eComWhiz Podcast

An interview with Alex Sklar on how Payability is helping Amazon FBA sellers during this coronavirus pandemic. Alex talks about how they are helping people that are selling both essential and non-essential items and some of the struggles they are facing.

For a special deal and $250 towards your fees with Payability go here - http://go.payability.com/Feedbackwhiz

Alex from Payability also covers: What financial situations are people seeing they're switching from FBA to fbm. What are people using lending for that is helpful? What makes pay ability different than some of these other lending companies? What did you do before you came to Payability? Special deal from Payability for Amazon sellers.

About Payability - http://go.payability.com/Feedbackwhiz

We help eCommerce sellers grow their businesses

Payability empowers eCommerce marketplace sellers with flexible funding and tailored cash flow solutions. Since our founding in 2015, we’ve helped thousands of marketplace sellers scale their businesses by providing over $2 billion in funding.

Why Payability

Entrepreneurship is changing, especially in eCommerce. Small businesses increasingly rely on marketplaces run by huge companies like Amazon, Walmart, and Jet.com to sell their products. But getting paid out in full by those companies for sales can take weeks, even months. Receivables are coming in later and later, but payables are due weekly, daily, or even hourly for some sellers. And that’s just to stay afloat.

Marketplace sellers don’t have time to wait if they want to expand quickly. They need cash flow to buy more inventory, launch new products, and get the best possible deals from suppliers. That’s where Payability comes in. We provide capital based on eCommerce sales with our Instant Access and Instant Advance products. Our goal is fast, friction-free funding for every eCommerce entrepreneur, no matter what marketplace they’re selling on.

The Payability team is headquartered in New York City and focused on empowering growing eCommerce entrepreneurs with flexible funding. Our world-class customer service and sales teams are here to help! Reachable by email or phone, you’ll always get a prompt and friendly response.

About FeedbackWhiz - https://www.feedbackwhiz.com

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Tim Jordan from Private Label Legion on the new Amazon seller video verification process and also how this may affect Chinese sellers? Tim Jordan also talks about: Are Chinese sellers good or bad? Video Verification: What does it mean?  Good thing, or bad thing? What types of things will they be looking for? How will this affect Chinese sellers?  Are they REALLY the bad guys, or not? Will this mean Amazon can relax on other issues that people are getting suspended for? Tim Jordan Failed product and what did you learn from it. What is private label legion, how did it start?  

About Tim Jordan - CEO & Founder - Hickory Flats, Inc & Private Label Legion

After gaining experience in international sales and logistics, Tim began his e-commerce journey somewhat unintentionally. After reaching the 7-figure mark with his first Amazon account, he used his past experience and contacts to start Hickory Flats which is full-service sourcing, logistics, and warehousing operation specifically designed for e-com brand owners. Hickory Flats operates with offices and staff in multiple countries.

Combining the experience he has gained in building his own Private Label businesses with his unique vantage point of assisting hundreds of other Private Label sellers, Tim has tremendous wisdom in differentiating the methods that work, as well as the ones that don’t. While continuing to build multiple brands on AND off of Amazon, as well as helping other sellers through Hickory Flats, Tim continues to offer unique and effective solutions and knowledge to Private Label sellers across multiple different sales platforms.

About FeedbackWhiz - https://www.feedbackwhiz.com

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Ken Kubec from Thrasio on how to get maximum profits when selling your amazon business. Ken Kubec talks about the unique services that Thras.io offers when purchasing Amazon brands and also what you should do in order to prepare your business to sell.

Ken Kubec also covers the following questions in this podcast interview: Does Thrasio also look to purchase the top brands? How important are Reviews, Ratings, and Rank? How long should I have run my Amazon brand before Thrasio will consider buying it? How many times have you run into somebody who's actually built an Amazon business specifically to sell? How important is SOP's? documentation? What kind of documents are you looking for? Have you had anybody where you've bought two amazon brand from the same person? What is my business worth? What is kind of process does Thrasio go through when purchasing a brand? What separates Thrasio from other companies? How many brands are you looking to purchase this year? Has Thrasio purchased brands from top Amazon influencers? What tip you could give somebody who's looking to sell their brand? About Ken Kubec. How to contact Ken Kubec at Thras.io

About Ken Kubec

Email: [email protected]

https://www.thras.io/

Ken Kubec is VP of Acquisitions at Thrasio, the fastest-growing acquirer of Amazon FBA private label brands. Thrasio has acquired over 45 brands within the last two years and is generating annualized revenue of over $200M. To date, the company has raised over $250M in capital to acquire third-party sellers. Prior to joining Thrasio, Ken spent two years running a $15M/year wholesale business on Amazon. Before entering the Amazon ecosystem Ken spent 12 years on Wall Street as an equities analyst and portfolio manager at Fidelity, State Street, and Manulife.

About FeedbackWhiz

https://www.feedbackwhiz.com

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Norman Farrar from prReach on how to use an amazon press release for product launching strategy. Norman Farrar talks about the unique services that prReach offers to help amazon sellers launch a new product or brand. 

Norman also covers the following questions in this podcast interview: What kind of services is prReach offering Amazon Sellers? What kind of video press releases does prReach offer Amazon Sellers? Besides video press releases what other services do you offer? AMZ.Club, is an agency to help create and launch products on Amazon. Is amz.club for people that have product ideas or established business? Who finances the products and ideas in amz.club? Price matching from Honu Worldwide - sourcing and logistics company. What kind of services does the logistics side of the Honu Worldwide offer? What did Norman Farrar do before he started to sell on Amazon?

About Norman Farrar and prReach - https://www.prreach.com/

prREACH combines specially optimized press releases and powerful video to drive traffic, grow your business and build your brand authority. We are the world’s first premium video press release service, revolutionizing online digital news. Our expert writers, researchers, influencers, SEO specialists and developers combine the power of traditional press releases with superior online video marketing to ensure endless news coverage opportunities. What We Do! We provide video & written press releases and distribute them through our proprietary network of media outlets, search engines, journalists, influencers, & bloggers. How We Do It! Well, that's a secret. What we can say is regardless if you are a traditional business, service or Amazon/eCommerce seller we provide local, regional or international exposure while building your brand driving external traffic and getting you the authority and trust you deserve.

About FeedbackWhiz - https://www.feedbackwhiz.com

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Nathan Hirsch from Outsource School talking about how to hire an Amazon virtual assistant. Nathan Hirsch also covers VA courses like cracking the VA code, hiring a virtual assistant workshop and the VA playbook. What were the process and reasons Nathan Hirsch sold FreeeUp. How did you come up with the idea for Outsource School? High Level Over View of the service that Outsource School offers. Tell us a little more detail about the courses that Outsource School will offer? What questions did Nathan get asked the most when people were looking for a VA? How much should I be paying for a virtual assistant? How important are SOP's for an Amazon Business? Nathan Hirsch explains the playbooks listed on Outsource School. What is a VA calculator and what it is used for? Nathan talks about what he did prior to FreeeUp and what he would have done if he did not start FreeeUp. How you can contact Nathan Hirsch.

About: Nathan Hirsch 

https://www.outsourceschool.com/

Co-Founder of Outsource School

Nathan Hirsch is a 30-year-old entrepreneur that's been scaling businesses since 2009. Nathan's first business, Portlight, sold over $30 million in sales through Amazon. Nathan then co-founded FreeeUp.com with an initial $5,000 investment in 2015, scaled it to $12M per year in revenue, and it was acquired in 2019. Today, Nathan is a co-founder of OutsourceSchool, a company working to educate entrepreneurs on how to effectively hire and scale with virtual assistants through in-depth courses. With all of his businesses, Nathan has hired and scaled with hundreds of virtual assistants and freelancers from all over the world. He shares his roadmap for scaling businesses with virtual assistants through OutsourceSchool. Nathan has built himself into a social media personality online, he has appeared on over 300+ podcasts, and has spoken to thousands about remote hiring at industry events.

About FeedbackWhiz:

http://www.feedbackwhiz.com

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Tomer Rabinovich and how to grow your team to reach your Amazon goals and grow your business. Tomer Rabinovich gives tips on how he started and what he did to grow his team and go from a new seller to a mega-seller. He also covers that if you build the right team you do not always have to work an 8 hour a day job. We also cover other topics like; Easy ways to really grow your team and really help you kind of grow your amazon business. What have you seen with some of the bigger Amazon sellers on what their goals were? And maybe some of the difficulties they have had trying to reach their goals? What are the 4 types of amazon business structures that you have seen? Hire within your amazon business and have them train their replacement. What about putting documents in place to be able to teach somebody else... like SOP's? How much time a day does Tomer Rabinovich spend on his amazon business? Are there any parts of the amazon business that you prefer to not outsource? What is the next step in people's amazon business that they struggling with? At what point should an Amazon seller try and transition from a $10k month to a $100k month seller? Should you always hire somebody smarter than you? Do you find that when you train and hire withing that they stay with you longer? How Tomer Rabinovich got started with selling on Amazon and what he did before selling on amazon. 

About Tomer Rabinovich

https://www.tomerrabinovich.com/

Tomer Rabinovich grew a successful Amazon business with zero background in online sales, thanks to his unique ability to simplify complex tasks. Now, as a sought after speaker at events all over the world, he also teaches and consults other Amazon sellers these same actionable tactics that they can use to elevate their own businesses. And his best achievement of all is getting to enjoy an abundance of time with his wife and two kids.

About FeedbackWhiz

https://www.feedbackwhiz.com

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Izabela Hamilton and how to create a community to help rank your amazon products and become cheerleaders for your amazon brand. Izabela Hamilton covers how to create and grow a community of people that like your brand and product and will go out and help spread the word about it. You can also use this amazon community to test new products, get feedback on issues and also see what items are they looking for next.

Topics: How to create a community of lifetime amazon customers? What are the ways you can use your community to grow your amazon brand. Steps to follow in order to create a community of amazon customers? Start by joining other amazon groups and be helpful. Create a relationship with the admin of the group. Take a look at LinkedIn for amazon groups also. Does this violate Amazon's TOS? What is the definition of Search, Find, Buy? Using feedback from the community to help fix issues with your amazon product. New Amazon sellers should research competition to see what they are doing wrong and you can fix it on your new product. What would you be doing if you did not own RankBell?

Izabela Hamilton - CEO & Founder of RankBell - https://www.rankbell.com/

Izabela Hamilton is the Founder and CEO of RankBell, a brand accelerator that helps Amazon businesses grow to 7 & 8 figures through driving organic keyword ranking and optimization. Izabela is on a mission to help third-party sellers make an impact with their brands, build sustainable wealth, stop stressing about financial security, and start living the life they’ve always dreamed of. To learn more about organic Amazon keyword ranking, reach out to Rankbell online.

About FeedbackWhiz

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Reed Menssa Founder of eCom Process. Reed will talk about standard operating procedures (SOP's) and how to benefit from them and help your Amazon business be successful. Reed also covers the best ways to use SOP's, the challenges of trying to create them yourself and which companies benefit the most from having SOP's in place.

Define for everyone what a Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) is?

What are most SOP's used for (VA's, employees)?

What types of companies most benefit from using an SOP?

Is it worth developing a system on my own?

Why do you think that Quality Management systems are the only way to scale?

What is the future of selling on Amazon?

How can I beat some of these large corporations that are selling on Amazon?

What is your Advice for Having an Off-Amazon Selling Strategy?

If you had not gone into the ecommerce world what would you be doing?

Tell us a bit about your background and what lead you into the world of SOP's

About Reed Menssa

https://www.ecomprocess.com/feedbackwhiz

Reed Menssa is a successful Amazon and online seller who has developed many tools (software) and systems (strategy) to help other Amazon sellers succeed. Reed’s software has produced profitable

results for every type of seller and can be used at every skill level. He is an expert in his field and loves to share his knowledge and experience with others to help them succeed

While consulting others, Reed set out to write a best selling book on Amazon PPC sponsored advertising. Advanced Amazon PPC for You! is a 5 star rated best seller. Just the tip of the iceberg on what Reed shares, the software Atlantic East Marketing developed takes that knowledge to the next level. From product profitability research (knowing if a product will be successful and know what it will take to get there) to Amazon listing optimization (increasing sales by using the Amazon A9 algorithm to his advantage), Reed brings a wealth of knowledge to the table. 

eCommerce wasn’t always Reed’s dream. A former oil field inspector who loved his work but hated being away from his family for months at a time he turned to online work to better his life. eCommerce.

About FeedbackWhiz

Full Demo of the FeedbackWhiz Software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66PtpZ6Q9w4

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Ashlin Hadden regarding Amazon FBA insurance requirements. Ashlin D Hadden also covers product liability insurance, amazon insurance, private-label insurance, insurance for amazon, and amazon seller insurance.

Other Topics Covered on the Show: You don’t have to have a million dollars to be sued for a million. What type of Amazon insurance lawsuits have you dealt with? Who needs Amazon product liability insurance and why? What about Amazon product insurance for an item made in china for Amazon sellers. The price of amazon product liability insurance and how it varies. Amazon product inventory vs ecommerce inventory at your home. What about Amazon product insurance during transit? Retail Arbitrage using your car to go out sourcing Amazon products. If Ashlin Hadden had not gone into the insurance world what would you be doing now?

About Ashlin Hadden

https://www.ecom.insure/

Ashlin believes that the Insurance business was built on a firm handshake, a stiff drink, swanky offices, and dare I say it? — on the golf course. This industry was built by strong men, and they did a good job in leading the way for strong women to take their place alongside them. Ashlin has been in the financial/insurance industry for over 15 years. She left the banking industry and has been working exclusively in insurance for over 5 years. Originally an Agent for Liberty before she took a leap of faith and decided to go out on her own Ashlin has found her place in the E-commerce industry. Ashlin started her own agency because she was tired of working hard for her clients, only to have the insurance carrier take advantage of them at renewal time with nothing she could do about it. She demanded change. She decided that she wanted more products, more choices and more control. She invested in her customers, her community and her family. Ashlin’s clients love doing business with her because she is real, accessible, on top of the latest technology, and most importantly a part of their lives. Working with clients from all over the country Ashlin fights to help protect their most valuable assets. Although licensed to sell all personal, commercial and life insurance, her real passion is for E-commerce sellers. Ashlin has spoken at several conferences the past year and is very excited to help educate clients on their risks and how to protect them.

About FeedbackWhiz

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.

An interview with Chris McCabe from eCommerceChris on how to protect your amazon business from black hat tactics. Chris also covers amazon product inserts, requesting amazon product review and intellectual property issues.  

Chris McCabe from commercechris also discusses:

Latest amazon black hat tactics.

The specific examples of amazon blat hat issues being addressed.

What not to do when requesting Amazon product reviews.

Issues with Amazon product inserts.

Violating TOS on product inserts and some examples of these violations.

Be careful of the "IF" statement when requesting a product review or on an insert.

The issue with conditional language when requesting a product review.

What should you be putting on product insert cards?

Leaving the steps on how to leave an amazon product review.

Asking to register for an amazon product warranty.

Using two amazon product insert cards without violating TOS.

Issues with Amazon ASIN Variations.

The issue with Amazon item quality issues.

Amazon Sellers getting hit with Counterfeit complaints.

How to protect your product from counterfeiting your item.

A bit of information about Chris McCabe that not everyone knows.

If Jeff Bezos came to Chris McCabe's house what would you talk with him about?

What Chris McCabe will be talking about at the Prosper Show.

About Chris McCabe

https://www.ecommercechris.com/

Since 2014, ecommerceChris has been working to help Amazon Sellers reinstate their accounts and ASINs on Amazon. Chris and his team of former Amazonians are here to make sure your appeal will succeed. We’re experts at what we do because we worked inside of Amazon Seller Performance, assessing Seller’s appeals and deciding who should get reinstated. Have us take over your appeal, or review your plan of action to ensure it’s ready to be sent. Stop wasting time and money trying to guess what Amazon wants you to do. Get expert help.

About FeedbackWhiz

Full Demo of the FeedbackWhiz Software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66PtpZ6Q9w4

FeedbackWhiz helps Amazon sellers monitor, manage, and automate emails, product reviews, orders, and feedback. Build professional email templates with gifs, emojis, buttons, and attachments. A/B test subject lines and view open rate analytics. Send or exclude emails based on triggers such as refunds, shipment, delivery, feedback, and repeat buyers. Track and manage all product reviews. Instant notifications whenever a review is posted. Monitor all product listings and get alerts when critical events such as hijackers, buy-box loss, and listing changes occur.