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Where Can I find Wholesale Products to Distribute Wholesale Products If you are looking for products to wholesale here are some places where you can find them: Aliexpress - on Aliexpress you can find wholesale products n smaller quantities but higher price Alibaba - On Alibaba, you can find a wholesale product with an MOQ (minimum order quantity) and you don't need to brand or label any of those products DHgate - One of the first Chinese websites I used to import half a sea can of pocket motorcycles back in 2008 Local manufacturing - drive around in your city and look for the industrial area, to see what products are being made right there in your backyard. Then contact these manufacturers and ask to be given a wholesale price list to distribute their products online.   Start Grateful, Stay Positive and Always Profit

Can I sell on Amazon Anonymously #177 If you are talking about your personal information, then Yes In North America it is still possible to do so. Basically, you as a person will remain anonymous to the buyers. They will only see the name of your store, your brand, company phone (if you enter one). But you will have to give Amazon your personal information during the account creation, and banking information to get paid. Most other marketplaces like Germany or Japan will NOT allow you to remain anonymous to the visitors.

How to sell your product to retailers and get your product on store shelves Today's guest came from nothing, at the age of 14 she was left by her mother who thought that being a mom was too hard! Well... Some people break, Others bend. Our guest is the one who bends. Instead of going off the rails, she worked hard to do the best she could with what she had been dealt. Today she is a multi-award winning business woman who has built a hugely successful chain of retail stores, a far cry from being homeless at 14. Ladies and gentleman here with us, today is: Salena Knight -Wow, Salena at the age of 14 your mom left how does a kid ever heal from that? -You moved house over 10 times by the time you were 14, was it due to your parent's work or business? -You became a The Retail Strategist, can you explain to our audience what that is? -What should I have ready before I approach a retailer? -How can I stand out from other brands and get my products in front of the buyer? -How do I choose which stores to approach? -

How to ensure your work gets visibility in the company? Lots of people that listen to the podcast have a full-time job working for someone else, and in their spare time, they try to build an online empire. Well, if you are one of them, you should know that, for one, you are not alone, and two, not everything is smooth sailing on either side of the workforce! Meaning, being a business owner has a lot more headaches than you can imagine. But working for someone else that doesn't see what you do, or doesn't appreciate the hard work you put in, is also damaging you psychologically.   Oscar’s message: "How should I ensure that my work and my contributions get visibility within the company? What new skills do I need to move ahead?"   Quin Amorim's answer: Hi Oscar, Excited to be connected with you on the Career Advice hub and QA Selling Online It would be nice to believe that most companies with great leadership will notice all the work you do, and you get recognition for everything you do... But that is not t

Marketing skills Alexandra’s message to you: "I am a new grad who is looking to work internationally in marketing, facilitation, and engagement for socially conscious businesses. How I can leverage my skills to create meaningful change?"   Hi Alexandra, Excited to be connected with you to help you leverage your marketing skills The fact that you already know exactly what you want is in itself an amazing start! One advice I can give you is to never be comfortable. If you don't feel a rush of adrenaline mixed with fear, you are not being extraordinary. If you want to be extraordinary and do extraordinary things you can't be in your comfort zone... nothing happens in there. It's not extraordinary people that do extraordinary things, but the things they do, make THEM extraordinary. Marketing is a great tool and can be used to express a company's image and beliefs. If you can find a company whose beliefs are the same as yours, then it will be very easy to "express yourself" through that marketing campaign

What To Do When My Product Isn't Profitable #173 When you are selling online and your product isn't profitable here is what you can do: Talk to Quin Amorim at QAsellingonline.com Press that contact Quin button and leave him a message This does not have to go live on the Podcast What To Do When My Product Isn't Profitable Product Isn't Profitable

Do you advise me to invest in Amazon FBA, and what are the advantages and disadvantages of Amazon FBA? Consider Amazon FBA a tool for your online business. So technically you won't be investing on Amazon FBA, but you will be investing in your own business using FBA and selling on Amazon. The greatest advantage of all that Amazon has is the incredible amount of traffic and insane high conversion rates. The high conversion rates are due to the fact that Amazon is highly trusted, and the fact that everyone who types “Silicone Spatula” in the Amazon search engine, is looking to buy a Silicone Spatula! The second great benefit is the fact that Amazon will fulfill the products for you and get them delivered to your customer in very short time frames. As for the negatives of selling on Amazon, the main one is that if you want to play in Amazon’s sandbox you need to follow their rules and meet their standards, or else! If you don’t follow Amazon’s TOS Terms of Service, they can choose to remove your selling privil

Freight Forwarder from Europe to USA | E.p. #171 Europe to USA This question came from Luis in Portugal, and since the message and the reply were in Portuguese I will leave the show notes in Portuguese. Although the show is in English :)   "Boa tarde Quim, Estou a falar de Portugal,mais concretamente do Montijo. Cheguei ao teu contato através do grupo de Facebook, Amazon FBA High Rollers. Se possível, pedia-te uma recomendação: Necessito de um freight forwarder de confiança para DDP de Lisboa para a Amazon US. Breve contexto: Sou seller profissional na Amazon Europa e aí tenho toda a logistica montada e sem problemas. Trabalho sobretudo com produtos alimentares, basicamente café expresso. A partir do próximo mês, queria começar a testar a Amazon US. Por vezes envio pequenos volumes via UPS que não precisam de custom clearence. A questão fica diferente com envios maiores. Já tive uma má experiência com a UPS num envio , porque me disseram que  não podiam desalfandegar a mercadoria porque não tinha um a

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Amazon UK Congratulations on making your own product, I always wanted to be able to make something myself. I'm guessing you are also in the Amazon Handmade program, but if you are not I highly recommend applying for it. If you are living in the US and want to sell in the UK there are a few things that you need to do and need to know. Although I'm not an expert when it comes to the UK or even FBM, since the only FBM I ever did was in Canada. The approval from Amazon, after you are able to fill the blanks on the application page is almost immediate, if I remember correctly. And the approval unlocks all Europe, just like your US account unlocked Canada and Mexico too. But here are some things: You need to pay VAT Value added tax. I'm no expert when it comes to getting it because I'm a European citizen. I have dual, Canadian and Portuguese, and since I started a business in Europe in 1993 I already had Portuguese VAT which is 23% VS 20% in UK. But I know that if you are making more than 82k pounds in the UK

On Amazon, the main image is mandatory to have a pure white background, and on top of that, the product needs to take up more than 85% of the picture. How do people get professional images for their eBay/Amazon product with a white background On eBay, the white background is not mandatory but it does look better There are a few ways to do it: Fiverr - You can go to Fiverr and hire someone for $7 to make your backgrounds all white Amazon Seller App - The Amazon seller app has a picture setting that allows you to take pictures of your own product with a white background. The app even tells you if it is not white enough, or if the product needs to be cropped to take more than 85% of the picture size. Professional pictures - This is the way that professional amazon sellers do it. Find a professional product photographer and let them know you need Amazon pictures (They should know what to give you) Remove the backgrounds yourself by making the pictures transparent. You can use software like Clipping Magi

For many years we were allowed to incentivize reviews on Amazon, but the review needed to have a disclaimer saying “I received this product in exchange for a review…” How can I get reviews on Amazon on new products without incentivized reviews? Nowadays, like you know, we are not allowed to do so, and that makes it harder to get the happy customers to leave one. But the people that are not pleased will always go out of their way to leave a bad one. But… Do not risk your account’s selling privileges by using fake reviews or even reviews from Facebook review groups. Amazon has made their goal to clean up the review system and they started banning sellers who don’t follow the TOS (Terms of service) Many sellers had their selling privileges revoked for using unverified reviews from the same users know to be professional “reviewers” on several Facebook groups for many years. In short, if anyone tells you to buy reviews or get them from Facebook groups by offering free products or even discounted products, that i

Selling on Amazon Canada - Amazon FBA Canada Storage Fees FBA’s twice-yearly inventory cleanup is scheduled for August 15, 2018. Units that have been in a US or Amazon FBA Canadian fulfillment center for 181 to 365 days on August 15 will incur a long-term storage fee on that date: $11.25 USD per cubic foot for US inventory or $400 CAD per cubic meter for Canadian inventory. Units that have been in a US fulfillment center for more than 365 days will incur a fee of $22.50 USD per cubic foot. For Canadian inventory, the fee is $800 CAD per cubic meter. Starting with the August 15 inventory cleanup, we are introducing a minimum charge of $0.50 USD per unit per month for items that have been in a US fulfillment center for more than 365 days. Sellers will pay either the long-term storage fee or the minimum charge, whichever is greater. Minimum fees will not apply to inventory in Canadian fulfillment centers. If you have offers in the FBA Small and Light program, visit the help page for applicable long-term stor

Not only double dipping but triple! The sale of your own products, algorithm trigger of Super URL and affiliate link commission! double dipping with an affiliate link and a super URL Question from Bruce

Can I sell on Amazon FBA listings which are no longer being used by companies which left the marketplace? This is not a simple yes or no answer, depending on a few things: - If you are selling the same item with the same UPC, yes you can sell on the existing listing. But that cannot be a brand gated listing. A brand gated listing means the official manufacturer has presented Amazon with their Trademark and requested to lock that listing. An easy way to check this is to download the free Amazon seller app and open the listing on your app (It will tell you) - If the product is used or new, that also makes a difference, as certain brands do not allow sellers to sell brand new items of their brand, but allow the sale of used - If the product you want to sell is not the same brand, or doesn't have the same UPC, you are not allowed to sell on that listing! A lot of sellers started doing that a few years ago, trying to use existing reviews for a new product, and those accounts have been suspended. Hope this helps,

Amazon FBA Canada A quick episode to explain the difference in lightning deals on Amazon FBA Canada, and how the price is less than 10% of the lightning deals in amazon.com Amazon FBA Canada  

How to launch products using Influencer marketing on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter or Youtube Social Media Influencers How to find Social Media Influencers that are willing to advertise your product, who to use, how to pay and how much to pay. Launching with Social Media Influencers Please make sure to listen, as today we don't have show notes top 50 social media influencers Quin  

Quin Amorim explains the meaning of Failing Fast How do you fail fast, and what is the meaning of failing fast? In systems design, a fail-fast system is one which immediately reports at its interface any condition that is likely to indicate a failure. Fail-fast systems are usually designed to stop normal operation rather than attempt to continue a possibly flawed process The goal of the fail fast idea is avoiding spending time, money and resources pursuing something that isn't working. People tend to keep investing in things that clearly aren't working because it’s part of human nature to try to avoid failure. If you are an entrepreneur you probably watch the show Dragon's Den or Shark Tank and often see people that have sunk all their life savings into a failed product or company. These people followed an idea that they thought was great, but didn't look for the quick or small failures, that would have helped them realize they needed to pivot and change their product or even the whole strategy behind th

Update from Amazon's Main Image on Listing #160 Message from Amazon "Thank you for selling on Amazon. Your success is important to us, and we are working continuously to identify opportunities to improve both the selling and buying experience.  Images that meet our Image Guidelines improve the customer experience. To ensure the best possible customer experience, Amazon will hide (suppress) listings that do not meet our main image requirements. By September 2018, you may see items suppressed due to the following defects in the main image: -       Blurry or pixelated image or image with jagged edges -       Image with any text, logo, graphic, or watermarks shown -       Multiple product views or colors or sizes are shown in image -       Product on model -       Product occupies less than 85% of the frame Follow these steps to address main image issues, which may lead to search suppression of your ASINs: 1.      Go to Inventory > Inventory Reports. 2.      Select the “Listing Quality and Suppressed Listing

How to make my main picture stand out Bruce got a new listing for a Pl Private Label product, and right or wrong it's a copy of an existing product, but he made it much better. He is looking for a way to make his main picture stand out.     Thank you, Bruce, I really appreciate receiving these voice questions. And this is a very good one. Launching a product that looks exactly like a competitor's is not always a bad thing. sometimes we got to do what we got to do, in order to get quicker to market and gain a top position. You will have plenty of time to change the product and listing if it becomes successful. As for the picture to stand out from the competitor, there are a couple things you can do to. Let's start with the white hat and easy stuff you should be doing anyway. Amazon wants the object in the main picture to be at least 85% of the whole picture. well, I recommend having it as close to 100% as possible. Cut out all the white space around the item of the main picture, and after you have c