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The Five Times You Should Buy an Item with a High Sales Rank

March 19, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman Leave a Comment

I’m like any other Amazon FBA seller out there – if I could source and sell only low ranking, fast turning items at 100% ROI (return on investment) or higher, I would choose to do that every day, all day. That’s what we all want to do, right? Maximize our ROI and maximize the speed

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Filed Under: Increase Sales, Sales Rank, Sourcing

What Does a Sales Rank of Zero (or “Not Available”) Mean?

March 17, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 11 Comments

Most Amazon resellers use sales rank as a major factor in deciding whether or not to buy an item to resell. But what happens if the sales rank for an item is zero, “N/A” (Not Available), or Rank Unavailable? Are there any other ways to decide if this item is worth reselling on Amazon? For most

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Podcast Episode 021 : Amazon Sales Rank: The Top 8 Things You Need to Know

March 14, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 3 Comments

Sales rank on Amazon can be one of the most perplexing aspects of selling on Amazon. In today’s episode, we clear up the confusion by unpacking this phenomenon, describing what it is and how it works so that you know how to best leverage this information to make faster sales and more profits. Sales rank

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Sales Rank 101 – Understanding Amazon Best Seller’s Rank

March 4, 2020 By Stephen Smotherman 6 Comments

“Well, what’s the sales rank?” You hear this question all the time when Amazon FBA sellers are talking about whether or not to buy an item to resell on Amazon. Understanding Amazon sales rank is one of the most crucial topics for new Amazon sellers. In the rest of this blog post we want to

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Filed Under: Beginner, Getting Started, Sales Rank, Sourcing

Decoding the Electronics Amazon Sales Rank Code

September 28, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 28 Comments

Most resellers rely on Sales Rank when making purchasing decisions. For reasons known only to Amazon, the category of Electronics often does not provide a category wide sales rank. Many times when scanning an Electronics product, a scouting app (like Scoutify) will return a sales rank of 0 or N/A (Not Applicable). In almost all

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Filed Under: CamelCamelCamel, How To, Ideas, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Sourcing, Tips & Tricks

Case Study – Electronics Sales Ranks and Competing Against Amazon

September 2, 2017 By Stephen Smotherman 14 Comments

In this blog post, I asked you, according to your own sourcing strategies, if you would buy a particular Electronic item or not. Here’s the item we looked at: Product: Adonit Jot Pro Fine Point Stylus – Silver ASIN: B00931DHKM Clearance price at Target: $3.94 Total available for sale: 20 NOTE: This post was updated

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Filed Under: Case Studies, Exercises, How To, Inventory, Pricing Tips, ROI, Sales Rank

Overcoming Your Fear of Buying High Ranked Items

June 20, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 4 Comments

I’m like any other Amazon FBA seller out there – if I could source and sell only low ranking, fast turning items at 100% ROI (return on investment) or higher, I would choose to do that every day, all day. That’s what we all want to do, right? Maximize our ROI and maximize the speed

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Filed Under: Advanced, CamelCamelCamel, Fears, Inventory, Retail Arbitrage, Sales Rank, Sourcing

Using the CamelCamelCamel and Keepa Google Chrome Extensions

May 9, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

* This blog post is out of date as CameCamelCamel has been updated and is no longer helpful to resellers. But the info about Keepa in this post is still very helpful. Today’s blog post will be short on written text so that we can point you directly to a screen capture video. I’ve put

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Find Better, Faster Selling Amazon FBA Inventory

April 27, 2016 By Stephen Smotherman 1 Comment

Has this ever happened to you? You go sourcing for inventory to sell on Amazon and find some good stuff… I mean, the prices are good, the sales rank is good, but once you finally get these items to Amazon, the prices for many have either tanked, or they just never sell. You check in

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, CamelCamelCamel, Finding Inventory, Inventory, Keepa, Online Arbitrage, Resources, Retail Arbitrage, Sourcing, Tools

10 Things You Need to Know For A Profitable Q4

October 1, 2015 By Stephen Smotherman 31 Comments

Q4. For an online seller, it’s the most wonderful time of the year. Sales and profits seem to go through the roof as more and more people buy stuff online for the holidays. If you’re just assuming that Q4 is going to be great for you but you’re not doing anything differently, then you might

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