The Full-Time FBA Show - Amazon Reseller Strategies & Stories

On today's episode of The Full-time FBA Show, Rebecca and Stephen reflect on their tour of an Amazon Fulfillment center before the COVID pandemic. In their conversation, they discuss what they learned and how it has impacted the way they do business. One of their major takeaways was the phrase 'customer obsession.' Since then they have adapted the standards of their business to be more oriented to...

At one point or another, you are going to run out of sourcing money, but that does not have to mean you cannot grow your business anymore. In today's episode, we hear about seven ways you can grow your Amazon FBA business that do not require any sourcing. From improving your product listing to advertising and spending time on your education and mindset, there are many ways to expand without additi...

Wholesale bundles have numerous benefits; to you as the seller, and to your customers. As someone who has been on the retail and online arbitrage side of things, as well as the wholesale and wholesale bundling side of things, our guest today has a lot of valuable knowledge to share when it comes to the positives and the negatives of these markets. Kristin Ostrander was once the Queen of Black Frid...

If you are looking for creative ways to differentiate yourself on Amazon while turning an extra profit too, think about starting to sell items in bundles! Creating bundles is all about batching items that match each other thematically, and today on the show you'll hear all of our tips around how and why you should consider implementing this strategy. First up, we give you some definitions of what...

While there are many products and services available that claim to be necessities for starting a new business, it's hard to know if you really need them, especially when you factor in the cost. After running a successful Amazon FBA business for over a decade, we have gained a lot of valuable knowledge and experience. We do, however, have some regrets. In today's episode, we give you a rundown of s...

Competing with Amazon as a third party seller can be a daunting task. It's easy to feel that the odds are stacked against you. After all, it's a huge company with tremendous resources and control over crucial elements, like who gets awarded the buy box. While it's often wise to avoid competing with Amazon, it's also important not to let fear blind you to potential opportunities of earning a custom...

It's that time of year, where we spring clean various areas of our life, from our kitchens to our closets, to our computers. Just like everything else, over time our Amazon seller account can become cluttered and overwhelming for a multitude of reasons. Most of the time it's because there are other more pressing and profitable issues vying for our attention. Today we share multiple tips and strate...

If you've ever tried manual online arbitrage (OA), you know that it can take up immense amounts of your time to find what you are looking for. On today's show you'll learn about a tool called Tactical Arbitrage which can, among other things, help you drastically reduce the amount of time you spend looking for items to resell. Rebecca has been using Tactical Arbitrage for well over four years, and...

Today we dive into the topic of how to profit from selling seasonal items on Amazon. You might be wondering, what are seasonal items? Well, this category includes anything that isn't usually promoted all year-round. From Easter eggs and Mother's Day gifts to snow boots and bathing suits and everything in between, seasonal items (if done correctly) can bring in some big time seasonal profits. In th...

A race to the bottom isn't the kind of race you want to win. By beating your competitors' prices to the bottom, you can ruin your chances of making good ROI. In this episode, Stephen and Rebecca Smotherman go into detail about "racing to the bottom" and discuss some of the best ways to avoid it. To kick things off, we first look at how racing to the bottom is a sometimes drastic lowering of prices...

When selling on Amazon, there are occasions you will struggle to move certain items from your inventory. This can happen for a multitude of reasons, and you can address this issue in a number of ways. In this episode, we share a few top tips for helping the process along and cleaning out those lingering items no one seems to want! From using Keepa for better tracking and understanding of your inve...

In today's episode, we are going to blow your mind with some incredible Amazon stats. Not only are they wildly impressive, but these facts and figures actually impact you as an Amazon seller and could get you excited about continuing to sell on Amazon. We start off by sharing some of the stats around Amazon's popularity and supplement them with some of the many reasons why so many people shop ther...

Whether it is a business partner or your significant other, working with a partner can have a hugely positive impact on your Amazon business. In today's episode, you'll hear our advice for successfully working with a business partner, from communicating risk tolerance and prioritizing the personal relationship over the business relationship to managing your time together and scheduling regular mee...

One thing you can never get back is time. You need to manage your time wisely so that you can follow the quickest, most efficient path to success. Welcome back to another episode of the Full-Time FBA Show! We are excited about today's episode, where we will be diving into some really nerdy stuff like time management, how to better use your time in your Amazon business, and make the most of your ti...

Today we sit with Ian Bower, who has been selling items on Amazon that he sourced via wholesale companies for over five years. In the time that has passed, Ian has managed to scale his business and averages around $40,000 in sales a month. In this episode, we start off learning Ian's professional history and what he was doing before he got into wholesale. From there, we hear about his first mistak...

Selling products wholesale on Amazon can seem like a daunting undertaking -- not only because it seems like there are so many people who are already doing it, but because there are pervasive myths around aspects of the wholesaling industry that make it seem almost impossible to get started. Dan Meadors joins us on today's show to debunk five of the most common myths and to offer advice and encoura...

Wholesale is a great sourcing strategy to add to your FBA business. Kicking off our month-long wholesale series, today's episode dives into some of the reasons you should add wholesale sourcing to your business. We talk about the tremendous return on investment wholesale provides, some of the advantages it has over online and retail arbitrage, and ways that wholesaling will save you time (you won'...

Returns are the worst. But did you know it can still be possible to make nice profits from your returned items? Today, we want to help you make the most of those items that get returned, and then share some of the different ways you can make a profit in these scenarios. Just because something has been returned by a customer, for one of many possible reasons, does not mean you have to bear that cos...

Most Amazon sellers know that when you run an FBA business there will always be periodic times when sales are slow. This is inevitable, no matter what your strategy is, but there are definitely a few practices and habits to employ that will help you keep sales more consistent, as well as be less emotionally affected by slower periods. We decided to dedicate today's show to dealing with slow sales...

The relationship between time and money is always changing, especially in an Amazon FBA business. In the beginning, time seems to be more expendable than money, but as your business grows and becomes more successful, your end goal becomes finding more time so that you can focus on the most important tasks of growing your business. We've been there, and today we share how to achieve the delicate ba...

There are many ingredients to becoming a successful Amazon seller. You need to buy the right products to sell, price your items competitively, learn and execute different sourcing strategies, and the list goes on… but today, we're going to be discussing the one essential success strategy that nobody seems to talk about: Focus. By eliminating the noise and focusing on what truly needs your attentio...

As we stand at the beginning of the new year, you might be asking the same question many others are: Is Amazon trying to get rid of third-party sellers? Spoiler alert: The answer is "no." While common frustrations like increasing Amazon fees, storage limits, and brand restrictions seem to make it harder and harder to sell on Amazon, there are actually a multitude of solid reasons why Amazon needs...

If you want to create success for your full-time FBA business, then setting goals should be your first step. Today we sit with full-time FBA seller Jo Ann Zimmerman to hear her secrets behind effective goal-setting. We open the show by talking about how Jo Ann sets goals for herself, first by looking at where she is in the present moment, assessing the past year, and then ultimately deciding where...

We have so many great guests join us on The Full-Time FBA show to share their wisdom but the person who joins us today is extra special because he is Stephen and Rebecca's son, Peter Smotherman! Peter is here for a "snack-sized" episode to share some of the pieces of wisdom he has been learning in his 8th-grade class called 'Skills for Success,' along with a little help from Dad to apply these ski...

During the most lucrative part of the sales year, many sellers leave Q4 with high profits but without a clear plan on how to spend them. Today we give you our top tips on making the most of your Q4 profits. Early in our conversation, we highlight how investing in time-saving tools and software can unlock greater productivity and profit. After touching on how you can save money by switching from mo...