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How to Run “End of the Year” Inventory & Sales Reports for Tax Purposes

December 23, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 122 Comments

I admit the topic of “end of year reports” is not all that exciting, but it’s very necessary… in fact, if you don’t do this right it could have some negative impacts on your business. No matter if you sell on Amazon as a serious income stream or as an occasional hobby, you’re still required

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Filed Under: Business, Exercises, How To, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Taxes

How to Find Which Items are Out of Stock on Amazon

June 29, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 30 Comments

It really happens. Amazon, from time to time, goes completely out of stock on items that sell often. Not only does Amazon go out of stock, but sometimes the 3rd party sellers also go out of stock. When nobody is in stock for a product, Amazon suppresses (hides) that product page from customer search results. Amazon is

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Filed Under: Exercises, Finding Inventory, How To, Ideas, Product Listing, Tips & Tricks

Spring Cleaning for a Profitable FBA Business

March 2, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 42 Comments

It’s almost spring! This is the perfect time of year to do a little spring cleaning of your Amazon FBA inventory. Let me ask you a question. How often do you look at your inventory at Amazon? For most sellers, we don’t take a look all that often. Sure, we might look at our inventory

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Filed Under: Business, Exercises, Ideas, Inventory, Inventory Performance Index, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Seller Metrics

The No-Risk Strategy to Gain Confidence in Your Amazon FBA Sourcing Skills

June 18, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

One of the hardest parts of learning how to sell on Amazon is the process of gaining confidence in your inventory sourcing skills. When we’re looking for profitable items to add to our Amazon inventory, we might get caught up in worry that we’re making a bad decision. What if the price tanks? What if

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Filed Under: Beginner, Exercises, How To, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

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

How to Provide Box Level Details on Amazon FBA Shipments

October 20, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

If you’ve been reading your seller emails from Amazon, you know that starting November 1, 2016, FBA sellers will be required to provide box level details of the contents of their shipments to FBA warehouses. Failing to provide those details will incur a fee for your shipments of 15 cents per item. Additionally, Amazon has

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Filed Under: Beginner, Exercises, How To, Inventory Processing, Seller Central, Shipping, Split Shipments

How to Read & Understand CamelCamelCamel Graphs

May 2, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 32 Comments

UPDATE: As of 2/28/19, CamelCamelCamel (CCC) has removed access to the sales rank tab. The sales rank tab currently has a note that says, “Sales rank history has been disabled, we do not expect it to return, and we are unable to respond to any support requests regarding it.” Losing the sales rank data from

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

5 Simple Strategies to Take the Next Step with Your Amazon FBA Goals

January 7, 2016 By Rebecca Smotherman Leave a Comment

Are you like me when it comes to starting the new year off? I love new beginnings, love fresh starts, love setting goals and starting over new. Every year we have the opportunity to make it our best year yet. Hopefully by this time you’ve made some SMARTER goals for your business and for yourself personally. We

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Filed Under: Business, Exercises, Goals, How To, Mindset

Overcoming Your Fear of Going Deep on Inventory Items

December 1, 2015 By Rebecca Smotherman 1 Comment

“Should I go deep on this item?” “How deep should I go on this item?” “What does it mean to ‘go deep’ on an item?” These are all questions we get on a regular basis, whether in blog comments, in the Full-Time FBA Facebook group, or on our YouTube channel. One of the universal fears

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Filed Under: Exercises, Fears, Finding Inventory, How To, Inventory, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing

Overcoming Your Fear of Negotiating a Better Deal

November 3, 2015 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

Have you ever found yourself frustrated after you go into a store, find a lot of items with great sales ranks, only to find the clearance or sale prices are just not low enough to make it worth reselling? Or maybe you’ve been at a garage sale, and the seller has their items priced way too high. If only you could get an additional

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Filed Under: Exercises, Fears, Finding Inventory, How To, Retail Arbitrage

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