Monthly Archives: February 2018

The 2018 Chinese New Year: How to Survive & Thrive!

February 19, 2018 by admin

What is the Chinese New Year?
Unlike regular new year celebrations that take place at midnight between 31st and 1st of January, the Chinese do their own celebrations differently. They celebrate the New year on different dates each year because their celebration is based on a lunar calendar.
Since it is a holiday, people and business are bound to take some time off, which is a two-week duration for the holidays. So, the first step to preparing your business for this break in transmission is getting a clear idea of … Read more

E-Commerce in 2020: What to Expect??

February 11, 2018 by admin

2020 first became a buzz word, when people wanted to refer to the perfect vision (i.e., vision 20-20), it didn’t take long before the word found its way to the business world and became a symbol of clarity of vision which then became integrated into the architecture of businesses all around the world. It was used as a claim that an organization or business was well grounded and had foresight with regards to future events.
Vision 2020 is now officially accepted as a great foresighted vision! With this 2020 … Read more

New ideas what to sell?

February 2, 2018 by admin

No doubt 2018 is a year of crypto. Everyone is talking Bitcoin and if you are starting a Shopify store, here is a good idea how to ride this popular topic.
Take a look what i just found (no affiliation)
This website ardson is selling the crypto currency related jewelry and it’s one of the most successful websites in this niche. … Read more

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nicholas says at 21:09 et

What should i target with facebook ads as a goal?

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Claudia says at 21:09 et

Have you watched the video on the facebook ds? With facebook ads you can target for different results. Website Conversions means people going to your site and in this community usually means going to your site and buying something. Track them using the facebook pixel. You can also target for things like engagement, clicks etc.

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Dakota says at 21:18 et

Friends... Love it here.. One question... How to calculate fees ??

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Claudia says at 21:18 et

Check Amazon Marketplace Fee and Profit Calculator https://salecalc.com/amazon
Usually FBA fee is 15-30% depending on the price.. higher price less fee %

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Wise Woman says at 21:20 et

I am starting FBA and have 2 questions..
1. What is EAN/IAN??
2. What is FNSKU?

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Claudia says at 21:20 et

1. It's European Article Number or International Article Number A 13 digit-10 data and 3 check -barcoding standard which is a superset of the original 12-digit Universal Product Code system.

2. Fulfillment Network Stock Keeping Unit... This number is used to identify a specific product to a specific seller within an Amazon Fulfillment Center. It's this that goes on your product as a label if you're selling FBA and not commingling

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henry says at 21:21 et

sorry what is this FBA mean??

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Claudia says at 21:21 et

In short it works like this.. Amazon fulfillment centers pick, pack and ship a seller’s products, as well as providing customer service for products -all of this comes with a FbA fee 15-30% depending on the price

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Kenga says at 21:21 et

Whats different with FBM and FBA??

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Dylan says at 21:21 et

Fulfillment by Merchant - The merchant is responsible for picking, packing, and shipping the products, as well as providing customer support for the product. .. FBA is when Amazon fulfillment centers pick, pack and ship a seller’s products, as well as providing customer service for products -all of this comes with a FbA fee 15-30% depending on the price

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Claudia says at 21:21 et

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Abigail says at 21:22 et

Whats PL??

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jo says at 21:22 et

Private label product.

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Bogdan says at 22:26 et

What should I put as the "Ship From" address in seller central when I'm building the out the shipment and the carton labels? And how do I determine which fulfillment center to ship to?

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Uncle Sam says at 22:27 et

Ships from - your factory or your sourcing agend address. fulfillment center is decided by Amazon not you! (when you create a shipment)

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karina says at 22:53 et

Ranking question.. Should I put typos? Fill out the 5K characters you have on the back end?

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Uncle Sam says at 22:54 et

Amazon now lets you put just 1k not 5k anymore... I Quote "There is a 1,000 character limit for keywords. These 1,000 characters can be provided all on one line or split between 5 lines."

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chris says at 22:58 et

Put brand name first... If you do a search for 10 different products and look at the 1st page results, you will likely see that in almost every case, the majority of listings are dominated by titles that start with a brand name

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Kylie says at 22:59 et

Should i use commas?

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Evan says at 22:59 et

I do not use commas for keywors. Only spaces for the back end keywords seartch terms.

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Dylan says at 23:00 et

Misspellings are awesome. Try to get indexed for common misspellings, I get tons of sales of it

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Optimus says at 02:33 et

love the course pals!! my question is what are tthe best Autoreponsder services to use to build the list and followups? sry for my question

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Mike says at 02:34 et

Try Aweber.com , convertkit.com , getresponse, mailchimp or icontact. I used almost all of them, pretty easy, drag and drop email creation... Make sure to watch our video about Email Mastery as well ;)

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Mike says at 11:59 et

Great quetion from Nasim, i wanted to share it and then my response. "This course is really inspiring me to open my own store. Can you give me one more suggestion. From your experience which one you think is better a specific product type or mixed product stores? "

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Mike says at 11:59 et

There is no specific answer to this. You know Amazon itself is "everything store" and they are very successful. At the same time a lot of shopify stores are "one product only" or "one niche only". If you target specific niche (like pugs lovers, pug owners for example) then your store should have only products for pugs, because if they see the product for bulldog, they will be frustrated and leave). I hope it helps, but there is no RIGHT or WRONG way here.

I would suggest

1. If you go with "everything store" then research top competitor everything stores and make sure to sell similar products by similar prices. This will reduce chance of failure.

2. If you go specific niche, again use competitor spy tools and find out best selling products in competitor stores and duplicate them.

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Mosquit says at 12:00 et

great question, thanks mike for sharing the tips. to Nasim good luck!!

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Emma says at 12:04 et

Example of great everything store is chattuz.com
Example of great niche specific store is deathwishcoffee.com

Ricardo says at 04:48 et

HOW DO I manage customer returns?

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Claudia says at 04:49 et

Ricardo, in case of FBA then Amazon will handle everything (returns, refunds). In case of drop shipping, I suggest to buy a virtual forwarding address in USA where customers can send returns and it forwards it to you later.

Ricardo says at 06:24 et

Thanks Claudia! , I am starting with dropshipping aliexpress and shopify. My store is about Rock Music (t-shirts and accesories) I have a fan page with +3 Million fans (fb.com/elrockescultura.org) but they are almost everyone from MEXICO, so epacket here it does not work so well, I tested posting one product, (without ads, pixel, autoresponder, analytics, chatbots, retargeting, etc) and we sold 20 items in 3 days, but 15 from Mexico. So what idea do you know around how can I will manage returns?? thank you!

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Kylie says at 06:25 et

Tshirts you can ship using tspring or t-launch app for shopify or even Merch if you use amazon. you dont need to ship tshirts from china.
I suggest to post your store for critics and we all can post more suggestions. It's hard to suggest blindly.

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mya says at 06:25 et

Mexico is a great market, most people dont sell there and always target USA only.

Sathaporn says at 01:59 et

I think the big concern is shipping times for dropshipping with Shopify. Anyone that have more experience in this concern...please give me for advice. Thanks!!

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little_tiger says at 02:01 et

there is a video about it http://sellslikehotcakes.co/videos.php "The BIGGEST Problem with Dropshipping: TIPS and HACKS on how to SOLVE it " in shopify bonus section

Clay says at 16:29 et

How current is the information on the FBA fees and top sellers/total sales? I have another product that I am using and there is a big varience between the numbers.

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Mike says at 16:31 et

Its auto updating Clay. It will be alwayas a varience as there is no right or wrong way to calculate it, the real numbers only Amazon know.. What we or Jungle scout do is just approximation based on BSR to get an educated guess on sales

Bill says at 07:39 et

Hi everyone....I'm new here and looking forward to getting this thing off the ground! I'm hoping this course will help me decide which niche/products to use. I went to sign up for the Shopify trial and it asked for my store name....I have no idea ;-) I guess I have a lot of work to do!

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Mike says at 07:39 et

Welcome Bill! Good to have you here. Take your time to watch the videos, especially about Branding to get you some ideas.

George says at 08:51 et

What is the best thing to do if you are out of stock, close the listing or let it run? how about the metrics are they going to drop?

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Ted says at 08:52 et

Are you talking about amazon or shopify? On shopify it will say "Sold out" which is pretty cool for building urgency for other items.
On Amazon if you have no stock your listing is not displayed. You dont need to "close" it. Some people like to rise the prices before you run out of stock. The metrics will go down unfortunately. You need to plan your inventory better.

Sergey says at 05:12 et

Good day, community!

My name is Serhii Nediak and I'm from Ukraine! I looked at all videos concerning Amazon FBA and now trying to understand all phases of launching process of new product more deep to calculate approximately the amount of funds needed. I even looked at couple products: since I'm fitness coach I'm interested in supplements niche. That is why I will annoy you a lot in the nearest future with all the questions, sorry for that))).

And the first one is: as I've already mentioned I'm from Ukraine, Ukraine is among countries eligible to work on Amazon, to work on Amazon I will need to open professional account, so I will need to open a company and finally the question - where would be better to open a company, in Ukraine, in USA (if this possible) or maybe in offshore zone and what kind of a company it should be?

Will be glad to hear from you, maybe you know any kind of services that can help me with this.

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Ted says at 05:15 et

hi Sergey, good idea about supplements and you can be the face of your product since you are looking so Good yourself. Ukraine is loved in USA and Europe after the donbass thing so you can play this card even more as Ukranian Giant and his secrets of health supplements. Where to open the company - probably locally if it is eligible so no point to overpay high usa fees for companies, as you need bank account and visa/mastercard as well to work! However you need to understand how you ship products to amazon FBA and if you plan selling in germany or europe (pas european acc) or USA ?

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Dr. Jam says at 05:15 et

Good luck Sergey, great idea and what a body!

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