded the online magazines Planetivy.com & screenrobot.com, which received nearly 20 million page views with zero marketing spend in their first two years, while content he has overseen for other clients has received over 150 million page views so far.
His current online magazine is a Facebook group, “Traffic and Copy”, which has over 10,000 members, close to 90% active engagement, and contributions from thousands of entrepreneurs.
Right now Vincent teaches company founders, influencers, and marketing managers how to grow their companies through a combination of rapid social media growth, and guerrilla community management tactics, in his private coaching groups,
Quin Amorim The Story of 20 Years in E-commerce
Here is my story.
My name is Quin Amorim, I am an internet entrepreneur.
I sell on Amazon, I create private label products, I own a Amazon Management Agency, and I host 2 podcasts.
Eeverything may sound good, and probably sounds like life is always easy.
But in reality, things have been hard, and they still get hard sometimes.
Some of you already heard my story, I started selling products online in 1997 using dropshipping, this is at least 10 years before most people even knew the word dropshipping.
I was selling on ebay.com and kept selling on eBay, until 2007 and that's when I bought my first website and because it broke so often, I ended up learning how to build websites and fix PHP and HTML.
From then on I would build a website or a blog for anything I could think of.
From 2007 to 2010 I built websites about everything so I could make money with advertising space and Google Adsense.
I built Website about my city, a blog about wine, a fitness blog, a juicing website, membership site, a couple of youtube clones, several insurance blogs, forex blogs, website to sell websites, you name it.
I got my own servers for hosting since I ended up buying 120 domains and having 85 websites online.
Then in 2010, I tried dropshipping again, using my own website, this time with expensive items and 1 week after launching my dropshipping site I had made $4000, but all of this involved a 100% manual process.
I would get the product pictures from the manufacturer, post on my website, create my description and price, and when someone would buy one, I would message the manufacturer for each order and give them my customer's address and their share of the sale.
This was not scalable at all, and at the same time I never loved the process, so I hired my first VA to run this for me.
What I didn't know was that my VA was slowly building the exact same business for himself, and mine ended up falling.
Meanwhile, I was all over the place.
I had a 6 figure job in the Oil industry where I spent 12 hours a day, in a remote location where I did not have any entrepreneurs to surround myself with, and I ended up spending my free time playing video games and slowly let everything go downhill!
To be honest it got to a point where I would rather be inside my computer than in real life, and of course, that affected my real life.
I ruined my relationship at the time, had to sell one of my houses because at that time I was paying 1.5 million in mortgages for 3 houses.
Because I didn't know there was something wrong with me, I never tried to fix it, I was never diagnosed with depression or any other problem.
so, even tho I wasn't aware, everything I had built until then was being destroyed.
Now, believe it or not, the thing that ended up saving me, was something that destroyed thousands and thousands of peoples homes, and billions of dollars in damage.
My city was involved in the biggest disaster in Canadian History (or at least the most expensive disaster)
A huge fire burned through the city, and the entire cite had a mandatory evacuation.
If you think this sounds insane, it was!
The entire city was jammed solid, gridlock traffic that would not go anywhere, houses burning, forest burning over the highway, people driving in the wrong directions, over sidewalks, over gardens, hours of lineups at gas stations of people trying to escape from the city... and the most shocking thing for me was turning on the radio to listen to what was going on, and hearing " This is an unmanned radio station, the entire city is in mandatory evacuation, leave the city now" and it would repeat.
It was in real life,
Today I interview the Chief Amazon Officer of Vendo: Darren Saul
Darren Saul has extensive E-commerce background ranging from Affiliate marketing to marketplace selling.
Darren Saul sold my first item on Amazon back in 2003 before FBA and all the private label expansion of recent years.
Darren Saul currently leads a team of 20 plus Amazon experts helping to protect brands and sell more on several Amazon marketplaces including USA, EU, and Canada.
Questions asked to Darren Saul:
What are some trends you are seeing on Amazon?
What is your approach to launching on Amazon?
How does your team help brands sell more on Amazon?
What are your thoughts on counterfeits, brand gating, and overall channel protection on Amazon?
Should brands embrace Amazon or fear Amazon?
What are some Off Amazon marketing strategies such as chat bots and influencers?
Links to find Darren Saul:
www.vendocommerce.com
email: darren@vendocommerce.com
Amazon Brand Investigation #195
My brand name is being investigated by Amazon, because they think I need a licensing agreement to sell my own brand name.
Can't wait to get this solved
How can I create a variation for an existing listing?
How can I create a variation for an existing listing?
How can I create a variation
Some of the most important things to know are to maintain focus, determination, and consistency.
It is very important that you maintain the focus on one task and one project at a time
Advice For Entrepreneurs Starting up
Today’s guest is a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Chemical, Pharma, Bio-tech Manufacturing, Finance, Bio-Energy, Nano-Technology, SAP/SCM, Machine learning and Big Data.
He provided expert system consulting services to companies like Bechtel, Coca-Cola, URS in the fields of water and wastewater treatment design and engineering.
Our Guest SRINIVAS KILAMBI was Chief Technology & Knowledge Officer of companies in the TATA group. This group generates over 100 Billion per year!
He is also:
• Founder of Sriya Group
• Founder and 1st CEO Renmatix, Inc
• President & CEO of Reliance Bio-Refinery
• Did successful US IPOs with over $100MM raised including “Green Shoe”
• Did Successful M&A with over 9X returns. Investors include Bill Gates, John Doer and Bill Joy
• 1 Successful Turn-Around business experience
• Chief Technology & Knowledge Officer of Tata Chemicals (>$25 billion global corporations)
• Expert in prescriptive analytics, predictive analytics, machine learning, math-stat algorithms, modeling, simulation, and optimization
• Business Process Innovation, Re-Engineering and Automation Expert
• Expert in Supply Chain, ERP, Manufacturing, Financials, BAM, DSS
• CXO of Commodore Separations, Inc. (CXOT)
• Adviser & team member, Commodore Applied Tech. (CXI) IPO
• Clean-Green Industry expert especially in water, bio-refineries, solar, and fuel cells
TEACHING INTERESTS
Process Engineering & Design Process Intensification
Nano Technology Combustion Synthesis Membrane Technologies and Separations
Super Critical Fluids Bio-Refineries and Green Chemistry
AI and Machine Learning
Questions:
What is Digital Experience Index (DXi)?
How is DXi measured, and computed?
How is DXi used?
How is DXi unique?
Which industries/markets does DXi serve most?
What is the value proposition of DXi to these businesses/industries/markets;
What is the competitive landscape and how is DXi unique?
What types of Data can DXi handle and sources?
What is its pricing?
Why is the management/Founding team of DXi unique and capable?
Please listen to the podcast to get all the replies and to know more
Thanks
Quin Amorim
My PPC Daily Budget
My PPC Daily Budget
Amazon Recommended I Increased My PPC Daily Budget
A question from Joe
How Do I sell
How Do I sell My Products on Amazon FBA 186
How Do I sell My Products on Amazon FBA
How Do I sell
selling on Amazon FBA
I’ve been selling for a few years and the problem I see with most sellers have is Not Knowing Their Real Costs!!!
If you are going to sell on Amazon (or anywhere else) you need to know all the costs and fees associated with it.
A lot of sellers are losing money every day and still, think they have 30 or 40% margins!
selling on Amazon FBA
You need to know the cost of the product, shipping, exchange rate, taxes, customs duties, freight forward cost, pick and pack fee, Amazon commissions, pay per click advertising, giveaways, returns/refunds, etc
Please do yourself a favor and sell only products with a profit. Don’t try to compete with someone that is selling the same product for $10 when it will cost you $13
$100 Million in Sales
Keto, Sales Funnels, Oil Industry and $100 Million in Sales
Andrei Tarasenco, born in East Europe, educated in Sweden, and living in Canada since 2007, his life has been stimulating, challenging, and full of business adventures.
Over the years Andrei Tarasenco has created a number of entrepreneurial startups from consulting services, restaurants, software, international trading services to Oil Sands industry company.
Establishing and growing businesses in various industries provided a great wealth of knowledge and skills that he is able to share and contribute to as a business advisor, public speaker, and leader.
Having to move so many times through Europe and America, Andrei believes in the power of starting over, the continuous opportunity for reinvention, and the joy of pursuing life.
What he also learned is that to accomplish great things we must not only dream but also act, not only believe but also plan.
In 1987 at age of 8, Andrei Tarasenco started his 1st business, car washing service with a bucket and soap.
since that time Acquired over 20 million investments in different startups 31.5 years in,
Andrei Tarasenco the Keto Tutor has:
Over 100 successful business build
Over $100 million in sales
Been in Love for the last 20 years with the same wonderful woman
Father of 3 Kids
Pro Athlete. Grappler/ Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt
keto coaching
The story behind Ketonifi! Why KETO?
Keto in Business!
Why Keto Coaching?
My Keto day!
Andrei's Books:
Miracle Mornings
Some juicy keywords:
keto diet, keto diet menu, keto coaching, ketogenic, weight loss
Where to find Andrei:
www.ketonifi.com
https://www.instagram.com/getketonifi/
https://www.facebook.com/ketonifi
www.ketobook.online
Congratulations! You just sold an item on Amazon!
Hi Quin,
I’ve been listing to your GREAT Advice and last night I got my first sell on Amazon!!!
OMG!!!!
It felt good to get this order...
Thank you for encouraging me to sell Amazon...
I love entrepreneurship and I can’t wait until I can quit my job and sell sell sell!!!!
I will keep listening!!!!!
Amazon Reached 1 Trillion dollars
Amazon FBA reached 1 Trillion Dollars valuation when its stock reached over $2050
On another note, they are deleting reviews and think i know why
Amazon Reached 1 Trillion dollars
Why Isn't My Pay Per Click Campaign Spending Money
Amazon Pay Per Click Campaign Spending
Amazon PPC Pay Per Click Campaign Spending
Pay Per Click Campaign Spending
Thank you
What is more important, great images or the best title and keywords?
whats up everyone, this is the QA selling online podcast, and I am Quin Amorim.
Today I want to address a question of Image versus keywords.
What is more important, great images or the best title and keywords?
Before I get into the nitty-gritty and explain what is better and why I want to let you know that there is nothing or nobody stopping you from having both!
Getting the best keywords and the best pictures should be your default setting anyway!
But let's get into picture vs Tittle
This may sound weird but if we consider the order of things, the title/ keywords will come first... But, the only reason is that without it, nobody will find you. And if nobody will find your product, you can have the best images in the world, and nobody will buy it!
Now, after people find you, that title, bullet points, and description go down to a 3rd or 4th position.
Yes, at this stage the number 1 most important thing is what will stand out visually!
The thumbnail, the average review rating, and price.
Now, you may be thinking, " but my thumbnail is my image" yes and no. Your thumbnail is a smaller version of your image, but on the main search page, they will not show up the same as after the visitor opens the listing.
This is why I recommend having the product take more than 95% of the main image size because if there is barely any white space around your product, your thumbnail will jump, in size, when compared to competitors, and if they can see it better, it's more likely to be opened.
Now that the customer clicks on your listing and suddenly the most important thing is the remaining 6 images. Amazon allows you to upload 9 but only show 7.
What the user does now, is exactly what you would do when shopping for a product, now you look at the pictures with the zoom, then you will read a couple bullet points and look to see if there are any terrible reviews (yes most people don't even care about the good ones)
How Can You Improve Your Sales Ranking on Amazon?
Sales Ranking on Amazon
Ranking on Amazon is done through a combination of sales velocity + relevancy to each keyword.
Relevancy is measured by the percentual conversion rate that users have to each search term, in your listing.
Let me break it down… When someone searches for Blue Pencil Sharpener (This is their search term) if that search term matches your keywords in the Tittle, Bullet points, Description, the 250 characters of the backend, and even your brand name, Amazon will show your product (in some page, not the first)
But if you are not selling Blue pencil sharpeners, that visitor will go to the next listing, therefore not converting (Not buying yours)
If your conversion rate for “Blue Pencil Sharpener” will remain zero, or very low, Amazon will not consider your product relevant to that search term, therefore it will not rank you high for that!
The relevancy rate added to the sales velocity of any item is what gives you high positioning for each search term. So, you can be number 1 for “Black Marker” but be on the 20th page for “Water Marker”
The ideal situation is to have only keywords that are relevant to your product, have a high conversion rate and high sales velocity.
The sales velocity is the reason why professional sellers do huge giveaways of free or 90% off product, so they can trick the sales velocity algorithm. Also by doing so, you are increasing the conversion rate because who wouldn't buy a free product or a 90% off product? On top of that, if they search for your keywords “Blue Pencil Sharpener” before applying your 90% discount code, now your listing became relevant to that search term!
Sales Ranking on Amazon
Ever hearD of a SuperURL?
That is when you give the buyer a link, that already contains a search. So if they click your link, they are sent to Amazon and the search bar will automatically be filled with the keywords you chose. Back in 2016 Amazon, removed the option to use superURL, but now with Amazon stores, you can use it again.
If you found this answer helpful, please upvote. :)
if you need to know more, you can find me at @quin_amorim | Linktree
Where Can I find Wholesale Products to Distribute
Wholesale Products
If you are looking for products to wholesale here are some places where you can find them:
Aliexpress - on Aliexpress you can find wholesale products n smaller quantities but higher price
Alibaba - On Alibaba, you can find a wholesale product with an MOQ (minimum order quantity) and you don't need to brand or label any of those products
DHgate - One of the first Chinese websites I used to import half a sea can of pocket motorcycles back in 2008
Local manufacturing - drive around in your city and look for the industrial area, to see what products are being made right there in your backyard. Then contact these manufacturers and ask to be given a wholesale price list to distribute their products online.
Start Grateful, Stay Positive and Always Profit
Can I sell on Amazon Anonymously #177
If you are talking about your personal information, then Yes
In North America it is still possible to do so. Basically, you as a person will remain anonymous to the buyers. They will only see the name of your store, your brand, company phone (if you enter one).
But you will have to give Amazon your personal information during the account creation, and banking information to get paid.
Most other marketplaces like Germany or Japan will NOT allow you to remain anonymous to the visitors.
How to sell your product to retailers and get your product on store shelves
Today's guest came from nothing, at the age of 14 she was left by her mother who thought that being a mom was too hard!
Well... Some people break, Others bend. Our guest is the one who bends.
Instead of going off the rails, she worked hard to do the best she could with what she had been dealt.
Today she is a multi-award winning business woman who has built a hugely successful chain of retail stores, a far cry from being homeless at 14.
Ladies and gentleman here with us, today is:
Salena Knight
-Wow, Salena at the age of 14 your mom left how does a kid ever heal from that?
-You moved house over 10 times by the time you were 14, was it due to your parent's work or business?
-You became a The Retail Strategist, can you explain to our audience what that is?
-What should I have ready before I approach a retailer?
-How can I stand out from other brands and get my products in front of the buyer?
-How do I choose which stores to approach?
-What do I do if a retailer says no?
-How does pricing work, will the retailer want to decide the price?
-What are certain mandatory things in packaging?
How to Sell Your Product To Retailers
After many years working as an arborist, Salena looked 20 years into the future and realized she did not want what she saw.
Despite being the only female managing teams of men, she knew she wanted to take charge of her life.
Having come from nothing, she knew she had nothing to lose.
This is a woman who grew up in a home without a lot of love, with a mother with a panache for drama, a father who was gay (but was unable to express himself) and moving house over 10 times by the time she was 14.
One of the biggest moves of her life was when, at 14, her mother unceremoniously dumped her with other family members because she did not want to "mother" anymore. It was "too hard".
Shipped off the interstate with just a suitcase of clothes, to live with her elderly grandparents.
She successfully completed high school early, at 15. But when they could no longer care for her, she was truly on her own. She was 16 and having to not only find somewhere to live but also how to support herself…
But tenacity is Salena’s middle name and instead of wallowing in self-pity, she began her career as a horticulturist. During the next decade and a half, Salena discovered that she was great at growing businesses.
So, she set out to grow her own. In just 7 years, Salena built a hugely successful chain of retail stores, a far cry from being homeless at 14.
Now, with a decade of retail experience under her belt, Salena is a multi-award winning business woman, who has been shaped by adversity but always turning these obstacles into profitable and useful ventures.
With her straight-talking advice and training, Salena has helped hundreds of retailers around the world, to increase their sales and profits.
Book:
The Dip - Seth Godin
The Book in Three Sentences
- Winners quit the right stuff at the right time.
- People settle for good enough instead of best in the world.
- Being well rounded is not the secret to success.
Links:
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Selling Online Podcast
How to ensure your work gets visibility in the company?
Lots of people that listen to the podcast have a full-time job working for someone else, and in their spare time, they try to build an online empire.
Well, if you are one of them, you should know that, for one, you are not alone, and two, not everything is smooth sailing on either side of the workforce!
Meaning, being a business owner has a lot more headaches than you can imagine. But working for someone else that doesn't see what you do, or doesn't appreciate the hard work you put in, is also damaging you psychologically.
Oscar’s message:
"How should I ensure that my work and my contributions get visibility within the company?
What new skills do I need to move ahead?"
Quin Amorim's answer:
Hi Oscar, Excited to be connected with you on the Career Advice hub and QA Selling Online
It would be nice to believe that most companies with great leadership will notice all the work you do, and you get recognition for everything you do...
But that is not true!
In the real world there are still lots of bosses that are not leaders, and since they are human, they tend to think about themselves more than they think about others.
I recommend being as active as possible in company meetings, giving feedback, sharing ideas and don't be afraid to ask people if they noticed what you did. (but not in a needy way)
You may ask:
"Hey, what do you think of that sale I closed?"
or
"Did you think I could improve in that job I did?"
As for new skills, there is one skill that everyone loves, in work and outside of work:
"Being Positive", about life, about work, relationships, about everything.
And, when you combine that the with REAL Hustle of bein the first to work, the last one to leave and always with a smile... you will go far
Start grateful, stay positive and always profit
Looking forward to chatting soon.
Quin Amorim
Selling Online Podcast
Marketing skills
Alexandra’s message to you:
"I am a new grad who is looking to work internationally in marketing, facilitation, and engagement for socially conscious businesses.
How I can leverage my skills to create meaningful change?"
Hi Alexandra,
Excited to be connected with you to help you leverage your marketing skills
The fact that you already know exactly what you want is in itself an amazing start!
One advice I can give you is to never be comfortable. If you don't feel a rush of adrenaline mixed with fear, you are not being extraordinary.
If you want to be extraordinary and do extraordinary things you can't be in your comfort zone... nothing happens in there.
It's not extraordinary people that do extraordinary things, but the things they do, make THEM extraordinary.
Marketing is a great tool and can be used to express a company's image and beliefs. If you can find a company whose beliefs are the same as yours, then it will be very easy to "express yourself" through that marketing campaign
Looking forward to chatting soon.
Good luck using your marketing skills to create change
Quin
What To Do When My Product Isn't Profitable #173
When you are selling online and your product isn't profitable here is what you can do:
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What To Do When My Product Isn't Profitable
Product Isn't Profitable
Do you advise me to invest in Amazon FBA, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of Amazon FBA?
Consider Amazon FBA a tool for your online business. So technically you won't be investing on Amazon FBA, but you will be investing in your own business using FBA and selling on Amazon.
The greatest advantage of all that Amazon has is the incredible amount of traffic and insane high conversion rates. The high conversion rates are due to the fact that Amazon is highly trusted, and the fact that everyone who types “Silicone Spatula” in the Amazon search engine, is looking to buy a Silicone Spatula!
The second great benefit is the fact that Amazon will fulfill the products for you and get them delivered to your customer in very short time frames.
As for the negatives of selling on Amazon, the main one is that if you want to play in Amazon’s sandbox you need to follow their rules and meet their standards, or else!
If you don’t follow Amazon’s TOS Terms of Service, they can choose to remove your selling privileges from their platform.
Then there are the fees. Some people believe that the 15% of the gross sale plus a pick and pack fee is a very high price for anyone that is selling products with very tight margins, or products that are not very expensive.
The lower the sale price of your product the bigger percentage the pick and pack fee will be, when compared to that price
(because the pick and pack fee is a fixed value, so a $3 fee on a $30 product is 10%, but the same $3 fee on a $10 product its 30%)
And the last negative is that Amazon pays every 2 weeks, instead of immediate payment. For many people who want to grow as fast as possible doubling from month to month, it is very hard to keep cash flow for every new order
After all, selling on Amazon is still an amazing opportunity, and I recommend it to anyone who wants to jump in.
If you liked this answer, please upvote to show some love :)
Freight Forwarder from Europe to USA | E.p. #171
Europe to USA
This question came from Luis in Portugal, and since the message and the reply were in Portuguese I will leave the show notes in Portuguese.
Although the show is in English :)
"Boa tarde Quim,
Estou a falar de Portugal,mais concretamente do Montijo. Cheguei ao
teu contato através do grupo de Facebook, Amazon FBA High Rollers.
Se possível, pedia-te uma recomendação:
Necessito de um freight forwarder de confiança para DDP de Lisboa para
a Amazon US.
Breve contexto:
Sou seller profissional na Amazon Europa e aí tenho toda a logistica
montada e sem problemas. Trabalho sobretudo com produtos alimentares,
basicamente café expresso.
A partir do próximo mês, queria começar a testar a Amazon US. Por
vezes envio pequenos volumes via UPS que não precisam de custom
clearence.
A questão fica diferente com envios maiores. Já tive uma má
experiência com a UPS num envio , porque me disseram que não podiam
desalfandegar a mercadoria porque não tinha um agente lá..e as 4
caixas de 60X40X60 foram devolvidas para Portugal.
A minha questão:
Tens alguma boa referencia que faça chegar a mercadoria via ocean de
Lisboa aos USA, preço port to door?"
Boas Luis,
Muito obrigado pela mensagem amigo.
Eu nunca enviei nada de Portugal para os EUA, porque vivo no Canada.
Mas penso que o processo vai ser o mesmo que se enviar da China para EUA.
Quando se envia algo da China para EUA com um valor abaixo de $400 e enviadao como um presente (gift) e essas encomendas por norma passam pela alfandega, fazendo apenas testes de droga com um cao ou scanner.
Para volumes maiores tens 2 solucoes, um freight forwarder ou usar a Fedex como agente.
No teu caso, quando as embalagens foram devolvidas para PT, eles deviam ter comunicado contigo a opcao de fazerem de agente.
Mas a segunda opcao e a mais propria (Desculpa o meu teclado nao tem acentos, lol)
Um freight forwarder, resolve tudo e poupa muitas dores de cabeca.
Cole International e de confianca, porque a empresa ja tem 60 anos (https://www.coleintl.com)
Quanto aos precos de envio, como digo nunca enviei nada de Portugal, eu envio do Canada para USA e da China para USA.
Da china um contentor de 40 pes (12 metros) custa-me a volta de $7000 e um de 6 metros custa-me 4000
quando tenho parcelas pequenas para enviar, uso aviao e custa-me por volta de $10 por kilo (dependendo do volume)
Espero que isto ajude um pouco
Fica a vontade para pergunatr tudo o que queiras
Quin Amorim
Amazon UK
Congratulations on making your own product, I always wanted to be able to make something myself.
I'm guessing you are also in the Amazon Handmade program, but if you are not I highly recommend applying for it.
If you are living in the US and want to sell in the UK there are a few things that you need to do and need to know.
Although I'm not an expert when it comes to the UK or even FBM, since the only FBM I ever did was in Canada.
The approval from Amazon, after you are able to fill the blanks on the application page is almost immediate, if I remember correctly.
And the approval unlocks all Europe, just like your US account unlocked Canada and Mexico too.
But here are some things:
You need to pay VAT Value added tax. I'm no expert when it comes to getting it because I'm a European citizen. I have dual, Canadian and Portuguese, and since I started a business in Europe in 1993 I already had Portuguese VAT which is 23% VS 20% in UK. But I know that if you are making more than 82k pounds in the UK you need to register your business for VAT #
- You will need a business, that you can start easily and with only 15 pounds. It's a limited company, they don't have LLC. The site is Gov.uk and search for a limited company
- You will need a UK bank account. This can take a while (Maybe up to a month) And I believe they will ask you for proof of address
The easiest way is to hire a company that will do all of this for you. And unfortunately, since I didn't use one, I don't want to recommend any.
There are things you need when importing from any country that is not EU, like EORI number. And you can get this on the same site Gov.uk
Actually, almost everything you need is there. And...Another important thing is to read all the laws.
United Kingdom Amazon UK
As for the prime delivery, Amazon UK has it and it's a 1-day delivery or less!
But not all Europe has it, Spain, Italy, Germany, UK, yes. But they only have 31 warehouses across |Europe, and these are all in 7 countries. The rest of the countries doesn't have warehouses so they don't expect 2-day delivery.
And you had something else in your question... Oh yeah, the listings!
No, the listings are not the same ones from North America to Amazon UK. Although it's hit or miss because sometimes you go to add the product and it shows up already. Then they give you the option to use the existing US listing or type it all up again.
I'm not sure how some products don't show up in the catalog since the UPC is universal, but as for the listing, you should probably not use the US listing, because of different search terms are used in European English. Or at least change it up.
And since selling in Amazon UK will open you up to France, Italy, Spain Germany, you may even need to translate some of those if you want to sell there.
For example, in Japan, I hired a native Japanese speaker and he told me they have 2 different languages, and on top of that, a lot of buyers still search in English, because they love the American brands, so that is 3 languages you can use to add keywords!
I hope I covered the entirety of your question, and I wish you all the best.
Start grateful, stay positive and always be profitable!
Quin Amorim
On Amazon, the main image is mandatory to have a pure white background, and on top of that, the product needs to take up more than 85% of the picture.
How do people get professional images for their eBay/Amazon product with a white background
On eBay, the white background is not mandatory but it does look better
There are a few ways to do it:
- Fiverr - You can go to Fiverr and hire someone for $7 to make your backgrounds all white
- Amazon Seller App - The Amazon seller app has a picture setting that allows you to take pictures of your own product with a white background. The app even tells you if it is not white enough, or if the product needs to be cropped to take more than 85% of the picture size.
- Professional pictures - This is the way that professional amazon sellers do it. Find a professional product photographer and let them know you need Amazon pictures (They should know what to give you)
- Remove the backgrounds yourself by making the pictures transparent. You can use software like Clipping Magic to remove all backgrounds and then you can even add the white on Paint or simply upload to Amazon transparent since the listing page is white
If you want to sell professionally and outsell the competition, you should consider getting professional pictures done, since the majority of the North American buyer, buys with their eyes.
Make the main picture item take as close to 100% of the frame as possible and with a pure white background. Then make sure to upload the other 8 pictures and using lifestyle pictures:
- Happy people using your product
- People getting the expected results from your product
- The product being used
- The packaging if it is nice (This will reduce hijackers in case you are not brand registered)
Hope this helps, and if you need to know more have a listen to the QA Selling Online Podcast[1]
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For many years we were allowed to incentivize reviews on Amazon, but the review needed to have a disclaimer saying “I received this product in exchange for a review…”
How can I get reviews on Amazon on new products without incentivized reviews?
Nowadays, like you know, we are not allowed to do so, and that makes it harder to get the happy customers to leave one. But the people that are not pleased will always go out of their way to leave a bad one.
But… Do not risk your account’s selling privileges by using fake reviews or even reviews from Facebook review groups.
Amazon has made their goal to clean up the review system and they started banning sellers who don’t follow the TOS (Terms of service)
Many sellers had their selling privileges revoked for using unverified reviews from the same users know to be professional “reviewers” on several Facebook groups for many years. In short, if anyone tells you to buy reviews or get them from Facebook groups by offering free products or even discounted products, that is an incentive, and therefore against TOS.
Now, let's get into the legit way to get reviews on Amazon without scamming the system and risking your account:
- Sell a quality product - Having a quality product, combined with a nice follow up email, will on it’s own award you from 3% to 6% review ratio (For FBA you can only use the internal email system)
- Have a great follow up email - Use software to send automatic emails to every FBA buyer, and set it to trigger 1 day after the products is received (Feedback Genius is great) Since now we are only allowed to send one email follow up, use that email to ask questions and thank them. This way, you can reply to their reply and ask for a review, since you already established an initial connection and also, if they had a bad experience they would let you know in the reply!
- Follow up with bad reviews - If someone leaves you a bad review, make sure to email them, thanking them for the opportunity to fix the problem (A free tool to see you left you a review is “AMZFire review” its a Chrome extension). The easiest solution is to ask them for an opportunity to send them a new unit ) since “this has never happened before” or “this has 1 year warranty” (don’t ask for the return of the broken one. Hopefully, the new item will please them and make sure to let them know that reviews can be edited. A good percentage is willing to change it after they have cooled down and received a new item
- Comment on bad reviews - With a positive attitude, respond to all bad reviews and assure the customer you will do everything to solve their problem. This is for the other buyers who are reading, more than it is to the one that left the review.
- Have an insert card - Include a thank you note in the package where you ask for a review. Here are a few things you can’t say or do:
- Don’t ask for a positive review
- Don’t ask for a review only “if they had a positive experience”
- Don’t include your own URL unless its to fill the “warranty info”
Hope this helps, and if you need to know more have a listen to the QA Selling Online Podcast[1]
Selling on Amazon Canada - Amazon FBA Canada Storage Fees
FBA’s twice-yearly inventory cleanup is scheduled for August 15, 2018.
Units that have been in a US or Amazon FBA Canadian fulfillment center for 181 to 365 days on August 15 will incur a long-term storage fee on that date: $11.25 USD per cubic foot for US inventory or $400 CAD per cubic meter for Canadian inventory.
Units that have been in a US fulfillment center for more than 365 days will incur a fee of $22.50 USD per cubic foot. For Canadian inventory, the fee is $800 CAD per cubic meter.
Starting with the August 15 inventory cleanup, we are introducing a minimum charge of $0.50 USD per unit per month for items that have been in a US fulfillment center for more than 365 days. Sellers will pay either the long-term storage fee or the minimum charge, whichever is greater. Minimum fees will not apply to inventory in Canadian fulfillment centers.
If you have offers in the FBA Small and Light program, visit the help page for applicable long-term storage fees.
As of August 1, 2018, the units below are subject to fees unless you submit a removal order—or they sell—before August 15, 2018:
- $11.25 USD per cubic foot (181 to 365 days)
- $22.50 USD per cubic foot (more than 365 days)
- $400 CAD per cubic meter (181 to 365 days):
- $800 CAD per cubic meter (more than 365 days)
If you have enabled automated long-term storage removals, the inventory above will not be charged a long-term storage fee.
Automated removal orders will be processed after August 15, 2018. Standard removal fees apply.
To see your settings, go to Automated Long-Term Storage Removals settings. For more information, see Remove inventory automatically.
If you remove inventory before August 15, 2018, or if you have enabled automated long-term storage removals, you won’t be able to send us more units of the ASINs you remove until either:
- January 1, 2019, when these restrictions will be lifted.
OR - Your inventory level for the removed ASINs falls below our projection of your sales for the next eight weeks. We base that projection on your average sales rate for those ASINs during the preceding 90 days
Your remaining inventory of these ASINs can still be sold.
To see inventory that is subject to long-term storage fees, go to FBA Inventory Age or download the Inventory Age report. For more information, see FBA long-term storage fees.
On September 15, 2018, US long-term storage fee assessments will change from twice yearly to the 15th of every month, as previously announced...
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Question from Bruce
Can I sell on Amazon FBA listings which are no longer being used by companies which left the marketplace?
This is not a simple yes or no answer, depending on a few things:
- If you are selling the same item with the same UPC, yes you can sell on the existing listing. But that cannot be a brand gated listing.
A brand gated listing means the official manufacturer has presented Amazon with their Trademark and requested to lock that listing. An easy way to check this is to download the free Amazon seller app and open the listing on your app (It will tell you)
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If the product is used or new, that also makes a difference, as certain brands do not allow sellers to sell brand new items of their brand, but allow the sale of used
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If the product you want to sell is not the same brand, or doesn't have the same UPC, you are not allowed to sell on that listing!
A lot of sellers started doing that a few years ago, trying to use existing reviews for a new product, and those accounts have been suspended.
Hope this helps, and if it does, please upvote :)
Selling on Amazon FBA listings which are no longer being used
Amazon FBA Canada
A quick episode to explain the difference in lightning deals on Amazon FBA Canada, and how the price is less than 10% of the lightning deals in amazon.com
Amazon FBA Canada
How to launch products using Influencer marketing on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Youtube
Social Media Influencers
How to find Social Media Influencers that are willing to advertise your product, who to use, how to pay and how much to pay.
Launching with Social Media Influencers Please make sure to listen, as today we don't have show notes
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Quin Amorim explains the meaning of Failing Fast
How do you fail fast, and what is the meaning of failing fast?
In systems design, a fail-fast system is one which immediately reports at its interface any condition that is likely to indicate a failure. Fail-fast systems are usually designed to stop normal operation rather than attempt to continue a possibly flawed process
The goal of the fail fast idea is avoiding spending time, money and resources pursuing something that isn't working.
People tend to keep investing in things that clearly aren't working because it’s part of human nature to try to avoid failure.
If you are an entrepreneur you probably watch the show Dragon's Den or Shark Tank and often see people that have sunk all their life savings into a failed product or company.
These people followed an idea that they thought was great, but didn't look for the quick or small failures, that would have helped them realize they needed to pivot and change their product or even the whole strategy behind the business.
The Fail Fast Podcast is here to try to create some awareness about Fail-Fast ideas and techniques, and help people embrace the small failures in order to avoid the big ones.
Fail Fast, but never fail on purpose. Fail Fast and act on what triggered that small failure.
If you have a great failure story or know someone how has the best failure story you hear, make sure to check our website on how to be a guest on the Fail Fast Podcast.
All you have to do is fill a sheet with your info and a couple questions, and then book a date and time that works for you.
If you want to hear some great interviews on the Podcast make sure subscribe on iTunes, Google Play, Stitcher or any other app you use to listen.
Or you can check it out here: Podcast
Thanks
Quin Amorim (The Fail Fast Master)
Update from Amazon's Main Image on Listing #160
Message from Amazon
"Thank you for selling on Amazon. Your success is important to us, and we are working continuously to identify opportunities to improve both the selling and buying experience.
Images that meet our Image Guidelines improve the customer experience. To ensure the best possible customer experience, Amazon will hide (suppress) listings that do not meet our main image requirements.
By September 2018, you may see items suppressed due to the following defects in the main image:
- Blurry or pixelated image or image with jagged edges
- Image with any text, logo, graphic, or watermarks shown
- Multiple product views or colors or sizes are shown in image
- Product on model
- Product occupies less than 85% of the frame
Follow these steps to address main image issues, which may lead to search suppression of your ASINs:
1. Go to Inventory > Inventory Reports.
2. Select the “Listing Quality and Suppressed Listing Report”: https://sellercentral.amazon.ca/listing/reports.
3. Click the “Request Report” button.
4. Download the report and review the issues with the Field Name = Main Image URL
5. To correct a problem, upload a new main image that meets Amazon’s image requirements:
- Image that is not blurry or pixelated and doesn't have jagged edges
- Image that doesn't show any text, logos, graphics, or watermarks but shows only a real product photo
- Image that shows only one (front) product view (and one color/size), except if several items are sold together as a multi-pack, which must be mentioned in the title
- )
- Image with product shot flat without a model
- Image where product occupies 85% of the frame
Note: After you upload the correct main image, expect a 2-day delay to reinstate any suppressed ASIN.
To learn more about suppressed listings, refer to the following Help page:
https://sellercentral.amazon.ca/gp/help/200898440
Thank you for your efforts to improve the customer experience on Amazon.
Regards,
Amazon Services"
How to make my main picture stand out
Bruce got a new listing for a Pl Private Label product, and right or wrong it's a copy of an existing product, but he made it much better.
He is looking for a way to make his main picture stand out.
Thank you, Bruce,
I really appreciate receiving these voice questions. And this is a very good one.
Launching a product that looks exactly like a competitor's is not always a bad thing.
sometimes we got to do what we got to do, in order to get quicker to market and gain a top position.
You will have plenty of time to change the product and listing if it becomes successful.
As for the picture to stand out from the competitor, there are a couple things you can do to.
Let's start with the white hat and easy stuff you should be doing anyway.
Amazon wants the object in the main picture to be at least 85% of the whole picture. well, I recommend having it as close to 100% as possible.
Cut out all the white space around the item of the main picture, and after you have cut over 95% your thumbnail will zoom in on the image, and you will have a bigger item thumbnail than your competitors ( unless they are doing it also)
Then you can change your secondary pictures to tell a story, on the secondary pictures you can do almost anything you want, any color background, add other images, add smiling people using your product, etc.
One of the things you can do, to give people the idea that your product is worth more than the others is to place it in the same picture with valuable items. For example, a picture of a pencil on a very nice desk, next to an Apple computer gives people a subcontinent message that the pencil is worth more. Or if you were selling tires, you would never place the tires on a Toyota Tercel to show how good the tires are.
Sticking with tires. If you were selling rain tires, your picture would show a Lamborghini taking a curve at high speed with heavy rain.
If they were mud tires, you would have the most extreme jeep, in a super harsh mud course jumping out of a big puddle with the front tires in the air… something like that.
Now you are probably thinking "that is easier said than done", but you don't need to rent the Lamborghini, all you need is to hire a photoshop expert and tell him what you want. At Fiverr you can probably find a great artist to do this between $20 to $50
Then the grey hat!
Add things to your main picture.
If you add anything to the main picture it will be against TOS, and your competitors may report the picture. Until now the only thing that would happen would be that Amazon suppresses your listing, or if your second picture conforms with TOS, they will use that as the main.
Things that people use on the main image to stand out are banners that say stuff like:
Hot Deal, Guarantee badge, sellers of phone cases put the phone in the picture, some that sell Bluetooth items add the blue Bluetooth logo or NUMBERS! numbers attack peoples eyes almost as much as other eyes.
For example, a little white lie, like "Over 84000 units sold"
And I mentioned eyes, that was proven to be the best thing to capture peoples eyes, is another set of eyes. I've read a couple studies from multimillion-dollar marketing agencies, that have tested all kinds of images and it seems to be legit.
That's all for today, I hope this helps
Quin
How to liquidate a losing product
We currently have a product on our Amazon store that we are looking to liquidate.
What would you advise would be the best way to
do that?
Alysha
Hello Alysha,
Liquidating a product is never fun, not only because we know there will a monetary loss,
but because that money could have been growing with a winning product.
And, there is also a bit of ego being hurt haha
Here are a couple things I do when that happens.
First thing I do is create a looser account, with Amazon's permission under the wife's name or sister, or cousin, etc
Recall all the product to your home or to a 3rd party company so they can remove 1 FNSKY and add the new one.
Then send all the product to this "loser" account where they can be for another 6 months before having big storage fees.
Before the 6 months are up, you need to get rid of the product and to do that my best suggestion is on Facebook groups for Amazon sellers.
Go on a big FB group and ask who is interested in a product you are liquidating, normally you will get a lot of PMs.
Since the product is now on your looser account you can give the seller all the information he needs without him knowing your main account.
Most sellers struggle with the liquidation part, because of not wanting other sellers to know their main account.
Some are afraid of competition, but most, are simply afraid that other sellers find out how low their sales volume is.
If you wish you can skip step 1 and go straight to FB.
besides these options, there are a few more, but both will just increase your losses even more, although one will make you feel good about yourself.
One is to go to a liquidator, but they are going to offer you close to half of your cost.
and the other is to donate to charity, where you can make a bunch of people happy and get a tax deduction
How to liquidate a losing product #158
I recently found your podcast on Spotify so please excuse me if this has been addressed already, I have a lot of catching up to do!
I live in Australia and am researching a home electrical appliance to be sold through Amazon Australia FBA. I believe there is a high demand and little competition particularly from sellers native to Australia.
Before I do the hard numbers I would like to know your thoughts on whether an electrical product is too ambitious for a new seller to take on ie. Is the risk of potential electrical defects worth the monetary risk with returns and refunds? To clarify, the product would be sourced from China.
Can you advise on any other risks or rewards you may be aware of when importing such a product? Have you done so yourself? Would love to hear from you.
Thank you for what you do. I really enjoy listening to your podcast. Please feel free to air this if you wish.
RegardsCarly
Thank you so much for the question CarlyLet's talk about the good, the bad, and things to know
You say you will be importing from China, so I'm assuming you are doing private label.That makes things easier for you because you will not be dealing with brand restrictions or used deficient items.
Selling electric products can be a huge moneymaker because everyone loves buying them.Make sure the order gets inspected and also let the vendor in China know that you want any broken or defective returns to be free in your next order.
Make sure they are protected for the Amazon drop test (6-foot drop test) nicely packaged and protected.Try to have a humidity-resistant package if the product is sensitive to moisture
If the product is rechargeable, it will have a built-in battery, therefore Amazon will ask you for a dangerous goods form. A Hazmat form.
At the time of filling your FBA shipping form, they will give you a form to fill, but that can delay you a week or 2, so do that early.
The electronic category is very competitive (mainly because the sales are good), but the majority of sellers will never get to page 1 unless they find a niche inside the niche. IE an addon to a product that everyone has (not cellphones lol)
Electric products are exclusive to each platform because of power settings in each country.
For example, an American DVD player will not work in Europe unless they buy an adapter.Because one has 110V the other has 220V and the plugs are different too.
And of course the same applies to Australia. The main voltage in Australia is 230V 50Hz, so make sure to let the manufacturer know it's for Australia and even send them a picture of your plugs. Also, make sure to get a sample.
And one of the most important things to know is Australian law.There are 3 levels of electric equipment. (and for simplicity they are called level 1, level 2, and level 3)
In 2013 or 14 the (EESS) in Queensland, introduced some new rules about importing electric equipment into Australia, and then those rules spread to Western Au Too.
EESS is (Electrical Equipment Safety System)
Please make sure to read about it on the Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council
Thanks
Quin Amorim
Selling electronics
The risks or rewards of selling electronics
I recently found your podcast on Spotify so please excuse me if this has been addressed already, I have a lot of catching up to do!
I live in Australia and am researching a home electrical appliance to be sold through Amazon Australia FBA. I believe there is a high demand and little competition particularly from sellers native to Australia.
Before I do the hard numbers I would like to know your thoughts on whether an electrical product is too ambitious for a new seller to take on ie. Is the risk of potential electrical defects worth the monetary risk with returns and refunds? To clarify, the product would be sourced from China.
Can you advise on any other risks or rewards you may be aware of when importing such a product? Have you done so yourself? Would love to hear from you.
Thank you for what you do. I really enjoy listening to your podcast. Please feel free to air this if you wish.
Regards
Carly
Thank you so much for the question Carly
Let's talk about the good, the bad, and things to know
You say you will be importing from China, so I'm assuming you are doing private label.
That makes things easier for you because you will not be dealing with brand restrictions or used deficient items.
Selling electric products can be a huge money maker because everyone loves buying them.
Make sure the order gets inspected and also let the vendor in China know that you want any broken or defective returns to be free in your next order.
Make sure they are protected for the Amazon drop test (6-foot drop test) nicely packaged and protected.
Try to have a humidity resistant package if the product is sensitive to moisture
If the product is rechargeable, it will have a built-in battery, therefore Amazon will ask you for a dangerous goods form. A Hazmat form.
At the time of filling your FBA shipping form, they will give you a form to fill, but that can delay you a week or 2, so do that early.
The electronic category is very competitive (mainly because the sales are good), but the majority of sellers will never get to page 1 unless they find a niche inside the niche. IE an addon to a product that everyone has (not cellphones lol)
Electric products are exclusive to each platform because of power settings in each country.
For example, an American DVD player will not work in Europe unless they buy an adapter.
Because one has 110V the other has 220V and the plugs are different too.
And of course the same applies to Australia. Mains voltage in Australia is 230V 50Hz, so make sure to let the manufacturer know it's for Australia and even send them a picture of your plugs. Also, make sure to get a sample.
And one of the most important things to know is Australian law.
There are 3 levels of electric equipment. (and for simplicity they are called level 1, level 2 and level 3)
In 2013 or 14 the (EESS) in Queensland, introduced some new rules about importing electric equipment into Australia, and then those rules spread to Western Au Too.
EESS is (Electrical Equipment Safety System)
Please make sure to read about it on the Electrical Regulatory Authorities Council
Thanks
Quin Amorim
E-commerce stores are built using default currency of USD and people get confused
Why do YOU GUYS build online stores in USD #156
Low competition and high sales product to private label
Looking for the right product to private label
"Hi quin I'm from Jacksonville, Florida.
I'm 55 yrs old, 4.5 year to retirement from Anheuser Busch.
I have a drop shipping business with printful.com my website: gorillawarwear.us.com.
I started this business to some of the working of e-commerce like ad on Facebook, ad words, social media.
I have almost 100 designs and I have sold 20 shirts and 6 of those was to myself. I started in February.
Now, Started listening to many podcasts. I got a subscription to Jungle Scout took 15000 dollars from 401k.
I wanted to take away any reason I have to fail.
Remove all obstacles. I noticed everyone getting started was looking in the 3000 A month profit model.
I figured if I look in 5000 to 7000 model, I would either fail big or win big.
But really if I go with the 3000 per month model I will have enough cash for PPC , pictures, and inventory for 2 months.
Now I'm just looking for the right product to PL. Thanks for your podcast we the listeners really appreciate all you do.
Feel to discuss this on air.+1904864-8010 that my WhatsApp, if you got a hot tip.
Take care.
Joe."
Thanks for the excellent question Joe.
Less than 5 years to retirement, must be exciting! And from Anheuser Busch, a brewing company. I hope work is as fun as Peter Griffin makes it look on Family Guy series.
As for your website, I had a look and you have some cool designs, and every time I see nice designs I think of Merch by Amazon, since it is free and has already millions of customers. So I hope you are already selling your designs on Merch by Amazon, and if you are not, apply today to get invited. Just go to Merch.amazon.com and click the orange button that says "request invite"
Low competition and high sales
You said you got a subscription to Jungle Scout, and for those that are wondering there are 2 things you can get with Jungle scout. The Chrome extension that has a 1-time cost of $190 (for the pro version) and this is the most important part of JS.
Then they also have the web app, that has a monthly recurring fee, and it's where you set filters to find products related to your screening options. I don't use this one, but I use the chrome extension every day.
For those that are interested, they also have free resources you can use, just go to jungle scout .com and check the tab that says free resources.
As for looking for the right product to private label selling on Amazon you mentioned the $3000 per month profit. In order to get to $3k profit, you need to have over $10k in sales. I think the average net profit is between 20 to 25% (net profit is after paying manufacturer, shipping, package, PPC, pick and pack Amazon FBA, etc.
It is not impossible nor hard to get a product that sells over $10k in the first month, but it is very important that it is very well sourced, and investigated.
My favorite are things that have low competition, even if the sales are a bit lower.
Low competition and high sales are of course the best, but it is also the most elusive option out there. Then people go for very high demand items with high competitions, hoping to take a percent of the sales.
And hoping doesn't pay bills. So I prefer lower sales with the very low competition:
There are a few reasons this is good:
– Very low PPC costs
– Very easy to get on the first page to get organic sales
And if you get a monopoly of a product that only sells 500 per month, it's still a lot better than getting 1% of the product that sells 50,000 units per month.
So, the number one thing is picking the right product that has some demand but only ...
3 ways major companies sell on Amazon #155
There are 3 ways major companies sell on Amazon
- FBA Fulfilled by Amazon – Using a seller central professional account they sell their own products and manage the listing
- Vendor Express – Using a vendor central Amazon will issue a PO to purchase bulk orders of the product at a big discount and then they become the seller. In this case, Amazon manages the listing, the stock, and the fulfillment
- Wholesale – By allowing third-party sellers to sell their products online using Retail Arbitrage or Wholesale. This is when you see 10, 20 or even 100 sellers on the same listing (it’s called fighting for the Buy Box)
The most common for major companies will be the second and third options.
By having Vendor central account they gain access to AMS Amazon Marketing Services!
Selling on Amazon.com FBA from another country #154
I live in Canada and I sell in a few different countries with Amazon.
They make it very easy to sell on their platform remotely.
When I source my product from China, most of the times it will go directly from the manufacturer to Amazon FBA. The product is sourced and ordered from China, inspected before shipping and then with the help of a freight forwarder I ship directly to an Amazon warehouse in the USA or Japan, etc
The only difference is that when you have product returns, Amazon will not cross the border with your return product. This means you have to either have a 3rd party repackage it and send back to Amazon or just let Amz destroy it
I have 52 private label products in Amazon USA and only 12 in my own country. Not only that but the only time I ever saw my own products was when I received a sample from China (before even having my logo)
It is important to know that different countries have different rules, regulations and even labeling laws.
For example, in Canada, you need to have bilingual labels. ( English and French)
How do you choose your keywords, how do you construct your initial pay-per-click campaign? Are you going for “broad” are you going for “phrase” or “exact match”
"Just wondering if you have some best practices or some protocols for choosing the keywords that you made into your title, particularly one you're trying to start a new listing and get the preferred Amazon URL and then you'll how do you choose your keywords for your pay per click.
In addition to how you choose your keywords, how do you construct your initial pay-per-click campaign?
Are you going for “broad” are you going for “phrase” or “exact match”
How do you monitor it, how often do you monitor it, what are your goals what's an optimal ACOS
do you eliminate words do you switch some terms to “exact match” at some point?
And what do you do to find new keywords"
Answer:
Thank you so much for the excellent question Bruce, and thank you again for using the Q A Selling Online Voice message again.
Starting from the beginning, the top keyword chosen for the title.
This is a very great question and something most people don’t really think of, as much as they should!
Picking the top keyword per search volume is very easy, and that is what most people will do.
They will use tools to see what the most searched keyword is (related to their product) and use it.
But in reality it's not that simple.
Most of the highest searched keywords, you will not be able to rank for, on the top page (depending on the product and niche).
Lets image you are selling a bluetooth speaker, more than likely you top keyword would be exactly that “bluetooth Speaker” but Sony, Panasonic, LG, and the $50 million dollar a year private labelers that have been targeting that keyword for the last 5 years, will not allow you to climb to the first page (let's not fool ourselves here)
So in this case I would pick a slightly easier keyword to try to outrank everyone.
Let’s say “Wire Free Speaker” (and I just guessed this, I didn't do any research on it, so if you have bluetooth speakers don’t blindly take it). But that 3 word keyword should be easier to rank than “Bluetooth Speaker”
But, at the same time, you will also have the words Speaker and Bluetooth in your title, because you will need them to rank for other searches, like: Wireless Bluetooth Sound, or Yellow bluetooth Speaker, or Wire Free Sound Speaker, and anything else the visitor may search for that includes your terms.
Pay per click keywords choosing
2 campaigns
I Monitor campaigns daily but I don't change daily, I only change after a 4 or 5 days or depending of the number of impressions, since some keywords can get 10000 impressions per day while others will get 10. So I let each keyword get at least 500 impressions before I decide to change anything.
Now how to find those keywords
I start with a discovery campaign!
This is a automatic campaign turned on with a high PPC value during the launch.
During the launch phase I will not look at ACOS because it will scare the crap out of you (it can be 200 or 300%) but it doesn't matter because it is buying me information and at the same time it’s buying my way in to the top ranks of that keyword. (ACOS stands for Advertising Cost Of Sales – percentage of much you had to spend in ads to get each sale)
After about a week, I pull the report for that campaign and open it on a excel sheet, where I manually will look at all the search terms people used to find my listing, and even compare how many of those actually bought it, and what keywords people used that didn't result in a single sale.
Then I start a second campaign where I add the good keywords I found on the automatic campaign,
Meeting with several startups
This week I met with Mike, David, Coleen, and Andrea.
What an amazing group of people.
Thank you so much for a great time
Quin Amorim Selling Online
I am interested in working in Marketing or event management eventually, but a combination of the two would be perfect. I know you have experience in the marketing sector so perhaps you could shed some light on perhaps pitfalls to avoid in these early stages in my career.
Thanks
Working in Marketing or event management Quin Amorim ✔️ sent the following messages at 5:32 PM
Hey Rutendo, The most common thing I see happening is people giving up too soon! We get to sucked into the results shown on social media, by all the "self-made gurus" and we start to compare results. In reality, it takes some time to see results, and we must first build a solid foundation.
As for the marketing and event management, I would try to get experience working for an agency for a year or so, and then create my own agency that would do exactly both. Event Management and marketing
Working with an existing agency (a good one) will show you the out of the box thinking and the customer lead generation techniques that sometimes we don't get in books.
This episode will not teach you anything.
This is just some fun with a 5 year old who build messenger bots
Should I create a new listing or set up a variation on my existing listing when I launch a new product with a different color?
This is a question that came in from Bruce, on QASellingOnline. com
Hey Bruce,
Thanks for the question, and I'm super excited that you found a good product.
As for the listing or Variations, there are different reasons to do them different
If you create a variation under the same listing, you will have a huge benefit which is sharing reviews in all variations.
So if the blue one has 20 reviews, the yellow one will also have 20 and so on.
And this is a huge benefit if the reviews are good if they are bad, it works against you.
You also will be able to create lightning deals for all variations for the cost of just one, while if you separate the listings, each will have a cost of $150 or $300 depending on the time of year.
If you create a different listing you will be able to target different keywords, you will be able to have different categories (some products can fit into several categories or subcategories), and you will be able to add each other to the "frequently bought together" by doing the buy one get one, promotion.
So, now you just need to think of whats best for you, if its the reviews and lightning deals, or targeting different keywords possibly in a different category.
I personally have both options, but have more color or size variations, than new listings.
I sometimes also use the new listing so I can run A/B tests, and see if certain new things work or not, but that I don't recommend for your main listings
Thanks so much for all the Information you share. Even a bigger Thank you for not trying to sell me something. The best part of your show is when you talk about your family… Thanks
I do have a question.
I have been selling online with Amazon/eBay for 3 years now. I initially started selling a school item and other small items.. after the 4th qtr the first year, I gravitated towards Toys. I had a good supplier with a Mattel liquidation store in my area. The first 2 years, had doubled up on sales and had amazing 4th qtr with the toys. I used my website as just a landing page to show a business, and when suppliers wanted to see it. The page never was advertised or used for any sales. I have switched from Volusion to a Shopify store, to generate sales on the site. I have watched and read so much on selling online with eBay, Amazon and Shopify stores. Since the toys have dried up with competition and store closures, I have totality lost direction.
I am so Lost and cannot seem to focus on a niche or product to sell. I have re-done my website about 5 or 6 times… from toys- to gadgets, to shirts. Every time I hear another digital marketer explain or push an idea, I just get further lost.
Have you ever just got so overwhelmed or lost with direction and ideas? I seem to have all this knowledge and nowhere to go with it. Any Ideas on how to re-focus and get back on track?
Thanks
Darren
This is an amazing question sent if from Darren
The most important thing is to focus on one task at a time and be persistent and take it until the end.
By starting tasks and following the shiny new thing, we will lose track of the old and not so shiny thing that was ready to blossom.
When you have new ideas, write them down, but don't attack them until you are done with the old ones
Interview with Master of Freelance, the CEO of Freeeup Nathan Hirsch
The Power Of Outsourcing To Scale Your Business with Nathan Hirsch and Quin Amorim
Nathan Hirsch is a 28 year old serial entrepreneur who is an expert in hiring online and building eCommerce businesses.
He co-founded his first eCommerce company out of his dorm room in 2009 drop shipping products on Amazon.com and built it to sell over $25 million worth of product over 5 years.
While scaling, Nathan discovered the power of outsourcing and ended up building a remote army of freelancers.
In 2015, Nathan co-founded and became the CEO of FreeeUp, an online hiring marketplace that allows business owners fast access to a hand-picked network of top talent freelancers in eCommerce, digital marketing, web development, and much more who have already been vetted for skill, attitude, and communication. FreeeUp interviews hundreds of freelancers each week and only allows the top 1% of applicants into the network. The company has been growing at rapid paces (500%+ YoY) and has quickly become a top destination to hire online for over 3,000 businesses around the world.
Nathan has built his personal brand to be synonymous with online hiring and entrepreneurship through 75+ guest appearances on top podcasts: Entrepreneur on Fire with John Lee Dumas, Eventual Millionaire, and handfuls more. Nathan has also become a regular speaker at industry conferences where he teaches other business owners how to hire freelancers and gain back more time in their growing businesses.
Links:
FreeeUp.com
Skill Sets Rates for FreeeUp
Video testimonial on FreeeUp from Ben Cummings
How FreeeUp Works Infographic
Free Up Your Business: 50 Secrets to Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies
How to find who left you a bad review on Amazon in 2018.
All the old software stopped working a while ago, but there is a tool that still works every time.
it is called AMZ Fire Review To Order
It is a Chrome extension and it's 100% free
Check it out and please share this episode so everyone knows how to find it 🙂
Merch by Amazon
Question from Jocelyn
"Hi Quin,
I’ve finally finished listening to your whole podcast. Thank you so much. I have a question about merch by Amazon. I just started selling on that platform ( I'm in SK Canada ) and I’m wondering how to get my shirts noticed? Since there isn’t a way to market them right on merch, is it the keywords that make the difference. Can you clarify what process I should be doing?
Thank you"
Merch by Amazon
Hi Jocelyn,
Thank you so much for being a listener and for sending in such a great question.
I will answer it today and launch it this week on episode #143
Meanwhile, I can let you know that the keywords used when creating your listing will be one of the main factors for anyone to find your shirts.
Also, the "brand name" you create for each shirt can be different and doesn't need to be of a real company.
What I mean is, if you are designing a T-shirt for a real estate agent, for example, you can name your company "Real Estate Tee" or " Real Estate Agent X"
The name of your "fake" company will also appear in the search results 🙂
There are a couple ways you can really advertise your merch, and they are Facebook ads, Google Ads (Adwords) and AMS (Amazon Marketing Services)
Amazon marketing services AMS Is not something you have access to, by default. You need to apply to get in. And you do it if you are an Amazon seller. You offer to become a vendor of one of your products.
Amazon will offer you a "lowball "offer to start buying your product and become the official seller of it.
in return, they will give you access to AMS (Amazon Marketing System), where you will be allowed to advertise any product or merch even if you don't own it
Thanks
Quin
90% Discount Codes To My Warm Super Engaged Audience
Question from Bruce Hoffmann
"Hi Quin, thanks for sharing all that you do.
I am trying to set up the super URL and give a discount to my warm audience.
I wanted to give 90% for the first 10 days to my super-engaged audience. but do I do it via a coupon (then do all of Amazon customers see this the coupon, which I don't want) or could I create a promotion using the social media promo code that way only people I give the code to can use it?
i would still use the super url, then have them use the promo code created in the social media promo tab.
also, there is not a way that I could find to discount more than 80%."
To use the 90% discount code on Amazon, make sure to limit your amount of items that the person can buy, normally I limit each to 3 purchase.
Then you need to generate the number of coupon codes you are looking for and send each one of your audience a unique coupon code with the 90% discount.
Amazon will generate all those single-use coupons in any quantity you request.
Then you make sure that the audience is only allowed to buy one, two or even three ( the more they buy the better your conversion rate will be)
You can use a software like a Coupon Carrier found at Couponcarrier.io
If you want to use the Social Media Promo code the maximum discou9nt you can do is 80% as Amazon has set the range between 5% and 80%.
By the way congrats on having a Super Engaged audience, and knowing how to use it.
A lot of Amazon sellers don't have an audience and there are others that do have one but never used it for anything.
The important part of having an audience is giving them content and keeping them engaged for the time you do need to launch a new product or service, and you want to give them the first option to enjoy that service or that product.
I really appreciate your question Bruce, and I hope you get back to me with the results of this campaign and let me know what position your keywords got indexed at.
Thanks
Quin Amorim
I found a product that costs $6 to $8 to manufacture and I can sell it from $27 to $30 but I don't have enough capital to supply the whole month.
I have, let's say enough for 50 units when I need 300 to last the whole month. Should I just save up the money and then jump in or buy the 50 jump and then suffer the consequence or running out of stock?
Stranded Inventory Fulfilled By Amazon
From now on, you will not be allowed to send in any new orders if that SKU has any stranded inventory at Amazon Warehouse (FBA)
Think outside the box in order to gain a competitive advantage over your competitors.
Today I tell a little story about a question that used to be asked during job interviews to decide what the character of some people was like.
listen to this Out of the box story about Perspective!
Don't fall in love with your failed products or else they will drag you down with them.
When your product is a failure, you need to let it go.
I saw a show with monkeys who were captured by throwing food inside a tight hole, and they would get stuck after trying to grab that food and closed their fist.
The closed fist holding the food would be too big to fit through the hole!
So, don't be like the monkeys and let go of your products, as the consequences may be devastating if you hold on too long
Amazon sales funnels to bring external traffic to your Amazon listing
As promised, today I will explain how to get external traffic to Amazon, using Amazon sales funnels.
If you already have a funnel software that's great, if not, the easiest to use is Click Funnels.
You can get a free trial here Click Funnels
There are a few ways you can make your funnels.
– The free plus shipping, where you advertise a free product and the buyer only has to pay shipping.
– The email capture in exchange for an 80% discount code
– Or even a full price sales page that will redirect to Amazon.
Now, its very important to remember that every single person that gets a code or wants to buy gets sent to your super URL. The 2 step store URL I explained yesterday. If you missed it, please go back and listen to:
Creating an Amazon Super URL that works
All external traffic sources you may have, like email lists, past buyers, buyers from your Shopify store, friends, family, Facebook and Google advertising, need to be directed to that keyword in your URL.
So, if you are using Click Funnels or Profit Builder, create your funnels and send them to your super URL.
I'm assuming you all know what a sales funnel is, and you know how to make it, but if you don't know contact me at Quin@qasellingonline.com and I can show you.
In order to rank your keywords to the top of Amazon search, you need to get conversions to those search terms.
(episode launched without transcription services)
Super URL episode must be listened to
In order to have a lower pay per click advertising cost on your campaign this is what you must do:
Create 2 campaigns exactly the same
run one during the day, and one during the night.
Test the 2 and then let me know how much lower your second campaign cost per click is.
You are welcome, haha
Quin
To rank on amazon for keywords that in english are very competitive, try translating those keywords to the second most spoken languase in tthe USA
Spanish!
Add Spanish keywords to your backend and to your ppc campaings
According to Amazon, one-fifth of product sales come from the frequently bought together, so today I will teach you how to change the products that show up for the best seller.
Find the best selling product that is in the same category as yours, but not a direct competitor.
Now you will have to buy that product together with yours 3 to 5 times!
To do so, if you have the same seller email has your buyer account, you will have to ask your wife, husband, neighbor or cousin to buy them for you and then you refund them.
After you buy these products and get indexed as the frequently bought together bundle, you can return the product you bought, or even keep it as gifts for Christmas, or even for product research since you are already selling in the same category!
That's all
Thanks
Quin Amorim
Amazon has changed and added new warehousing fees for the fulfilled by Amazon product inventory.
Now, besides the long-term storage fees, you will also need to pay a fixed monthly fee for every item that is in the warehouse for more than 365 days.
How to Increase sales Conversions on my Amazon FBA listings and A/B Testing #128
To increase conversions on your Amazon listings you can create a promotion, buy 2 get 1 free.
Amazon will see that as a 300% conversion rate (Of course it will go down as people visit without buying)
Having high conversion rates will make your product be more relevant to the audience, and therefore Amazon's algorithm will make it rank higher.
As for A-B testing, you should test changing one thing at a time on your listing, like the title or picture or bullets.
By doing so you are measuring the conversion rate change to see if people buy more or less.
if the percentage goes up its good, if it goes down, put it back the way it was, and test something else.
I have a question about blogging and top 10 list or top 20 products lists
How do I get myself onto these top 10 lists?
Thank you, Adrian, for the question and the nice words.
It is very simple to get your product to a top 10 list.
99% of the times you see a top 10 list, it was made as a marketing technique by one of those top 10 product owners.
So, all you have to do is create a list with 9 other amazing products and then share it with the world.
I know this is going to hurt a bit because you will be sharing your competitor's products, but in reality, they are already big, and more than likely you will be the one benefiting from it all.
After the list is created all you have to do is make sure the whole world see it.
And, to do that you will have to share it on Facebook, pages, groups and have someone create press releases.
If you don't know how to create a press release, you can hire someone on Fiverr to do it for you.
That's all for today, and this is how you create a top 10 list for your product or service.
Don't forget to listen or read: Ninja Tip To Make Amazon Give You A Perfect URL #126
Thanks
Quin Amorim
Amazon seller Ninja tip to get keyword indexed and ranking.
Today I will just give a quick Ninja tip to be able to make Amazon give you a perfect canonical URL.
How can we do this?
Well, before you list your product you will do keyword research and find the top 6 search terms for your product.
Now that you know what they are, enter them in your title, but make sure to enter a maximum of 6 words on the title!
These 6 words are what Amazon will use to create your product URL so it will look like: Amazon.com/rubber-silicone-spatula-kitchen-turner/something else goes here
By only giving them 6 words that will force them to create that URL for you.
Now it will be easier to rank for those keywords and the URL will match the title and content of the page (Google SEO tricks)
A day after you do this, you can go back and edit your listing to have the full title you wish!
I hope you like this little Ninja tip for Amazon sellers, and please let me know if you want more like this>
Thanks
Quin Amorim
Today we will be talking about how to create a listing that will help you sell your products faster and easier, how to get keywords and where to use them.
I want you to remember that this series of 4 episodes is not an in-depth training, it's just a quick explanation how to do things work and needs to be done to start. I still recommend doing research, listening to other episodes of the podcast and even getting second opinions on things. Sometimes what works for some doesn't work for others
Here are some of the tools we can use for this.
Keyword.IO – this is a free keyword tool that can pick keywords from Amazon, eBay, Google, etc
Google keyword planner – this is also a free tool for those that have a Google Adwords account (Adwords is Google's advertising platform)
Sonar – This is a free Amazon Keyword research tool from Sellics. Sellics is a paid software that will do several things to help you, like track your expenses, PPC costs, sales volumes, profits, keyword tracking, indexing and position of the index (Meaning what position you show up when you search for silicone spatula) But we don't need this yet, just the free tool called Sonar. Find it at Sonar-tool.com
Amazon Giveaway – This can be found at Amazon.com/giveaway and it can be used to get products for free or give away your products for free. The reason you would do this is to create sales velocity.
Also on today's podcast: How to create your tittle
Part 3 of sourcing products, with Retail Arbitrage, Wholesale, private label and creating listings to sell on Amazon Fba.
Just to recap, I started by explaining in part 1, the differences between Retail Arbitrage, Wholesale, Private label or simply by selling used or unwanted items you have around the house.
Yesterday I touched on the free and some paid software to track products, measure demand and even competition.
Then I also mentioned some of the sites I use to find manufacturers of the products.
Now I will let you know some best practices on how to use those websites.
Then we'll discuss how to ship to Amazon and start selling.
Let's start with how to deal with vendors in China.
It is very important to know that these vendors are getting messages from everybody all over the world.
So, your message may be one of 350 they received that day.
You better make sure that you don't just sound like a tire kicker that will just waste their time.
At least have a signature with your company name. And this company doesn't really need to exist yet.
They will call you by "Dear" doesn't matter if you are a man or a woman. Its a way they have of being polite and respectful.
If you need to ask them several questions, make sure to number them. This will make sure they don't skip any.
But, before you even start messaging the vendors, make sure to filter them a bit. There are options on Alibaba to filter by a Gold supplier, assessed supplier, and trade assurance.
Basically, this means they have been around for a long time, the assessed part means that their factory has been verified to be a real location, and trade assurance means they are willing to use Alibaba as the middleman for escrow services. You pay Alibaba, and they will hold the money until you get the product.
Talking about paying, there are a few more things that you need to know:
Every supplier will have an MOQ, this stands for minimum order quantity, and its the minimum quantity that they will allow you to order if you are personalizing the product (Like printing logos and etc)
Next is the 2 payment plan, the norm is paying 30% up front when ordering, then after getting the inspection done, you pay the remaining 70%.
By the way, this "inspection" is a crucial factor in making sure your order has the quality you need to sell on Amazon and not risk your seller account.
You know, lots of sellers try to lower the costs, by negotiating the price to the minimum possible, and contrary to what people believe, China can make the highest quality of anything… but you need to be ready to pay for quality, just like you would anywhere else. If you try to lower the cost of a $5 item to $3, the quality will suffer and your product will be cheaply made.
So, before lowering to much make sure you know exactly what kind of product you want.
For instance, I have one vendor that gave me a quote, and I didn't ask for a single cent discount… instead, I said, I would accept the price if they guaranteed I would have the highest quality of anyone, and every single return or refund would be discounted on my next order. This product is currently the only product of mine that has 100% 5-star rating and not a single review was incentivized or given by friends. It's actually so good that it's Amazon's choice and they put on the listing that it has 60% fewer returns than comparable products on that sell on Amazon.
So, now that you have found the manufacturer that has the product you want, is a gold supplier, assessed, and has trade assurance, you will need to negotiate the MOQ, to please your wallet and at the same time be able to fill the supply without running out of stock.
You place your order, and of course, to do so,
On the previous episode, I explained the 4 ways you can use to start Selling On Amazon.
Today I want to let you know how to find the products, where to find the products and how to select them.
First, I want to start by letting you know of the free tools available to help you start.
There are several tools that can make your life easier, so I will let you know of the free ones and also will mention the equivalent in a paid tool.
None of the links I share with you are affiliate links. I could use my affiliate links for Jungle Scout or Sellics, etc. But I won't because I want full transparency that I am not recommending these because I will get a few bucks back.
So, let's start with a tool that you can use to track the number of sales, from other sellers or any product in the Amazon catalog.
Actually, let me explain why you would want to know how many units of each product is currently selling.
You would want to know this because it allows you to know what people are interested in, what is currently being sold in high quantities, so you can source a product that you know almost for sure, will sell.
So to start with the free one:
- Unicorn Smasher – This is a Browser extension, so all you have to do is search for the name Unicorn Smasher, it has an option to download and after you download it will attach to your Chrome browser. Now open Amazon.com find any product you can think of, and when you have the product page open, click on the extension to open it and see all the info.
Paid tools that do the same thing are:
- Jungle Scout and Amaze Howl – Jungle Scout is the most used of all for sellers.
Now before I tell you about more tools, I need to let you know that these tools are pretty accurate, but none have official numbers from Amazon. They are estimates by measuring the BSR changes and the 999 trick.
For those who don't know the 999 trick, its a technique used to know how many units of something, another seller has. You ad the product you are looking at, to your cart, then go to your cart and click on the quantity until you see a drop-down, that goes from 1 to 9 and 10+, now click on the 10+ and enter a quantity of 999 units. Now Amazon will tell you something like, "sorry but the seller only has 126 units available…" or whatever the number is.
This lets you know how many units the seller has right now so you can take notes and check again in a day or 2 and see how many he (or she) has sold per day.
Next, we'll talk about a couple tools (both free) that allow you to see the history of each product.
So, why do I need to know the history of a product, you may ask?
Well, its because if you are looking at a product that is selling, lets imagine 200 units per day, you need to know if this product has a proven history of selling for a while, or if the seller just launched a week ago and gave away a bunch of free units to create sales velocity to excite the algorithm.
Another reason could be because the product is a seasonal product… like something that only sells during winter, or only during summer, or a mother's day item, or even a Halloween item… So, you want to make sure you either stay away from those products or you control your inventory to run out at the end of that season. But, if its seasonal item and you are already looking at a spike in sales with Jungle scout or unicorn smasher, then you are already too late to this year's party.
The tools are:
- Keepa you can find it at Keepa.com
- Camel Camel Camel – You can find it at Camelcamelcamel.com
After you source your product there are a few more tools you can use, some free and some paid tools… but when we get to that point I will let you know about them.
Becoming the Ferrari of Kitchen Cabinets in Fort McMurray.
Forest City Inc, is one of the top kitchen cabinet makers currently manufacturing and installing 100% custom cabinets.
Fort McMurray is a Canadian city in the province of Alberta.
Today I am asking you the questions?
Should we aim for the low quality and bulk quantity or focus on high-end quality?
Contact me with your opinions
Quin
Quin Amorim started selling products online in 1997 DropShipping on eBay. Yes Dropshipping
Quin was living in Europe when he first discovered the power of selling online.
While working at Daimler Chrysler he walked outside to look at some stores and found wooden hand carved statues that looked like they could sell for more, but people would not find them at that physical location.
He then thought he could bring a camera from home the next day and take pictures to try to sell them on eBay even without owning them.
The reason for bringing a camera was because back then cell phones didn't have cameras yet, or at least cameras with good quality.
He took the camera to work the next day and after taking lots of pictures he went home and uploaded them to the computer and then to eBay, where he created the listings to start "Dropshipping " these items.
The term Dropshipping may not have even existed back then, so he just called it "Selling The Picture" because the only thing he had was the picture.
After these wooden handmade statues started to sell on eBay, he found a big issue… Each one of the statues was unique, and if someone bought one at the store, he would not have it to dropship.
Also, eBay wasn't built for dropshipping at first, so they didn't have software that would automatically calculate shipping fees, and He would have to get the real shipping costs from the post office itself and only in person.
Now, many years later Quin Amorim creates private label products and sells on Amazon with fulfillment by Amazon, Shopify self-fulfilled and on some shelves.
He also has a marketing agency, since he created the $57 Facebook advertising campaign that attracted 34 million visitors and generated $118K in sales in less than 5 days. Now he has his own agency where he manages and creates online advertising campaigns for other businesses.
That is all for today.
I am Allison and I transcribed this for Quin
Enjoy
Coleen asked if I avoid the Low BSR (Best Seller Rank) products on Amazon when doing product sourcing for FBA.
It depends on the product category and then I will look at what the competition is like.
If it has a tiny BSR and the category is food I will stay away from it right off the bat
But there is something that is super hard to measure.
This is, how many people since the beginning have decided to pick and source that same product.
There is a chance that 1000 people have sourced that same product and by the time yours arrives at FBA now you have 1000 more competitors.
There is a tool out that that attempts to tell you how many people are looking at those products but I think it only works for their own platform.
One thing you can do is stay away from top 100 of every category and focus only on subcategories.
Find a product that is a bit less sexy and that doesn't follow the rules everyone is looking for, the lightweight, fits in the shoe box, etc.
If you do what everyone else is doing you will be selling the exact same product as everyone else.
Go deeper in the BSR and see the 100 to 200 in that sub-category.
Hope this helps
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QA
Do Your Kids Follow Your Steps?
Today's special episode has an introduction by my daughter.
She says she wants to sell online FOOD TO POOR PEOPLE AND GET IT DELIVERED.
Please contact me and tell me your stories and let me know if you want to tell them on the podcats
Quin@qasellingonline.com
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Dropship with Amazon
Drew sent in a question by email: I've been drop shipping from China to eBay, and it's working great. Although I hear it's not possible, I know someone dropshipping with Amazon, is it ok to do so?
Well, this doesn't have a straight yes or no answer.
Drop shipping to Amazon is allowed but, not the traditional dropshipping we all know.
You need to be the seller of the product.
before I type any more, have a read below:
Amazon's Drop Shipping Policy
"Drop shipping, or allowing a third party to fulfill orders to customers on your behalf, is generally acceptable. If you intend to fulfill orders using a drop shipper, you must always:
- Be the seller of record of your products;
- Identify yourself as the seller of your products on all packing slips and other information included or provided in connection with them;
- Be responsible for accepting and processing customer returns of your products; and
- Comply with all other terms of your seller agreement and applicable Amazon policies.
Examples of drop shipping that is not permitted:
- Purchasing products from another online retailer and having that retailer ship directly to customers; or
- Shipping orders with packing slips, invoices, or other information indicating a seller name or contact information other than your own."
dropship with Amazon
Amazon's TOS for dropshipping HERE
Question from Sarah: What makes a brand successful?
Thank you for the question, Sarah.
A brand is not what a lot of people think.
A brand is not the logo and the tagline.
Actually, a logo has a small impact on a brand.
There are several things that make up a brand.
I'll tell you the most important things in branding, in no particular order:
Consistency:
A CEO of a company I used to work for, always told us he wanted to be the next Starbucks or the next McDonalds. (It's funny because we were not in the food industry, we were a service provider in the Oil and Gas Industry) But, he used to say that in order to do so we need to be consistent.
For example, he could be in -40C temperature in Canada one day, and the next day in Hawai, or Brasil and every time he walked into Starbucks anywhere in the world he knew what the smell would be like, the look and exactly what the coffee would taste like.
So being consistent is one of the top ones
Purpose: This may be the top branding tip –
Why do you do what you do?
Who do you do it for?
Whats the real reason behind it?
And, is there a cause or movement people can join by having your product.
Customer support: This one should be a no-brainer, but many entrepreneurs will have zero support, no guarantees, and even worse is not caring.
It is very important that customer support doesn't sleep or take a vacation, and response time should be always in less than 24 hours.
Loyalty: You need to develop some sort of loyalty program with your customers. Discounts and giveaways are one way to start a loyalty "cult"
Some brands give you the sense of belonging
Be Different/ Unique: The easiest way to stand out is if you are or have something unique.
If you have a vision, product or service that is different than everything else, you are already creating a special brand.
A TED X talker who didn't know what it meant to Fail Forward.
Fail Forward!
I am an official translator for TED, TED X, and TED Global talks, translating from English to Portuguese and Portuguese to English.
By doing this, I get to memorize lots of talks because I have to hear the talk several times.
But recently I came across a TED X talk about failure, and the speaker said he didn't know what it meant to Fail Forward!
So I had to comment and let him know 🙂
Failing Forward means you are moving forward when you failed, Taking Action!
Its the only way you can Fail Forward. Failing by not taking action is the only bad failure because you didn't even try.
Just like a famous hockey player said: "You will miss every single shot you don't take"
So Failing Forward means you were moving towards your destination (The goal) when you failed.
So go out there and fail Fast and Fail Forward while chasing your dreams
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QA
Sales Velocity
About 7 months ago I launched 2 products on Amazon FBA that don't sell.
I've already been charged long term storage fees and I don't want to pay for that again.
I have a couple more products in the same brand, and I think these slow selling ones can give me a bad name.
I want to get rid of them without losing my shirt, whats the best way?
Sales Velocity on Amazon FBA
Let me start by telling you that the normal amazon buyer doesn't care if your product sales fast or slow.
they look at reviews and they never use any kind of software to see if you are selling fast.
Actually, some buyers still think that Amazon is the only seller on the platform.
Since you also have 2 other products in the same brand, in my opinion, you should use the loser products to boost sales for the existing good ones.
To do this you just have to create a promotion.
Create a promotion called buy one get one, and give away the loser products to the buyers of the good products.
This will boost sales of the good products, increase sales velocity and help you rank higher and sell more organically.
Now the only issue with this is if your products cost you a lot of money or if you have lots of stock, because in that case, the best option may be to find a buyer on an FBA group on Facebook.
Or another way could be just like I do with some loser products I transfer then to a second FBA account where they will live for another 6 months while trying to sell.
I hope this helps
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QA
Now that my order is ready to ship to Amazon I get hit with a Hazmat review.
Am I in trouble?
Silvia had this question about Hazmat review on Amazon
Lots of Amazon Hazmat review are triggered by a bot and sometimes it can be a false positive.
This means that sometimes it may capture keywords from your listing and assume it is a product that requires a review but in reality, it may not!
Other cases actually may require a review but the seller isn't even aware of the requirements for importing the product.
Always make sure to look up any product or source it out to someone who knows.
Here are some links to help you out
All you need to know page HERE
Exemption sheet for hazardous cosmetics and products not regulated as dangerous goods HERE
Exemption sheet for batteries and products containing or sold with batteries HERE
Today I want to talk about online advertising. More specifically YouTube Ads.
I'm going to start by explaining where the YouTube ads come from.
YouTube ads come from Google.
For those that don't know, Youtube is a division of Google.
To create a youtube ad you need to have a Google Adwords account (this is the Advertising account)
This is where you create or design you Youtube ads.
Most marketers and most of these new agencies never even used youtube ads, because everyone always talks about how great Facebook advertising is.
And... they are great (for now)
But with youtube, I'm not sure if you were aware, but you can target your audience by, age, gender, location, likes, and even better, you can target what videos they watch.
Let me explain this a bit better.
For example, if you are selling a training course on how to do dropshipping from Aliexpress to Shopify.
You can play your ad in the video whose title is: How to dropship, or how to dropship with Shopify or Selling product from Aliexpress on eBay.
These are just random examples, and I don't even know if these videos exist. But I know that if you search these terms, you will get a ton of videos that will show up.
Another thing I can guarantee is that if someone has typed in Youtube's search bar, something like " How to dropship from China to Canada"
I can tell that the person wants to know how to dropship, I can also tell that more than likely they are in Canada and more than likely they will watch another video next that is also related to this.
Therefore you can find your perfect audience by targeting the video, instead of targeting the person.
And now, the most important thing about advertising on YouTube
You need to know who is watching, why they are watching, and where they are watching.
Let me give you a good example of why your add will perform 10x better if you know this.
Every day before I get in the shower, or the jacuzzi, I turn on a motivational video from Youtube on my iPhone, take the waterproof speaker with me as I shower.
Now, if you have ever heard one of these motivational videos, it's like listening to music. You don't need to watch it, you can simply listen.
Here is what happens almost every time.
During my long shower, there is always an Ad that interrupts the talk. And in case you are wondering "why don't you turn off the ads with Adblocker" It's because I am a marketer, so I have a small addiction to listening and studying other people's ads!
But, often an ad comes on and the only reason I know there was an Ad was that the talk stopped!
This means someone is displaying a full video Ad on a video that is not meant to be watched. There is literally nothing to see in these videos.
Just like when you turn on youtube to play music, but you are not looking at the phone.
So, that was a wasted opportunity, because if they would have spoken in that Ad, I would have heard it.
My point is if you are going to show an advertisement to sell wind chimes, on a video called "3 hours of nature sounds" more than likely nobody is watching the video. They are probably listening to the relaxing sounds of nature while doing something else.
So, if you knew your audience was in listen-only mode, maybe you could talk during the Ad.
These are actually great videos to advertise on because the person is not there to hit the Skip Ad button. But it only makes sense if they can hear the message.
And by the way, here are a couple more tips.
Some people play videos without sound, so consider adding subtitles or text to your Ad
Andrew is doing RA Retail Arbitrage and selling Amazon FBA and is wondering about GS1 UPC
"I am thinking of selling products on Amazon FBA, but I am not the brand owner.
I read somewhere that it is mandatory to buy GS1 UPC to sell on Amazon
I looked up the GS1 UPCs and they cost a fortune, is there a "legal" way around it?"
I love how you put the word "Legal" in quotation marks
Andrew, I have great news for you!
But before I tell you about the fantastic news I have, let me clear up the meaning of this.
First, what is a UPC and what is GS1 UPC?
UPC stands for the universal product code, it is, in simpler terms the barcode.
GS1 stands for Global Standards 1, this is a not for profit agency that supplies manufacturers with a company prefix, this prefix is used in GTINs and this stands for (Global Trade Item Numbers).
If you are planning on selling your products on Amazon, the products will need to have a GS1 GTIN (Global Trade Item Number)
Now let's get to the good news I have for you.
You don't need anything, my friend.
According to your message, you are selling products of which you are not the manufacturer.
This means you are doing RA (RA stands for retail arbitrage) it when you buy products from a retailer at a discount and then sell online at full price.
In this situation, you don't need to buy anything, because the manufacturer already has a UPC printed on the item.
BTW here is a Curious fact:
The very first barcode ever scanned was in 1974 June 26th it was a 5 pack of Juicy Fruit gum.
But let's get back on track.
The only thing you need is an FNSKU, now here is a big word! But don't worry about it, I'll make it simple for you.
An FNSKU is the Amazon barcode. and they require their barcode to be placed over the existing UPC on the product.
This FNSKU is provided by Amazon for free, and all you need to do is print them and stick them on each product.
When creating your shipment to send to Amazon FBA (this means Fulfilled By Amazon), they will give you these barcodes.
That's all my friend
Good luck, and when you are ready to go the Private Label route, then you will have to look at this GS1 situation again.
Until then, keep profiting
Video from GS1 attached
Is it possible to reach 1 Million dollars in sales the first year selling on Amazon FBA?
Today we have a question from Miguel about selling on Amazon
"Hey, Quin
Thanks for all the free content on the podcast.
I have a question about Amazon.
I just started selling a couple months ago, but I'm not even close to the numbers I see other people share on Facebook groups.
My question to you is: Do you really believe it is possible to reach One million dollars in sales the first year selling on Amazon?"
That is a great question, Miguel.
I have 2 things to tell you about this question
1 - I will start with the least important. I want you to know something about the Facebook screenshots.
Every single time you see a screenshot of a seller account that has numbers on it, they are trying to sell you something.
It doesn't matter if the numbers are small, medium or huge. And, it doesn't matter if there is no sales pitch attached or not!
You are being sold to! That's it! Most times when the screenshot shows big numbers, the seller has a course to sell or is trying to sell someone else's course for a commission.
But sometimes they may just be trying to sell themselves! what does this mean, you may ask?
Well, it means that this Amazon seller is trying to get attention to his profile, so you can snoop around and see he is a business growth coach, has developed some software, or has a new FB group and are looking for people to join.
Others are expecting a bunch of PMs from users (and they will get them, trust me)
But no matter what, every single time, there is something being sold!
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2 - This is the most important point of the 2, and I want you to listen very carefully to this!
Making 1 million dollars in gross sales, selling on Amazon is possible and happens more often than in non-Amazon businesses, BUT...
That doesn't mean anything! Making a million bucks in sales is not a stat to be proud of. Don't get me wrong, a million bucks is lots of money, but selling a million doesn't mean you get to keep anything.
A good goal would be to net $200k or $250k. Now those are real numbers that matter.
Actually, I know many sellers making over a million and some making several million per year, but they are very very tight financially because there is no cash flow.
They are running high sales numbers but tinny margins, so it's more of a volume game, and those are pretty risky!
So, to answer your question, yes it is possible, but that is not the most important number you should look at.
By the way, Always define your goals, or else they will not mean anything if you achieve them.
Set your goals and write them down!
That's it for today.
I hope this helps and make sure to listen to our last episode:
My Amazon FBA Fees Are Wrong
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QA
Amazon FBA Fees
Age, is shipping his new product to Amazon FBA, but he noticed in his inventory that the Amazon FBA fees are over $18.
The product is the size of a book and only weighs 3.4 ounces.
The sale price is $21 and he believes the fees are too much.
Well Age, the fees are ridiculous.
This tells me that the problem may be an easy one to fix.
Amazon FBA has the wrong dimensions of your product's package.
I say the product package because the product most times could be bigger than the package. If it requires assembly, if it's inflatable or if it extends.
My recommendation is to check your packaging dimensions on the listing, and if it looks correct contact Amazon seller support to fix the problem.
I believe that as soon as your product arrives they may find the error and fix it on their own.
To contact support, open seller support and on the top right of the page, click help, then when the window opens scroll down and press "contact us"
Hope this helps
Check out the last episode here:
Amazon FBA, Can My Friends or Family Buy My Products | Ep. #106
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Quin
I often see people asking if their co-worker, mother sister or their dog can buy their Private label product on Amazon FBA...
Of course, they can buy your product on Amazon FBA
Everyone can, and should buy your product!
Someone mentioned on a Facebook group that anyone that is friends with you on Facebook is not allowed to buy your product!
What???
So, you honestly think Amazon can see who my friends are, and even if they could, they would even go through the trouble of checking my friend's lists and comparing reviews per IP or per friends name and address?
If you believe that would happen, you live in a world of paranoia!
Let everyone that you know buy you private label product or even your retail arbitrage products.
Actually, you should convince them to buy bigger quantities, lol
To be quite honest I share my products links with friends and family all the time. what I don't do is ask them to give me a review.
This is an Amazon FBA episode, but you can also hear or read:
what should I do to supplement my degree to be successful in marketing field
Marketing
I am currently pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration, but I am unsure of what I should be doing to supplement my degree in order to be successful in the marketing field.
My school offers co-operative programs to gain experience, but is there any other paths I should explore to make myself an exceptional candidate for potential careers in the future?
Hi Kaylee-Shaye, Excited to be connected with you on the Career Advice Hub.
First off, congrats on going after a BBA.
The main characteristics I would look for in a marketer would be creativity and focus.
If there's any co-operative program that can help you with those, jump on it immediately.
A tip for when you are ready to apply for your future career is to make a video cover letter!
The agency that receives a video cover letter has to appreciate the creativity and out of the box thinking.
Plus a smiley face has 10x better chance of causing a good impression that the piece of paper with old-school copyright.
Meanwhile the top of the marketing "food chain" is online advertising and lead generation with sales funnels.
Oh yea and most agencies appreciate if you are Google certified (gives them better rep)
here are the training links I mentioned:
Facebook Training
Google Training
Google Certification (Requires Logins, but all are free)
And don't forget to check out our last episode:
Paid Search Ads and Analytics to Consulting and Marketing Strategy
Looking forward to chatting soon.
Quin
Kreig’s message to you
I’d like advice for careers and knowledge within the digital marketing field. This would revolve around paid search advertising and analytics, with a potential pivot into consulting and marketing strategy. What steps do you think are necessary to “be successful” in this area? What new graduate programs at which companies would you recommend?
Hi Kreig, Excited to be connected with you on the Career Advice Hub.
It's very cool that you mentioned paid search!
The world seems to have turned their back on paid search and everyone is using the exact same FB "hyper-targeting" techniques.
Now that everyone is using FB, there is a lot more room on Adwords and at a lower cost.
But not only Google, also the engine that everyone hates (Bing) has cheap search term costs.
Don't get me wrong, I've been managing FB Ad campaigns for over 5 years now and will continue to do so. But always remember that the best way to stand out is to get out of the crowd.
As for consulting, I think that the best way is to market yourself first.
Turn yourself into an authority using your marketing skills in social media. Often when you provide accurate support in a group, you will get people adding you and sending PMs :)
Tai Lopez is an expert at self Marketing
Graduate programs, personally I would pick a smaller company (but not tinny) because it's easier to become a big fish in a smaller pond, and you have lots of time to turn yourself into an expert
Things I recommend: Youtube and Mentors, Just make sure to follow the right experts and stay away from Cat videos.
(Russell Bruson, Neil Patel, Tai Lopez, Simon Sinek, Frank Kearn, etc)
Looking forward to chatting soon.
Thanks, for listening or reading and please don't forget to listen to:
What’s The Best Way To Get US Bank Account To Sell On Amazon | Ep #102
Paid Tools For Amazon FBA
Rose is currently in the product selection phase of her private label business, to sell on Amazon FBA and she is asking about subscribing to Paid Tools For Amazon FBA
"First, tons of thanks for your podcasts which I stumbled upon a couple
of months ago and which I've binged on like my life depended on it!
You have lots of useful info and to think that you are dishing it out
for free --thank you!!
Now to my question -
I've been researching on Amazon selling - FBA and have developed a
list of products that I am interested in. At this point, it is a
laundry list from which I'll narrow on one to start with. (I took your
advice about starting with a single product and get my baptism by
fire, hopefully live to launch a second one)
Now to my question: should I at this point subscribe to a tool like
Jungle Scout to help me refine my list? I know there is a monthly cost
to it, but I'm thinking of it as a cost of doing business. If by
shelling 26$ a month at this point I have a better chance, I would be
willing to do that.
I would be glad to hear what your thoughts are re-employing these
tools early - before starting to sell, as opposed to later...
Thank you, Quin, for taking your time to answer. I greatly appreciate it.
Rose"
Hello Rose,
Thank you so much for the kind words and for being a listener.
There are many Paid Tools For Amazon FBA, and lots do the exact same things.
As for Jungle Scout, it is an amazing tool, but everything it does can be done for free when you are starting out.
Tools For Amazon FBA
The extension used to find products can be replaced by the free Unicorn Smasher (http://www.unicornsmasher.com)
And the monthly tracking can easily be done manually when you are starting with just one product.
Obviously, the easy way is to use al the tools, but often when starting every dollar counts.
Tools For Amazon FBA
Another free tool you should add to your research is Keepa (https://keepa.com) this will tell you the history of the product if it has been selling for a long time, and for how much.
That will help filter products that are not proven yet or the ones that are seasonal.
Both these free tools have a Chrome extension (if you are using a PC) Keeps will open below the products bullet points and before the description.(everytime you open Amazon)
Unicorn Smasher will open on top of your Amazon page, just like Jungle Scout would.
Hi. I'd assume that there would be a big benefit from having a US bank
account or two when selling on Amazon.com. What's the best way to get
one?
Hey Ed,
that is a great question that most non-US sellers forget about.
I'm not sure what country you are in, but there are great benefits of having a US bank account.
Actually, I can only think of 1 benefit, but it is a big one. It's 2 to 3% of your conversion.
So the more you sell the bigger the amount you will lose during the transactions if your account is not in the US.
Technically your bank doesn't need to be in the US.
For example, in Canada, there are a couple options of Canadian banks that offer that service.
Like the RBC Access US account.
Amazon will send US dollars to will send US$ to any ACH enabled bank account, so ask your bank if they have that option.
Normal accounts in Canada use CCH to handle money transfers.
On top of this, you can use the USD from that account to pay your Chinese suppliers, and you save again for the second time :)
Hope this helps
Quin
MailChimp email campaigns
Do you recommend using MailChimp for a customer email list and for sending out email campaigns?
First of all, sorry for the delay in replying.
Someone send a couple thousand spam emails and I had to go through all, to make sure I didn't lose Non-spam emails :)
As for the question, Yes, Mailchimp may the best option for anyone who doesn't have a list yet.
MailChimp allows you to start a 100% free account up to 2000 emails.
This will allow people to test and play around with smaller lists.
After you pass the 2000 emails they will charge you $10 for every 1000 emails (including the first 2000)
One thing they don't advertise is, that you can request a paid plan with under 2000 emails.
You can pay as low as $10 and have all functionality
This means you can have all the pro functions on the campaigns for $10 if the list is below 2000.
MailChimp also integrates with Click Funnels, Zapier, etc
Hope this helps and it's not too late :)
Remember to listen to yesterday's episode about Real Estate Agents
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QA
REALTOR® is not what you thought it was! Learn how the person selling Real estate is not always a REALTOR® and why
Real Estate and some Registered/ Trademarked terms, the whole story:
Hey everyone,
I have a great story to tell you today.
This story may actually stop some of you from committing a crime!
Doesn’t sound possible?
Well, stick around until the end because you may have a huge surprise.
Recently I started working on a video documentary.
This documentary was going to be narrated by someone that sounded exactly like Sir David Attenborough.
The documentary was going to focus on real estate agents.
How some still use newspapers to advertise, versus how they could use digital marketing instead and actually be able to measure results, and on top of that get 10 times more leads.
Anyway… We made a preview of the documentary, about 2 minutes long and launched it on YouTube, also shared it on the main page of our marketing site Prolific Zone, and after the first day, it already had over 500 views, and by the end of that week, it had surpassed 3500 views.
But, not all of those views were from people who thought the video was funny.
I received an email from the lawyers of (NAR) NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®
NAR explained to me (very nicely actually) that that word I used in both my titles and description was a Registered Mark, and that not all real estate agents are REALTORS®. Also, the word has to be spelled in all capital letters.
Well, if you know me before I believe anything I do research… and it is true.
Yes, that is correct, REALTORS® is not the name of the profession (Real Estate Agent) like most of us think (or thought)
It all started in very early 1900’s. When NAR was called National Association of Real Estate Exchanges, then in 1916 became National Association of Real Estate Boards.
In 1950 the term REALTOR® Was approved as a registered mark by the US Patent and Trademark Office and is reserved exclusively for members of the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® witch in 2004 surpassed for the first time 1 million members.
Those terms were created and are owned by an association and have to be used correctly.
For example, there is the situation of a domain squatter that bought 2000 domains with the term REALTOR® in them and added a geographical location to it, like San Francisco, or Washington, etc.
When asked to comply he thought it would be easier to fight it because he thinks this is a normal dictionary term and he has the right to use it!
Well… I can’t wait to see the end of that case.
So now you know.
Do not use the words REALTOR®, REALTORS® in the wrong way or not capitalized.
Here is the link to what you can and cant do
Here is the link to the Real Estate Agent video
Remember to listen to the last episode here
How to Make A Cover Letter That Will Get You Hired | Ep. #99
How To Make A Cover Letter
A question that can in from the LinkedIn Carrer advice hub
Hi Alyssa, Excited to be connected with you on the Career Advice product.
If you are looking for innovative and creative ideas to apply for jobs in the marketing category, my advice is to create a video cover letter or resume.
Most resumes can create a wrong first impression, but a smiling video will always be seen more than once and if they are looking for a creative and innovative person, guess who gets the job? :)
Would love to understand more about your background and how I can help. Looking forward to chatting soon.
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QA
A question from the Linkedin career advice coach. "Where Do I Learn Social Media Management and Content Creation"
The question came from Oyindamola "I want to work in social media management, marketing, and content creation, what would be your advice in terms of education?"
Quick answer:
I don't recommend learning social media management, marketing, and content creation in college.
I believe all the training resources are out there for free on places like youtube or Podcasts, and if you want something more organized, then you can take an online course.
My actual answer:
I'm happy to see that you like SMM and content creation, it looks like it's the way to the future.
In terms of education, I believe the best option is to absorb as much free information as possible for free resources like Youtube. (don't lose yourself watching non-productive videos, lol) Or even taking an online course.
The best way to develop skills is to work for an agency and learn what they do and how they do it. I hate wasting time so I would probably do both at the same time.
Start your own in your spare time, while working for someone else Looking forward to chatting soon.
Make sure to read or listen to my last podcast :
Are You Judgemental Of People’s Websites, Landing Pages, and Domains | Ep. #97
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QA
Today I want to ask you something, about how you see other online entrepreneurs' businesses
Are You Judgemental Of People's Websites, Landing Pages and Domains?
Please leave a comment with your answer, or contact me using this blob's contact form.
I can share your opinion or even interview you if you are interested.
Websites, Landing Pages and Domains is where I find my pet peeves, lol
Yes, it's looking at other people's Websites, Landing Pages and Domains
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QA
Digital Marketing agencies are all learning from the same books the same courses and the same Gurus.
Why are Social Media Marketing Agencies SMMA Only Targeting Dentists, Realtors, and Chyro?
- Lead generation for dentists
- Lead gen for real estate agents
- Lead generation for chiropractic clinics
Every digital marketing agency in North America is targeting these 3 professions and they are starting to get sick of it!
Some do it right and know how to cold call or cold email, but the spamming techniques from years past are coming up, from the new marketers who have taken an online 2-day course and now are using the techniques that used to work in the past.
Let me tell you something that DOESN'T WORK:
Trying to sell!
Tring to sell is the worst technique when trying to sell something, I know it because I was there for many many years.
Nobody ever is happy to see the "salesman" walk in the door.
Nobody ever gets super excited about receiving a cold email!
Nobody wants to be sold something!
People always want to feel like it was their idea to purchase something, or even that they need that something.
Your job is to mention the benefits of a service without trying to sell them. This is why the word of mouth is so effective, because it is someone else, doing the selling of the service as a 3rd party!
But... enough of this.
Let's jump on to who else can your target audience be if you own or work for an SMMA Social Media Marketing Agency:
1 - Weight Loss Industry
I don't mean the companies out there trying to sell supplements for weight loss, although they could also be a good option if the company is big enough.
I mean the surgery clinics. The clinic that is going to perform the Gastric bypasses.
last year over 250k gastric bypass surgeries were performed in the US alone!
Liposuction doctors, sleeve gastrectomy, etc
2 - Plastic Surgeons
These are in high demand and are services that cost an arm and a leg (no pun intended)
Ear surgery is actually the second most common plastic surgery every year in the US
Boob jobs (they are called mammaplasty)
Nose jobs, Lip fattening, Butt extensions (yes t is a real thing)
Lots of money to be made here and these customers are not a 1-time customer so they will have a high Lifetime Value
3 - It Companies
An IT company may be the client you get with the biggest Lifetime value as they can be valued from $25k to Half a million per 1 client!!!
4 - Bridal Shops
I thought this one would be the obvious one to all the Social Media Marketing Agencies SMMA.
The wedding is the second highest expense most people have during their lifetime.
For some, it is actually the highest!
And you are leaving out the bridal boutiques, bridal shops, and wedding photographers?
The average wedding in North America costs $25k, and some people do it 2 or 3 times in their life, lol
5 - Lawyers - Divorce Layers
Yes, these are great customers for the Social Media Marketing Agencies SMMA, because the cases are very quick.
This means that the lawyer will get their pay very quick and easy.
6 - Car Dealerships
These are great customers for the SMM Social Media Management
These are the old school business people that more than likely want to have a social media following but don't know how to develop it and create engagement.
Also, you can generate leads for a car dealership very easily, as well as giving them some great local SEO search engine Optimization
This is all for today,
A message from Emily who is looking for an internship in a marketing job preferably in a tech company.
How Should I Structure My Resume For A MArketing Job | Ep. #94
Hi Emily, Excited to be connected with you on the Career Advice product. You have some great questions! The great thing about marketing is that if an agency knows what they are doing they will grow super fast.
This means that any internship you get at a good agency will more than likely turn into a job (if you are motivated) Motivation and positive mindsets are more important than most skills.
To build the perfect resume, go online and find the job posting for the best marketing jobs out there, see what the requirements are and copy all the requirements you meet.
The ones you don't meet, start working on them, as you still have time :)
Looking forward to chatting soon.
How Russell Brunson sold $3 Million dollars from stage at Grant Cardone's 10x Growth Con 2
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Boost Facebook Posts!
I say Boost Facebook Posts and let me know your long-term results!
Some "guru" is out there telling people to never boost a post because it is like burning money.
It's a complete waste, they say!
Well, I say the complete opposite, in my experience.
First of all, every single marketer should know that you cant say something doesn't work!
The reason you never say something doesn't work is that everything needs to be tested, everything changes and every Ad is a different case!
You cant target with a Boost! (Said one of the "know it all's")
Oh, yes you can!
You can use the exact same targeting techniques that you use in a regular campaign
Actually, you can even use the same saved or created audiences for targeting, retargeting and lookalike.
Another thing these Advertising specialists missed is that a boosted Facebook post is forever... Yes lifetime advertising
Even after you turn off the dollar budget to the boost, it will still be live
And...
1 year after the boost, everybody that shared and commented will receive the 1-year memory notification!
How about that?
Free, lifetime advertising with yearly reminders (it's like having an email list that you email once per year, and they remember you)
Do yourself a favor, go design a post.
Yes, design the post with a highly engaging image, highly engaging text, with questions and several calls to actions (never sallesy)
Target the perfect audience and boost it!
Then after you tested the results, come tell me how you feel
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QA
How Much Do You Really Want To Be Successful?
Today I bring you a story that was told by Les Brown in one of his talks, about how to be successful.
A young guy wanted to be successful and rich entrepreneur.
One day he met with a very successful guru and asked him for help
The Guru asked him " how badly do you want to be successful?"
He said " as bad as I want to breath"
Ok, meet me at the beach at 4 Am, said the Guru
Right there the younger entrepreneur wannabe already started to show his weakness by not wanting to get up at 3 AM
But he showed up...
Then the Guru put on his shorts and said, let's go swim.
The younger guy thought "I'm not here to swim, I'm here to learn how to be successful and make a ton of money"
But, he proceeded to walk towards the ocean.
After being in deeper waters, the guru grabbed buddy's head and forced it underwater...
He kept his head under water for a bit, and then let him up to breathe.
When buddy came up, he took a deep breath and asked what that was all about.
The successful guru proceeded to explain:
"It's not enough to say you want to be successful as much as you want to breathe! You need to really feel it"
When you were underwater, the only thing you could think of was getting some air, not how many likes you had on Facebook, or how many followers you had on Instagram!
All you wanted was to breathe!
When you learn to want success as bad as you wanted to breathe that second, that's when you know you will become a success!
What did you think of this story? (that's all it is by the way... a story)
How do you feel about it?
I hope this will help someone by giving you the motivation to go out there and get it done!
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QA
Facebook screenshots of millions of dollars on Shopify or Amazon FBA are being shown daily in every entrepreneurial group.
These screenshots are often followed by attempts to sell online training, but they don't make them a Shopify Guru or Amazon FBA Expert.
Every time a revenue screenshot is being shown, you must remember they are showing it for a reason.
The vast majority is to sell something!
Either selling online training, consultancy or to show themselves as an expert in a certain subject, so they can sell to you further down the road.
This week a 17-year-old "guru" that announced to be selling over $150 million per year on Shopify, was found to be a scammer.
This entrepreneurial guru, who shall remain unnamed had shown several times on Facebook groups his screenshots of millions that he was making.
Of course, at the same time, this scammer was selling online courses together with a very well known Facebook ads expert.
And, that is the scary part!
This very well known Facebook ads expert is the one that introduced the teen to everyone in his group, and added him to his training.
So, know who can you believe?
I say, do not believe anyone who has the need to show you screenshots, or pictures of themselves standing next to a Lamborghini that someone else just parked there.
Be very careful when choosing to do online training and focus on the expertise of the trainer and the value you have been getting from him/her.
I hope this helps someone out there.
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QA
Amazon's New Email Policy Only 1 per cart
Amazon FBA Sellers
A new policy for Amazon FBA Sellers was announced this week
Now any Amazon FBA Seller will only be able to email their customers once per cart order.
This new policy will take effect on February 22nd, 2018
If you want to know a new way around it you should listen to the podcast, although I will try to explain it here in writing.
Message your customer the day after he receives the order
in the message tells them something wrong like "your product should show up today"
Then ask them a question, like "is your address on file still accurate?"
Now, when the customer replies and they seem to be happy, you will reply to their email and ask for a review
Simple and easy
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I sourced a food product and want to list in the Amazon grocery and gourmet foods category!
How To List A Food Product On Amazon FBA
Today's episode is a reply to a question I received at QASELLINGONLINE.COM
The question comes from a visitor who signed "Need Help"
"I want to start selling on Amazon.com, I already sourced my product in the food category, but I don't see that category when I try to list it. What am I doing wrong?
Unfortunately, I think your name might be right, you do need help.
Food products are listed on Amazon under the Grocery and gourmet food.
This is a gated category within Amazon. This means its a category that is locked until you fulfill certain demands from Amazon.
To ungate this category you need to make sure your food product is of the highest quality.
Go to your seller central account, and on the top right of the screen, you will see a search bar...
Type in that search bar " Gated Categories" now you will see a small page on the right side of your screen where you will pick the best option to show you all the gated categories on Amazon.
Now you select the grocery and gourmet food category and press enter
Amazon will ask you to fill a form and submit 3 invoices from the purchase of your materials from the vendor.
Option 2 will be to submit a certification from FDA.
Pick whatever option is easier for you, and remember that after you submit you may get a few copy and paste answers denying your application... do not be afraid of that.
All you have to do is apply again in the same case, just go to your case and find the option that says " reopen the case" and keep doing it until they give you a non copy and paste answer.
The for I used in my case was to get the FDA registration form, and I used a company called FDA imports.
It cost me around $200 for that registration and Amazon ungated my gourmet food category the same day.
I will send you some screenshots on how to find the gated categories and what you have to type in the fields they ask
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How To Import Directly To Amazon In The USA
A question from Mars Bars:
Hey Quin!
Hope all is well! Love the podcast! Looking for some advice.
I’m in the research phase for my first PL product. I’m in Toronto and get confused as how to import the product directly into the .com market since I’m not in the U.S??
Also, get confused with all the keyword stuff. How to rank keywords etc..
I understand if you don’t have Time to answer this but I’ll gladly pay you for your time.
Look forward to hearing from you.
Obrigado! Viva Portugal! Mars
Here is my answer:
Importing from China directly to the USA is actually super easy, and not a monster like I used to think.
After you pick the product, just find a freight forwarder and hire them to take care of your shipment.
It will go from the manufacturer's hands all the way to Amazon's warehouse and start selling in no time.
But... Always remember to hire a respected professional freight forwarder.
Amazon Hack To Save Pick And Pack Fees
Andy B has a brand new product launched on Amazon FBA and after adding pick and pack fees he has no profit!
How to solve this problem?
Andy, you screwed up the homework during product research.
Leaving no room for pick and pack fees is a big problem
Let's try to minimize this.
First, figure out if it is possible to increase the price in order to sell for a profit
If the product is actually a good one and is selling quickly, maybe you can try to sell it at break even and ask the manufacturer to decrease the size.
For example, if the product is in the oversized category, is there anything you can do, to bring it down to the normal sized category under 16x9x4?
Can it be folded in the package?
Is your product too heavy, or just big and bulky?
I will tell you a quick story of how I saved $8000 in one day, just by changing the size of 1 item:
I had a very light item, but it was about 17x7x1, so it was in the oversized category just like every single one of my competitors.
But I asked the manufacturer to make it 15.6 x 7 x 1 and ended up saving $4 per unit in a 2000 unit sea can, that was $8k in savings that none of my competitors had, so I put my product on launch day at break even, and in less than 2 days I was selling 0ver 100 a day and received the number 1 new release badge, and then the best seller badge!
So, for this product or for your next, always ask yourself, "Can I make it smaller in the package?"
And never forget your pick and pack fees
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How to Hire Your Marketing Customer
Hire Your Marketing Customer
A question from Lance about what I talked a couple episodes ago.
How do you hire your social media marketing customer?
It all depends on where you got the client.
if they came to you through your own social media or your website, you will need to talk to them before doing any work.
So, you just simply ask them
Ask if they have a budget, ask if they have hired before, ask how much they spent last year, ask what their goal is...
Make sure to write SOPs Standard operating Procedure for everything you do, so you can get the business operating without you in the future.
Now, if you cold called them, you can go ahead and do some research before calling.
For instance, I would open a local magazine or a local newspaper and see what business are already spending money on that outdated advertising media.
If they are willing to through money out the window to advertise on a newspaper and never know if anyone has seen the ad, or if anyone has ever converted from that ad, it is insane.
And by the way, if you hire a customer that is going to be a pain in the butt, and spend more time than gives you revenue, you can easily just fire him
But I will repeat, you should make SOPs and with time keep adding to those SOPs so you can grow the business without being in it
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A Dropshipping Competition From $0 to $100k
Dropshipping Competition!
This week I received a message from Jason, who had been taking a few online courses, from Russell Brunson.
Jason was ready to start a brand new online business, and I invited him over so we could do some hands-on product research.
After we got talking, ideas started flowing, notes were taken, and some great nuggets were discovered.
We talked about, sales funnels, Landing pages, Facebook ads, product sourcing, Shopify... etc.
Then after 5 hours of great chatting (while having a couple coffees), we decided to create an online competition.
We are going to do a dropshipping competition!
The goals are to see who will reach first $100, then $1000, then $10,000 and $100,000 (one hundred thousand USD)
But, there are rules to follow:
- We cant use any existing FB pages, or social media following we already have
- All websites, domains, FB pages, etc have to be brand new.
- We cant spend more than $15 per day on Ads
- Product sale price or cost has no limit
- We start with free trials of Shopify + Oberlo
This means that very shortly we will each find a product and open a Shopify store.
We can create sales funnels with free plus shipping offers, upsells downsells etc.
I expect it to be lots of fun, and at the same time make some money with it.
I'll keep you posted, so make sure to subscribe to the podcast
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Google Chrome Extensions
What Google Chrome Extensions Do You Use?
Today I will give you a quick overview of what Google Chrome Extensions I use on my day to day operations.
As an Amazon seller, I have a ton of Amazon Google Chrome Extensions, so I will not go through all of them, only the most used or the most relevant.
In alphabetical order:
Adblock for Youtube - this is an extension that will allow me to watch Youtube videos without ads.
I often get targeted by Tai Lopez, Russell Brunssen, Tim Ferris and most of all from Alex Becker
AMZFire Review to Order - This is (I think ) the only working extension to tell you who left you a review on Amazon.
I use this often to see who left me a bad review and try to contact them to fix their problem and hopefully get them to change their mind, without asking them.
AMZfire Search Terms on Steroids - The perfect extension to track your backend keywords on the Amazon seller account while creating listings. It tracks the number of characters used since we are limited to 250 characters on the backend keywords. It also tracks if you are using repeated keywords on the title and backends, and bullet points and backend
Be Limitless - An extension that tracks the amount of time I spend on each site and on each page, also keeps track of goals.
Dux-Soup for LinkedIn - I have this LinkedIn extension disabled and I don't recommend it to anyone
Facebook Pixel Helper - A must have for any online advertiser. This will tell you every site in the world if they have a Facebook pixel tracker installed, and what they are tracking on each page. I also use this one to make sure my own pixels are installed properly and working
Grammarly for Chrome - The Lifesaver. This is the extension that corrects all my grammar mistakes ( It actually already fixed 16 errors so far in this text)
Jungle Scout Pro - This is a paid tool that most if not all Amazon Sellers need or use. This will tell me how many sells every product has per month on Amazon, the fees, the size and weight
Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker - The tool to use on Amazon to tell me the price history of each product and for how long it's being sold
KW Index Checker - Just like the name says, this is a tool I use to see how many keywords are indexed on Amazon listing, and if they are not indexed for some reason, I will change the position
LastPass: Free Password Manager - A great password manager that you can use to allow other into your accounts without giving them the password for each account
The Great Suspender - Something I recommend to every single person who uses a laptop or computer to work. This extension will suspend every resource you are not using so you can use the full potential of the laptop
TubeBuddy for YouTube - A great tool for youtubers or for the person that wants to post a random video on Youtube and be on the top of the search results. This will tell you how easy it is to index for each keyword you want, and it even recommends new keywords, tags and tells you what you need to do to get to the top
How do you find customers for your social media marketing agency (SMMA)?
I bet if you search youtube you will find hundreds of videos of people explaining how they get their clients for digital marketing agencies.
But, I feel like there are a few ways that nobody talks about.
The reason nobody talks about these is that either they don't know about them, or because they don't want you to know about them.
One way is to contact big marketing agencies and ask for their "scraps"!
Yes, I know this doesn't sound right but, as you know, the big marketing agency pick and choose who they want to deal with.
That is called "hiring your customer"
They do this so they can filter the good from the bad, and the bigger budget customers from the smaller.
Also, it is important to filter the customers that you feel you cant show results too.
Certain clients are way easier to achieve good marketing results, because of the niche they are in, or because of the product or service they are selling is a bit more unique.
You should contact a big marketing agency and ask them directly to give you leads to customers they have filtered and will not be performing marketing services on.
To be honest, they have no reason to say no!
But... you must also filter those clients to make sure you can get results that are visible in the short term.
You want the client to refer you to others as being a good marketer, and you also want to prove to yourself that you can actually do it.
If you get yourself into a job that is more than you can chew, you can always consider hiring a 3rd party marketing agency to help you out.
social media and digital agency pricing (not mine)
Tip number #2
Go to your local job website, and try to find companies that are hiring marketing positions
If you see business A hiring a digital marketing manager or a director of marketing or positions like that, contact them and offer your services as a 3rd party marketing agency.
They have every reason to accept, as they will get the same job done, but for a fraction of the cost, since you will not be working full time on their business, and that allows them to not pay a full year salary to someone
Extra:
Some of the services you may offer in your SMMA Social media marketing agency or DA Digital Agency
- Dynamic Website design and development (CMS enabled
- SEO Search engine optimization
- Social media management
- consulting
- facebook ads management
- Google AdWords
- E-Commerce portal development
- Mobile Application development
- Digital Marketing Services – SEO, SMO, SEM, PPC, Google Adwords
I hope these tips help you get more clients for your digital marketing agency
I am looking for guests for the new failure podcast
It is a business related podcast, featuring entrepreneurs that have failed miserably.
Yes, it is a podcast all about failures.
Why is it important?
Because the most important thing in business is the lessons learned.
And nothing better to teach a lesson than a big failure.
So if you are an entrepreneur that had its fair share of failures, or even one major failure that you are willing to share, I would like to interview you for my new podcast.
You contact me at QASELLINGONLINE.COM let me know what business you are in, and a short version of the story.
Then I will contact you with a small list of questions, just so you can be a bit prepared, and we don't touch on any subject you don't want to.
We book a date that suits us both, and off we go.
Now, let's talk about the main reasons to be a guest on the podcast and share your story.
The main reason is because you like to help others, and by sharing your failure you hope others will learn from it, and avoid some of those mistakes.
Next because we will mention stuff that you want the public to know about:
Like your new book, or your membership site, your software, a product that you sell, your marketing agency or just some personal exposure for your own name.
Sounds good?
And if you never failed, maybe you know someone who did, and he/she may want to share.
So, again, contact me at qasellingonline.com use the contact us form and I will get all the messages.
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QA
Can I start an Online Business with less than $500?
How to start an Online Business for less than $500?
Today you are listening to episode 75, where I have a question from a friend
Today's question comes from my friend Marco.
Marco lives in Europe and he was asking what kind of online business can he start with a $500 investment.
Marco's currency is actually Euros but after talking to him he said it was actually 400 euros but he rounded it to $500 USD
Well Marco, believe it or not, it is still possible to start several online businesses with $500 or less.
But... with that said, none will be an automatic passive income ROI.
Just letting this out there before we even start.
There are no passive businesses you can start and make real money without doing work
Unless this was 2010, and you wanted to buy $500 worth of bitcoin and wait for 10 years.
but, 2010 is long gone so we have to focus on the reality.
A few ideas come to mind, depending on what you know about each niche.
For example:
Build yourself a WordPress website, announcing that you can build websites for others.
in this option, you need to remember that your site will be your best selling feature because people will judge you by the look of your own site.
In this situation, your only costs will be the server (about $40 for a year) and of course a lot of social media.
If you want organic traffic, that will take a while to start pouring in, so meanwhile I would say: write at least 300 words per day with lots of SEO (search engine optimization)
Another option for your Online Business is to start an advertising agency
Create and run other people's ad campings of Google or Facebook
Again the cost would be below $500, but you would need to find your clients by selling your services in person or over the phone.
I know most millennials prefer to just text or email, but it is still way more effective to gain a client by doing a face to face or a phone call
Ok, One more Online Business idea:
Dropshipping!
Dropshipping is not dead yet.
Now, I don't recommend the Wordpress anymore.
Just because when it comes to dropshipping you want to automate as much as possible so you can scale.
What I mean by this is, there is only so much you can do by yourself, without screwing up, orders, addresses, emails to suppliers, returns, complaints, long delivery times, etc
So, I recommend getting a Shopify store.
You can always try the store for free for 2 weeks
Then if it is working you will start paying $29 per month.
Now you will need to get Oberto (I am only recommending these tools, I do not make any commission of any of them)
Oberlo will automate about 80% of everything you need to do, but it will also have a monthly fee.
So, after you get the free trial of |shopiffy and Free trial of Oberlo, you need to find products with a high demand and low competition!
The way I said this, almost made it sound simple!
The ways to verify that something has low competition and high demand are actually pretty simple once you get used to doing it, but I would need to make a full episode about it just to explain.
Actually, I cant just say this and move on to a new topic... I will make a full episode tomorrow on how to source a winning product to dropship.
ok, another business idea.
If you hadn't mentioned online businesses I would have a few more ideas that would work perfectly.
I actually have done one myself.
A few years ago,
Retargeting on Facebook Ads
What is retargeting and who should you be retargeting when advertising online?
A question from Dustin.
I run a business called Papa syrup and I've been advertising on Fb with some success but never did a retargeting ad.
Who should I be targeting when I do a retargeting ad?
First I will start with an explanation of what is retargeting.
Retargeting is, for the lack of a better word, when you are being targeted by a particular advertiser.
Ever looked at a certain product, and the next day it shows up everytime you open Facebook?
What I mean by this is that sometimes you meet a certain criteria that makes you a good fit for a certain ad.
For example, if you visited a page selling a particular set of green running shows if you spent more than x amount of time on that page
If you added them to the cart but didn't check out… all of these are very good reasons for someone to retarget you.
Now if you are the advertiser, why would you want to be retargeting someone?
Number 1 reason I would retarget someone is if they are already a customer.
For existing customers, since they are already a warmer audience I would make a more direct ad (as direct as TOS allows)
For example, I could create an add letting them know (or reminding them) that they could save 15% if they subscribe to a monthly auto order of Syrup.
This example, of course only works for replenishable items, like food, spices, toilet paper, etc
Other reasons would be because they added the item to cart. This shows that they had some intentions to buy or at least were interested in it until they saw the shipping cost.
Another reason to be retargeting someone is if they spend a long time on your website! This also tells me 2 things. Either they liked the content so much they had to read everything and check out every image, or they landed on the website and got distracted by something else in real life, lol
All these actions can be measured using the Facebook Pixel. If you don't know what a pixel is, you can listen to Episode #72 where I explain what a FB pixel is and what it can do.
Now, why would you want to retarget anyone?
Retargeting traffic is one of the highest converting traffic you can receive on your pages.
The main reason they convert better is that you or your company are no longer strangers to them.
They have interacted with you at least once, and now they are starting to get into the KLT (Know Love and Trust)
When someone knows, loves and trusts you or your brand they will buy.
Unfortunately, there are unlimited places online where people can go to get ripped off, so trust is getting harder to earn.
Social Media Marketing Agency and Facebook Ads
Social Media Marketing
Welcome everyone to a new year.
2018 is here and many big things await us.
Today I want to talk a bit about the huge amount of Social Media Marketing Agencies,
Digital Marketing Agencies, and Facebook Ad Agencies.
First, we start by explaining what Social Media Marketing is.
In a nutshell, it's advertising without having to pay.
Its when you use social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, to engage with an audience and by giving them some valuable content, you may turn some into customers.
Don't confuse this with Social Media Management
SMM is when a company, freelancer or even a friend is "managing" someone else's social media accounts.
By postings, commenting, replying to messages and comments, basically engaging with someone else's audience as if it was them.
Now Facebook Advertising Agencies
This does not require a big explanation as the name already says it all.
Its when you own a business and you hire someone with more experience to create the Facebook advertising campaigns for you.
Now, this is a great service to buy, if you get someone that really knows what they are doing.
Some business owners, or eCommerce store owners (notice how I made a distinction between them because a lot of eCommerce store owners don't have businesses.
But, some people decide to take on advertising on their own, without knowing much about it
and soon enough their dreams of becoming an online all-star, end up burned with a bunch of wasted advertising clicks.
and remember that not every FB ads guru, is really a guru.
There is a saying that I live by and really love: You don't know what you don't know!
Not to long ago, one of the FB ads guru was telling me how he wished he could have a couple more pixels!
and when I told him that FB allows us to have 10 per account he didn't know what to say.
This guru didn't know about the existence of FB business.
Actually, a very common surprise is when I tell them for example: " why don't you have the pixel installed on page x?"
And they have no idea how I know!
For those that are listening and don't know, FB gives advertisers a free Chrome extension called pixel helper, and it shows us the pixels installed in every single website in the word.
So, if you are someone that wants to hire an advertiser, do it!
But do it right, ask them many questions, google some questions to ask.
A good advertiser can save you lots of money, by targeting and retargeting the perfect audience at the best time and in the best location.
And by the way, after hiring and FB ads expert, ask him to add you to his FB business account has an advertiser, so you can have a look at the results and share your own pixel data.
Pixel data costs lots of money to get, so if it's your money training this pixel, you might as well save this data.
Actually, I just thought of something I was told recently by a friend.
He said: when you podcats make sure to always explain things as if you are talking to someone that doesn't know anything.
And the logic whats that some people know some things, others know other things and some may not know what you are talking about.
So, with that said, before I go, I will explain what a pixel is;
A FB pixel is a code, given to advertisers, by FB, from inside our Business manager accounts, or FB ads account for those that don't use FB business.
And this code is meant to be placed in every single page of your websites, to track what pages people visited, how long they visited the page for, if they added to cart, if they bought something, if they opted into your email list, etc.
Importing your private label product directly to Amazon
I'm in Toronto and get confused as How to Import Directly to Amazon.com Since I'm Not in The US.
Also, get confused with all the keyword stuff. How to rank keywords etc
This is a question from Mars Bars.
We chatted a bit on messenger and Mars, is actually Portuguese like me.
It's always super exciting for me to talk to other Portuguese who are selling online or wish to start.
Let's start with the international shipping.
This is actually super simple, all you have to do is outsource to s freight forwarder.
One of the weel know freight forwarders that are already used to Amazon FBA is Flexport
As for the keywords, I recommend taking them from the biggest competitors and then filtering them using tools like keyword.io, to find some keywords that your competitors have missed.
Then make sure to put them in the important places to rank.
Number 1 is the title, the 5 bullet points, the description and the backend
In the backend I use it to put keywords I don't want to be visible, like Spanish keywords.
You can also use tools like Sonar to find the most searched for keywords related to products like yours.
*There is a lot more in the podcast but unfortunately I won't be able to write it all today as I have to wake up in a couple hours to drive for 5 hours
Also, please listen to episode 79 How to find customers for your SMM Social Media Marketing Agency
Thanks
QA
Do you have a partnership?
How Do You Know If You Have The Right Partnership?
Partnership talk on one of the last episodes of 2017.
I know I shouldn't tell the date on a podcast because people can listen to this 2 or 3 years down the road and realize it is old content.
Well... I'm not worried about that
In a matter of fact, I want people to know when they are listening to older content so they know things could have changed meanwhile.
Transparency is the name of the game.
So its December 30th, 2017
I want to remind people of how great it is to have a partnership when you can actually trust and rely on your partners.
It is very liberating knowing that someone will have your back.
Personally, I have 2 partners, who have never let me down yet, so we are starting a second business together.
I picked the perfect name for a marketing agency and bought the domain Prolific Zone dot COM
For those of you who follow Russell Brunson (Click Funnels CEO), he often talks about the Prolific Zone and explains the meaning of it.
Today I share a personal story.
I worked and lived for over 10 years in Fort McMurray, Alberta (Canada)
I've been away from Fort McMurray for a bit and was informed that I had a frozen pipe at my Fort mac house. It was almost -51 Celsius with windchill (-60 Fahrenheit) and that is something you will never miss, no matter how long you are away for.
So, I started contacting companies to see who could do the job the fastest.Yes, my only concern at this point was who could do it the soonest, and I didn't even ask for a quote.
Knowing that customer service is not always a priority for contractors, I knew that some would take a while to answer, so I contacted several.
I contacted 12 businesses in total, using their website's contact forms, Kijiji and Facebook.
Out of the 12 businesses I contacted, only 2 replied! One said he was out of town and all the staff was off (all good). The second replied they couldn't do it (fair enough) and 10 businesses didn't even reply!
That is shocking to me, but at the same time, it explains how more than 52% of construction businesses fail compared to 36% average of other industries. Most people start a business with the intention to make money when in reality they should start a business to solve people's problems, and any business that solves problems, will, in return make money from it!
Anyway, this gets better...
The next day in conversation with a Fort Mac business owner whose services are not even related to my problem, he offered to go to my house and fix the problem himself.
I gave him the code for the door, explained the problem and about an hour later he told me it was done. This guy volunteered to do it, went out of his way to help, used his own extension cord and texted me: I got your back!
I used to be surprised thinking how he started a business in the Municipality of Wood Buffalo and took it from 0 to 7 figures in less than 200 days! But now that doesn't surprise me, as I see how easy it is for an entrepreneur with a positive attitude and a customer-pleasing mentality to melt the competition faster than the ice in my pipes.
I want to thank you again @Jeff P. Walsh, not only having my back but for teaching me how easy it can be to succeed when you have the right mindset added to your indubitable passion to grind
Thanks
QA
I had twin babies 3 weeks ago, and I haven't slept yet. Can you give me tips on this?
Twin babies! That's what Speedy Rabit just had
Today's question is not about selling online, it's not about marketing or even FB ads.
It's about babies, and how do you sleep at night if you have twins.
The questions came from a user who forgot to give me his name, but his email is speedyrabit12@...
He asks:
- Hey Bro, heard on the podcast you have twins.
We just had 2 boys, 3 weeks ago and I haven't slept yet. Can you give me tricks on this?
well, speedy Rabit, I do have twins, a boy and a girl
But, since they are only 4 months old, I don't have much experience with tricks and tips for the twins.
Actually, I need help myself since they are both terrible sleepers.
They are too young to try the water trick. The one where you give them just water during the night every time they wake up.
And they are also too young for a spanking, lol
I really don't know!
Quin's Twin babies
If anyone listening (or reading) is a parent and know some tips, please contact me at QA Selling Online.com and let me know what I can do.
Thanks
QA
Someone is probably trying to hack your WordPress Blog right now!
Your WordPress Blog Is Being Hacked Right Now
This is actually not even an exaggeration, test it out.
I recently installed a plugin that I wanted, so I could block a few IPs from spamming my comments.
But it turns out, this plugin also detects all the attempts to login to your admin
The admin login is by default at yourwebsite.com/wp-admin
This particular WordPress blog plugin will even record what password and username they attempted to use.
The WordPress plugin in question is called IP Blacklist and its free.
I get on average 124 login attempts per 24 hour period!
That is no joke, that is some serious hacking attempts.
Try it out and let me know how many you get.
The picture above is a screenshot of the attempts happening as I was typing!
Save yourselves!
Run to the hills…
Or, just make sure you have a super hard password.
Please have a listed to a great episode where my daughter teaches me a marketing lesson
Thanks
QA
I Hope Your Kids Give You Rocks!
A marketing rock episode, about making your product unique and stand out!
Yes, I do hope your kids give you Rocks, just like mine gave me.
My 4 year old daughter reminded me today of the importance of making things look special, so they can feel special.
Let me start by telling you about a kids book that I heard my wife reading to my 4 year old daughter before bed.
It was a beautiful marketing masterpiece!
Yes, it was a marketing book for kids.
The story was about a little girl that wanted to make money to buy a scooter, and she decided to start a lemonade stand in the neighbourhood.
Bur, soon she realized that every kid in that neighbourhood also had a lemonade stand.
Due to the huge competition, she wasn't getting many customers, and she had to do something…
So, she decided to make her lemonade stand, stand out! (yes I said stand twice)
She had to make hers unique, and more appealing to customers.
Now, what she did is not important for this marketing episode, whats important is that she did something.
Now let's talk about the rock!
Carlie, my daughter found a rock outside when we went for a walk.
She told me how that was a "special rock"
I didn't believe her
I would have walked passed that rock or even kicked it out of the sidewalk.
But, after we came home, she drew 2 eyes on it, a nose, eyebrows and the rest all blue.
She proceeded to give me the rock and say: " Daddy I made this for you"
Now, when I look at the rock (right here on my desk as I type), I feel that it REALLY IS A SPECIAL ROCK!
she made it unique and appealed to my heart.
Tha is what you have to do while creating your product or the product packaging
Just like Apple did with the iPhone
Make it look great, and give it the perception of quality.
Do Friends or Family Copy Your Private Label Products?
Welcome to this Podcast about Private Label products
Today I launched my second book.
In addition, this is a beautiful time to be selling online.
It's almost the end of 4th quarter and everyone is buying everything they can last minute.
Today's episode is a sort of a rant.
Family and Friends attempt to copy what I do and copy my products instead of asking for help.
I help people every single day start businesses and how to sell online on Amazon, Shopify and even how to create private label products
Every single person I have trained, I have done so for free!
So, why wouldn't my family ask for help, or at least ask me some questions?
Every single one of my products that are stacked on a shelf in the house, is part of my loser account.
If you are going to copy, DO NOT copy the loser products!
Quin
Of course, I do not reveal my winning products on the podcast or on the FB groups, but I will certainly let everyone know what products to sell, and what not to sell.
I will even go as far as selecting the products to make sure your first one is a home run
I know if the first product is not a winner, most people will feel disappointed and may even quit
So, I will pick the product for my family and friends (have done it before)
This week a family member, let me know that they were selling a "coffee just like yours"
Well... that is a loser!!!
DO NOT start your private label journey with a food product!
DO NOT create your first private label to compete with, Oil Companies, Gold, Coffee companies, or in the weight loss category!
If you have to do one of the above, do it, but not when you are starting, because you will either get crushed or sent to jail.
Yes, private labelling food products without the required safety, rules and regulations can send you to Jail.
Now, he has almost $5,000 in the garbage and wants to create a yoga mat private label, because he saw on youtube it was a hot item!
Should I stop him from killing more money into a (insert F word here) yoga mat?
Guys and girls, let me tell you something from the bottom of my heart:
If you have limited funds, please do not rush into spending it on the wrong thing
Find someone that knows even a tinny bit more than you about it, and talk talk, talk.
Ask them everything you can think of, and when you think you got all the information from him/her, now find another person that knows just a bit more, and repeat!
DO NOT, try to learn everything by yourself. It is possible and even may be a good experience, but it will waste your money, and lots of your time.
Rant Over
Please listen to episode 32, about the episodes that were too edited
Sam's customers convert better on the computer compared to the smartphone.
Quin thinks this could be only during certain times of the day.
He would like to know what platform Sam is selling in
Because he knows it is not on Amazon, due to them not giving access to all customer stats.
More tomorrow…
A quick breakdown of a cardboard box for packaging Vegan burgers. Today I talk about the Vegan Burger packed made by Beyond the Meat.
The episode's show notes are a bit short today but we have a couple nice pictures :)
Vegan Burger
Vegan Burger
The Importance of Packaging in Private Label Brands
Private Label the beautiful love of mine.
I honestly really enjoy building private label products and PL brands.
It is probably the single biggest hobby of mine.
Yes, I consider it a hobby and not work, because I enjoy it so much.
From picking a product, designing the label, writing the sales copy, and see the product gain life is a beautiful process.
Today I want to talk about the importance of packaging in private label!
Actually, packaging is super important for any kind of product that has a "Shelf Exposure"
Shelf exposure means the product will be displayed for sale at a physical location, like brick and mortar or even a hipper store like Walmart, Target, Lowes, etc.
Why is product packaging important in retail?
It may be the number 1 factor that will make people find you on a shelf.
When someone is walking down aisle at Walmart the one thing that is NOT on their mind is:
- "I need to find brand name Quin Butter"
If they need butter, they will be looking for the butter they used the last time, the cheapest or the healthiest! Not, your brand name
So, to help them see your "butter" you need to have a packaging that will catch their eye.
Butter
Sidenote: I like how the "noisy" butter stands out in the image above!
What we will do in future episodes will be buying different items with amazing packaging,
opening it and seeing what works and what doesn't.
I will call this the "package Hacking"
This one after a few episodes about packaging I can create a cheat sheet about packaging, rules and laws of packaging and best practices.
Today we will leave it at this, and I will get into the "meat and potatoes" of Private Label packaging soon.
Now, before you go, please have a listen to episode #37 where I tell the story of the most expensive pizzas in the world.
Thanks
QA
From Cold Weather to Social Media Marketing Before it Was Called SMM
Social Media Marketing!
Yes, I was doing social media marketing back in 2010 and I never even thought about it until I got today's question.
I started by letting everyone know how happy I was to have plus 10 weather.
When I say plus 10, I mean Celsius, not Fahrenheit, that is about 50 F
Having such a high temperature this time of the year is not normal in this part of the country.
For 10 years I worked in Fort McMurray, Alberta where the winter has an average temperature of -40.
Yes, minus 40.
Actually for those that don't know, – 40 is the same temperature in Celsius or Fahrenheit!
I remember being on an Oil site rigging in some water pumps with -56 degrees C, and it was very windy!
Wind is a real killer when it starts blowing at temperatures like -56.
Well, that was a very hard day of work, trying to work in 5-minute intervals and running back into the pickup trucks that were left running 24×7!
Well, enough about the cold.
I still have time to read a question today.
The question comes from Erich:
I would like to start a free WordPress blog on the WordPress site (not my own domain) but I don’t like the themes they provide. Can I use a downloaded theme on there? I have seen some WordPress hosted blogs with different themes, so it looks like it’s possible…
Back in the day, I used to run a blog like that…
Actually, I went and pulled up that blog and realized I had a few!
One, from 2005 about me and my friends doing crazy stuff and partying a lot.
Another from 2006 about Poker
And finally, a DJ blog promoting me, as a social media promoter for a website I used to own in 2010.
The website was called Idol Booster and the domain was Idolbooster.com
Wow, I just checked and the website was completely changed but it still offers the same services!
What I did back then, is now called Social Media Marketing, or Social Media Promotion.
I would rank bands on Myspace and through comments, mentions, and glittery landing pages, promote them to all audiences.
I remember one band named Until Dawn, that I was able to generate 19,000 new fans in 1 month on myspace. These days that is not unheard of, but back in 2010 to promote businesses or even products, we had myspace, Google and a few million people on Facebook
This brings back so many memories that I even forgot to reply to Erich.
Since I don't really know the answer to that question Erich, I will get you to contact me again and we can pick a domain name for your blog, I'll buiy it and host it on my server for free.
Let me know if you like that idea, and please get back to me
That is all for today
Please don't forget to listen to episode 45, where I talk about Merch by Amazon.
That was some of my SMM Social Media MArketing experience back in 010, I may talk about some experiences I had back then, in a future episode.
Thanks
Quin
5 Organic Sales Before Order Was Unloaded at Amazon FBA
Amazon FBA generating organic sales!
Normally when you have a shipment arriving at Amazon FBA, they will email you as soon as the cargo enters the unloading docs.
They send you an email saying " we started receiving your Amazon FBA items and will update you soon"
This normally can take a few hours to several weeks, during the busy selling season of the 4th quarter.
Well… my sea can had been delayed and finally arrived, but… Amazon didn't email me!
I actually had sent an email to the freight forwarder last night before bed, asking for updates.
So, this morning when I woke up and looked at the phone I had an email from Amazon saying
" FBA full shipment received "
I was a bit stunned trying to figure out what shipment they had received but assumed it was one of the reoccurring Amazon FBA Canada shipments.
Next, I open the Amazon Seller app, and when I go throw the items sold I see something new!
Customers had been buying a product I didn't know was live yet!
Not only it was selling, but it was selling organically, without any Pay Per Clic Advertising (PPC)
Without a single review and, over 2 times the sale price.
I had increased the selling price a lot due to Amazon losing lots of units every time now!
Rushed to my computer, where confirmed every single unit was received and 5 had been sold organically in a matter of hours.
Since then I turned on my Pay Per Click Campaign on automatic (discovery campaign) to find the search terms that people are using and gather as much info as I can.
The day isn't over and I and currently looking at 28 sales without a single giveaway or a single email blast.
PPC cost so far is $8 and I have 10 clicks, so it doesn't seem that the advertising is the one bringing these sales!
I am super excited about this product launch on Amazon FBA USA
I can't wait to receive this same private label product at Amazon FBA Canada
Have a listen to my Black Friday Cyber Monday Episode
Thanks for listening or reading
QA
How To Find The Biggest Pain Points In Every Single Niche
The Biggest Pain Points In Every Single Niche
Today's question is from Andre, who has a blog about FBA.
Andre wants to know how to go about getting exciting content for his blog that will help solve peoples problems.
There is an amazing free tool that I often use.
It is a website called Answer The Public.
You can search for any niche you want, and it will give you the Biggest Pain Points, or the most asked questions on the internet, about that niche.
All of this info is presented to you for free.
You can visit the website at
Answer The Public can be found at www.askthepublic.com
Answer The Public
Do You Brand All Your Products – Where Do You Make The Logo
Carl asked if I brand all my products and if I do, where do I place the logo, and where do I make the logo?
The answer is very simple, NO!
I always test my products, even if the tools tell me I will be able to sell a ton of them every day.
I have 2 accounts, one is the "test" account where I do exactly that.
Test the viability of the product and if it doesn't fly I either kill it or slowly let it sell out without PPC.
All products that pass the test are sent to the main account, where they will live happily ever after. (until they sell haha)
Products that pass the test, WILL BE BRANDED on the package and the products, except in some cases where the product can't be branded for some reason.
My logo is not always new, as I have a Main brand, where I sell a large variety of different items, so most cases will just get branded with my main brand logo.
If the product is part of a speciality (like for instance, medical devices) it will have its own branding, and it's own website, preferably with the dot-com domain related to the brand name.
About, where I make my logos, I have tried almost every place online, from 99 designs to software to help me do it myself, and Fiverr.
To be honest, a lot of people mention how Fiverr sucks and the work is cheap… well, that is not correct, there are lots of very talented people on Fiverr.
Actually, all designers that provide services at 99 designs are selling on Fiverr.
You don't have to pick a $5 design for your logo, but you certainly don't need to spend thousands anymore like we did back in 2010.
Saying Fiver sucks because it is cheap is like saying everything made in China sucks!
Remember, you are probably reading this from your Made in China Smartphone.
My designer is on fiver, and of course, he does not cost $5. I have been dealing with him for a long time, and have requested several logos from him, all 5-star logos.
That is all for today.
Please leave a review on the show if you find any value
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QA
How do you pick what email to use in your Shopify store
If you mean during the creation of the Shopify Store, That is very easy to answer.
I always use the same email when creating any Shopify Store.
I have 6 stores all under the same email and have a second email which I use when testing products on trial stores for 2 weeks.
I use the same technique on Amazon FBA, I also have 2 accounts there ( approved of course)
And when a product isn't performing like I was expecting, I transfer that product to the second account and let it run out slowly.
I even share my second account on Facebook, so friends and competitors can check it out and make offers :)
But, going back to Shopify Store, I find it easier to always use the same email.
And to log in to each store I do it, by going to my-domain.com/admin and log in there to each store.
If you need any help with your Shopify or have any questions feel free to contact me
Shopify store
Thanks
Quin
Lighting deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday
I set up several lightning deals during Black Friday and Cyber Monday (18 in Dot Com and 6 in dot CA)
During the lightning deals, I sat in front of the computer and juggled the numbers constantly so it always looked like the deal was about to run out of stock.
I did this by opening every single lightning deal during Black Friday and Cyber Monday, on all my screens.
Now I carefully pay attention to all deals and see what % of the deal has been bought.
I try to maintain the % above 70% and as close to 90% as possible.
I do this by adding small amounts of units to each live deal.
Some products that were selling very fast would require a higher amount of units to be added at once, therefore it was a bit more risky to keep the deal at above 90%
One was selling up to 140 units per hour during the LD on Black Friday
So, this is what I did almost all weekend.
Coffee, internet, sunflower seeds and lots of screens
Amazon Business
Trying to help my Amazon Business, didn't help at all
After my sea cans got super delayed, I thought all the bad news was gone, but unfortunately, there was more to come.
One of my vendors tried to help me, by adding an extra box of items to my existing order.
This box was supposed to be a free surprise, to let me see how great the item would look in RED!
Well… I don't sell red, and my order went straight from China to Amazon USA.
So recently I started receiving more reviews than usual, and for a change, they were all bad!
I thought it could be a competitor trying to attack my Amazon Business, by giving a bunch of bad reviews.
But, they were all verified, and from different areas of the country!
Until I received the first message from a customer telling me they received the red item, when they had ordered black
So, I called the manufacturer to find out what was going on, and she tells me they offered me 40 red units!
Now those 40 are mixed with all the other black ones spread across all Amazon's warehouses!
I had to remove all inventory and send to a 3rd party warehouse to sort, re-tag and send back.
Not only that but I had to refund al the buyers that received the wrong color (1 didn't even remove the review.
And I thought that was bad too! but…
There was a bit more to come.
My Amazon Business now almost looked like an amateur operation.
Amazon Canada decided to put an end to selling foldable hunting knives!
Yes, my number 1 best seller in Canada now was not allowed on the platform anymore.
I fought as hard as I could, but every single unit was put under Unfulfillable inventory and I had to make a removal order.
Now I will be sending all these units to Amazon USA, where they sell for half the price.
And, I did a search on Amazon Canada where the big players like Browning still have their items listed ( all other competitors are gone)
What else can go wrong?
Let me know how it is going for you?How is your Amazon Business going during this 4th quarter?
Thanks
QA
How to increase your own BSR on Amazon FBA
You can manage your own BSR on Amazon (Best Seller Rank)
This is a unit of measurement that Amazon created to determine where your product is located in the number of sales.
The Amazon Best Seller Rank is a number, and the bigger this number is, the worse the product sells.
For example, a product with a BSR of 10 is the 10th most sold product on Amazon, while a product with the Best Sellers Rank on Amazon of 120,500 has 125k others that seller better.
So if you have a product with a BSR of, let's say 600k you can lower that rank without even getting any real sales!
I will explain how you can manage your own BSR without getting any real sales.
This technique can be used to get the best sellers badge, confuse competitors or anything else you can think of.
This is how it's done:
– Pick a product with a very high BSR ( high means its a bad seller, so it has a big number)
– This product doesn't even have to be yours!
– Create a giveaway for this product ( you will not need to give away anything)
– Make sure you select the maximum option to give away ( 30 each time) (you can do several per day)
– Make sure you select the option for a Random Instant Win
– Make the biggest ods possible (it changes according to your product price, but minimum is 1- 2000)
– Make the giveaway end after 1 day or 2
– You can make your giveaway private, or allow Amazon to share it with their list
– Click next, and the next page is where you will enter some copy (text)
– Now you will pay for the items in advance (and shipping if not prime)
– After a few hours, Amazon will make this giveaway live, and each item will be considered 1 sale, giving you a huge BSR boost
– After 48 hours you should receive a message saying you giveaway ended and you will be given a refund for the products.
– If you are not in the US, you will still have some exchange fees
*They is always a small risk of giving 1 away, but that is not an issue for you, is it?
Please listen to the podcast, and if you learned anything, send me a message
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What are Facebook Ad Messenger Bots and what can I use messenger bots for?
Facebook messenger bots are in my opinion the next big thing in the advertising world!
It may even be the email killer!
These Facebook messenger bots can be used for fun and/ or for business.
I programmed a bot today, to interact with my wife and give her a few laughs.
programming a bot is super easy, as these days everything is meant to be used "drag and drop" style
I got my bots at Many Chat and you can also try it 100% free (no credit card required and no affiliate)
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How I spent $27 on a Facebook ad and generated $118k and ad a reach of 34 MIllion people.
The $27 viral facebook ad campaign that everyone was talking about in June 2017, was created by me.
In June 2017, I was working on a new brand of private label products.
In order to have a great launch, I had created a new website, and new Facebook page and was trying to create a new following on my Facebook page.
After creating the facebook page, I needed to create some content and share some cool pictures.
One of the pictures I posted, I liked it, then liked, shared and commented on my other pages.
By the time I received 500 impressions, Facebook would have my ad as a 10 in the 1 to 10 scale of likability (relevance score)
After this, I had an option by default to boost it for $27, and that is what I did.
After carefully selecting the perfect audience I pressed the boost button and there it goes.
After 3 days here are the results (see picture below)
Since it is very late, I will leave it at this today.
Have a look at the pic and leave me a comment
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Amazon FBA Extra Sales From Losers
A tip for Amazon FBA sellers to generate extra sales.
Today I will teach you a cool trick that is so simple, people forget about it.
We've all heard about the Amazon product giveaway option.
You can access the Amazon giveaway tab inside you Seller Central, or by visiting Amazon as a customer.
Find your product, scroll all the way down until you pass the reviews.
Now click the Setup a Giveaway button and we are ready to start.
Find the option that says sweepstakes, then scroll down to the option of setting up a poll.
Ask a question about your item while sharing the link to it.
Also, you will receive the poll's feedback and you can use that insight.
Then make sure to choose the option for Amazon to show the giveaway to everyone in their email list (I'm in that list)
next page is where you will write your giveaway copy.
almost as writing ad copy.
You will have a tittle, welcome page, a winning page, and a loose page.
The most important is the loose page.
This is the page with a message you will show only to all the losers. ( the ones that didn't win your giveaway.)
Show them a congratulations message saying yo won 50% off the product x, click the link to redeem.
Make sure to add a bit of urgency to the copy! Something like " you have 12 hours to buy, or the discount will be gone forever"
This should bring an additional flock of traffic to your listing and normally I get a few sales from the technique too.
I receive between 1800 and 4000 participants in my giveaway campaigns, so for every 2000 participants 1999 will lose, therefore for every 2000 people, 1999 will see my Congratulations message.
Hopefully, this Amazon FBA seller trick works for you, and if it does please let me know
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Online Business Mentoring
Online Business Mentoring, Learn from someone who has done it before!
Facebook ads, Internet marketing, Google Adwords, Affiliate marketing, selling on Amazon FBA, eBay, Shopify, how to create sale funnels and use click funnels.
Preferably from someone who has done it successfully!
You don't need to pay for everything!
Don't waste your money buying every online course just to fill the pockets of the course creator!
If you need the training and you know it is worth it, take it, but don't use all the money you had to invest in your business, and then not start your business or your dream!
Every bit of training you can think of is out there for free, you just have to search it and do it!
But! don't waste your time and money trying to learn by yourself.
Failing is part of life and part of the business so we learn, but if you avoid some failures do it.
Some people decide to do it themselves, without online business mentoring and then, after failing they go to FB and complain how FB ads are a scam, and selling on Amazon is a scam.
Well, the reality is that none of them are a scam, but that person is the one stopping himself from succeeding and has to find someone or something to blame.
Further to that, this person will stop a few others from even trying to start anything, because of his/her negative post.
If you want to succeed in business or in life, you need to stop giving excuses, stop blaming everything and everyone, and stop complaining!
You know that when you complain 80% of people you complain to, will not care about your problem, and the other 20% are actually happy that you have a problem?!
So go out there, be strong, learn fast and learn from the best.
Negativity takes you nowhere but down
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