Sourcing Archives - Page 9 of 12

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

Sourcing Strategies For Selling Shoes on Amazon FBA

March 31, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

You might be convinced that selling shoes on Amazon can be a profitable addition to your Amazon business model, but you may still be asking, “What are the best strategies and methods for sourcing profitable shoes?” Since my last two interview videos (here and here) with Rebecca were so well received, I decided to sit

What to Do When You Buy a Dud for Your Amazon FBA Inventory

February 26, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

We like to pretend it never happens…but sometimes as Amazon FBA sellers, we will buy a dud to try to resell. We find what we think will be a great piece of inventory, we have great hopes and dreams to get a nice return on our money, but that inventory turns out to be a

Top Features of the Scoutify App for Amazon FBA Sourcing

January 16, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

Retail arbitrage sourcing for your Amazon FBA business is only possible if you use a high-quality scouting app. For several years, we at Full-Time FBA have depended on the Scoutify app from the makers of Inventory Lab. We’ve published numerous blog posts and videos on the topic of how great Scoutify is, and we’re excited now

The No-Risk Strategy to Gain Confidence in Your Amazon FBA Sourcing Skills

June 18, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

One of the hardest parts of learning how to sell on Amazon is the process of gaining confidence in your inventory sourcing skills. When we’re looking for profitable items to add to our Amazon inventory, we might get caught up in worry that we’re making a bad decision. What if the price tanks? What if

Overcoming Your Fear of Training Your Competition via Outsourcing

April 30, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 5 Comments

We all need help. Especially when it comes to running an Amazon FBA business, we need help in order for our business to grow. Sure, there are days when I feel like no one can Tetris the contents of an FBA box quite as well as I can, but in reality my business has more

How to Compete against Amazon and Win

March 26, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 3 Comments

I’ve heard it before and thought it was true. Well meaning people have said, “If Amazon is selling the item, then run away as fast as you can. You can never win against Amazon.” I followed this advice for many years thinking if I were to compete against Amazon, I’d always lose. It turns out they

Top Retail Arbitrage Tips for Clearance Sourcing for Amazon FBA

February 22, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 7 Comments

In my last post I covered 5 retail arbitrage (RA) sourcing tips for Amazon FBA success. Today I want to narrow the focus a bit to talk specifically about clearance sourcing at retail stores. Clearance sourcing is always a lot of fun because you can find items at super low prices that you can potentially

Review of Tactical Arbitrage

October 10, 2017 By Rebecca Smotherman 23 Comments

It has been a while on the blog since we have taken a dive into strategies for online arbitrage (OA), so I want to spend some time today talking about the main online arbitrage tool we use for finding profitable inventory from online stores to resell on Amazon: Tactical Arbitrage. If you feel like you

The Top 5 Features of the New Scoutify 2 Amazon FBA Sourcing App

October 3, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 16 Comments

In the spring of 2017, I got a message from Kimberly of InventoryLab. She knew I am a huge fan of both InventoryLab and Scoutify (the Amazon sourcing app that comes bundled with InventoryLab). She wanted to know if I wanted to be a beta-tester for the all new Scoutify 2 sourcing app. Heck yeah!