Clear the Shelf with Chris & Chris

In this episode we discuss the looming recession.  Based on news reports, business owner, and consumer sentiment a recession may become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Not to worry though.  Chris & Chris dive into what to expect, how to pivot, how to spot opportunity, and what they will do during a recession.  It's not as doom and gloom as you may believe and some of the best compan...

In this episode we discuss some common pain points Amazon sellers have and how you can medicate that pain points.   Often these are fairly simple things but sometimes we need to hear them or be reminded of them since we may be so entrenched in running the operations we forget to take the time to zoom out and find bottle necks.   Let us know what pain points you have in your Amazon busine...

Amazon Prime has a 53.6% penetration into US Households.   Amazon Replens.   What Amazon Sellers Should do in case of recession.   Buying back your time.   These are a few of the topics we cover in this week's pod with very special guest Chris Anderson.   You'll also discover a local, to him, delicacy that is "not that weird".   All of this and more in this week's epi...

What is price tanking on Amazon?   Is it an endemic problem or is there opportunity to be had?   Do we blame lead lists, newbie sellers, Amazon, or is there an unseen hand of the market that moves prices?     If we know certain rules of economics can we predict what may happen in the future to prices based off of historical data?   We answer all these questions and mo...

In this episode we discuss some business principles and laws that can both help and hurt your business.  We also discuss how you can use them to your advantage or overcome them so they don't become stumbling blocks in your Amazon business. The laws include: The Sunk Cost Fallacy Parkinson's Law Impostor Syndrome The Hawthorne Effect The Pareto Principle Some of these, like The Sunk Cost Falla...

It's the ultimate dream.   I give someone I can trust some money and they turn it into a system that just prints money while I go about my day lounging poolside or perfecting my golf swing (although that would probably require a few lifetimes).   This dream is being sold to a lot of people right now and they call it Amazon Automation.   It's actually a nightmare.   We dive into...

Perfection.  That elusive dream where everything is hitting on all cylinders, life and business are in perfect alignment, and growth is inevitable. Unfortunately, that dream is just that.  Elusive. Instead, we should focus on getting things done.  Even if they aren't perfect.  Because action will drive results and even if the results are imperfect you will have been able to lea...

In this episode we discuss some of the pervasive myths that, seemingly, don't die no matter how many times they are busted.  They include: Arbitrage is Dead Amazon Hates Third Party Sellers You Can't Scale an Arbitrage Business Amazon Won't Accept Retail Receipts and more... We hope you enjoy the episode and we look forward to growing an arbitrage focused podcast with you.  Please let us...

Today we discuss Amazon Bookkeeping with Nathan Hirsch of EcomBalance.  Nathan Hirsch is a lifelong entrepreneur and currently the CEO of EcomBalance and Outsource School. Nathan started his first business in 2009 from his college dorm room buying and selling textbooks on Amazon. In the next 5 years, he expanded into other products and scaled it to over $25 million in total sales.  &nbsp...

In this episode of Clear The Shelf we interview Eli Gluckowsky of OALeadsPro.com We discuss his new beauty list and why he is going a bit of a different direction using higher profit items that have a lower ROI and why it's important not to be too stringent in your sourcing guidelines. We cover the power of outsourcing your prep and reclaiming your time and how you can essentially do it for free....