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

Since December is one of our most lucrative sales months, today's episode is devoted to helping your business end the year with a bang and not a whimper. We open by exploring why you should reprice your items, with host Stephen Smotherman sharing his liquidation repricing rules for offloading gift items and decorations. After touching on the benefits of using automatic pricers like BQool, we talk...

Many Amazon sellers avoid deal lists for the well-founded fear that items appearing on these lists will soon flood the market, leading to inflated competition and price drops. Today we dive into the issue and show listeners how, with the right list, they can make healthy profits with little to no competition. We open our conversation by exploring what deal lists are and why people use them. We the...

There are a lot of factors that can make your full-time FBA business successful, but sometimes it's the simple things that can have the biggest impact. In today's episode, we talk about how gratitude can help your bottom line and why you should make it a pillar of your FBA business. As we discuss, by expressing this attitude, you have the opportunity to maintain and build connections with others,...

Here are our best sourcing strategies you can use to turn bigger profits in your FBA business, specifically at this time of year. Christmas is just around the corner, and we all know how well toys sell this time of year, but today we will be casting our net wider and covering eight strategies you can use to help you capitalize in the second month of Q4: November. During the show we talk about how...

Many successful Amazon resellers are studying and strategizing for Black Friday sourcing weeks in advance, but many people don't realize how profitable Black Friday can be by just sitting on your couch at home with your computer. In this episode, Stephen interviews Rebecca about some profitable strategies for Black Friday via online arbitrage (OA). Not only does Black Friday sourcing online help y...

A great way to make money through reselling on Amazon is to source clearance items for your business. But how do you make the most of this strategy and what are the things to keep in mind as you go about it? Never fear, we have you covered! In this episode, we give you all the best tips for sourcing clearance items in both retail and online stores. We look at four tips for finding more items on cl...

An Amazon account suspension is the number one thing that most Amazon sellers fear. Today Stephen interviews Lesley Hensell from Riverbend Consulting to help clear up some of the grey areas that could lead to account or ASIN suspensions. Lesley starts off the podcast interview by giving us some tips to help you manage risk when it comes to sourcing. From there, she covers the difference between su...

Sometimes it can be scary to think about actually hiring help in your Amazon FBA business. Expanding your business by adding more people can be a daunting process, with a long list of things to worry about. In today's episode, we draw on our own practical experiences and share the best insider tips so you can overcome fear of hiring help for your Amazon business. We dive into how you can hire the...

Sometimes the fear of making sourcing mistakes will actually lead you to making more sourcing mistakes. In today's show, Stephen and Rebecca create a slightly different format where we present a few different scenarios that have to do with sourcing and what to do when faced with them. It's a little game we like to call "Should You Resell It?" We talk about whether to resell an item with decent sal...

No Amazon seller likes it when their items start tanking in price. When prices go down, so do potential profits. On today's episode of Full-Time FBA we dive into a 4-week Fear Series with the topic of how to tackle overcoming your fear of tanking prices. We go into how to avoid tanking prices and how to deal with situations when prices do in fact tank. When you're out sourcing for inventory you mi...

Selling oversized items on Amazon is often overlooked, but in today's episode we talk about the benefits, dispel some of the misconceptions, and provide some tips for selling oversized items for supersized profits. From saving on storage fees, knowing which oversized items are worth reselling, and finding the right packaging, to saving money on inbound shipping and branching out into a new categor...

Q4 can easily be the most profitable 3 months of your Amazon selling year. In fact, some sellers say that their Q4 sales eclipse the sales from the first nine months combined. As Amazon sellers head into the final months of the year, we need to make sure we're fully prepared, because it is the run-up to the biggest holiday selling season when millions of people scramble to ensure they get gifts fo...

Today, we tackle five major profit leaks that affect many Amazon FBA sellers, also giving you solutions that will increase your revenue stream. It doesn't matter how big your Amazon boat is, if it's got a leak, then it's going to sink.  We'll break down all of the hidden and forgotten fees that are stealing your profits and show you how to lower these fees with just a few tweaks to your Amazon FBA...

Are you wondering whether selling Halloween-related stuff is even worth it this year? Well, Stephen and Rebecca are here to tell you that not only is it worth it, but it can also be a profitable opportunity! In today's episode, Stephen and Rebecca talk about some spooky, exciting, and awesome things you can do to grow your Amazon FBA business in the days leading up to Halloween. In today's episode...

To remain competitive in the Amazon marketplace, it is imperative that you are constantly reassessing the pricing of your inventory. While some Amazon sellers choose to adjust their prices manually from time to time, Amazon sellers who are focused on achieving long-term success would rather rely on an automatic repricer to update their prices to remain competitive. The success of an automatic repr...

In this episode, we dive into the buy and hold strategy, which is basically buying products now in order to hold them to sell at a point in the near or distant future. Sometimes a reseller will find an item that is not profitable now (or that could be even more profitable in the future) and might be tempted to buy the items now to sell them some time down the road. Maybe you found an out-of-season...

Making the transition from a retail arbitrage business model to a 100% wholesale model was not something that Dan ever envisioned when he first started selling on Amazon, but when Dan learned about the power of wholesale, he made the transition and has never looked back. As our first-ever returning guest, Dan talks about transitioning from retail arbitrage to the wholesale model, strategies for ge...

Wholesale sourcing does not have to be so hard. Most people who want to get into Amazon wholesale selling have met with the same old methodologies. But on today's show, we'll discuss a different formula for getting wholesale on Amazon right, which includes a simple, tried-and-tested model for reverse wholesale sourcing. Today, Stephen interviews Dylan Frost from The Wholesale Formula. Dylan, toget...

Amazon Brand Restrictions. It's something that a lot of sellers get frustrated about when they're trying to grow their Amazon business. Today's episode covers how you can increase your chances of getting approved to sell those restricted items, plus a whole lot more on the approval process itself. Of course, the title of this episode refers how to get approved to sell restricted brands, but it wil...

While you may have built your empire by selling on Amazon, today's episode shows you how you can sell more by expanding to Poshmark — a marketplace for new and used clothing, accessories, beauty and wellness products, and even home goods. In today's episode, Stephen interviews Rebecca and they talk all things Poshmark. After explaining what Poshmark is, Rebecca talks about how you can take items y...

We can all agree on one thing: returns stink. Imagine the scene — you're an Amazon seller diligently checking your inbox when you get that painful message; another customer is returning one of your items. It's never a fun experience. In this episode, we'll show you how to deal with Amazon returns so that each time you get one of those return notifications, you'll know exactly what to do. We'll bre...

When most people start selling on Amazon they have visions of creating a sustainable income stream that will last them a long time, but few ever actually achieve that goal. In this episode, we are going to share our three keys to Amazon FBA success, plus some game-changing tips and tricks to help you with your Amazon business. The bulk of this episode is focused on the main tips that have helped R...

Did you know you could actually buy items directly from Amazon and flip them back on Amazon for a profit? Today I'm talking with online arbitrage expert and seasoned Amazon seller Jo Ann Zimmerman. The former teacher discusses how she first learned about selling on Amazon, experimenting with private label selling before discovering her niche in retail and online arbitrage. Jo Ann talks about her f...

Whether you're just starting to sell on Amazon or you've been selling for a while, you might have asked yourself if the number of Amazon sellers was getting to a saturation point. Every day, more sellers start selling on Amazon, but are there too many now or is there still room for new sellers? For those of you who are gathering information, trying to decide, "Is this the right time for me? Am I g...

Are you letting any fears stand in your way of pursuing the dream of starting and succeeding with an Amazon FBA business? Even though you might have read all the books, listened to the podcasts, and signed up for every related newsletter, there are those who still struggle to find the courage to start selling on Amazon. While we get that it can seem daunting, remember that you can starts as small...