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  1. Chibbs

    Invented Product: Testing Market w/ Amazon Product Listing and Facebook Ads

    HOT! 
    Hey all, I recently started a new ecommerce business venture. When I moved to a new house and installed by weight room in the basement. I realized the I-joist ceiling was the perfect place to hang pullup bars & monkey bars. I came up with a design that allowed me to create a pull up bar...
  2. ProcessPro

    Any ideas on how to market to Amazon sellers?

    IDEA MARKETING 
    I offer services that can benefit the aforementioned target market, but I'm not sure what's the best point of contact. I'm thinking of going on the seller page then 'Ask a Question'. What do you think? Any help or ideas are appreciated.
  3. F

    Selling on Amazon vs Website

    I wanna start selling my own product soon (still have to look for one btw xD), however, I'm unsure whether I should start with my own website or with FBA. Going for the website would basically be the concept MJ and Tim Ferriss (4-Hour Work Week) recommend, even though I don't quite know their...
  4. G

    Bookstore Inventory

    At risk of sounding like an idiot, I have a question for anyone familiar with selling books. How do book sellers source their inventory? Sites like Thriftbooks, sellers on Amazon, sellers on Ebay... So many businesses sell used books. Where do they come from and how do they get them? Is...
  5. RazorCut

    Reducing your Amazon Exposure - Getting MORE sales and Making MORE money. Would you be daft not to?

    MARKETING 
    OK this is graph of third party Walmart sellers on the Walmart.com platform (which operates just like Amazon) You can see how Walmart have been gearing up to take on the might of Amazon and do their utmost to steal sales away. To do that they need as many third party sellers as possible...
  6. StoveOngle

    I'm here because my girlfriends mum said I couldn't do it.

    INTRO 
    Let me introduce myself first of all. I’m Stove, I’m from Scotland (UK), I’m 29. I’m a hobbyist filmmaker/ photographer and I currently work in digital marketing for a campervan manufacture company. I own my own successful small local business too, which recently got all but destroyed thanks...
  7. Vigilante

    Amazon Launches A Feature I Have Been Asking For 6 Years

    What are Virtual Bundles? Virtual bundles are a new type of ASIN that let you sell FBA products from your brand in complementary groups and give you the option of offering discounts on the new ASIN. It takes just a few minutes to create a bundle. You don’t have to change anything about your...
  8. Young Money

    I violated CENTS and my business failed..

    MINDSET FAILURE 
    My first product failed and I lost a lot of money on it. Now I’m looking back at what went wrong to make sure I don’t make the same mistakes for the new business I’m starting. Well, all I really had to do was a CENTS analysis and it became clear very fast! First Business (Amazon FBA Product)...
  9. MTF

    Grow Your Business With a Book (An Unorthodox Marketing Strategy That Built One of the Largest Real Estate Companies in the World)

    MARKETING 
    Are you looking for a new, lesser-known but potentially very lucrative source of leads to your business? Would you like to build authority in your niche, develop new relationships, get press mentions, paid speaking gigs, or consulting contracts? Do you want to have a high-value gift for your...
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  10. Salama2017

    Price Gouger Is Left with Thousands of Products!

    HOT! OFF-TOPIC 
    He has 17,700 Bottles of Hand Sanitizer and Nowhere to Sell Them This is what happens when you jump into one product and use one channel to resell. He will probably end up donating everything.
  11. biophase

    I turned off all my Amazon PPC and sales dropped...

    MARKETING 
    but not by alot! I just found this too interesting not to post. The numbers have been altered (because I didn't want to give away my revenue) but the percentages are accurate. Here are the results from Feb 1-13 and Feb 14-26 Feb 1-13 Sales $100k. Sales from PPC $35000, cost $6700. ACOS 19%...
  12. Tim001

    Amazon - Any Tips for rebooting a listing that has been "sold out" for some time?

    MARKETING 
    Hi Everyone, I have an Amazon listing that had steady sales and high conversion rates, when launching I only spent $30 on advertising. I capture & analyze keywords that generated sales then used those to update my listings. We ran out of inventory (separate story) and were sold out for about...
  13. AgainstAllOdds

    Why Amazon Sucks: The Master Thread

    HOT! 
    The purpose of this thread is to present real, concrete facts and numbers on why starting a business on Amazon might be the absolute dumbest, lowest ROI thing you could do. It's not based on anecdotes. It's not based on hypotheticals. It's based around numbers published by one of the most...
  14. MTF

    Can You Escape the Giants in an Online Business?

    SOCIAL MEDIA RANT 
    Virtually every online business model I analyzed recently relies to a large extent on one of the giants: Google, Amazon, Facebook, or Apple. It seems like with each year it's getting harder and harder not to base your online business on one of the big companies. Just to give a few examples...
  15. Jinnah1947

    VA to help you in your business (6 months of Amazon Seller Central experience)!

    Do you get so bogged down in day to day running of your business that you don't have the time to work on your business?? Instead of creating more strategic partnerships or launching new products, you spend most of your time answering emails? Instead of setting goals and making plans for the...
  16. Cyberdeth

    I wrote and published an ebook - part 2

    EXECUTION 
    After publishing my initial book on amazon, I got a ton of great feedback from the members here and one of the comments were that I should write what people want first. So my second project is starting out pretty good so far. My process so far is: Find out what the niche is that I want to...
  17. ecommercewolf

    Prep Center for Amazon FBA Needed

    PEOPLE 
    So I've built up my Amazon FBA business to over 10k a month out of an apartment... However with Q4 coming up and also with my long term goals in mind, I would like to outsource the labeling, prepping, and packaging aspect of Amazon FBA with a prep center. This will free up a ton of time for me...
  18. J

    Mastering Amazon Listings

    MARKETING 
    After listing over 200 products in the past 2 years, I would like to sum up the core success factors: 1. Products Pictures which are outstanding within the keyword search: Outstanding means here especially compared to your listed competition 2. Having the right keywords: There are lots of...
  19. VentureVoyager

    In darkness. I lost my direction and clarity and I need your advice.

    MINDSET 
    Hi. I’ve been going through a very hard and dark period in my life. I am very confused, and I need some perspective. Here’s my intro thread: INTRO - Hello! from a location-independent self-publisher. My journey so far Since then, I was able to get to $11k in sales in the beginning of 2018 and...
  20. SeanLewis

    Launching a new product and brand on amazon

    EXECUTION 
    Hey everyone, I've been around lurking the forum for the past 2 years now. Decided maybe i should actually sign up.. So let me give you a little backstory of where i am right now. I launched my first product on amazon UK on november 29th 2018 and on december 1st i got my first sale (yes, i...

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