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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

Rest: The Business Strategy Nobody is Talking About

July 16, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 18 Comments

The amount of work to be done as an Amazon FBA seller is unending, and at times the potential for profit is limited only by the amount of work we’re able to put into the business and the number of hours in each day. Right now we’re in the midst of Q3 and all the

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Filed Under: Holiday, Ideas, Miscellaneous, Resources

FBA Sourcing + Road Trip = Increased Profits

May 25, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 12 Comments

It’s almost summer, and the perfect time to plan a sourcing road trip! Combining a road trip with FBA sourcing is a great idea that combines the fun of a road trip with sourcing in new and exciting places. Imagine driving to a location far from home and stopping at rural Walmarts along the way

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Filed Under: Advanced, Family Involvement, Ideas, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Spouse, Travel

My Top 6 Manual Amazon FBA Repricing Strategies

February 16, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 44 Comments

No matter if you have one hundred, one thousand, or even ten thousand items in your Amazon inventory, having your items priced competitively is one of the best ways to increase profits. No matter how long your inventory has been sitting in an Amazon warehouse, it’s very likely that new competition has come into the

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Filed Under: Advanced, How To, Ideas, Pricing Tips, Repricing, Seasonal, Seller Central Tips, Tips & Tricks

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

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

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

Why I’m Using Poshmark to Sell My Amazon FBA Returns

May 22, 2017 By Rebecca Smotherman 9 Comments

Have you used the fashion buying and selling platform called Poshmark? It’s a website and mobile app where users can list their new and used clothing, shoes, accessories, and cosmetics for sale. I recently began using Poshmark as another platform (along with eBay) for selling my Amazon FBA shoe returns and shoes with boxes damaged

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Filed Under: App Reviews, Clothing, Ideas, Returns, Shoes

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

The 3 Most Common (And Wasteful!) Mistakes Sellers Make With Their Amazon Listings

May 17, 2015 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

This blog article comes from my friend Karon Thackston. You might remember her from this popular guest blog post last year about keywords in listings. Karon is back again with even more helpful insights into creating quality Amazon listings that bring in more customers and more sales.  The 3 Most Common (And Wasteful!) Mistakes Sellers Make

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