Master the marketplaces
Master the marketplaces like Amazon.com. Discover the tools and strategies you need to sell products online.
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Claude AI for Amazon Sellers: 12 Ways to Save Hours and Sell More
Bulk-edit hundreds of ad bids in minutes, rewrite listings around real keywords, and find new product niches. 12 practical ways to put Claude AI to work.
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What Is SmartScout and How Can It Help Amazon Sellers?
SmartScout helps Amazon sellers take control of their Amazon strategy. It is the premier tool for competitive intelligence, market trends, and making use of Amazon data…
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What Is Helium 10 and Why Should You Care?
If you sell on Amazon or want to start selling on Amazon, you’re in the right place. Helium 10 is a web-based software tool that can help you make sense of the mess and…
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Master Helium 10 and Pick the Right Products on Amazon
Finding your bliss selling on Amazon? You can do it. No more days of headaches, struggling to find products to sell. Learn how to master the right tool to find great…
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Discover Which Is Best: Helium 10 or Jungle Scout
Want to know the differences between Jungle Scout and Helium 10? Both are great tools to help you succeed selling on Amazon. Check out this great comparison to see how…
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How to Get into Amazon Brand Registry in 7 Days
Is it possible to get into Amazon Brand Registry in 7 days or less? Oh, it’s possible, and if you’re not in Amazon Brand Registry, you’ll want those benefits as fast as…
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How to Fix GS1 UPC Barcode Error on Amazon Seller Central
This ASIN has GTIN codes that do not match the brand associated to the ASIN. Do you have ASINs for your products on Amazon that don’t have GS1 barcodes, and now Amazon…
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Step-by-Step Video Guide: How to Sell on Amazon
Want the freedom and fulfillment that owning your own business can provide? Want to have a business that works for you even while you sleep or vacation? Many people do…
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How to Increase FBA Restock Limits on Amazon
Maybe you’re creating an FBA shipment, and everything is going fine until Seller Central says you can’t send in any more inventory. You’ve reached your restock limit…
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Drawbacks of Fulfillment by Amazon You Shouldn’t Overlook
What is Fulfillment by Amazon? It’s pretty straightforward: you (or your business) have a product to sell and use Amazon’s special shipping rates to ship your product in…
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Third-Party Selling on Walmart Marketplace vs Amazon
Many retailers have tried integrating third-party sellers into their platforms (Sears did this, among many others, and it just wasn’t great). Walmart has allowed…
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Amazon vs Etsy: Which Is Better for Your Business?
Amazon is huge, and with its size come millions of shoppers and potential customers for your business. First, let’s take a quick look at Etsy. Etsy is a marketplace…
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Self-Fulfilling Orders on Amazon? Don’t Be Mad, Be Glad
One of the most appealing things about selling on Amazon is the ability to send products in bulk to Amazon warehouses and have Amazon take care of shipping the…
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Amazon Sales Dropped Like a Rock? Learn What to Do About It
Just think: sitting at home or at a small business office, your products can be shipped to customers all over the world. With FBA, you can have your orders shipped out…
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The 4 Easy Steps to Sell Your Products with Fulfillment by Amazon
Amazon has warehouses the size of small towns located all over the world. It’s crazy. Products that you sell or want to sell can be stored in an Amazon warehouse and…
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New Product Photo Service from Amazon
Here’s an interesting development from Amazon. Amazon is now offering a product photography service to sellers using Fulfillment by Amazon. Amazon’s announcement states…
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Avoid These 5 Mistakes When Using FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon)
Selling on Amazon outshines other seller marketplaces such as eBay and Etsy because of Amazon’s incredible fulfillment network of warehouses. Amazon lets third-party…
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How to Make Great Money Selling on Amazon
Some secrets are buried deep. But this secret is in plain sight. Making money on Amazon has never been easier. What most people are looking for, though, is how to make…
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Sell More, and Sell Faster, with Amazon’s Coupon Feature
Well, Amazon recently released a new tool for third-party sellers on its platform called Coupons. You might ask, haven’t we seen this before with Lightning Deals when they…
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How to Suppress or Remove Amazon’s Enhanced Brand Content (EBC)
Warning: Enhanced Brand Content is not indexed by Amazon search. Amazon’s support has confirmed that EBC content for sellers on Amazon is not indexed in the search…
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Optimize Your Amazon Listing: 10 Powerful Search & Keyword Strategies
Asteroid Aim has published a great video for optimizing your Amazon product listing for better keyword selection and search results on Amazon. What’s great about the…
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Amazon vs eBay: A Quick Comparison for Sellers
Amazon vs eBay: the winner used to be less cut-and-dried, but we can say from direct experience that one of these marketplaces can make you a whole lot more than the…
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5 Tips for an Amazon Brand Store That Rocks
You’ve heard about the new Amazon Storefront for Brands, but there are a few things to consider when creating your store that can make it easier to manage and see…
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How Amazon Keyword Search Terms Are Changing and What You Can Do About It
Many businesses have suffered the consequences of Amazon’s changes to its keyword search terms. Don’t be one of them. First, what are Amazon’s keywords? There are…
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Get More Product Reviews with Amazon’s Early Reviewer Program
***Update: Amazon is making it easier for third-party sellers to get their products into the Amazon Vine Program, and so the Early Review Program is no longer…
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Everything You Need to Know for Ultimate Success Selling on Amazon
Successful selling on Amazon doesn’t have to be complicated. It’s the most important thing you can do for both short-term and long-term success selling on Amazon. You…
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50 Ways to Sell Way More on Amazon and Increase Your Sales
Want better sales on Amazon? Some sellers find their sales dropping and aren’t sure what’s happening. There are a lot of factors that go into selling on Amazon, and…
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3 Secrets to Selling Private Label Products on Amazon
Private label is a great way to protect the products you sell from the ever-encroaching competition. Further below, I’ve listed three keys that sellers often miss or…
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How to Set Up WordPress Hosting to Showcase Your Branded Products
So you’ve got a great product, maybe many of your own branded products, and you want to showcase them with a website and even a blog. It’s about control. If your business…
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Get Faster Results and a Better Income Selling on Amazon
You would learn a trade from a master, and the master wouldn’t just teach how to do something. The master would teach trade secrets that brought him or her to mastery…
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Warning: Amazon’s Banned Wording When Emailing Customers
As an Amazon shopper, you may occasionally receive an email from a third-party seller. That’s not a problem, and those emails are allowed in certain situations we’re…
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How to Add Video to Your eBay Listings the Right Way
Once upon a time, you could add YouTube videos to eBay listings, but not anymore. If you try to add a YouTube video through copy and paste of the YouTube embed code, it…
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How to Write Killer Product Descriptions on Amazon
Your product descriptions are the single most important piece of your product listing, even more important than the photos of your product. Sound crazy? Most product…
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The Secret of Amazon’s Enhanced Brand Content (Now A+ Content) in Seller Central
Amazon finally did it. They’ve leveled the playing field for third-party sellers with the Enhanced Brand Content (EBC) tool in Seller Central. The Enhanced…
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How eBay Can Boost Your Amazon Sales
Absolutely, but many sellers forget this and focus on Amazon. Rightly so. They know that in a fight between Selling on Amazon vs eBay, Amazon smashes eBay, but that…
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Why Amazon Will Help You Sell More Than eBay This Christmas
There’s no question about it now: Amazon is the largest retailer when it comes to product selection and is a definite powerhouse. But there’s something to be said for…
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4 Reasons Amazon Lightning Deals Change Everything for Sellers
If you’re just starting out with your business, how do you get increased sales? Sales are what drive your item’s Sales Rank on Amazon, and Sales Rank determines how well…
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How Amazon Helped Me Build a Business and Work from Home
I had always wondered what I’d do for a career (and what I’d do with my life, for that matter). Like most, I went to school, got good grades, and got a good job. The…
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The Most Important One-Word Question for Your Amazon Business
A key concept in the 7 Pillars of Selling Online is to discover and follow a passion that you have. Use your passions and interests to pick a niche and products that can…
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The Strange Way Spaghetti Can Help Your Business
The miracle product, right? The one product that completely outshines all the rest… How do you create or market a product when there are existing products already out…
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The Possibilities Are Endless with 3D Printing
We’re entering a time in history when the possibilities are truly opening up like never before. Today, you can source new products with just a click of a mouse, and you…
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Making Your Amazon Products Remarkable
It’s what is worth making a remark about (one of my favorite ideas from Seth Godin). Below is a video of a presentation that Seth Godin gave to Google a few years back…
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The Six Things Holding Back Your Amazon Marketing
Could there be something in your marketing or in the words you use about your products that might actually hurt sales? Or at least, not get sales going the way you would…
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Get Great International Shipping Rates for Your Amazon Business
Whether you’re importing your products in bulk or exporting bulk orders internationally, the shipping costs can be killer. Just imagine if you’re having an international…
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Olympians Have a Trainer, and as an Amazon Seller, So Should You
There’s something that Olympians and professional sports players realize that the rest of the world is just figuring out. If you want to accomplish great things, you…
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The 4 Secrets to Create an Automated Business on Amazon
When I was just starting out, I wanted to find something that could be automated, that could work while I slept (or vacationed, or started other fun projects). I knew…
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Don’t Sell Products Without This Tool from Amazon
The answer is an incredible tool that is changing the way people shop online, and it’s revolutionizing stay-at-home business owners all the way up to big brand-name…
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Don’t Leave Your Sourcing Business to Chance. Verify.
It’s never been easier to get products to sell, but with that ease and convenience, you want to make sure that what you’re getting is what you’ve ordered (the quality…
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Tips for Getting Shipping Supplies for Your Amazon Business
When I was first starting out, I’d get boxes from OfficeMax, and they were expensive! There’s a better way to save on shipping. If you use Fulfillment by Amazon (which…
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Pictures Sell Products: How to Make Yours Great
The quality of your pictures makes a difference. A product picture that has a background that hasn’t been fully removed, or that is out of focus, really puts a damper on…
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The One Tool You Must Have When Selling Products on Amazon
I use a photo box to take pictures of the products to get a white background. The photo box has been a tremendous help in taking pictures and giving the white space…
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Are Your Amazon Products Viewed but Not Purchased?
You’ve listed your item on Amazon, but you’re not getting any sales, or you’ve had a big drop in sales. What’s the problem? There could be several things going on. The Amazon…
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Ranking in Google? Know How Your eCommerce Site Stacks Up
If you want to know the basics of how Google views your site, you can ask them and wait for a response…or you can use one of the free tools Google has provided to…
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Made Easy: Research Products to Sell on Amazon
A lot of people ask how to know which products to select. Well, if you’re selling online, you’ll want to make sure people have a chance to find your products, whether…
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The Tax Man Knocketh
Continuing our highlight of helpful tools for your business: Right up there with accounting software in terms of importance is your tax software. If you like to do…
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Don’t Lose Money on Your Amazon Sales
One thing you definitely don’t want to neglect is the accounting for your business. Now “accounting” may sound scary to some…but really, it’s just a matter of keeping…
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Outsourcing Relieves Your Burdens, but Know How to Use It
Outsourcing. We’re not talking about outsourcing your products here, but about outsourcing your problems. Sometimes, as a small business owner, things just get busy, and…
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Don’t Use Free Email Accounts for Your Business
So, say a customer wants to email you about your product, and you make the critical mistake that so many small business owners make: using a free email account. Well…
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Online Business? Back It Up.
I once had my computer go on the fritz and had to completely reformat my computer (losing my data). Fortunately, I had a backup to an external hard drive…or so I…
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Use Email Follow-Ups to Boost Sales
The best customers are repeat customers. The first sale to a customer shouldn’t be your last. The first sale is the “front end” and follow-up sales are called “back end”…
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Attention: How Much Is Your Product Getting?
In the days of yore, there were only a few channels on television. If you wanted to get a message out, you simply bought enough advertising to push your message in front…
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3 Ways to Outrank Amazon in the Search Engines
Matt Cutts of Google explains why your product should have its own blog or website page. It’s a common problem: you have a product for sale, it’s listed on Amazon, but…
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3 Ways Amazon Affiliate Sales Can Boost Your Business
I make my living selling products on Amazon.com, but selling products on Amazon isn’t the only way to make a nice income. Amazon.com is a website where you can buy…
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The Magic Bullet: How to Write Bullet Points That Sell Online
It’s amazing how many sellers miss the point. It’s easy to see whenever you’re shopping online. Special Hint: Keep reading for a tool you can use to see what listings…
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Warning: Most Amazon Sellers Miss Out on Real Profits
The Story… Bob sells dishware online. He sells on Amazon and on his own website. His sales are over $250,000, and he feels that things are going great. What Bob doesn’t…
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6 Steps to Increase Sales with Amazon Fulfillment
Shhhh! Let’s get it right out in the open. No more suspense. What is the secret that can transform your business without having to hire a bunch of staff or manage the…
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How Hard Is It to Source Products from China? One Answer, 7 Tips
Canton Fair Convention centers big enough to hold football stadiums, built for displaying lots and lots of products. The question: How Hard is it to Source Product from…
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How Many Products Does It Take to Make a Living Selling on Amazon?
Who doesn’t want to have more time to do what they love? Other businesses require massive amounts of our most precious resource: time. Amazon has the tools so you can…
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Amazon vs eBay: 7 Reasons Why One Will Make You More Money Than the Other
Because one of these can make you a ton more than the other. Wouldn’t it be best to sell in every marketplace? If you have limited time, are you sure you want to learn…
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How to Sell on Amazon and Make a Living: The 10 Best-Kept Secrets
My day job was driving me insane. I knew that “someday” I wanted to own my own business, but I just wasn’t sure what that business would be. I wanted Freedom. Freedom…
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8 Advantages of Selling on Amazon
The 7 Pillars of Selling Online has the secrets and the framework necessary to successfully sell products online. I’ve made my full-time income by selling online with no…