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00:00 Introduction
12:31 slither.io was played by everyone inside My Amazon Guy initiated by Steven Pope
15:47 Is there a threshold for Amazon's pending orders for the customer to purchase or cancel? Check if you have the subscribed and save buttons.
17:35 Bought a brand without an Amazon account. All information is tied up to ASIN level
19:58 How should we allocate our PPC for a great launch of a new product and new brand?
22:51 Special Black Friday lightning deals for overstock items, but Amazon doesn’t allow this because it doesn't have Amazon sales velocity.
27:01 SEO strategy for 2 variations of one product
28:33 How do Placements work for product targeting campaigns?
31:18 Parentage: Used a flat file to group 6 variations.
34:27 How does FBA Amazon refund/return or replacement option work?
37:58 What is the best way to set up hidden search terms when creating new listing?
43:20 How does the BSR disappear?
51:00 What is the Case pack limit for “individual items”?
52:46 Amazon can your competitors with lower FBA fees (sold by amazon & fulfilled by amazon)
56:08 Creating a listing to Amazon and then syncing it to Helium 10
57:53 Do coupons help organic position? Ask if coupons increased your sales velocity
59:34 Never go out of stock; create a second SKU for FBM.
1:00:46 Raise your price, cut your ads spend and never go out of stock
1:00:54 How to get my listings to come up on top of the search even though I don’t have a Brand registry yet?
1:02;21 Does Amazon handle all tax payments to the States?
1:03:19 How do you deal with counterfeit sellers in your ASIN? Report via test buy.
1:06:57 Does the Honeymoon period repeat if you launch in another country?
1:10:17 Will Amazon accept the invoice of their brand-recommended distributors?
1:11:21 Before creating your own brand, try retail arbitrage or online arbitrage because you learn a lot of basics in them.
1:12:09 Where do the Sponsor Display Video Ads show? Answer: On Mobile
1:14:30 Best software to list on Walmart, especially WFS?
1:14:44 Do we need to optimize the parent, too, when optimizing the children? The answer depends on your category.
1:16:35 What should I do if I deal with low-cost products and shipping costs are usually higher than the costs of the products. Answer: sell thru packs
1:19:24 Suspended account after opening the account
1:21:09 Issue with the new manage FBA inventory screen
1:23:42 Go to the partner network and check manager app might have some rogue app that turned back on and see what has access or disabled
1:24:20 Are we allowed to use the words “bonus,” “free gift,” and “gifts” in the title?
1:25:09 You’re more than welcome to send bundle stuff and bonus item but be careful how you word them.
1:25:16 Don’t put bonus or free gift on your title; you’re probably gonna be yanked, and this makes your listing look cheap.
1:25:38 Brand your product, make it look premium and make it better in the competition
1:26:11 Keywords not indexing issue
1:29:38 Check your listings once a week and get a bird’s eye view of the overall of that week
1:31:58 Got a review from an old customer through the mail. Can it be redirected to the product detail page?
1:33:05 How to remove/appeal permanent restrictions of proactive messages.
1:33:52 Any advice on running ads on children's books
1:38:44 Is there a report showing which ASINs have the brand story?
1:40:35 How to resolve indexing issues
1:41:20 How to get out of stock alert from the Amazon detail page?
1:42:33 Is Shipstation good if I want to fulfill my own orders?
1:44:03 How to improve our Click thru Rate (CTR)
1:44:09 Make your image relevant, make your price bearable to your competition, and make sure that your images show that you are a premium product.

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Restock Limitation Solutions: FBM & Inventory Alerts (Amazon Best Practices)

00:00 Introduction
00:24 The only thing that is within the Seller's control right now is Fulfilled by Merchant (FBM)
00:29 No amount of ticketing will give a guarantee that the restock limits are gonna go up
00:49 Get your inventory in order by creating duplicate SKUs for FBM
01:24 Two offers from the Buy box, one from FBA and FBA
02:26 How to duplicate your SKUs - 2 ways how to do it
02:40 Template Upload - Download Category Listings Report (CLR) at Inventory Report
04:10 Change of SKU and change of fulfillment method
04:36 Get the ASIN and select “copy listing” from the dropdown menu and fill in data and choose FBM and save.
05:39 Add the products and hit sell condition as new and then sell this product and fill in the same information.
06:20 To check if the SKUs have been duplicated correctly, they should appear as FBA with stocks and FBM with stocks
06:50 Set Replenishment Alerts for weeks coverage or unit counts
08:12 How a Replenishment Alert email looks like that tells the items that are low on stock
09:44 Send and Replenish inventory
10:08 Get certified with FBA Logistics Course at MAG-School
10:38 Go to Business Reports, then click on Sale by ASIN (set ASIN on the little button)
12:07 Don’t Go Out of Stock
12:33 Activate FBM and make sure you have a warehouse and your own 3PL solution in place
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13:21 Free ASIN Review for your listings


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How To Check Coupons Applied:

00:00 Introduction
00:19 Go to Advertising Tab inside Seller Central 
00:21 Click Coupons and go to the coupon campaign
00:25 Go to the expired one
00:28 Display clicks and redeemed
00:45 Go to Reports and go to Fulfillment and click All Orders
01:25 Download the Txt. file and import to google
02:42 Find, sort, and show the redeemed coupons


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00:00 Weekly Amazon FBA Live Q&A With Jason Mastromattero and Faith Denniston
11:03 Amazon Earnings Call
11:19 Black Friday and Cyber Monday are coming up
11:32 Restock Limits are frozen!
13:07 Join Steven Pope on Thursday at Noon EST
14:21 Does MAG have any videos on the best wording to request more inventory space
15:41 KDP book release does it matter if I run ads to the paperback ASIN or the eBook ASIN
16:17 One of the ASINs PDP has changed to the dog page
21:47 Since Amazon trashed restock limit, any 3PL recommendation
22:43 I have an ASIN for which the FNSKU starts with B instead of X and I want to change it
24:51 Selling projector screens w/ stand and unable to rank it; spent $10k on PPC
27:33 I sell pillow that Amazon classified as a toy because of the "toy" included in the title (have since removed). It's now in the home and kitchen category
29:20 Can be enabling small and light for my best-selling product cause any problem
31:41 I was approved for BR but the lawyer submitted the name in all caps and that is how Amazon approved
32:52 Any advice for a product that sells 70% of its sales on single KW
34:32 If I target exact "candle holder" then negative exact "candle holders" will that work
35:46 I have like 500 campaigns many of w/c are not converting or showing impressions, would turning off so many at once negatively impact my PPC
36:24 Should I use UPC or ASIN when doing a Full Update
37:14 Would I be able to get Amazon to update if I get pending TM adjusted before it's approved
37:57 Cannibalization Question: If you have very similar search terms in the same campaign w/ exact and broad match on all search terms  will they cannibalize each other
39:18 Steven launches tumblers themed towards diff niches, any reason why they are never in the Vine program
40:46 If the same ASIN is in Canada and in the USA, can they have different titles
41:54 Does MAG manually track KW ranking for their clients
43:08 I'm doing PL but for some days Amazon restricted me to edit my own listing and asked to get approval from that brand
44:51 Recently got BR however the listing I need to use it on has my company name as the brand name
47:30 Need hands-on experience in PPC listing optimization under the MAG mentorship
49:26 Is Amazon seller your full-time source of income
50:58 For the BR, I see we need to send an image of my brand on a product but I have mostly paper prints and we don't print our logo on them
53:32 Is FBM also a profitable way to go
55:29 Can FBM have a prime badge
56:13 Do you have any tips to pass the internship
57:42 Amazon slashes your restock limit
1:01:02 Amazon fooling around w/ the main image sizes
1:02:29 Any tips on how to overwrite a Whole Foods listing
1:05:33 Any tips for product photography
1:08:12 Why is white background so important
1:11:13 Can you guys talk about some good ways to use Brand Analytics to identify the most useful KWs and search terms
1:14:30 Search terms KWs is Golden KWs
1:15:04 Anyone uses Adtomic at MAG
1:16:38 How do you set your bids to automatically lower as your daily budget begins to reach limit
1:17:51 Planning to sell artificial flowers does adding captions such as "Happy New Year" to "Happy Birthday" on the pots would enhance my sales
1:20:06 What's the best way to manage the buy box when it is being split between 2 sellers and it's coming down to the price
1:21:24 My new account was recently deactivated
1:22:58 Any 3PL recommendations to offset any delays in FBA receiving or restock limits
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Vannesa Hung joins Steven Pope. She’s a data-driven and insightful problem solver, passionate about eCommerce, Amazon, and finding solutions to manage businesses in an efficient and meaningful way. 

She fell in love with Amazon when working as an eCommerce Account Manager and found her way to start her own seller account and management agency.

The unsexy stuff on Amazon excites her, from daily tasks to complex problem-solving. She realized that sellers underlook management and processes in their accounts because they don't translate directly into high ROIs, low ACOS, or a bunch of reviews. Still, it is one of the three key pillars of a successful Amazon business.

That is why she founded Online Seller Solutions, to help sellers solve their Amazon problems so they can free themself up to plan and monitor their business growth.

She specializes in three main areas on Amazon, catalog, inventory, and account health. She likes creating and managing standard operating procedures (SOPs) to integrate teams and software in simple routine operations to save time and money.

Experience has taught her that there is no impossible problem to fix on Amazon; you just need to find the right approach to it.

She is working right now on launching a podcast in Spanish and building her agency to accomplish its mission.

00:00 Introduction
04:12 Amazon changed Steven’s product's image and kept lying to him that the parentage was the problem.
04:40 Deleted the parentage, and the problem still persisted. 
05:16 Will a flat file upload fix stuck title bullets or images? The answer is it depends
06:48  If you want to make image changes make sure to always send a link to the manufacturer's website, even if it's your own Shopify with your main image
09:55 people think that with flat files, you can solve everything right anything that you have in the catalog: Not True
10:10 You can contribute to attributes and you can refresh in a harder way than using the Seller Central UI
10:22 If something is stuck, the only way you could fix it through a flat file is if you delete it with the inventory loader file using the X delete feature and then upload it again as a full upload in your regular flat file.
11:24 One of Steven’s favorite hacks is loading the UPC when it's blanked in a template file upload
13:53 Account suspension on a private label in the US and Wholesale in Germany with two separate accounts if the wholesale account gets suspended will the U.S private label account also get suspended 
14:18 Getting error messages “incorrect date format” when uploading shipping templates
16:25 Deactivated account seeking how to write an appeal or plan of action
19.21 Enroll in the Amazon Reinstatement course at MAG-School.com
19:48 Product Research and Product Hunting tips
21:06 Product not indexing so spend on Advertising. You need Sales to Index.
23:11 Download the Category Listing Report (CLR) to identify keywords that will index
31:53 Benchmark for highly Competitive keywords
32:27 How to avoid hijackers
37:51 Amazon mapping SKU to an unknown ASIN.
40:50 What tool do you recommend to upload image URLs?
41:40 Ho to load images in bulk to Amazon
42:08 What are the problem or cases that are solved by FlatFile method only
43:42 How to update the field which is locked?
48:44 Create uploadable URL images using a special hack in Google photos
49:43 How to add GS 1 UPCs
54:27 Amazon assigned the main image on my listing that is not my product 
57:01 How to know which SKU for multi-SKU ASIN has contribution rights?
58:31 Why do listings change to FBM after an FBA listing is updated?
01:04:45 If my inventory is in transit when is the best time to create PPC plan? 

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00:00 Special Halloween PPC Live Q&A with Matthew Davis and Orkun Duzgun - Nov 1, 2022
10:54 Amazon restricted many of my products
13:33 How long should I collect data before making changes to my listing in the Seller Central page and creating new campaigns?
17:32 When should I actually start advertising on a new listing?
18:12 Amazon ads vs Google Ads
21:43 Amazon is not a light switch, it's a windmill or a flywheel 
27:29 When creating a new SP campaign, do you use or pay attention to the keyword IS/IR score and a suggested bid? 
29:17 Target liberally, bid conservatively
31:52 Organization on Amazon advertising is key
32:05 What is the new forecast beta on the ad creation campaign?
33:35 Can you explain the difference between child and variations?
37:21 Is there any way to rank for keywords that may be prohibited?
40:33 Is it smart to optimize all auto-campaign bid amounts at once for different products?
47:34 Why is it advised to only run ads on one variation per parent listing?
50:41 How's Amazon's algorithm take singular and plurals of the same keyword?
52:11 What do you use to decide when a negated term 11 clicks no sale?
55:50 What is the best metric to look at? The best seller variation? Best converting? Best CTR?
1:02:54 What about the counterpoint of each variation has its own ranking and indexing?
1:06:51 When should I create my PPC plan meanwhile my inventory is in transit?
1:08:32 Always want to test, it's not a bad idea to test other variants.
1:10:55 What should be our strategy before and after the holidays?
1:15:19 Is it better to have separate campaigns for each match type on SP?
1:20:19 How long it takes for the shipment to reach the Amazon warehouse once it reaches USA Port?
1:21:30 When optimizing keywords, how do you usually lower bids if an ACOS is super high?
1:25:14 Amazon seems to be giving more attention to other campaigns.
1:27:45 Should I use keywords from 3 categories or focus only on one?
1:30:21 When entering a new marketplace with an existing product, what's the best PPC?
1:35:07 Do you have any recommendations for firearm part sellers?
1:38:06 If I were to stop and move to only one variation, how would you do it just turn off the other variations or start new?
1:40:21 I have a listing with 12 SKUs, 3 colors, and 4 sizes. How would you go about setting up PPC campaigns?

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00:00 12 Amazon Sellers Ask Steven Pope Tough Questions⁉️ How to Survive Q4
10:46 Introduction: 10 guests ready to roll 
10:52 Jeff Allen: During the holiday season, out of Brands, how do sellers stay in stock, not go out of stock and lose that buy box?
11:19 Restock limits are a big hurdle.
15:06 Catey McCray: What are some tips to help us get reviews on brand-new listings?
20:26 Sean of Real Skin Care: Looking to expand, remote fulfillment and NARF
25:42 Krissan Patterson: General ideas about advertising budget for a holiday 
30:26 Vaibhav Gupta: Cost questions, as well as the keyword targeting and potential placements and negatives
40:11 Nasib Manekia: How are you able to manage hundreds of accounts? More so like the SOPs and the processes 
49:39 Robert Banarez: How do you guys manage, I guess, both documenting your workflow for support case management?
1:00:33 Alec Beaton: I've got an SKU that actually stocked out since we were doing a redesign of it 
1:06:36 Nikhil: I want to know the best way to come back and get my kind of velocity back
1:18:18 Brian B: Why are images shrinking my images on mobile?
1:37:37 Abdullah Abdullah: I want my rank back; what would be your strategy?

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