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How to Find Amazon FBA Inventory for Little to No Money

October 29, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

“I need to buy more inventory, but I don’t have very much money to spend on my business!” We’ve all been there, right? Most of us started out as Amazon FBA sellers with very little capital to spend on inventory. Some folks might start out with a significant chunk of change they want to invest,

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Filed Under: Beginner, Finances, Finding Inventory, Getting Started, How To, Inventory, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

Podcast Episode 009 : How to Avoid the Summer Sales Slowdown on Amazon

July 23, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

For many Amazon FBA sellers, the summer months usually bring slower sales than normal. Nobody wants slower sales, so in this episode of The Full-Time FBA Show podcast, we discuss why sales usually slow down during the 3 months of summer. We’ll also share with you multiple proven strategies to keep your sales consistently high

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Filed Under: Increase Sales, Podcast, Seasonal

6 Steps to Take When an Item is Returned to Amazon

June 27, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 49 Comments

One of the most annoying emails for FBA sellers to receive from Amazon starts with “Refund initiated for order #102-12345-67890.” Getting a return notification is not only annoying, but it can sometimes spark a few fearful questions.  Is this return one of the high priced items I just sold? Is the buyer going to say that

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Filed Under: Account Suspension, Inventory, Returns, Seller Central, Seller Central Tips, Seller Metrics

Selling Shoes through Amazon FBA: Prepping and Processing (Plus Returns)

March 28, 2019 By Rebecca Smotherman 49 Comments

Knowing which shoes to source isn’t the only new skill to acquire when it comes to adding the shoe category to your Amazon FBA inventory. Prepping your shoes can also present some new opportunities to learn, but the differences from prepping and listing in other categories are easy to learn if you read and follow

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Filed Under: Inventory Processing, Returns, Shoes

Inventory Lab Review – Why We Use InventoryLab For Listing Amazon FBA Inventory

January 13, 2019 By Stephen Smotherman 51 Comments

As Amazon FBA resellers, we’re all looking for ways to save time and money in processing our inventory. One of the biggest ways I encourage FBA sellers to save time by spending a little money is to use a third-party listing service, rather than listing your FBA inventory directly through Amazon Seller Central. The fewer

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Filed Under: Beginner, Business, Getting Started, Inventory, Inventory Lab, Product Listing, Resources, Tools

Review: Tactical Arbitrage Academy

October 2, 2018 By Rebecca Smotherman 9 Comments

Raise your hand if you’ve ever paid for a gym membership, used it once or twice, and then stopped going because it was a lot of effort for not a lot of results (at least not a lot of results right away). It’s ok to admit it; we’ve all been there. The people who get

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Filed Under: Advanced, Finding Inventory, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Reviews, Tactical Arbitrage, Tools

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

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Filed Under: Business, Fears, Outsourcing, Sourcing

How to use Scoutify to Find Profits in Amazon Restricted Items

April 9, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 10 Comments

It’s so frustrating. You’re out sourcing for inventory and finally find a profitable item, only to discover you’re restricted from selling that item on Amazon. Seriously?! When this happens to me, I usually just put the item back on the shelf and keep sourcing. I try to forget about that restricted item and move on with

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Filed Under: Advanced, Finding Inventory, How To, Inventory Lab, Restrictions, Scoutify, Tips & Tricks, Troubleshooting

Amazon FBA Storage Changes 2018 — LTSF and Storage Space

March 5, 2018 By Stephen Smotherman 37 Comments

Hopefully by now you have seen the email from Amazon about upcoming changes related to storage at FBA warehouses. As with all of your seller emails from Amazon, I hope you took note of the email and read it thoroughly to familiarize yourself with Amazon’s policy changes. In this post I want to break down

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Filed Under: Long-Term Storage Fees, Seller Metrics

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

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Filed Under: Beginner, Clearance Sourcing, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

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