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Podcast Episode 257 – Outsourcing Amazon Back-End Activities – Interview with Karen Locker

September 6, 2024 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

In today’s episode we are excited to bring you Stephen’s interview with Karen Locker of Solutions4Ecommerce. Karen has been in the Amazon world since 2008, and she is a wealth of knowledge on how to keep your Amazon account running smoothly in your back office in Seller Central. Listen in today to hear her expertise

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Filed Under: Advanced, Business Growth, Interviews, Outsourcing, Podcast, Resources, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Stranded Inventory, Troubleshooting

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

January 1, 2024 By Stephen Smotherman 133 Comments

*Updated for 2024 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,

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

How to Handle Unfair Amazon Reimbursements For Damaged or Lost Inventory

March 23, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 30 Comments

When Amazon loses or damages one of your inventory items, it is their policy to either 1) find a replacement for your lost/damaged inventory, or 2) reimburse you the replacement value of your lost inventory (less any applicable FBA and selling on Amazon fees, of course). This is how most people imagine this reimbursement policy

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Filed Under: How To, Reimbursements, Seller Central

Amazon FBA IPI Score 2022 – What We Know So Far

January 6, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 10 Comments

While many aspects of the IPI (inventory performance index) remain a mystery for Amazon FBA sellers, in this blog post we want to compile what information we do know about how the IPI works and what it means for us as Amazon sellers moving forward. What is IPI and why should I care? The IPI

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Filed Under: Advanced, Inventory, Inventory Performance Index, Restrictions, Seller Central, Seller Metrics

How to Fix Amazon’s Potential High Price Error Alerts

September 7, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 27 Comments

“Listings deactivated for potential pricing error” Just seeing that phrase in the subject line of an email from Amazon can cause me to lose my mind. But then I remind myself that there are some steps I can take to fix this potential error and get my listings reactivated once again. Before we jump into

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Filed Under: Pricing Tips, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Troubleshooting

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

Increase Your Amazon FBA Seller Feedback Score + Feedback Genius Review

January 21, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

Let’s face it. The days of keeping a 100% feedback score on your Amazon selling account are gone. Changes to Amazon’s feedback policies and guidelines for interacting with customers have made it more difficult to get negative feedback removed so that you can keep a 100% feedback score. But that doesn’t mean that you don’t

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Filed Under: Beginner, Feedback, How To, Seller Central, Tips & Tricks

How to Request Reimbursement for Damaged Amazon FBA Removal Orders

September 9, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 8 Comments

Sometimes when we create a removal order, the items we have sent back to us get damaged. Maybe you decided to have a pair of shoes sent back and the Amazon warehouse shipped the shoes back in a plastic bag causing the shoe box to get crushed beyond repair. Or maybe you returned a toy

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Filed Under: How To, Reimbursements, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Troubleshooting

Podcast Episode 013 : Communicating with a Seller Central Support Rep

August 20, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 2 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. When you’re already annoyed with the issue you’re needing to bring to Amazon for help and the answers you get from a Seller Central rep don’t seem to help, then that

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Filed Under: Podcast, Seller Central, Troubleshooting

How to Open an Amazon Seller Support Ticket (and Get Phone Support if Necessary)

July 22, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 25 Comments

Let’s face it. At some time or another, you’re going to need to open up a support ticket with Amazon Seller Support in order to fix an issue that’s impacting your Amazon business. The good news is that Amazon has multiple options in order for you to get the support you need. The bad news

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Filed Under: Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Troubleshooting

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