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

Looking for the best ways to source profitable wholesalers for your Amazon FBA business? This episode is especially for you. Finding these wholesale sources can make all the difference for you and your income, so we wanted to share multiple methods for tracking down those wholesale accounts to get you ahead in the Amazon game. All of the methods we discuss on today's show can bring replenishable inventory into your Amazon business, so why not give each strategy a spin and see what works for you?

They say the bigger the risk, the bigger the reward. But some Amazon strategies are too risky to ever pay off. In this episode, we unpack six risky Amazon strategies and why we don't teach them. We'll talk about everything from the risky strategies that might be obvious to you, to some risks you might not have ever thought were risky.

All of these risky strategies have a high possibility of negative consequences. While some of the downsides of these risks are only just annoying, still others could totally cause Amazon to ban you from selling on their platforms ever again. The bottom line is this: there are no shortcuts to creating a successful Amazon FBA business. This is why we believe in a slow, low-risk approach to growing your business into a sustainable one. Avoid these six risky strategies at all costs. We'll break them all down in today's episode of The Full-Time FBA Show.

Today on the show, we give you a behind the scenes look at The Full-Time FBA Amazon business journey: How we got started doing FBA, how we've progressed to working part-time hours with a full-time income, and the key decisions, tools, and systems that have had the biggest impact on getting our business where it is today.

We start from the very beginning before we were even married! From browsing thrift stores and garage sales to hunting clearance items, to mastering retail arbitrage, online arbitrage, and outsourcing, to selling via wholesale, automatic-repricing, and much more – get ready to go down the many paths that have guided our business toward success.

We're all different, and so our journeys will be different too! This is just our story and since many of you out there have asked us to tell it, here it is! The high notes, the low notes, the things that have made the biggest impact on the business and could help yours to expand and improve too!

There will always be more and more things you can do to be productive, free up time, and accomplish more in your Amazon FBA business. Yet oftentimes we do a few things that are actually counter-productive and ultimately hinder the growth of our businesses. In today's episode, we highlight seven things you should stop doing if you want your Amazon FBA business to flourish. These seven things to stop doing are all easy-to-follow, actionable steps that anyone with an Amazon FBA business can benefit from. When you stop doing these seven things, you'll see just how much they were holding you back from reaching your full success potential.

How confident do you feel as an Amazon seller? In today's episode, we will help you build up the confidence you need to find that success you're looking for.

Have you ever felt like you're just fooling yourself when it comes to actually building and running a successful Amazon FBA business? Do you let the success you see in others make you feel bad about your own minor accomplishments? This is called Imposter Syndrome and it's an outright lie that your brain tells you sometimes when you're not currently seeing the results that you're looking for.

You see, if you listen to these lies that are causing you doubt, then you're at risk of giving up and actually failing. This ends up being a self-fulfilling prophesy. But today, we'll talk about how to get past Imposter Syndrome and find the confidence you need to see the success you're looking for.

It seems like almost every Amazon seller has to deal with being accused of selling an inauthentic item on Amazon - even if we know for a fact that it's not inauthentic at all. If you've never had it happen to you, then it'll probably happen soon. Today on the show, Stephen interviews Kim Coghlan, an expert on the topic, about how to properly handle inauthentic claims. This episode is probably one of the most note-taking episodes so far on The Full-Time FBA Show. After this episode, you'll be empowered to know exactly what to do when Amazon puts an inauthentic ding on your account, and how to properly remove that ding in order to best protect your Amazon account health.

Amazon announced on March 17th that the FBA warehouses are temporarily prioritizing household staples, medical supplies, and other high-demand products coming into their fulfillment centers so that they can more quickly receive, restock, and deliver these products to customers. This temporary pause will be until April 5th.

With this priority shift, 3rd party Amazon sellers are now temporarily put on hold when it comes to sending in to FBA warehouses any items that are not considered by Amazon as essential. In today's podcast, we'll break down how you can better know what items are allowed to be sent to Amazon and how to best respond to this news in your Amazon business and still keep your business afloat.

With all that's going on in the world right now during the spread of Coronavirus and the resulting COVID-19, we at Full-Time FBA want to take a moment to check in with our listeners and let you know how we are handling this worldwide emergency as it relates to our Amazon FBA business.

Usually we focus our podcast episodes on ways you can improve your FBA business and increase your profits, but right now we want to expand our focus to cover the broader impact your actions can have on both your business and the world in general. Not everything in life is about making money, especially during a time of unprecedented public health emergency unlike anything seen in our lifetime – but at the same time, we need to keep our FBA businesses going and feed our families and pay our bills. So how should we respond? Here are 7 ways we are responding to the Coronavirus pandemic in our Amazon FBA business.

Sales rank on Amazon can be one of the most perplexing aspects of the trade. In today's episode, we clear up the confusion by unpacking this phenomenon, describing what it is and how it works so that you know how to best leverage this information. Sales rank numbers can be arbitrary since the same number can mean different things depending on the category: what is considered a good ranking in one category might be deemed below average in another. Today, you'll learn the top eight things you should know about Amazon sales rank and some just might surprise you.

Having a good customer feedback score is a vital part of FBA success on Amazon. Higher scores increase your ability to win the buy box, helps you earn customer trust, and even ensures higher levels of protection for your seller account. In this episode, we'll clarify for you how Amazon's seller feedback works and share with you how to improve your feedback score while staying within the parameters set out by Amazon.