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6 Things You Need to Know about the Amazon Buy Box

December 11, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 13 Comments

Perhaps the most important goal of any Amazon FBA seller is getting more sales, so today I want to cover a topic directly tied to the majority of sales on Amazon – the Amazon buy box. If you look on an Amazon product page, the buy box is the little box in the top right

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Filed Under: Amazon Buy Box, Beginner, Getting Started, Pricing Tips

The Top 5 Features of the New Scoutify 2 Amazon FBA Sourcing App

October 3, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 16 Comments

In the spring of 2017, I got a message from Kimberly of InventoryLab. She knew I am a huge fan of both InventoryLab and Scoutify (the Amazon sourcing app that comes bundled with InventoryLab). She wanted to know if I wanted to be a beta-tester for the all new Scoutify 2 sourcing app. Heck yeah!

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Filed Under: App Reviews, Finding Inventory, Inventory Lab, Resources, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing

Decoding the Electronics Amazon Sales Rank Code

September 28, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 28 Comments

Most resellers rely on Sales Rank when making purchasing decisions. For reasons known only to Amazon, the category of Electronics often does not provide a category wide sales rank. Many times when scanning an Electronics product, a scouting app (like Scoutify) will return a sales rank of 0 or N/A (Not Applicable). In almost all

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Filed Under: CamelCamelCamel, How To, Ideas, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

Is There Still Room for New Amazon FBA Sellers?

September 19, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 19 Comments

  One question I am consistently asked since launching fulltimefba.com back in 2013 is this… “Is there still room for new Amazon FBA sellers?“ Most people ask this question out of two fears they are experiencing: The fear of not finding enough profitable inventory to sell on Amazon. The fear of too many competitors who

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Filed Under: Beginner, Fears, Getting Started, Mindset

Case Study – Electronics Sales Ranks and Competing Against Amazon

September 2, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 14 Comments

In this blog post, I asked you, according to your own sourcing strategies, if you would buy a particular Electronic item or not. Here’s the item we looked at: Product: Adonit Jot Pro Fine Point Stylus – Silver ASIN: B00931DHKM Clearance price at Target: $3.94 Total available for sale: 20 NOTE: This post was updated

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Exercises, How To, Inventory, Pricing Tips, ROI, Sales Rank

Seller Central Tip #6 – The Magic Words for Communicating with Seller Central

August 23, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get your point across to a Seller Central representative and feeling like you are continually being misunderstood. In previous blog posts, we have covered ways to handle different glitches within the Amazon inventory system – some of which require opening a case and sending a written message to

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Filed Under: Business, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips

Using Feedback Genius To Generate Positive Product Reviews

May 8, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 7 Comments

Last time on the blog, I interviewed Karon Thackston about her new book, Review Advantage (she said her coupon code review10 is still live). In that interview Karon shared so many great tips and tricks (as well as what not to do) in order to get more product reviews for the items you’re selling on Amazon. Now we

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Filed Under: Feedback, How To, Ideas, Product Reviews, Replenishables

Blunders & Benefits of Having Unique Review Request Emails

April 26, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 15 Comments

By now I hope you know just how important it is to follow all of Amazon’s rules. Breaking too many Amazon guidelines could easily get your seller account suspended. Recently Amazon has updated how sellers can communicate with their customers, and I want to make sure you know about how to correctly go about these

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Filed Under: Account Suspension, Feedback, Guest Post, Interviews, Product Reviews, Seller Metrics

4 Tips for Handling Amazon FBA Taxes

December 26, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

Before you hit the snooze button and move on to a more exciting post, let me acknowledge up front that taxes aren’t the most glamorous topic out there. Unless you’re a CPA or tax professional. In which case I don’t mean any offense by saying that taxes are boring. Is anyone still with me at

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Filed Under: Business, Finances, Sales Tax, Taxes

Feedback Genius Review – Get More Positive (and Eliminate Negative) Feedback

November 9, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 12 Comments

Most Amazon sellers will agree: It takes a verrrrrry looooooong time to build up your feedback on the Amazon platform. Most Amazon customers aren’t accustomed to leaving seller feedback for FBA purchases, at least not with the same frequency as eBay customers leave seller feedback. It could take 100 sales via FBA to receive one

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Filed Under: Beginner, Business, Feedback, Resources

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