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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Cyril says at 22:24 et

hi claudia.. so iam starting with FBA.Please explain more what are the common providers for air and sea shipment (like UPS, Fedex etc)? Which do door-to-door? Which are more reliable for FBA?

Claudia says at 07:39 et

hi Cyril. Great question..

Actually, there are three ways, by air, by express & by sea.

By air:
1. shipped by major airlines, such as Air China, Japan Airlines, Singapore Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, Thai Airways, Malaysia airlines, Northwest Airlines etc.
2. the goods will be shipped to airport and the client needs to do the customs clearance and pick up the goods by himself.

By express:
1. shipped by UPS, Fedex, EMS, TNT & DHL.
2. the goods will be shipped to the client's destination (door to door, such as Amazon warehouse). The express company will do the customs clearance.

By sea:
shipped by shipping company, such as Ma Shiji, COSCO, NYK, Kawasaki, Hanjin, United Arab Emirates, Sinotrans and so on.
Also can do Door to Door service.

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george says at 22:49 et

I've been selling on amazon FBA for the last 14 months.. Doing well, around 14,700 usd net profit after costs and taxes per month.. Looking to expand now to Shopify too with your help! Thank you!

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Sandra says at 23:00 et

My question is.. What is the best time to start selling summer products?

Claudia says at 07:40 et

Thank you Sandra.. Please check the TRENDS and SEASONS tool we have for your product.. Usually April-May is a good time to start selling summer products. Sales peak in June-July.

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Cyril says at 19:39 et

Is it still ok to give away discounted coupons?

Claudia says at 19:40 et

Yes as long as you don't ask for reviews in exchange. It will still increase your sales velocity and ranks.. However maybe it makes more sense to run PPC instead of giving away your product too cheap 50-75% OFF instead of PPC? Depends on the niche..

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adam says at 23:03 et

Has anyone got their business insured?

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Emili says at 23:03 et

Check with your supplier to see if they have product liability in placement for you first as a customer, as most do.

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Emili says at 23:04 et

He means product liablity probably... If you have a professional account you have to have insurance. Under ATO all Pro accounts must have $1 mill liability insurance. Its pretty straight forward. Also If you sell $10k for 3 consecutive months on your "Individual account" you have to provide insurance. Check Amazon TOS!

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little_tiger says at 23:04 et

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Julian says at 23:22 et

Hi Private Labelers... any tips and advised on how to find out if a product has patents, trademarks, & copyrighted

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Uncle Sam says at 23:22 et

google patent search to start

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Lucy says at 23:23 et

hire copyright lawyer to do a quick research. Check trademarkia.com also google your keyword and see who might be selling related to it and close to it, what domains are free etc.

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bitmap says at 15:14 et

great course, love every minute of it!! please do more videos about facebook ads!

Claudia says at 15:15 et

will do! we have facebook mastery bonus coming soon! awesome stuff

Leslie says at 13:30 et

I had over eight merchant providers turn me down. For example, when you think hemp--you think...marijuana. Providers said no,no,no....Hemp is illegal, which it is not! And search Aliexpress for hemp clothing and what do you get, marijuana paraphernalia--not 100% hemp products! Hemp is just another tag for broadcloth. What I do not get is I have seen things like marijuana seed sites with a shopify or Paypal logo on their site? But.. I was denied by both of them for trying to sell anything that could be misconstrued as for marijuana..like vaporizers listed under Aromatherapy. Are not marijuana seeds sold for the purpose of growing an illegal plant in most states/provinces? Why the hypocrisy with merchant providers?

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Diego says at 13:31 et

You see, every provider wants to stay safe. If you are new and coming with a first product and start with something on the "edge" like marijuana-related stuff you might have trouble for sure. Start with safer products, get approved easily, then get some volume going and only when you are a trusted seller add more edgy products. Hope this helps

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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

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Gautam says at 04:49 et

I want to open a store selling oils and alternative health products. Will there be issues shipping to the U.S. like customs?

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Violet says at 04:54 et

It's hard to say, are you shipping in mass quantities or one by one? Usually anything for personal use does not go to customs. Best advice here is to find your competitors selling same and then ask their support something like "Hi, I am from Chicago, do you ship your oils to USA and do I have to pay any taxes?" So they will help you this way :)

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Gautam says at 01:59 et

I guess in mass quantities; I can use the Amazon FBA so they can tackle customs. But for shipping one by one, from your answer, it seems I will not have issues shipping to the US or Europe. In India(where I live), however, they charge customs even if it is a single item and for personal use. So, I think I should be okay. I will use the trick you mentioned too. Cheers!

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lou says at 05:09 et

I asked shipping agent, here is what they say "only one by one is OK. and there is a limits (no more than 30ML). Mass import to US not allowed"

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Gautam says at 01:59 et

Thank you for your answer. Helpful!

Serenade says at 14:06 et

Hi All, I'm new here, Does teelaunch handle customer service? ?

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Oleg says at 14:06 et

Regarding deliveries and fullfillments yes.

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jo says at 16:30 et

They are very helpful, i use them too!

Pavel says at 02:17 et

What to do in case of goods return taking into consideration that delivery done to US and I am located outside of US? Does it mean that returned goods to be deliveried to my home? How I should proceed in such cases?

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Alex says at 02:18 et

Hi Pavel. There is a video lesson talking about it, you can set the forwarding address in US.

Pavel says at 13:27 et

Alex, thank you. Could you please indicate the name of the video.

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casey says at 13:28 et

It was I think a video about the biggest problems with dropshipping and how to solve it

Pavel says at 02:18 et

Any answers? It is important to know in such situations. Similar questions related to refunds. How to work with the suppliers in case of refunds? I will appreciate answers for my questions.

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Violet says at 02:19 et

If you do FBA then Amazon will take care of returns and refunds.
If you do dropshipping then customer can return item to your forwarding address. If the item is cheap it's easier just refund without return.

Pavel says at 13:27 et

Yes, I do understand it. Thank you. The question related to dropshipping part.

Ernesto says at 06:36 et

I thought "boost post" was a big no- no, and should instead use ads manager? Can someone drop some knowledge on me?

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Eddy says at 06:38 et

Boost post is the same as using ads manager if you already created audience and just want to quickly boost the post for $10-15 when building community.

uma mahesh says at 05:23 et

Hello All,

I am launching a wellness and health niche on shopify. We have our private labeled products and also connected to aliexpress. How can I selectively charge shipping on our private labelled products and not charge on aliexpress products? Thank you

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Chris says at 05:24 et

Uma, two ways...
1. set the shipping zones in shipping settings
2. add shipping cost in price for your private label products and make shipping appear free.

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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