Episodes
Published 11/23/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of selling on Azon radio. What is private labeling? Well you probably heard the term private labeling before you may be wondering what exactly is private labeling and there is another term as well and they are kind of used interchangeably. The other term is white labeling. So let me give you some definitions from Wikipedia for these terms. White labeling is a product produced by one company that...
Published 11/20/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of Selling on Azon radio. How to clone yourself, okay this is our final episode with Amazon seller Jack Lagory. Jack let me ask you, what advice would you give to people who are just getting started out right now.
Published 11/19/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of Selling on Azon radio. Lemons and the lemonade, today we are continuing our conversations with Jack Lagory. Today Jack is going to talk about the successes he has experienced as well as a problem that Jack had with his product and how he turned that problem into a huge advantage.
Published 11/18/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of Selling on Azon radio. How to differentiate your product from your competitor's products? Yesterday we talked to Jack Lagory, Jack talked about his trials and tribulations. Getting started on Amazon, today Jack is going to continue his story and tell you about a very creative way that he differentiates his product from his competitors which allows him to sell his product for as much as 3 and...
Published 11/17/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of Selling on Azon radio. Well this is the first episode in a multi-part series that we are doing with Jack Lagory who is a successful amazon seller and I wanted to bring Jack on because Jack started off, he had some adversity and he overcame that adversity and he’s got a lot of great lessons for you so I am going to go ahead and we are going to get right into it with Jack. Okay so we are here...
Published 11/16/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of Selling on Azon radio. Earlier today I was listening to a podcast form another Amazon seller and he was talking about how he no longer creates products based off of what the market wants. He creates them based off of what he wants and I am calling BS on this advice look this guy is extremely successful Amazon seller with a million dollar business but I guarantee you when he started out he did...
Published 11/13/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of selling on Azon radio. The 1300% profit margin item okay so today I only talk about item the I regularly find locally and resale for an average of 1300% profit. Okay I am not going to keep you in suspense I am going to tell you exactly what it is it's used books and specifically I look for nonfiction books. I look for books that have a best seller rank of 3 million or better. I look for any...
Published 11/12/15
This week I am going to be in Las Vegas for the amazing event so please enjoy this encore addition of Selling on Azon radio. This episode is keywords, keywords, keywords so why are keywords so important? Well they are important because Amazon tells us they are important. This is what Amazon has to say about maximizing your exposer in the search engine. Customer search by entering keywords which are matched against the search terms you enter for a product. Well- chosen search terms increase...
Published 11/10/15
This episode is called “What difference does it make?” Today we are going to be talking about features, benefits and results. If you are selling on Amazon or even if you are not selling on Amazon but if you have ever been on Amazon product page, you probably have seen these 5 little bullet points that are in the product listing. At the top middle of the page under where it has the estimated delivery date and the in stock and the ships from information, so you will see up to five bullet points...
Published 11/09/15
This question comes from someone in a Facebook group and they want to know if it is possible to list your item in more than one category? They go on to say when your product fits more than one category, how do you get it to show in the other category besides the main one ? Well Amazon does not give you any way to add a second category. Amazon itself will at their discretion add your item to another category and also there appears to be some automated process that sometimes adds your item to...
Published 11/06/15
Today is a question from anonymous. Anonymous says, “I have a product that I want to stop selling, what do I do with inventory that is still left at Amazon, can I have it sent to someone in the US who throws it away since I don’t live in the US, can I send my inventory to a company that destroys it for me? For example a waste processing company or something like that?” Well luckily Amazon actually offers this service themselves. If you log into your seller central account and then go to your...
Published 11/05/15
Today I am going to cover how Amazon treats different keywords variations, now keyword variations means a keyword that could be spelled a different way, keywords that could be miss-spelled, plural keywords, stemming keywords, things like that. So let me go over the different keyword variations and how Amazon treats them. Now first off stemming, what stemming is, the definition of stemming is basically reducing a derived word to its root form. So for example fish would be a root word and then...
Published 11/04/15
Today I am going to give you the most popular categories for retail arbitrage along with the best seller ranks that I look for in those categories that I know that I can sale the item quickly on Amazon. Here are the categories that I find most often when I am looking for items to sale quickly, to flip on Amazon where I can buy the item and then resale it on Amazon for a profit commonly known as retail arbitrage. I look in the categories of baby products, kitchen and dining, home and kitchen....
Published 11/03/15
Well several times during the course of this podcast I have talked about the app that I use on my iPhone, it is called Profit Bandit. It allows me to scan items and look up the items on Amazon to see if they are selling well, what the price is? What the best seller rank is and various other matrix about that particular item to see if I could buy that item at a retail store or at a thrift shop or wherever I am at and sell it for a profit. Well there is also another app that is absolutely free....
Published 11/02/15
While over the last couple of weeks I have been getting just inedited with emails from Amazon about all their new programs that they are coming out with. It looks like that Amazon is trying to get these new programs rolled out for the holiday Christmas selling season so they can see if they could add to their bottom line. Well let me go over a couple of these programs that amazon is rolling out and the first one is called handmade. This is Amazon’s challenge to Itsy, Itsy is the handcrafting...
Published 10/30/15
This question comes from someone who wants to remain anonymous. She says, “James I really appreciate all that you are doing to show us how to make money on Amazon and I especially like the series that you did on starting from scratch with no money however my situation is I don’t even have a smart phone. So I don’t have any way of scanning an item to determine if I am going to be able to make a profit on it or not.” Well you got to think back to the days and I think back to several years ago...
Published 10/29/15
“How to remove negative feedback?” This question comes in from Stacey and Stacey says, “Hey James, I received a 3 star feedback for an order that was placed a few days ago. This person left me a 5 star product review.” I am laughing because it is just so silly, he left a 5 star product review but then they left a 3 star feedback and all the feedback said was great product. I am not sure why they just left 3 stars. It could have been simply that they made a mistake and the meant to leave 5...
Published 10/28/15
This time every years Amazon sends out an email to all their sellers with the title something to the effect of holiday selling and toys and games on Amazon.com and I remember the first time I received this email several years ago, the way I read the email I thought that I would not be able to sell toys and games during the holiday season and the reason why is because Amazon words this, its kind of worded to the effect that you are not going to be able to sell toys and games unless you meet...
Published 10/27/15
So I saw this post in the Facebook group and someone was asking, I know I can get this product for 50 cents each and sell it on Amazon as an add-on for $4.99. Obviously I would like to capitalize on this but what is an add-on product? Would my product have to be categorized this way? First off let me explain what an add-on product is. An add-on product is a product that is generally less than $5 although I have seen some that are close to $10 but they are very inexpensive products that Amazon...
Published 10/26/15