When you think about wholesaling on Amazon, do you immediately think about how it’s unaffordable and financially overwhelming? You’re not alone. We all have limiting beliefs about money. Whether it’s “I can’t afford it!” or “I don’t have enough money,” it impacts our lives and the decisions we make for our businesses. But while the struggle is certainly real, whatever thoughts are preventing you from taking that leap into wholesaling, the...

If you’re sick of competition and want to scale your Amazon business to another level, then bundling is for you. I hear you: you are worried that you won’t find the right vendors or won’t be able to sell your products, so you’d rather stick to retail arbitrage on Amazon. But while it can be scary to venture into the unknown, the success stories of doing bundles on Amazon are real.

Meet Al Bereznay, an e-commerce veteran who has been running his online business since...

When it comes to Amazon wholesaling, I get a lot of ‘buts’ and ‘what ifs’ from Amazon sellers: “I want to wholesale, but I won’t be able to afford it,” or “What if I don’t find vendors?” These worries and doubts are usually the results of myths about wholesaling, yet it’s the most legitimate thing that could help you succeed. With the right mindset and knowledge, you can wholesale on Amazon and scale your online business.

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Build your Amazon business for long term success

Starting a business has its challenges but building a business that is sustainable comes with a whole new set of rules. When you are just getting started often you start with the minimum bare bones budget and work your way up. This is smart and savvy. However, as you grow and arrive at a place where you are comfortable you’ll need to adjust your strategies in order to sustain long term success.

After selling on Amazon for 11 years and...

Creating Amazon product bundles that sell

In the last few posts in this series, we’ve been discussing what Wholesale Bundles are and why you should consider adding them to your Amazon FBA business model. Today, we want to help you understand what drives the sales of bundles and how to create bundles that actually sell. 

It's all about perceived value. Actual value and perceived value are significantly different. In her article in the Journal of Marketing , Professor Valarie...

Why Selling Wholesale Products on Amazon is not enough

Many people who want to start selling on Amazon begin with Retail Arbitrage as the main method of finding products to sell. This is a great way to dabble in Amazon selling before deciding if it is the right fit for you. The problem is there are a ton of risk factors when starting this way. 

• It’s addicting (hidden gold nuggets have big profits, but are hard to find)
• It requires a ton of hours (hit the pavement and physically...

Shift gears: Change the way you think about selling on Amazon

Whether you have been selling on Amazon for five minutes or five years one thing you can always count on: CHANGE. Policies, platforms, and processes are always evolving. Even though change is hard it is good for business. Change is good because it forces you to grow.  What you’ve learned so far won’t get you to the next milestone. You will have to make changes, learn new skills and continue to move forward in order...

What are Amazon bundles and why they work

In today’s fast-paced eCommerce world it is no secret that Amazon has the largest platform in the world. The best part is that they allow everyday people like you and me to become third party Amazon sellers and cash in on their global trade marketplace. Cool huh? The problem is sorting through all the options and finding the business model that is the best fit for you. While KDP, Merch by Amazon and Retail Arbitrage are some of the methods...

A lot of financial gurus and experts in the world are talking about how the economy is heading to a recession. I don’t want to be all doom and gloom here, but it’s important to avoid putting our heads in the sand and hope for the best. We need to talk about the recession so that, as e-commerce sellers and Amazon business owners, we can make strategic adjustments in our businesses in preparation for an economic downturn.

In today’s episode, I discuss the steps you can take to...

I thought we might be GOING OUT OF BUSINESS during the first week of the Covid-19 crisis.

When Amazon shut its doors to new FBA shipments and halted normal Prime delivery of current in-stock inventory we were in serious trouble. We've never seen sales so low during that week. We were down 99%. Yup.

It was scary but in business, you have to learn to pivot quickly in order to survive.

We knew if we acted quickly we could switch to Merchant Fulfillment during these unprecedented times and...