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What Does a Sales Rank of Zero (or “Not Available”) Mean?

March 17, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 9 Comments

Most Amazon resellers use sales rank as a major factor in deciding whether or not to buy an item to resell. But what happens if the sales rank for an item is zero, “N/A” (Not Available), or Rank Unavailable? Are there any other ways to decide if this item is worth reselling on Amazon? For most

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Filed Under: Getting Started, How To, Ideas, Sales Rank

Sales Rank 101 – Understanding Amazon Best Seller’s Rank

March 4, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

“Well, what’s the sales rank?” You hear this question all the time when Amazon FBA sellers are talking about whether or not to buy an item to resell on Amazon. Understanding Amazon sales rank is one of the most crucial topics for new Amazon sellers. In the rest of this blog post we want to

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Filed Under: Beginner, Getting Started, Sales Rank, Sourcing

How to Find Amazon FBA Inventory for Little to No Money

October 29, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

“I need to buy more inventory, but I don’t have very much money to spend on my business!” We’ve all been there, right? Most of us started out as Amazon FBA sellers with very little capital to spend on inventory. Some folks might start out with a significant chunk of change they want to invest,

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Filed Under: Beginner, Finances, Finding Inventory, Getting Started, How To, Inventory, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

The Essential Retail Arbitrage Sourcing Gear List

May 28, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 12 Comments

A key component of a successful retail arbitrage (RA) trip is making sure you have all the necessary supplies before you head out on your sourcing journey. Having the right gear can free up your time and energy to make better sourcing decisions and find more profitable inventory for your Amazon FBA business. You may

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Filed Under: Beginner, Getting Started, Resources, Retail Arbitrage, Tools

How To Manually Reprice Your Amazon FBA Inventory

April 28, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 33 Comments

You found some great products, bought them, priced them, labeled them, and sent them off to Amazon. Now what do you do? Of course you go out and look for even more inventory, but how often do you think about the prices of your inventory that’s sitting in a FBA warehouse? Prices in brick-and-mortar stores change

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Filed Under: Beginner, Getting Started, How To, Pricing Tips, Repricing, Seasonal, Seller Central Tips

Inventory Lab Review – Why We Use InventoryLab For Listing Amazon FBA Inventory

January 13, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 50 Comments

As Amazon FBA resellers, we’re all looking for ways to save time and money in processing our inventory. One of the biggest ways I encourage FBA sellers to save time by spending a little money is to use a third-party listing service, rather than listing your FBA inventory directly through Amazon Seller Central. The fewer

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Filed Under: Beginner, Business, Getting Started, Inventory, Inventory Lab, Product Listing, Resources, Tools

How to Win the Amazon Buy Box for Maximum Sales

December 13, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 14 Comments

We left off on the previous blog post with my top 6 points that you need to understand about how the Amazon buy box works. If you haven’t checked out that post, I highly recommend that you read it first before moving forward with how to win the buy box. As a reminder, Amazon does

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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

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

If I Had To Start My Amazon FBA Business Over Again With Only $500

July 14, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 31 Comments

* Updated for 2020 Who doesn’t love a do-over? Hindsight is 20/20, and I’m sure all of us can think of ways we would improve our Amazon FBA businesses if we could start over from scratch. I know I can think of plenty of things I wish I had known back in 2011 when I

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