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Garage Sale Tip #2 – How to Find Profitable Garage Sales

April 13, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 12 Comments

Today’s tip is absolutely essential in making the most money for the time you invest in sourcing at garage sales.  Garage sale tip #2 is basic: How to find ‘em.  The more garage sales you find, the more profits you can make. Some of the methods I use to find garage sales are pretty obvious,

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Filed Under: Beginner, Garage Sale Tips, Garage Sales, Getting Started, How To, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks, Travel

Garage Sale Tip #1 – How Assumptions Can Steal Your Profits

April 4, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 27 Comments

Garage sales (also known as Yard Sales) are one of the best ways to find items to sell on Amazon that have a really high ROI (Return On Investment). Today, I’m going to share with you an ongoing series of garage sale tips and tricks that I’ve learned from years of garage sale shopping. During

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Filed Under: Beginner, Garage Sale Tips, Garage Sales, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

How to Find Profitable Wholesale Accounts For Amazon FBA

February 20, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 49 Comments

Finding profitable wholesale accounts is not as hard as you think it is. Most people make that assumption because they first focus on trying to secure wholesale relationships with super big name brands (like Lego, Apple, Nike, etc.), which is almost impossible for normal Amazon sellers. While landing a wholesale account with a big name

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Inventory, Sourcing, Wholesale

Podcast Episode 124 – Biggest Wholesale Mistakes I Made with My First Order

February 18, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

Amazon sellers are all bound to make mistakes as we begin to navigate our way through the world of wholesale, and boy did we make a few! Today, we share the six biggest beginner mistakes that Stephen made with our first wholesale order, so you don’t have to fall into the same traps. In this

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Filed Under: Mistakes, Podcast, Sourcing, Wholesale

Podcast Episode 123 – Pros and Cons of Wholesale Sourcing Strategies

February 11, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

There are multiple wholesale sourcing strategies out there, and we’ve tried them all! In today’s episode, we break down the pros and cons of each respective strategy. The most common go-to for most things is Google, and wholesale sourcing is no exception. We explain why Google isn’t a particularly strong strategy, and why we absolutely

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Beginner Lessons For Selling Shoes on Amazon FBA

February 5, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 19 Comments

When it comes to sourcing and selling shoes on Amazon, some of the hardest lessons are learned during the early stages of adding shoes to your Amazon business model. Many of you know that Rebecca and I are a team when it comes to our Amazon FBA business. While I mainly focus on retail arbitrage

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Selling Shoes on Amazon FBA – Should You Do It?

February 4, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 25 Comments

Many of you know that Rebecca and I (Stephen) are a team when it comes to our Amazon FBA business. While I mainly focus on retail arbitrage and wholesale sourcing, she is the specialist when it comes to online arbitrage… and specifically sourcing and selling shoes on Amazon. Since Rebecca has such a wealth of

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Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Buying Decisions

February 3, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 35 Comments

Let’s get down to the nitty gritty details of sourcing shoes for FBA, shall we? As I (Rebecca) mentioned in a previous post of this series, I personally don’t source for shoes using retail arbitrage (RA). I tried it and came up dry. I use 100% online arbitrage (OA) for my shoe sourcing strategy. The

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Inventory, Shoes, Sourcing

Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Why We Added Shoes to Our Sourcing Strategy

February 2, 2022 By Rebecca Smotherman 61 Comments

Back in 2015, Stephen and I (Rebecca) decided to add shoes to our Amazon FBA inventory. Since our initial experiment with shoes, we have learned so much about how to source and sell shoes on Amazon. In fact, over the past 6 years, shoe are our second most item on Amazon (the first being toys).

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How to Find Profitable Inventory for Amazon FBA Sourcing

January 31, 2022 By Stephen Smotherman 30 Comments

In the course of just one week (or even a day!), it is possible to come across thousands of items you could potentially resell on Amazon. Obviously, not all of those items are going to make the cut and end up in your shopping cart. Some items are a no-brainer purchase. Some are definitely NOT

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