AF244 - Create A+ Enhanced Brand Content for Amazon Listings

On this week’s episode, we have a special guest returning to the show to talk about enhancing brand content for your listing and why it’s so, so important. Ian Bower is the owner and creator of Graphic Rhythm, a leading design agency for Amazon sellers that helps digital marketers and small businesses create their visual identity and tackle everyday design challenges. They’ve optimized thousands of Amazon listings (including mine!), and the quality of their graphics is...

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AF242 - Amazon Trademark Questions Answered with Trademark Agent Anita Mar

guest experts trademark Apr 18, 2022

On this week’s episode, I’m joined by an amazing special guest, Anita Mar, to answer all your questions about trademarks and Amazon. Anita is a Trademark Agent and founder of Trademark Angel, a registration agency that provides online solutions to help you with all your trademark needs. She’s been in the trademark industry since 1999, working with various law firms, but struck out on her own in 2017 after noticing potential clients asking about the brand registry...

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AF236 - Amazon Sellers: Policy Updates You Need to Know Now

guest experts Mar 07, 2022

***This episode is sponsored by Central Wisconsin Prep Pack & Ship! Check out their services at mommyincome.com/wisconsinprep.

This week, I’m joined by our resident Amazon policy and compliance consultant, Lesley Hensell. Lesley is co-founder and co-owner of Riverbend Consulting, an organization that helps people with suspensions, policy issues, and account management. She’s an Amazon expert and has also been a seller for almost a decade. She’s here today for her regular...

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AF234 - Can I Sell My Amazon FBA Business?

amazon fba guest experts Feb 21, 2022

My guest today is Joe Valley from Quiet Light Brokerage, who has had his hand in buying and selling—get this—over a billion dollars of businesses online. He’s the author of The EXITpreneur’s Playbook, and he joins me on this episode to discuss his journey with building up, buying, and selling businesses and how you can best set up and maintain your business so that when you’re ready to exit, it’s a very streamlined process.

We start the episode with some...

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AF233 - A Gamechanger for resellers ebay Fulfillment with eBliss - Guest Episode with Laurie and Dave

guest experts Feb 14, 2022

This week I have two amazing guests, Dave and Laurie Bilyeu, who run eBLISS, a storage and fulfillment center for eBay and Poshmark sellers. They’re here to talk about how their fulfillment service can boost your reselling business by reducing the time and stress of dealing with your back-end. I kick things off by asking how Dave and Laurie got into e-commerce and eBay, and Dave shares how he started out flipping items he found in Goodwills before Laurie came on board, and they grew...

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AF232 - LOVE Your Business by Protecting It with Michelle Love

Today on the Amazon Files, I’m joined by a very special guest, Michelle Love, to talk about the not-so-sexy but very important subject of insurance. Michelle is an insurance expert who’s worked in the field for almost thirty years and specializes in ecommerce accounts. She’s also been an e-commerce seller since 2003, and she and her daughter have been private label Amazon sellers, so she speaks the languages of both e-commerce and insurance.

Following an update about our...

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AF231 - International Amazon Sales: Learn How to Go Global with Amazon FBA

On this week’s episode, I’m joined by ecommerce expert Kevin Sanderson, who’s here to share his expertise in global business expansion. Kevin is the organizer of the Convert More Clicks Summit, which will be taking place on 1-3 February, so we kick the episode off with a chat about what the summit will cover. Kevin is bringing in some of the best experts from the Amazon world (including me!) to talk about driving sales, getting more traffic, and making more conversions....

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AF220 - Success Stories: From FBA to Subscription Box Creator with Trudy Armand

Today, I am just so excited to bring to you all an incredibly inspiring story of success. Trudy Armand and her mom, Pam, are the founders of Her-Mine, a woman-owned business that is driven by their mission to support women in as many ways as they can. The details regarding the inspiration behind their noble work, and exactly how they maintain such a high level of integrity as they go about it, make for a fascinating and instructive conversation here today, filled with wisdom that we all need...

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AF214 - Amazon Sellers: Policy updates you need to know NOW

guest experts Oct 02, 2021

Back once again for her quarterly update is our good friend, Lesley Hensell, of Riverbend Consulting. As many of you will remember, Lesley joins us here every few months to fill us all in on what we need to know about Amazon policies, plans, and news that can affect us as third-party sellers. This time around, her update includes information that can really change everything for Amazon, our role in working with them, and, actually the global economy itself - this is one episode you literally...

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AF213 - How to Market your Brand off Amazon with Jordan West

guest experts Sep 25, 2021

Jordan West is the founder and CEO of Mindful Marketing, and host of The Secrets to Scaling Your E-Commerce Brand Podcast. Today he joins the show to tell the story of buying his first business at age 22, tripling the sales within 5 years, then selling the store and starting a successful clothing line, “Little & Lively” with his wife, Carmen. Jordan talks about persevering through challenges as an entrepreneur, growing his brands, and launching his own digital marketing...

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