The year in Amazon always starts rather quietly. The holiday season all the way from Thanksgiving and Black Friday to Christmas and Kwanzaa has been busy, and then sales begin to fall back as the new year arrives.
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Digital Marketing Tools
Marketing is crucial to getting good returns from your FBA business, but it can be incredibly time-consuming. Sometimes, you can’t seem to get the right information; sometimes you have to manage processes manually that could surely be automated, if only you had a way to do it.
Continue reading “Digital Marketing Tools“New Year’s resolutions for FBA sellers
New Year’s resolutions are a great way of assessing where you’ve got to, and what you need to do next. For instance, you’ve got a bit out of shape, so you say “next year, I’m going to swim twice a week and run every weekend”.
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Your relationship with your customers if you sell on Amazon is indirect; technically, they ‘belong’ to Amazon, not to you. But that doesn’t mean you can pass the buck. You are responsible for your customers having a great experience.
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Alibaba is one of the most important resources for FBA businesses. It’s a key element in sourcing, if you want to buy from China.
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Q4 is your big chance to sell a whole lot of product, so most FBA sellers spend the quarter focusing single-mindedly on unit sales.
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Some people want to treat their FBA business as passive income. They source the product, launch it, and then just leave it to tick over.
Continue reading “Amazon FBA: Passive Income Business?”It’s time to say goodbye – when it’s time to shut a listing
Sometimes, despite all the care you take over product selection, you end up with a product that just isn’t selling. And if nothing you try has any effect on sales, you may need to say goodbye to that product – close that listing and move on.
Continue reading “It’s time to say goodbye – when it’s time to shut a listing”Q4 is the time to make super profits!
The fourth quarter is the time for any retailer to make super profits. That applies every bit as much on Amazon as in the mall; there’s a huge spike in both searches and sales. There’s Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Thanksgiving, Hallowe’en, Christmas/Hanukkah/Kwanzaa; lots to look forward to!
Continue reading “Q4 is the time to make super profits!”How to get the most out of using Alibaba for sourcing
Alibaba is a really great way to source products to sell on Amazon. The Chinese company is a massive e-commerce platform, not unlike eBay or Amazon. The big difference is that it doesn’t sell to consumers; it’s strictly B2B (business to business).
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