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Why I Bought a Toy Ranked 1.2 Million for Resale on Amazon

May 4, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 19 Comments

When it comes to sales rank, every Amazon seller has their own idea of what a “good” sales rank is. For me, I’ll almost always buy a toy that is consistently ranked under 150,000. I’ll even buy a toy that is ranked much higher, as long as the number of competing sellers is low and

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Filed Under: Ideas, Pricing Tips, Sales Rank, Sourcing, Thrift Stores, Tips & Tricks

Podcast Episode 079 : Using Tactical Arbitrage for Online Arbitrage and Wholesale Sourcing

April 9, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

If you’ve ever tried manual online arbitrage (OA), you know that it can take up immense amounts of your time to find what you are looking for. On today’s show you’ll learn about a tool called Tactical Arbitrage which can, among other things, help you drastically reduce the amount of time you spend looking for

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Filed Under: Podcast, Sourcing, Tactical Arbitrage

How Many Amazon Competitors is Too Many?

April 5, 2021 By Stephen Smotherman 16 Comments

You found a great item to buy at a low price that should bring back a high ROI (return on investment) if you sell it via Amazon FBA. But when you dig a little deeper on the Amazon listing, it seems like there are a lot of competitors who already have offers available. Are there

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Filed Under: How To, Increase Sales, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

Podcast Episode 060 : How Amazon Sellers Use Deal Lists For Maximum Profits

November 27, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

Many Amazon sellers avoid deal lists for the well-founded fear that items appearing on these lists will soon flood the market, leading to inflated competition and price drops. Today we dive into the issue and show listeners how, with the right list, they can make healthy profits with little to no competition. We open our

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Podcast Episode 058 : November Sourcing Ideas and Strategies for Amazon Sellers

November 13, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

Today’s episode will be all about sourcing strategies you can use to turn bigger profits in your FBA business, specifically at this time of year. Christmas is just around the corner, and we all know how well toys sell this time of year, but today we will be casting our net wider and covering eight

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Why Clearance Items Tank in Price on Amazon (and What to Do About It)

November 2, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

Chances are, if you like to do retail arbitrage as a sourcing strategy for your Amazon FBA business, you love a good clearance sale. There’s nothing like finding items marked down 50% or more on a retail shelf that you can then sell for an awesome ROI (return on investment) via Amazon FBA. But if

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Filed Under: Clearance Sourcing, Finding Inventory, Inventory, Keepa, Pricing Tips, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

How to Find More Inventory to Resell via Amazon FBA

October 27, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 18 Comments

As Amazon FBA sellers, we are always looking for more items to add to our inventory to sell on Amazon. But sometimes we just can’t seem to find those profitable items fast enough. This can be discouraging, but it doesn’t always have to be this way. Usually, Amazon sellers start off selling items that are

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Filed Under: Beginner, Business Growth, Finding Inventory, How To, Mindset, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks, Uncategorized

Inventory Lab Scoutify ASIN Link Tool – How to Add Keepa Links (and more) Into InventoryLab

October 15, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 21 Comments

One of the most important tools to use while sourcing for profitable inventory is Keepa. If you’re new to Keepa, click here for a quick introduction. Did you know you can add a quick Keepa link inside the Scoutify sourcing app that will give you access to the Keepa graph of whichever Amazon item you’re looking at

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The Most Harmful Amazon FBA Sourcing Decision You Could Ever Make

October 12, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 11 Comments

Did you know that a book on Amazon ranked 10 million yesterday could be ranked 500,000 today? All it takes is one sale. Just one. One sale of that book on Amazon could change the sales rank drastically overnight. Would you buy a book ranked 10 million on Amazon to resell? Would you buy a

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Filed Under: Finding Inventory, Keepa, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing

Podcast Episode 053 : Overcoming Your Fear of Making Sourcing Mistakes

October 9, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

Sometimes the fear of making sourcing mistakes will actually lead you to making more sourcing mistakes. In today’s show, Stephen and Rebecca create a slightly different format where we present a few different scenarios that have to do with sourcing and what to do when faced with them. It’s a little game we like to

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Filed Under: Mistakes, Podcast, Sourcing

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