One of the key components of moving forward to greater success in your Amazon FBA business is rightly understanding the relationship between time and money. When it comes to running a business, you must understand the finite nature of your resources. Your time and energy are limited. Once you spend them, you can’t get them
How to Increase Amazon FBA Sales on Slow-Moving Inventory
We all want our FBA inventory to sell as soon as it hits the warehouse shelves, and in an ideal world we would never have to deal with monthly storage fees or long-term storage fees for any of our inventory. But the reality for all of us as Amazon sellers is that at times we
Is selling on Amazon FBA easier or harder than 5 years ago?
Things sometimes seem to change in the Amazon world faster than we as sellers can keep up. Long-term storage fees are changing this year, the Amazon guidelines are updated from time to time, and sales rank changes multiple times throughout the day! It’s hard at times to know whether Amazon is getting easier for us
Seller Central Tip #6 – The Magic Words for Communicating with Seller Central
Nothing is more frustrating than trying to get your point across to a Seller Central representative and feeling like you are continually being misunderstood. In previous blog posts, we have covered ways to handle different glitches within the Amazon inventory system – some of which require opening a case and sending a written message to
Blunders & Benefits of Having Unique Review Request Emails
By now I hope you know just how important it is to follow all of Amazon’s rules. Breaking too many Amazon guidelines could easily get your seller account suspended. Recently Amazon has updated how sellers can communicate with their customers, and I want to make sure you know about how to correctly go about these
4 Tips for Handling Amazon FBA Taxes
Before you hit the snooze button and move on to a more exciting post, let me acknowledge up front that taxes aren’t the most glamorous topic out there. Unless you’re a CPA or tax professional. In which case I don’t mean any offense by saying that taxes are boring. Is anyone still with me at
Feedback Genius Review – Get More Positive (and Eliminate Negative) Feedback
Most Amazon sellers will agree: It takes a verrrrrry looooooong time to build up your feedback on the Amazon platform. Most Amazon customers aren’t accustomed to leaving seller feedback for FBA purchases, at least not with the same frequency as eBay customers leave seller feedback. It could take 100 sales via FBA to receive one
If I Had To Start My Amazon FBA Business Over Again With Only $500
* Updated for 2020 Who doesn’t love a do-over? Hindsight is 20/20, and I’m sure all of us can think of ways we would improve our Amazon FBA businesses if we could start over from scratch. I know I can think of plenty of things I wish I had known back in 2011 when I
7 Tips for Navigating the April Sales Tax Perfect Storm
Today we have a guest post from our friends at TaxJar. We hope you find the information as helpful as we have. April is what we here at TaxJar call a “sales tax perfect storm.” Because quarterly and monthly sales tax deadlines converge this month, nearly every online seller will have at least one sales
Responding To The Latest Changes In Amazon Selling
Updated for March 2016. First posted May 2014. The past few days have seen many Amazon sellers freaking out about the latest Amazon policy update. I’ve even heard of people saying they are going to quit selling on Amazon because of this change. In all honesty, I think that most people are just overreacting and