The Full-Time FBA Show - Amazon Reseller Strategies & Stories

There are a lot of factors that can make your full-time FBA business successful, but sometimes it's the simple things that can have the biggest impact. In today's episode, we talk about how gratitude can help your bottom line and why you should make it a pillar of your FBA business.

As we discuss, by expressing this attitude, you have the opportunity to maintain and build connections with others, create loyalty, and open up opportunities for yourself. Stay tuned and you will hear about the four things co-host Stephen is most grateful for with his Amazon FBA business, which include the outsourcing potential, the catalog of digital tools available to FBA sellers, and the educational courses and resources. After describing each topic in detail, you'll hear the contents of Rebecca's list of things she is grateful for, touching on flexibility of schedule and the joys of working from home.

Here are our best sourcing strategies you can use to turn bigger profits in your FBA business, specifically at this time of year. Christmas is just around the corner, and we all know how well toys sell this time of year, but today we will be casting our net wider and covering eight strategies you can use to help you capitalize in the second month of Q4: November.

During the show we talk about how you can take advantage of limited-time clearance sales, getting out of your sourcing rut, and the best ways to use your time sourcing this time of year. We share a more general strategy after that, talking about how you can broaden your normal sourcing strategy by thinking about what types of items would make great gifts for your relatives this Christmas. Wrapping up, we remind everybody about Black Friday, a time where stores are basically begging people to buy their stuff at super cheap prices. So tune in today and hear about some great ways to branch out this Q4 in your Amazon FBA sourcing strategies.

Many successful Amazon resellers are studying and strategizing for Black Friday sourcing weeks in advance, but many people don't realize how profitable Black Friday can be by just sitting on your couch at home with your computer. In this episode, Stephen interviews Rebecca about some profitable strategies for Black Friday via online arbitrage (OA).

Not only does Black Friday sourcing online help you avoid all the crazy crowds, but it offers up so many other benefits as well. From avoiding purchase limits, focusing on a particular niche, and collecting info on all the best sales, to outsourcing to a virtual assistant (VA), utilizing coupon codes, and other advanced strategies, there is plenty to learn and implement for OA Black Friday sourcing.

A great way to make money through reselling on Amazon is to source clearance items for your business. But how do you make the most of this strategy and what are the things to keep in mind as you go about it? Never fear, we have you covered! In this episode, we give you all the best tips for sourcing clearance items in both retail and online stores. We look at four tips for finding more items on clearance, things to be wary of when sourcing, maximizing your profits, and more!

There are a few tricks that can really move the needle when it comes to your profit margins, so making sure to investigate all possibilities is highly recommended. Sometimes a great opportunity can be just out of plain sight, and with the right questions and tools you can find a great deal and make a clever purchase. Join us today to hear all about doing this for your Amazon reselling business!

An Amazon account suspension is the number one thing that most Amazon sellers fear. Today Stephen interviews Lesley Hensell from Riverbend Consulting to help clear up some of the grey areas that could lead to account or ASIN suspensions. Lesley starts off the podcast interview by giving us some tips to help you manage risk when it comes to sourcing. From there, she covers the difference between suspected and actual intellectual property complaints. Next up, Lesley weighs in on the two types of dropshipping, only one of which is allowed by Amazon.

We talk about some red flags for product types which always seem to cause more trouble than they are worth. After that, Lesley shares her knowledge around how to check and see for yourself that your account is in good order. Toward the end of the show, Lesley gives us some amazing, step-by-step instructions to follow if we do find ourselves in a situation where our account has been suspended, and how long it could take to get it in good order again. Tune in today and put your account suspension fears to rest for good!

Sometimes it can be scary to think about actually hiring help in your Amazon FBA business. Expanding your business by adding more people can be a daunting process, with a long list of things to worry about. In today's episode, we draw on our own practical experiences and share the best insider tips so you can overcome fear of hiring help for your Amazon business.

We dive into how you can hire the best individuals, from virtual assistants to someone who comes to your home, and then we take it one step further by showing exactly where you can find them. Hiring is just the beginning, though. If they're not vetted or experienced, we have the solutions for you. Hear about how the MAWL method is a surefire way to train staff, and listen as we dig into why it is so important to pay a living wage and not just a minimum wage. Last but not least, we realize that helpers can make mistakes, so we tell you how to avoid them, and more importantly, how to deal with them. For more tips to kick the fear, be sure to join us today!

Sometimes the fear of making sourcing mistakes will actually lead you to making more sourcing mistakes. In today's show, Stephen and Rebecca create a slightly different format where we present a few different scenarios that have to do with sourcing and what to do when faced with them. It's a little game we like to call "Should You Resell It?"

We talk about whether to resell an item with decent sales rank, great ROI, but horrible reviews, and if you should resell an item with mediocre ROI and sales rank if it is the only thing you found on a sourcing mission. Our scenarios also cover whether to resell an item that is not within your usual sourcing comfort zones, and lastly, we dissect the question of reselling an item if it has a sales ranking far higher than what you are used to. Our answers might not be quite what you were expecting, but we have some solid pointers for you to help you feel more confident in your sourcing decision. Tune in today to learn how to improve your sourcing and also to find out some of the other great resources we can offer you on your journey.

No Amazon seller likes it when their items start tanking in price. When prices go down, so do potential profits. On today's episode of Full-Time FBA we dive into a 4-week Fear Series with the topic of how to tackle overcoming your fear of tanking prices. We go into how to avoid tanking prices and how to deal with situations when prices do in fact tank.

When you're out sourcing for inventory you might worry about going "too deep" on an inventory buy because you fear that the price might tank, leaving you with excess inventory that's not going to sell unless you lower your price too. Is the solution always to lower your price? Not at all. In this episode we'll show you how to make better sourcing decisions to help you find inventory that will hold its higher price. We'll also chat through some ways to respond if you see the price is starting to tank on your items and strategies to sell your item fast before the price tanks too low.

Selling oversized items on Amazon is often overlooked, but in today's episode we talk about the benefits, dispel some of the misconceptions, and provide some tips for selling oversized items for supersized profits. From saving on storage fees, knowing which oversized items are worth reselling, and finding the right packaging, to saving money on inbound shipping and branching out into a new category, this episode covers it all.

Spoiler alert from this episode: Don't be afraid of sourcing and selling oversized items! Try it, test it out, and learn from the process, but you'll never know how profitable it could be for you unless you try. Tune in today and we'll share with you the right steps for making supersized profits with oversized items.

Q4 can easily be the most profitable 3 months of your Amazon selling year. In fact, some sellers say that their Q4 sales eclipse the sales from the first nine months combined. As Amazon sellers head into the final months of the year, we need to make sure we're fully prepared, because it is the run-up to the biggest holiday selling season when millions of people scramble to ensure they get gifts for their families and loved ones.

Today we'll be talking about how to prepare for the Q4 holiday selling season, in order to ensure maximum profits and sales on Amazon. From sourcing and sending in inventory, to competitive pricing, tweaking sourcing parameters, and keeping inventory going at the end of Q4, we cover it all in this episode, so make sure to tune in today.