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Overcoming Your Fear of Training Your Competition via Outsourcing

April 30, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

We all need help. Especially when it comes to running an Amazon FBA business, we need help in order for our business to grow. Sure, there are days when I feel like no one can Tetris the contents of an FBA box quite as well as I can, but in reality my business has more

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Filed Under: Business, Fears, Outsourcing, Sourcing

Why Are My Amazon FBA Sales So Slow?

April 23, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 17 Comments

If you’re like most Amazon sellers, you can get quite addicted to refreshing your pending sales page in Seller Central. Or maybe you like to check the Amazon Seller app to see what your total sales numbers are for the day so far. It’s a lot of fun, and even sometimes a rush, to see

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Filed Under: Ideas, Increase Sales, Next Level, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting

How to Increase Amazon FBA Sales on Slow-Moving Inventory

April 16, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

We all want our FBA inventory to sell as soon as it hits the warehouse shelves, and in an ideal world we would never have to deal with monthly storage fees or long-term storage fees for any of our inventory. But the reality for all of us as Amazon sellers is that at times we

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Filed Under: How To, Increase Sales, Long-Term Storage Fees, Tips & Tricks

How to use Scoutify to Find Profits in Amazon Restricted Items

April 9, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

It’s so frustrating. You’re out sourcing for inventory and finally find a profitable item, only to discover you’re restricted from selling that item on Amazon. Seriously?! When this happens to me, I usually just put the item back on the shelf and keep sourcing. I try to forget about that restricted item and move on with

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Filed Under: Advanced, Finding Inventory, How To, Inventory Lab, Restrictions, Scoutify, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting

Is selling on Amazon FBA easier or harder than 5 years ago?

April 2, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

Things sometimes seem to change in the Amazon world faster than we as sellers can keep up. Long-term storage fees are changing this year, the Amazon guidelines are updated from time to time, and sales rank changes multiple times throughout the day! It’s hard at times to know whether Amazon is getting easier for us

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Filed Under: Mindset, Resources, Troubleshooting

How to Compete against Amazon and Win

March 26, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 3 Comments

I’ve heard it before and thought it was true. Well meaning people have said, “If Amazon is selling the item, then run away as fast as you can. You can never win against Amazon.” I followed this advice for many years thinking if I were to compete against Amazon, I’d always lose. It turns out they

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Filed Under: Advanced, Amazon Buy Box, How To, Sourcing

Amazon FBA Storage Changes 2018 — LTSF and Storage Space

March 5, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 37 Comments

Hopefully by now you have seen the email from Amazon about upcoming changes related to storage at FBA warehouses. As with all of your seller emails from Amazon, I hope you took note of the email and read it thoroughly to familiarize yourself with Amazon’s policy changes. In this post I want to break down

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Filed Under: Long-Term Storage Fees, Seller Metrics

Top Retail Arbitrage Tips for Clearance Sourcing for Amazon FBA

February 22, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 7 Comments

In my last post I covered 5 retail arbitrage (RA) sourcing tips for Amazon FBA success. Today I want to narrow the focus a bit to talk specifically about clearance sourcing at retail stores. Clearance sourcing is always a lot of fun because you can find items at super low prices that you can potentially

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Filed Under: Beginner, Clearance Sourcing, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

5 Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Tips for Amazon FBA Success

February 15, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

Although my FBA business has transitioned to become more focused on wholesale over the past couple of years, retail arbitrage (RA) is still one of my top methods of sourcing. I’ve shared some of my favorite RA sourcing strategies with you in blog posts in the past: The 2 Best Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Strategies How

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Ideas, Inventory, Retail Arbitrage

Is Retail Arbitrage (RA) Sourcing Dead?

February 6, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 50 Comments

I’ve been selling on Amazon for several years now, and one lingering question has been circulating FBA seller groups that entire time: Is retail arbitrage dead? If you do a Google search for that question, you will find info related to the topic as far back as 2013. I’m writing this post in 2018, so

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