By Robyn Johnson
The podcast currently has 11 episodes available.
Today we're talking with Cyndi Thomason, one of my dear friends and the owner of BooksKeep eCommerce bookkeeping service. She is also one of the leading strategies and implementor of the Profit First strategy where she helps sellers build and run a profitable business.
*Note we waited until Cyndi returned from her vacation to post this show! She is back and working now!
But today, we're going to talk about something that is probably a foreign concept to many people - something they just don't think they could possible EVER do - and that is to take a 1 MONTH vacation.
I know you're probably thinking there is no way you could take 4 weeks and unplug from your business - but that is exactly what Cyndi and her husband, Dave, are about to do. I myself have taken up to 6 weeks away from my business so I know it is totally possible. And today’s podcast talks about the process Cyndi followed to get her ready to head to Hawaii.
Taking time away from your business is so important for several reasons. First, everyone needs a break. Being able to step away and recharge is healthy and everyone can benefit from it. Pulling yourself out of the daily grind gives your brain a chance to do what it does best - which is being creative. But even if you don't want to be gone for a full month, it's nice to have the peace of mind knowing that if anything happened where you HAD to be unplugged from your business for an extended period you could. But as we find out from Cyndi, the steps you take in preparing your business to run while you're away will help grow you and your business in ways you could never imagine.
So how do you do it? The key is to build systems. And just like any other goal, you must commit to do it, set a date and make a plan.
A couple of weeks ago you heard us talk with Mike Michalowicz on his new book Clockwork. Cyndi was featured in Mike's book as she implemented Mike's suggested and prepared her business to run during her sabbatical.
The most important thing is to set a date. Draw a line in the sand and make a commitment on when you will leave. Mike suggest setting a date 12-18 months out and, Cyndi says it took them that long to get everything in place. You’re going to set up processes that covers a full business cycle -which is typically a 4-week cycle. Generally, within one month you touch every aspect of your business from sales, operations, finance, billing, etc. So, by running an entire 4-week business cycle you’ll get an idea of where there are holes in your process development.
Next Cyndi explains how she and Dave reviewed their ‘Queen Bee’ roles. Your Queen Bee role is that role that only YOU can do and is your main contribution to the business. For Cyndi – she went back to their company’s mission – which is to deliver peace of mind to her clients about their financials. This is WHY she is in business. And for her, her Queen Bee role was to communicate that mission to her clients. Identifying her Queen Bee role helped her really evaluate how much of her time was she truly contributing to that vs all the other things she was doing. She realized many of the things she did daily basis really didn’t have anything to do with her most important role. Not that the things she was doing weren’t important to her business, but they weren’t the most important thing SHE should be doing.
When you’re able to shed those things that don’t support your most important contribution, you’re able to focus on what you should focus on – and that is where you can be most productive and make things happen that need to happen.
For Amazon sellers, that might look different depending on your sourcing methods. For example, if you’re 100% RA you may find that your biggest contribution is the relationship you have with the managers of your favorite stores. If you do wholesale, it might be talking with your vendors and building those relationships. Or if you do OA, it might be evaluating the buys that your VA sends you. It’s really about identifying what are the things that have the biggest impacts on your business that ONLY you can do. Many times, during this exercise we find that we really have a tendency to over emphasize our importance.
This was one of the biggest unexpected benefits that Cyndi found in implementing this process. As she started shifting more responsibilities to other members of the team she quickly found that she wasn’t always doing it the best way. Her team members sometimes came up with better ways to accomplish things. Watching the personal growth of her own team was very rewarding.
Creating these systems and delegating the responsibilities is not a ‘flip-the-switch’ activity. It’s a constantly growing activity that keeps driving you forward. And you certainly can’t do it all at once. Mike talks about the implementation principles of the three D’s; Doing, Decide, Delegating, Designing
Doing – this is where you are the technician, and you are the one actually doing the work. This is generally where everyone starts. But as you are doing the task, you start by thinking this is the last time I’m going to do this task, so how do I make it so someone else can do it.
Decide – this is where you give your instructions on how to accomplish the task, but you have them bring it back to you for you to review. Some task may never move past this point – but ideally you want to create someone else who can do the review.
Delegate – this is the ideal result. This is where you turn over total responsibility for the task, the outcome and the process for resolving any issues that arise. You may have the procedure outlined that they need to follow, and they may come to you with questions, but rather than just giving instructions on the next steps, you coach them in how they might find the answers to their questions.
Designing – and finally, as you’ve delegated more activities, you are left with time to truly architect your business – whether it’s building new relationships or expanding to other areas. You can’t successfully expand if you haven’t successfully delegated.
So where do you start? Cyndi and Dave started by picking 3 things to work on each quarter and creating 90-day action plans. Look at your top 2 biggest constraints in your business. Think about how it would look if you hit a home run in removing those obstacles. Next, evaluate your low hanging fruit. What are the things where you can make a quick, easy change tomorrow? With these items identified, now pick your top 3 to work on and create action plans to tackle them for the next 90-days. Cyndi explained they did this every 3-mths tweaking their plans as they went.
It’s important to remember here that 90-day plans are not things written in stone. These are more blueprints to head you in the right direction, but as you go you may need to tweak them.
Cyndi also shares another surprising, unexpected benefit of this process was her own personal growth through the process. She started to reconnect with the passion that made her start this business in the first place. And in the process of delegating more responsibilities, she started to discover new passions she didn’t realize she had. Things like coaching and speaking that wouldn’t have been on her radar a few months prior, are now new opportunities she’s excited to explore. And now that she’s equipped her team with the tools to run the daily business without so much of her input, she has the time to explore those new opportunities. But first, Hawaii is waiting.
Today we’re going to be talking about something I hear at nearly every conference and almost every one-on-one coaching session I start with a new client. And to be honest, it’s something I still work on myself.
At some point in your entrepreneurial career someone has probably come up to you and said how really impressed they are with you. They tell you how they really look up to you and what you’ve done and the fact you’re running a successful business. It’s usually followed by some awkward silence, you respond with a wimpy ‘Thank You’ or a nervous laugh and then in the back of your mind you’re saying to yourself – ‘Lord, if you only knew….’
We fill our minds with self-doubt, negative thoughts and feelings of failure and are secretly praying they don’t figure out that we’re just a fraud. I promise you – there isn’t a successful seller – no matter their net worth, gross sales or years selling – that hasn’t had this feeling at some point in their career. Even after all the success we’ve had in our business, especially in the beginning, I still saw myself as a youth minister doing a little side hustle instead of a successful CEO of an ecommerce company.
The problem is that many of us do not see ourselves the same way others see us. People only see the final production of our months or years of hard work. But only WE know what happens behind the curtain. That for every win there were multiple failures, the bad buys, the non-profitable products, the over leveraged credit cards. And unfortunately, that is all we focus on. People only see our victories, and for the most part we do not share our defeats. So, while everyone else is focusing on our victories and thinking how awesome we are you are only focusing on your defeats and thinking what a fraud you are and seeing yourself as an imposter.
The same thing happens to people who have lost weight really fast. As they look in the mirror, their mind has not caught up with their physical body and their brain cannot process what it’s seeing. No matter how many compliments or OMGs they get – they still see themselves as the overweight person they use to be. It takes a lot of self-reflection and intentional self-improvement to retrain your thought process and allow your mind to catch up with your body.
I can tell you from my own experience working with my own personal coach. Even though we hit every single marker that we had set in measuring success – all I could focus on were the two glaring mistakes that cost us nearly $15,000 and I kept replaying in my head how stupid I was to let that happen. It didn’t matter what other accomplishments I had done or what the balance sheet looked like – all I could see were the failures. Now, in my head I know I’m not a total failure – I’m fun to be around, I do good things. But there is still a big part of me that feels like that awkward middle school kid that is never going to be good enough. Most of us have a similar story and it is human nature to feel that way. It’s also something that most of us must make a conscience decision to not do.
And for some it’s a constant battle. If you’re waiting for you to hit that ‘magic’ goal where you think you’ll suddenly feel confident or that you’ve ‘arrived’ – I’m sorry to say that probably isn’t going to happen.
But confronting this is necessary. I’ve seen successful people allow that self-doubt paralyze them, and it can become like a cancer in their business. If you fail to push through you will try and shrink yourself and your business to fit your narrative instead of reshaping your vision to match the reality of where your business is.
This ‘imposter syndrome’ is especially prevalent as you move to the next level in your business. Whether you’re growing from $5,000 to $20,000 a month in gross sales, or you’re moving from a 6-figure seller to a 7-figure one – it’s the movement from one milestone to the next one where the self-doubt becomes the most prevalent. And the larger the gap between how you see yourself and how others see you, the more awkward and ‘fake’ you feel.
For some, this self-doubt shows up in the feeling of being overwhelmed or out of control. I can tell when I’m about to hit a new level of success because I will feel totally out of control. But when I recheck my numbers they don’t match my out-of-control feeling. This usually creates internal confusion for me until I remind myself – yep – this is my pattern. If I don’t take time to level set I will freak out and then totally self-sabotage my progress.
So, what can you do to help retrain your brain to meet you where you REALLY are and not where you THINK you are? Here are three steps you can do that will help bridge that gap between how you view yourself and how others view you.
1) Set clear objective markers. How do you measure that you are for sure winning? If you don’t have this objective clearly defined you’ll arbitrarily set a goal, reach it and find that it was too easy and ‘kick the can’ a little further…. then a little further…then a little further. You’ll just keep kicking the can and never celebrate accomplishing anything. And then tell yourself if you’ve never accomplished anything how can you be successful. Setting specific and measurable objectives that tell you when you’ve ‘arrived’ is super important, because it sets you up for step #2.
2) Celebrate the wins! Once you’ve reached the goal that you set in step #1 – Celebrate! Give yourself permission to acknowledged what you’ve done and be proud of the accomplishment. Even if it feels insufficient because you don’t feel the goal was a big enough stretch – you still reached it - so celebrate it. And it doesn’t have to be a huge celebration – something as simple as giving yourself a literal pat on the back or taking yourself out for lunch. But take the time to say – YEAH! And then….
3) Keep Score. Successful Project Mangers always conduct a Lessons Learned activity after implementing a large project – it’s an important step in self-improvement. Go back over what went well and what went not-so-well. Because there is no improvement if you don’t reflect on what happened and how you’d do it differently next time. But be careful here – remember you are only keeping score with YOURSELF. Never compare your results to someone else’s because comparison is the thief of happiness. No two stories are the same and you will likely never know the back story of someone else’s results – so comparing your results to theirs simply doesn’t work. It only gives your brain a chance to say ‘See, I’m not that great’. Compare your results against your own – that is where you can get an accurate picture of real growth.
Almost everyone feels like an imposter at some point in their Entrepreneurial journey and the truth is that being an Entrepreneur means you must be comfortable with being uncomfortable. But if you keep focused on doing these 3 things and keep focus on YOUR business and your own progress, you will start to see yourself the same as what everyone else sees – and that you’re AWESOME!
Mike Michalowicz is a business owner, speaker, and the author of the best selling book Profit First. He has quickly come one of the most prolific business writers out there. Mike's mission is to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty. In his new book, Mike shares what it takes to create the systems so that you aren't a slave to your business.
In this episode, Mike discusses the very definition of the “entrepreneur” and what it takes to get to the next level in business. He also gives us a preview of the Entrepreneurial Hierarchy of Needs. As your company continues to grow, your role will need to change as well. The common misconception of being a workaholic is not enough for long-term growth.
Mike also shares about how to look for your QBR- Queen Bee Role. Those things in your business that only you can do. This allows you to focus your time on the most critical tasks and to be able to outsource more effectively.
In this episode, we are talking directly to a manufacturer in the toy industry to get their perspective about selling on Amazon. Steve Mark is the Executive Dice President of Tenzi which is a great family game and fellow ASTRA member.
Steve talks about how Tenzi came about and what their experience trying to navigate the waters of Amazon has been. They have experienced some amazing growth. However, with major growth companies often face major hurdles.
Steve shares how important his brick and mortar specialty stores are. Not only in terms of marketing and sales of their product but how those brick and mortar stores even influenced their MAP policy implementation and enforcement. The partnership between brick and mortars and small toy companies has always been something that really helped launch new products and helped manufacturers better understand how to present their products to the market. Online sales have had a dramatic impact on these specialty retail stores and as a result, we have seen many of our favorite specialty retailers go out of business.
Steve shares what he has seen fellow manufacturers that have not protected the price on their product on Amazon have seen the value of their items erode. This also can hurt their brick and mortar sales as those brick and mortar stores can't afford to stock and demonstrate games that they feel customers will go on Amazon.com to get a better price.
He also shares what he considers a bad Amazon seller. This includes being dishonest about your store name or where you plan to sell your items. He also talks about some of the pricing "tricks" he has seen over the years. Sellers who have been dishonest and consistently broken MAP has impacted Steve's willingness to trust Amazon sellers as he has had experience with less than upfront sellers on Amazon.
Steve also knows that not all Amazon sellers are bad. He also shares some of the things that help sellers set themselves as "good" Amazon sellers. The primary characteristic being honesty and a willingness to be upfront with manufacturers. He also answers the question that I hear from sellers all the time about how upfront do they need to be with manufacturers.
He also talks about how and why they have limited the number of sellers that they have on their Amazon listings. While Tenzi is primarily focused on growth through their brick and mortar channels they are watching Amazon know it can be a powerful tool for their business.
If you are looking for more information and about selling wholesale or approaching manufacturers to sell items on Amazon we have more information in our Unstoppable Amazon Academy.
Find out more at BestFromTheNest.com/Academy
If you are a manufacturer looking to get help navigating Amazon you can find out more information at MarketplaceBlueprint.com
Interested in Tenzi?
You can buy Tenzi at IloveTenzi.com
In this episode, we have Nathan Hirsh the Owner of Freeup.com/Nest. He shares from his vast experience working with virtual assistants what works and what doesn't work when hiring virtual assistants. We share about considerations about hiring virtual help. As you go from scrappy entrepreneurs to CEO of an e-commerce business you have to make sure that you are working on tasks that get you a good ROI on your time.
Step one is identifying where you are in your business. Are you hiring someone to follow existing systems or do you need someone to help you create systems or that will execute an advanced skill set.
You want to identify what tasks and areas outside your strengths to outside first. You also want to make sure that you take time to interview your freelancer to make sure the personality is a match. Once you hire you want to set clear expectations for your virtual assistant and give them clear feedback.
One of the things that Nathan and I talk about is the importance of self-awareness and being willing to own your personality type and weaknesses to make sure you find a virtual assistant that will be able to work with your personality type.
You also want to make sure that you don't set up your business is not completely dependant on one hire. It is predictable that every person you hire will quit at some point.
We talk about building standard operating procedures and don't forget if you are an Academy member we have a template you can use to start your systems and onboarding documents.
One of the biggest mistakes we see people make is to not be clear about what your expectations are for your virtual assistant. You want to make sure that he or she feels free to ask questions. When it comes to hiring to be unclear is to be unkind. You can never overcommunicate when you bring a new hire on.
Your company culture, the meaning of your work, and how you treat your virtual assistants or employees can play a more important role in keeping your people happy. Even more than pay (outside of a fair and just pay). We also talk about one of the common questions in hiring a virtual assistant about pay, bonuses, and raises. After you have someone hired you want to make sure you are managing your workflow over time.
Remember ultimately you are responsible to make sure that your hires (virtual and employees) are trained and supervised correctly. There will be mistakes, but you can use those mistakes to make your systems better over time.
When you are looking to hire a contractor for your business our favorite places to hire are Upwork.com and Freeeup.com/nest. Freeeup is a great place when you need to hire someone quickly with a specific skill set. It can be a little more expensive, however, they have great customer service and take a lot of the stopping points out of hiring.
We have a fairly large section of material on hiring in our Unstoppable Amazon Academy. Membership starts at just 49.99 a month!
You can find out more at BestFromTheNest.com/academy Just getting started on Amazon, let us help you begin your Amazon business for free.
We have a free getting started guide at Bestfromthenest.com/startfee.
In this episode, we talk about hiring someone for your Amazon business. This includes your first hire and some advice for those you are ready to hire more people in your business so that you can move to more of a CEO position and daily task list.
With your first hire, you want to make sure you have thought how long you expect this person to stay in your business, what they will be doing, and what are realistic expectations of their tasks and skill sets. You want to consider what personality types will be happiest in your newly created positions. Two personality tests we love for hiring are the DISC test (https://discpersonalitytesting.com/) and the Kolbe.com test.
Before you post the position you want to make sure that you have started to create the process and the measures for the position. So you know what reasonable expectations for your new hire will be.
You also need to know your worth. Knowing your hourly value it will make the hiring decisions so much easier. This is true not only for your first hire and subsequent hires. We need to not only arbitrage "things," but also start arbitraging time. You want to be clear how hiring will allow you to move towards your long-term financial goals.
One of the things you will want to be thinking about is how can you get more value out of your company's most important employee- you.
In preparing for your new hire you will need to really build out your SOPS (standard operating procedures). Whenever possible you want to make those processes as clear as possible. Creating these processes will also allow you to take a look at your systems to make them more efficient.
We recommend that you keep all of your processes in one document so it is easier to search as you build out your library of processes. Using the table of contents function in work and the header formatting makes this process must easier. We have had some clients that made a separate file for each process and it because very hard for employees to find the right process. If you are in the academy we have a template you can edit.
Gusto is a payroll service we love. Here is an affiliate link we both get a $100 gift card for Amazon.
We highly recommend that you use some sort of time tracking software. Here are three options we love: T-Sheets, Hubstaff, & Tick.
You want to make sure you have the right insurance. In most states, workers compensation is required. You also want to make sure that if they are working at your home, will your umbrella policy cover if your employee gets hurt. You will also want general liability insurance. If your employee will be driving you will want to check out hired and rented auto rider on your policy.
Finally, make sure that you have thought through whether this new hire will be an employee or a contractor. Make sure that you have a clear handle on your cash flow before you hire. It is unkind to hire someone and have them turn down another position and then have to let them go because you did not properly plan for your new hire.
Hiring doesn't have to be scary- but it should be strategic and well thought out. We have a fairly large section of material on hiring in our Unstoppable Amazon Academy. Membership starts at just 49.99 a month!
You can find out more at BestFromTheNest.com/academy Just getting started on Amazon, let us help you begin your Amazon business for free. We have a free getting started guide at Bestfromthenest.com/startfee.
Some goals are stupid. We hear people say that it can be true. In this episode, we talk a bit about our obsession with goals and also about the importance of setting clear buying criteria.
We believe that everything in our business has to have a level of intentionality. I value the time with my family, my friends, and hobbies to waste time working in my business just hoping it will work out. Goals in my business allow me to focus on the activities that will help move the dial on bringing in the revenue and building the infrastructure for my business to be healthy and profitable.
Having clear goals and buying criteria allows me to make results predictable. Being clear on my buying criteria lowers the number of bad buys that I make, how much will I need to do in my business, and to make sure I generate the income I need in my business.
Now you might say, "setting a buying goal is dumb! You have no control over how much inventory you find!" That is true, however, by having clear buying goals allows me to set up the actions I need to take in my sourcing to make hitting my buying goal predictable.
Our buying rules for inventory for our Amazon business also helps us to reduce the bad buys that we make. It allows us to consider before we get into the store if our buying criteria even make sense. While looking at ROI is important we also need to think about a minimum profit per item since 500% ROI on a 50 cent item isn't very much for having to label, prep, and pack an item.
We also look at the source. Is this a national sale, it is easily found, what is the scarcity level. This allows us to take in special consideration circumstances. This stops us from emotionally sourcing and to get increasingly jaded in the inventory that we buy.
Sourcing and building your business with intentionality helps make sure that you focus on the sourcing models, buying criteria, and sources that you need to get the results that you want long term from your business.
We have extensive information about sourcing skills for Amazon in our Unstoppable Amazon Academy. Membership starts at just 49.99 a month! You can find out more at BestFromTheNest.com/academy
Just getting started on Amazon, let us help you begin your Amazon business for free. We have a free getting started guide at Bestfromthenest.com/startfee.
In this show, we share a little bit about ASD and some of the considerations you should think about if you are debating whether or not to attend.
ASD is a trade show in Las Vegas that happens twice a year. The plays happen in July/August and in March. It is a general show that has a lot of different categories represented. We have always had excellent luck with sourcing at ASD. It is one of the largest shows as it fills up the entire Las Vegas convention center.
There is also free education on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday that focuses on E-commerce. This along with the networking with a large number of other online sellers sweetens the deal in coming to ASD.
Here are some of the considerations that we look at before deciding to attend a show:
How much will the travel expenses be?
Will that expense cut into your inventory capital or prevent me from ordering my replenishable?
How much do you need to spend to break even?
Do I have enough capital to make those purchases?
How much extra do I need to send in before the trip to make sure that my inventory level doesn't dip while I am out of town?
How many vendors are exhibiting at the show?
The Wholesale Accerlator, our one day workshop, is available at Bestfromthenest.com/asdlive
If you are interested in attending ASD, you can find out information at https://www.asdonline.com/
You can find the IMA Educational Session at Bestfromthenest.com/ima
We have extensive information about wholesale sourcing for Amazon in our Unstoppable Amazon Academy. Membership starts at just 49.99 a month! You can find out more at BestFromTheNest.com/academy
Just getting started on Amazon, let us help you begin your Amazon business for free. We have a free getting started guide at Bestfromthenest.com/startfee
This episode we share about three metrics that you should be looking at when you are trying to increase your gross sales.
Before sharing this I share what you need to be watching in your business to make sure that you are not sacrificing bottom line growth for top line sales. We especially see increased gross sales with a decrease in bottom line when people are growing very rapidly and using leverage such as an Amazon loan.
While we focus on short team lead measures like weekly spend, amount shipped, and wholesale calls made. However, we look at three lag results in our business and in those that we coach. The three metrics are gross sales, total inventory value, and the amount and/or percentage of inventory that has aged over 90 days.
Measuring your total inventory value helps you to start to see how much inventory do you need to maintain to hit a specific sales goals. It helps us to see if the gross sales stalls, is it because we simply don't have enough inventory or if there is a problem with the total quality or buying processes.
Inventory that has been aged over 90 days tells us if there is something that is broken in the buying process. We consider stock aged over 90 days a mistake unless there is a really good reason for it. So as you grow your inventory on Amazon we want to make sure that it isn't just sitting at the FBA warehouses, that it is moving.
If your SKU system has some indicator of source, you can look at the items aged over 90 days and look for patterns that might have contributed to the sale inventory. This can help you increase your profits and your buying process.
We also talk about some of the things for you to consider if you are looking to scale quickly with a loan.
We have more information on aged inventory in our Unstoppable Amazon Academy. Membership starts at just 49.99 a month! You can find out more at BestFromTheNest.com/academy
Just getting started on Amazon, let us help you begin your Amazon business for free. We have a free getting started guide at Bestfromthenest.com/startfee
In this episode, we are going to be talking about the foundations of selling on Amazon. If you have been thinking about selling on Amazon this episode for you as we focus on the basics of starting your Amazon business and are picking sourcing models. If you are already an Amazon seller and have income coming in, then you probably have been asked by others how to start their own Amazon business.
Don't worry there is some information that would apply toward existing sellers, especially if you are looking to move to another sourcing model (about minute12 in this episode).
When you start to sell on Amazon that you begin with used books and that you focus on getting your first thousand dollars in sales. We recommend that you do not jump straight into Wholesale or Private Label sourcing until you have had some experience. You will make mistakes on purchases, even if you have thousands of dollars in startup capital, you want to save the bulk of your money for when you have a better grasp on exactly what will be profitable buys. This method allows you to make your mistakes on inexpensive inventory. If you start with wholesale sourcing or private label (importing items from China) plan on making at least $500-$5,000 in bad buys in the first 6 months.
Selling on Amazon is not get rich quick. It is a real business, and it takes a lot of work. Even if you are using a prep service, so you are not "touching" your items, it will take a lot of time to vet the right inventory to purchase. Selling on Amazon is simple- it is buying low and selling high. However, it isn't easy. It requires consistent work over time.
Today we are also talking about how to decide which sourcing methods are right for different people depending on their personality type and available capital.
We also don't recommend that you start with expensive coaching. The best way to learn the early steps of getting started on Amazon is to follow some step by step tutorials (we have that a bestfromthenest.com/startfree), and you get on the court and take some action. It will be tough to get a good return on investment from a significant investment in a coach to get started on Amazon as it will take you some time to get enough momentum to be able to financially benefit from an Amazon coach.
Amazon has given me a life I could have never imagined. There is so much opportunity. Before you begin to start to think about what you want your business to yield. As you are getting started you want to make sure that you are following teachers that, as Dave Ramsey says "has a heart of a teacher," but also have similar ethics and goals for their business as you have for yours.
We also talk about the different type of sourcing models (used books, retail arbitrage, online arbitrage, wholesale, and private label) and things to consider about each model. This section of the podcast is good to listen to even for advanced sellers. We also touch on some of the pitfalls of going straight to more advanced sourcing models (wholesale and private label).
We also focus on what we look for in inventory and some of the considerations, especially if you come from a retail or google background.
We have extensive information about selling on Amazon in our Unstoppable Amazon Academy. Membership starts at just 49.99 a month! You can find out more at BestFromTheNest.com/academy
Just getting started on Amazon, let us help you begin your Amazon business for free. We have a free getting started guide at Bestfromthenest.com/startfee
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