Tools
Every article filed under Tools, most recent first.
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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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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 sizes 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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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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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 3rd 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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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 it with a website and even a blog. It’s about control. If your business…
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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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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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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 a couple of things. 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 about knowing what 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”…