There’s 2 Ways to Ask Scott a Question!
Option 1. Leave a 90 Second Voicemail Message to be answered and shared on the show.
Hey…Voicemail Questions will be answered first on future Podcast. (Little Incentive for ya ๐
Option 2. Leave a comment below to submit your question to be answered on the show.
Email: theamazingsellers@gmail.com
Hi Scott,
I recently found you. I am lost on one part of registering my LLC with LegalZoom that I can’t seem to find the information one. I will be private labeling pet products. When asked “What will your business be doing?” for business activity. Do I put Manufacturing? or other?
I hope you can help.
Hey Zoey, you’re in the business of selling products online, so ecommerce or something like that would be the best fit.
Hi Scott, my listing is being hijacked by a Amazon Vendor Express Account. The seller just use the VE account to change my listing images,title,brand.
Yesterday I received a policy warning saying I brand infringement ๏ผ๏ผWhat Can I do to take my listing back ? Is there no rule for VE account ?
Thanks!
Hey Joe, the same “product not as advertised” process would apply to VE hijackers. Keep in mind that the reason they were able to gain control of the listing is that Amazon favors VE.
Hi Scott! A variation on my pl will launch next week. Both the single and the pack share the listing. What one do I do ppc on? Thanks son much!
Hey Michelle, you can do a few different things. 1. keep ppc running like it is, check your reports for “other asin sales” in a week or two and see which asin is selling when people land. 2. You can advertise both products in the same campaign and then consult the reports to see which one is selling beter via ppc.
Hi Love your podcast. I have a business selling our products within Vendor Central (We own a brand that has been established in 1979). We well in Amazon UK, Germany and France.
On the vendor central there is an option for Business Pricing Discounts. Can you give any information about this as I cannot find a single thing about it anywhere? Is it worth while?
Hey Sasha, those would be for people buying with business accounts, you can take a look at setting it up, but i haven’t seen them make much of a difference since most people currently use personal accounts on amazon.
Hi, Scott
I’m new both to AMZ and here and I have a tiny question. I have just created my first listing and sent it to FBA. However I’d like to change the Manufacturer Barcode to Amazon code now. I googled but it told me that once chosen it is unchangable. Does it mean that I have to create a totally new sku, otherwise I would have to use manufacturer barcode to this listing forever?
Thanks very much!
Hey Karnie you can change it by creating a new “offer” inside of amazon, you should also be able to change it inside the current offer if you haven’t already shipped inventory. Creating a new offer keeps the listing the same but it would show two different times inside of your inventory.
Hi Scott, we are FBA sellers since 2016 and now focusing on PL products. I saw you have numerous resources mentioned on your website. Do you actually use all of those because you believe they are necessary to the effectiveness of your business or are they just suggestions. If the latter, which would you highly recommend that you deem necessary?
Thank you so very much. We need all the “good” help we can get. Thank you so very much.
Hey LIla, I only link to things I trust, but there are lots of ones there for different reasons, depending on where you are in your business. If you let me know a bit about where you are, I might be able to point you in the right direction
So I’m just starting to listen to your podcasts and they are great. Thank you!!
You said you have it shipped to your self to inspect it and then ship to Amazon.
I want to sell on amazon.com but I live in Canada and shipping is pretty expensive here. So shipping it to my self and then to the USA would probably be very expensive.
BUT, I’ve been dropshipping and have a supplier I’ve used for all the products ive used when I scaled my ads. Me and my partner have purchased 20-30k Units from them this year so far.
Do you think it would be a good idea for me to kinda use them as my agent? I ask them to source it, they buy it to their warehouse, inspect it for me and then ship it off. They are a big company, I trust them, and the persons english is amazing.
Do you think its ok that I have them inspect it for me and ship it to amazon directly?
Hi Scott
I have few Privet Labels products that I am selling, I would like to change the Brand Name on my product and on Amazon, the Brand Name not register yet on amazon, Can I do that? or it can create a problem ?
You should be able to change the brand name inside the listing.
Hello Scott,
Love your podcast (It Fires me UP) I got my ecommerce education started on a group I pay, and there plan has me starting out with a shopifey site and Oberlow โ So my plan is to make this Shopifey store work until I can get 5K together to make an Amazon run โ As someone starting out with a slight budget this seems like a good approach as I think I am learning a lot. My question is what do you think of this approach โ Am I cashing the White Whale? I have a $100 adwords credit I have not tapped yet I was holding off until I had a better understanding of how things work โ Any Direction or thoughts would be welcomed.
Thank you
Hey Wade, I’d say that product selection is KEY especially on Amazon. Focus hard on the product research side of the Amazon stuff and you’ll nail it. As for your ecom store, I would focus on building an email list of potential customers. IT’s an asset that can drive a TON of sales, but is also HUGE on the Amazon Side.
Scott,
I heard you talking about buying an FBA business in a previous episode. You recommended that the buyer should buy and gain access to the entire Seller Central account. My question pertains to the Seller side of selling an FBA business. If our plan is to someday sell off a brand, how can we go about creating multiple FBA businesses? Amazon only allows us to have one Seller Central account… correct?
Not correct ๐ You can have as many seller central accounts as you want, as long as you have a legit business reason for having more than one! Different companies that you start, would mean different bank accounts and therefore different seller central accounts!
Hi, I am trying to build my online business on Amazon and eBay. I sell a typical kitchen product with a unique feature making it more useful than the typical. I thought it would sell extremely well but it isn’t. In none peak times I sell maybe one a day since I began FBA a half year ago, rarely an eBay sale. I was 21 when I started the product research (myself) and I made some price and design mistakes which may contribute to slow sales- but I feel its still a great item judging from the few reviews I have received. So how can I sell faster instead of the same shipment sitting in storage for years? How do I know if its my product, my listing, the little money available to advertise etc. I feel like there is potential so I would love some advice on acheieving this. Thank you!
Hey Rose, the answer is you don’t know what the problem is until you start testing. What I WOULD suggest is to take a look at what’s going on. If you’re getting lots of impressions (hundreds or thousands of people hitting the listing, than you have a conversion rate problem) if not, you have a traffic problem. If you have a traffic problem, PPC is a huge help, but you’ll also want to adjust your title, backend, bullets and description to try and draw in more organic traffic.
Hi. Thanks for replying! How can I see how many people have clicked on my item? Didnt know of this feature..
Hey Rose, you should be able to see it inside of yoru reports tab. Business reports, then detail page sales and traffic. The number of sessions is the number of people
HI
I am unable to listen to your podcasts from 390 onwards as the url forwards to your signup page to live workshop each time.
It seems to be flaw that needs to be fixed.
Thanks
Hey Mark, I don’t seem to be having that issue on my end. In any case you should be able to find them all here. http://theamazingseller.com/category/podcast/
Hey Scott,
I recently listened to one of your podcasts with the owner of ignite. I have completely changed my campaign structure and love how much easier my campaigns are to manage. One issue I am having is you mentioned on the podcast that you wanted to get a product in the first sponsored ad spot so you increased your bid size to $5 dollars. I am trying to do the same thing but can’t seam to get above the #3 spot on my top 2 keywords. It has been running at the $5 price for a week. The cost per click is only $2.20 on that term so I am well above the threshold.
Any suggestions on how to get to the top? My title specifically has the keywords in it and the product should be very relevant to the 2 keywords I am trying to win.
Hey Paul there’s two things you may want to consider there. 1. Bid isn’t the only factor, relevance for that term is also a factor in where you rank so make sure you’re using that term in your backend, title, or both. 2. you can always try to advertise on that term using phrase or exact to increase the relevancy as well, but that would be second behind the keyword placement and bid strategy.
Hey Scott,
I have been following along for a few months now and am just getting ready to put in my first Purchase Order with my supplier. Thanks for all the great content, and pushing me to TAKE ACTION!!!
My question has to do with a snip it I heard on one of your recent Podcasts (e 397). You mentioned that there was a way to avoid paying the Amazon referral fee of 15% if you drove your own traffic to the detail page. Can you elaborate on this strategy?
Thanks for the support
Eric
Hey Eric, what you’re probably referring to is a chat about using the amazon affiliate program, which we use when we are driving our own traffic to the site. That way amazon pays us for driving the traffic, which (in many cases) will offset the cost of the comission to Amazon.
Hello again Scott. ๐ I have a question about giveawayboost.com. As I’m from a small country in Europe and my market is USA do you think is it possible to use GIVEAWAYBOOST as part of my launch strategy? You see – I have to send a prize award from my country to the US. Do you think that there are some legal issues to consider or taxes to do so, or can I just send it to the winner? Did you ever try to make a contest with five or ten products (five or ten winners) that you were actually selling later on (so if you are starting to sell a can opener, you give away 10 can openeres to 10 different winners)? For example if the price of one product is 24.95 USD, we can say that the total prize amount is 245 USD.
Hey Mario, you wouldn’t need to send the prize from your country to the winner, you could ship it directly from say….Amazon to the winner. You can do contests with multiple winners, but I would suggest lowering the prize value and speeding up the length of the contest. Keep in mind that single high value prize contests have been working the best for us.
Hi Scott, really appreciate all the information that you provide, it is awesome stuff.
I’ve been selling on amazon as of May 2017. I’ve spent about $2500 in product and heaven knows how much in ppc (Not even sure I’d find out how much…). Sales the last few months have been approx $1k, $3k, and $4k. But the bad news is I’ve only been able to get about $350 “profit” from amazon. Meaning that Only last month was I able to get any money deposited in my bank account for about $350.
Am I doing something wrong? Seems like the only people making money off my product is Jeff B. i sell my product for $17.50, he gets $6.29 and it costs me about $3.95 to source.
My daily ppc campaign is $150-200 per day and looking at ignite my conversion rate is 10.9%, acos is 72.99% and cps is $13.97.
I don’t know how else to do this and I’ve thought that I’ve tried everything.
I’m only 4 months in but at what point do I pull the plug on this amazon thing that seems to only be making money for Jeff?
I know that this HAS to work with some sort of magic point that I’m missing but I don’t know what it is.
Thanks a lot!
Hey David, it sounds like you have a few different issues. 1. you need to get your margins up and 2. you need to get your ppc costs under control If you’re selling for 17.50 and spending 13.97 that’s not breakeven or profitable. Start dialing in that ppc cut out the words or lower bids on all of the words and phrases that are costing you money and see where that lands you. I’d suggest starting with the material at theamazingseller.com/ppc
Hey Scott,
I have a quick question about negotiating with suppliers. I was quoted almost double for express air shipping for my product from my supplier.
I was quoted $2.2/unit ($9.24/kg).
I know it runs around $4-6/kg. I already tried talking down the price prior to the shipping quote. Even with the high shipping cost I have a pretty large profit margin. Is it worth disputing the high shipping cost? Should I get my own quote to show them that I know their quote is overpriced, or should I just bite the bullet and pay the $9.24/kg?
I think whats he’s doing is trying to make up for the negotiated unit price.
What do you think? Thank you the advice, as well as for the show and everything you do for your listeners.
Hey Kevin, if you can get a lower quote from someone you trust, go with the quote you trust!
Hey Scott just got introduced to the podcast. Plan on going through everything and launch an Amazon business while I’m still in school. Thank you for all your hard work! Also, not sure if its just me but youre resources page seems to be broken. Looks like there’s a wordpress error of some kind.
Hey Andrew not sure what error you’re getting, but it works fine on my end:) http://theamazingseller.com/top-resources-for-fba-private-label-sellers/
Hey Scott, love your show and listen to it every morning. I’m a college student launching my first product. Do you think it’s better to say “money back guarantee” or “100% satisfaction guaranteed” in the bullets? My item is low cost, so deflecting a negative review is easily worth the cost of reimbursement. From a consumer perspective, which sounds more reliable and trustworthy? I think 100% satisfaction guaranteed makes me feel more confident in the product while money back guarantee makes me feel a little safer. Maybe I should do both or a hybrid of both?
Hey Charlie, I don’t know that it will make a difference for people since I could argue both sides of each of those. go with your gut!
Hi, Scott
We have tried a number of the tools you recommended and are in the positioning of downsizing. Greatly appreciate your thoughts on this.
Problem- We have 3 products selling on Amazon. they are selling but we are unsure if they are the niche we want to focus on yet. We are also unsure about our ability in creating contents constantly in this niche.
Tools – Would you recommend leadpage+aweber? or wordpress+ covertkit..? The goal is to build email list and perhaps couple pages like about and -blog when we are ready.
FYI – We used shopify but don’t have time to manage that and we are unable to pay for clickfunnel yet.
If you’re trying to build an email list, I would go with giveawayboost + Convertkit! If you want to see the succes we’ve had with that recently, check out theamazingseller.com/buildlist
Hi Scott, I have my product listed but i didnt send anything yet to FBA. I am waiting the goods to be prepared and then shipped to USA. They will be packed in Case Packs. How can i send to my supplier the lables that must be on the boxes? (as is Case pack products i need lables only for boxes not each unit) is it worth to do that so when the goods arrive its all settle? Also how do i calculate the cost of shipment to FBA? They will be like 33 standar boxes with 150 units each box.Is it expensive the shipping cost? I already have my custom agent, but i saw this company that looks like they know a lot about Amazon services, do you know them?Have you use their services?.Guide Imports Regards!
Hey Ximena, you would need each unit to be labeled with the fnsku and preped according to the amazon prep instrcutions. You would create the shipment plan into AMZ and then give your supplier all the needed info. I would take a look at guided imports if you want some help on the prepside, for sure!
Hi Scott
I would like to start an amazon FBA private labeling company. I started listening to your podcasts and they are very informative and awesome . Since i’m anxious to start it i would like to know if the earlier podcasts are still applicable to the laws of amazon these days or would you recommend me to start listening to more of your recent ones?
hey ym, I would start in the start here section and then pick podcasts to listen to based on where you are ๐
Hi Scott, happy Monday! I have my product listed but i didnt send anything yet to FBA. I am waiting the goods to be prepared and then shipped to USA. They will be packed in Case Packs. How can i send to my supplier the lables that must be on the boxes? (as is Case pack products i need lables only for boxes not each unit) is it worth to do that so when the goods arrive its all settle? Also how do i calculate the cost of shipment to FBA? They will be like 33 standar boxes with 150 units each box.Is it expensive the shipping cost? I already have my custom agent, but i saw this company that looks like they know a lot about Amazon services, do you know them?Have you use their services?.https://guidedimports.com/ Regards!
Hey Ximena, I have inded used guided imports and love their service.
Hi Scott,
I’m a new seller trying to break into private labeling but have run into one main obstacle for every product idea I have.
I want a unique product in the market to fill a gap in a niche but as you know the cost for a new mold is usually over $1,000. With a budget of $2,000 this is quite heavy of a price.
Going the other route of selling what is already made and designed seems appealing for my first product, but I’m worried that selling a product that is very similar to those already being sold on Amazon can have it’s consequences as well (possible problems unknowingly using someone else’s mold, lack of sales due to too much similarity, essentially selling an identical product, etc.)
I can’t seem to get over this hump in the phase of product research and it’s been stopping me from launching a product for 6 months now. Any guidance or help?
Thanks Scott! Keep up the motivational work!
Hey Eric you could always add your “custom variation” as a variation on a product you get up and selling ๐
Hi Scott!
I was hoping to get your advice on my launch on Amazon (women’s sleepwear). My family owns clothing factory in Korea and I had a few designs made in different versions so far. So my questions are:
1. Whatโs your thought about testing out small qty? At this point, I really donโt know how to foresee the number of sales.
2. Would you recommend launching one product after another? Or should I just do it all once and see which styles work?
Iโd much appreciate your advice! Thanks!
Hey Lee, nothing wrong with testing a small quantity, that can be a great way to project sales. I would give each product some time to breathe and for you to give some effort behind it. If you combine the rapid testing of products with spending the time to launch properly on the ones that work, you might just have a recipe for success ๐
Hi Scott, I have a PPC question
Which should I be using as a broad:
Garlic Press (singular example)
vs
Garlic Presser (another term)
vs
Garlics Press (plural example)
Or all 3?
How about this example:
For the search term: Stainless Garlic Press
Should I use…
Stainless Press
(lets just say this is a common way to search)
vs
Garlic Press
Or both?
Hey Sam, techincally all three of those terms should be triggered by including the words “garlic” and “press” in broad, but if you want to be sure they’re included you can always include more specific examples like you gave
Hi Scott,
Any golden tips on how to start generating sales on Shopify? I’ve launched my all singing all dancing store, fired off FB ads to targeted audience based on my recent giveaways and… no sales so far. Do FB ads make sense at all? Any useful learnings that I could take from anyone on ramping up sales? I’m in pet supplements niche selling in the US. We started a year ago and our annual sales is $250k and that’s on Amazon only. The category is competitive, we have one product that is our star and the rest of the products are selling so so. We’re also wondering how to promote other products. Just to add, the products are of very high quality, better than what most competitors are offering.
Thanks a lot for your help! Much appreciated.
Hey Pawel, facebook ads make sense when they’re targeted correctly and the offer is right. Did you build an email list? That’s where I would start, it’s “free” to use and those customers already know you
Hi Scott,
I am currently sourcing a product which has been doing very well on amazon. The top seller has a very well designed product, but they have mentioned that there is a “patent pending” in the description. There are a handful of other sellers with a similar product, but a slightly different design. I am talking to suppliers and want to make sure that when I design the product, it will not be considered patent infringement when it comes time to sell on Amazon. How do I go about making sure that I am in the clear?
Thanks in advance!
Hey eric, anything involving a patent or a potential patent should be run by a patent attorney!
Hi Scott! A newbie here! Love listening to your podcasts! I plan on selling sleepwear on Amazon (will launch women’s first then expand to men’s later on), got some samples done, and was hoping to start building a list already!! My question is, can you tell me if the offer (a cool product or a bundle kit) needs to be directly related to the product that I intend to sell? You mentioned before about asking people if they could win a price under $200 what it’d be. Most ideas I got from this women group were like a toaster, coffee machine, electronic pot, etc. and they’re all really cool, but I feel it’s not directly relevant to my clothing. Can you please give me some insight? I could really use your advice!!
Hey Lee, I’m assuming you mean if you’re doing a giveaway to build your email list. Ideally YES it would be related at least somewhat related. For womens clothing somthing like a high end steamer, a cool storage thing for clothes or shoes, or even a fashion consult might work.
Hey Scott, I’ve been using the Facebook group for most of my question. This particular question, the answer seems vague
If you are ranking # 1 for couple Search Terms , how do you know # of sales you’re receiving from each of those Search Terms?
Or, is there a way to know which Search Terms are converting? I can look at my conversion rate in general, but it won’t break it down in detail
Any software that can do that?
Hey Abas, the only way to get an accurate idea of that volume is by looking at what happens when you run ppc on those terms.
Hey Scott!
So I’ve listened to pretty much all your podcasts about PPC and I went through your training as well. I’m now using ignite and I love it.
One question I have though is this:
You said to start you are setting your bids at like $5 to start getting bids immediately and showing on page one. If I’m using Ignite, however, should I start my broad campaign at $5 then just wait for them to make suggestions? Or should I go lowering it manually as I find out what the max CPC is?
Or… are you saying you use the $5 bid strategy once you find your “honey pot” search terms (as I like to call them) from your broad campaigns after you get some data?
Thanks a million!
Hey Chad, if you’re using the $5 strategy it’s on broad match terms just to get data back as fast as possible. You don’t need to do that, lower bids work just fine to get data back, it just takes longer. Going the “$5” route, gets you darn close to the max cpc bid quickly AND gives you all kinds of search terms data to play with.
hi scott,
Iโm launching my first product on amazon FBA, I listened to your podcast on UPC and GS1โฆ but I still have some questions if you may.
What is better printing a UPC on the package or FNSKU? taking into account that I am applying for brand registry to sell my own products ,
and I am only planning on selling through Amazon FBA and the Shopify integration in the mean time.
However, During the enrolment process, I will be asked to select a key attribute e.g UPC or others (which I have no clue what are they)
lastly, I bought some products from amazon which have a FNSKU printed on the packaging, but at the same time there is a UPC number (not a code) also on the packaging, when I checked the number on GS1 it was for a different brand! What is the purpose in doing so?
Thank you for your help
Hey Dean, you can either have the upc put on the package and sticker the fnsku directly over it OR you can print the fnsku directly on the package. Either way works.
Hey, can you control what time slots you get for lightening deal?
Hey Lisa, generally you wouldn’t have control over that, You get to pick the date range then Amazon slots you in. If you don’t like the timeslot, you can always cancel the deal ๐
I have not been able to find a clear answer. Can I use Amazon Associates links on my own website/Facebook/Instagram to sell my own FBA items?
Hey Joe, that shouldn’t be an issue, the whole reason amazon has the program is to get people to drive external traffic.
Hey Scott,
How do you get setup with your business partners. You mentioned you have a few like your Father.
1. When we create the LLC should we both be on it as 50% partners? (creating it through Legal zoom)
2. When we open a business bank account should we both be on it as a business partner?
3. Are there any other steps we should take to make sure that we don’t get into any fights in the future especially when they are a family member?
And how can I know that amazon won’t LINK our new LLC partnered account with an account that I myself have (different LLC) and then close both down because of it?
In other words, what should we avoid doing so that amazon will not know that it’s the same owners?
Your answer will really help me relax my mind and I’ll do exactly as you say.
Thank you so much Scott for everything you do!!
Hey Rachel, how you setup your particular business is a conversation that’s best had directly with your partner and your account or attorney (or both!), each partnership is a little different so it’s tough to answer without knowing all the specifics
If you have more than one amazon account, let amazon KNOW! It’s ok to have more than one as long as you have a business reason to (e.g. you’re selling different products under different businesses.
Will they accept a reason like I’m selling different products under different businesses because in one business I have a partner?
I’m just scared to tell them that which is going to raise a red flag.
Hey Rachel, as long as you’re not selling the same kinds of products it shouldn’t be any issue.
Hey Scott,
Seller support sent me to the page below after explaining to them on the phone that I want to partner up with a family member.
https://sellercentral.amazon.com/related-accounts
Which reason should I choose?
Reason for additional account
1. My accounts are associated with different business entities
2. A member of my household runs a separate business
5. Other
Then they are asking to “Explain”
Can you help me with those words as I don’t want to mess it all up which I’m good at ๐
Thanks Scott
You would choose the one that makes the most sense for your situation, #1 is probably the one that i’d use
Hey Scott,
Thanks for all of the incredible information, it’s priceless. One quick question, I’ve spent days doing product research and found a product that ticks every box needed for a first product, but it’s seasonal in the sense that it’s a product you wouldn’t use in the colder months. By the time I get this product to launch it’ll be September, do you think it’s still worth a shot – the only competition are doing 60+ sales a day average with poor reviews and I have modifications in mind to address the issues getting all the poor reviews. It seems so perfect, I’m just concerned I’ll be launching during the slowest part of the year. Would this concern you?
Thanks!
James, Manchester UK.
Hey James, while that MIGHT make a product seasonal you can always use a tool like google trends to see what the drop off in the “off-season” might be. Launching seasonal products can work as long as you KNOW they’re seasonal from the start. Obviously you would want to launch at the start of the season (actually before) if at all possible.
Very NEW here! On the podcast where you discuss selecting a product, how much of that process do you use since including the UPDATE: ) Since posting this episode Iโve been using Jungle Scout (Chrome Extension) to help verify the demand in the market and how many units are being sold. This has made this process 100x faster. ) ???
love the information! I don’t know if I missed it, but where do i send the product? to an Amazon Warehouse? if so how do I contact amazon?
Hey Seth, if you’re using Amazon FBA, Amazon will tell you where to send it. Start an account and jump in! The water is fine!