Welcome to the Full-time FBA Resource page, where you’ll find all of our most recommended resources that have helped us turn part-time hours into a full-time income.
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Full-Time FBA Resources
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JumpStart Amazon: Build a Successful Amazon FBA Business
Since 2012, I’ve been able to make a full-time income by only spending part-time hours selling quality merchandise on Amazon… and you can too! Instead of you spending thousands of dollars for me to coach you into an Amazon business, I’ve created an affordable course to teach you everything you need to know about how to start strong and set up your Amazon business for long-term success. JumpStart Amazon comes with a video course (10+ hours) plus an ebook (200+ pages) that both contain the same content to help you create a highly profitable Amazon FBA business.
The Reseller’s Guide to Sales Rank: Understanding Amazon Best Sellers Rank for Maximum Profits
Amazon sales rank is easily one of the most complicated and misunderstood aspects of selling online. Too many Amazon sellers assume if an item on Amazon has a certain “good” sales rank, it will automatically sell quickly. This assumption falls apart when the seller realizes most their inventory is not selling at all, and to make things worse the prices of their inventory items have tanked. This course is packed with over 30 pages and almost 2 hours of video content filled with teachings and illustrations that will help you understand not only how sales rank works, but also how to best use sales rank info to dramatically improve your inventory sourcing buys.
OUR MOST RECOMMENDED PRODUCTS
Product Sourcing and Inventory Management
InventoryLab (with Scoutify) – This is my #1 most recommended product that I believe all online resellers need to use in their Amazon business. From using Scoutify to make faster and better sourcing decisions, to using InventoryLab for inventory management, listing your items on Amazon, running helpful reports, and so much more, InventoryLab (which comes bundled with the Scoutify sourcing app) is the absolute best deal on the market for Amazon sellers to finally gain control of their Amazon business activities and take the steps needed to get to the next level. For multiple posts about InventoryLab and Scoutify on the Full-Time FBA blog, click here.
Online Arbitrage Savings
Rakuten – A free tool to help you get cash back for many of your online purchases. If you’re going to be shopping online (for inventory or supplies), you might as well get some of your hard-earned cash back. Rakuten is the number one most trusted cash back site. All you need to do is sign up, activate the extension, and then when you are ready to shop online, click through the Rakuten button and you’ll start earning cash back. In fact, the first time you use Rakuten, they’ll put $10 cash back in your account to help you get started. The more you buy, the more you can get back. Seriously, the sky is the limit: we’ve had cash back checks from Rakuten over $1000! It doesn’t cost you anything to use, but if you don’t use it, you’re throwing money away.
Honey – The Honey extension works by automating the process of applying promotional codes and coupons to your online purchases. You could Google to find those codes and manually input them to see if they’ll apply to your purchase…or you could click the Honey extension before you check out and let Honey do the work for you. I’ve saved tons of money and tons of time by letting Honey search and try codes for me. It’s absolutely free and super easy!
Online Arbitrage Tools/Programs
Tactical Arbitrage – A paid online software that allows you to scan an entire category of a store’s website to find matches in the Amazon catalog, either by UPC or by product title. Tactical Arbitrage allows you to set up bulk scans of multiple pages and multiple websites to scan at one time, so that you can start a scan and come back to it later after it has finished. The results of a Tactical Arbitrage scan show you links to the product pages on the online store’s site and on Amazon, links to Keepa graphs, and columns of info on pricing, sales rank, profit, and ROI, among other things. Tactical Arbitrage has other features and methods for doing reverse scans, Amazon flips, and more. The time you can save using Tactical Arbitrage adds up to hours per day. If you want to try Tactical Arbitrage, you can get an extended free trial by going to www.fulltimefba.com/TA and using the coupon code FULLTIME10. For my review of Tactical Arbitrage, click here.
How Many? App – A useful smartphone app and Google Chrome extension that tells you how many of an item each seller on Amazon currently has in stock. This is very important to know when deciding on buying an item to resell. If your competitor only has a few in stock you might want to compete with them, but if they have 100 in stock you might want to move on to another item as you may never get the buy box. When you open up an Amazon sales page and click on the How Many? icon, you’ll see the inventory levels of every seller selling that item (both FBA and MF). The smart phone app is also easy to use; you scan the barcode of an item and the How Many? app will show you on your phone how many each seller has in stock of that item. To learn about many more features of How Many?, simply click here.
Online Arbitrage Courses
Tactical Arbitrage Academy – Tactical Arbitrage Academy is a thorough video-driven training course designed to cut the learning curve of Tactical Arbitrage (TA) dramatically. With Tactical Arbitrage Academy, I found myself learning things about TA that I never picked up on my own…even after using it daily for a year! Tactical Arbitrage Academy has over 8 hours of video content showing walk-throughs of how to use TA in screen-capture videos. You will see the instructor’s computer screen demonstrating step-by-step how to set up scans of products, how to filter the results, and how to begin analyzing potential buys. I found myself cutting out even more time and finding even more leads on profitable deals.
Feedback Management
Feedback Genius by Seller Labs – Most Amazon sellers know that having a great seller feedback score is part of Amazon’s algorithm for deciding which seller gets the most time in the buy box. The more buy box time, the more sales, which makes keeping a high feedback score so important! Feedback Genius is a service that not only helps protect your feedback score from negative feedback, but also helps get you more positive feedback scores. The process is done automatically for you and is one of the most essential services I use. To learn more about how Feedback Genius works, click here to read my review.
Automatic Repricing
BQool – The first month I used BQool, my sales literally doubled! For years I only repriced my inventory manually and thought I could keep up with making sure the prices of my inventory was competitive. but then I discovered just how powerful a tool like BQool was. I realized I needed to be proactive when it comes to making sure ALL of my inventory was competitively priced. BQool (pronounced: “Be Cool”) was the answer I was looking for. I was able to sync BQool with my InventoryLab account and import the buy cost for all of my inventory, and then all I had to do was pick my high and low sales prices — and Bqool did the rest! They have multiple brilliant repricing strategies to help you win the buy box, get the next sale, or implement other strategies that best fit your business model. You can also use BQool to design your own repricing strategy. I can’t imagine running an Amazon business now without BQool.
Sourcing Profitable Inventory
BoloMart – Imagine a Facebook group filled with Amazon sellers who are sharing their best leads for profitable inventory. In BoloMart, members and admins share BOLOs (items to “Be On the Look Out” to buy and resell) that all members can then go out and purchase to resell on Amazon. I’ve been a member of this group since 2016, and each month just one lead ends up paying for the monthly subscription cost — the rest of the leads each month end up being icing on the cake. During Q4, this group is invaluable with hundreds of highly profitable BOLOs shared.
Solutions4Ecommerce – If you want to scale your business and hire a service to regularly handle your Amazon back end activities, Solutions4Ecommerce is the best service out there. They help with stranded inventory, unfulfillable inventory, feedback repair and management, lost inventory, lost/damaged/destroyed returns, reimbursement case management, reconciling incorrect shipping issues, inventory age reports, and so many other inventory management tasks. We wholeheartedly recommend the account management services of Solutions4Ecommerce. In fact, if you use the coupon code FULLTIMEFBA you can save 15% off of their monthly services.
FreeUp – Many people like the idea of hiring a virtual assistant (VA) but don’t like the idea of training that VA to do the job right. FreeUp offers you pre-trained virtual assistants (in the US or abroad) to help you handle multiple tasks related to selling on Amazon or eBay. FreeUp gives you the opportunity to easily outsource multiple areas of your Amazon business that will, in turn, free up your time to only work on the most important aspects of your Amazon business.
Wholesale
The Wholesale Formula – Hands down, the absolute best course on how to successfully add wholesale to your Amazon FBA business. I have personally gone through 3 different wholesale courses to teach me how to do wholesale sourcing, and The Wholesale Formula (TWF) is the one that actually led me to the results I was looking for. With The Wholesale Formula, my eyes were finally opened to things about wholesale I’ve never thought about before. I took action based on the course and began to find multiple profitable wholesale accounts. IMPORTANT: TWF is open for purchase for only a few weeks out of the year. To get notified when The Wholesale Formula opens up a free training workshop and their Wholesale Formula program, then click here to be put on the waiting list.
Real Wholesale Sources – Over 200 legitimate sources of wholesale inventory for your Amazon and/or eBay business. With this book you’ll also get instruction on how to quickly identify profitable inventory and even instruction on how to possibly avoid ever having to manage the inventory yourself (have others do the prep and the selling for you!). This is a good starting point for those who are new to wholesale and need help finding suppliers.