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Wiring money to a supplier in China you’ve never met face-to-face can be a scary prospect. Well, you can rest easy because scams are rather rare in China. But, they do exist and in today’s episode, we’re going to talk about some of them.

I constantly talk about free plus shipping offers because it's such an integral part of our marketing strategy. For the next half hour or so I will be talking about how we have sold products and grown the business with the help of our free plus shipping offers.

Should you be selling in Canada? The answer to this is of course relative. But, if you are living in the United States, then Canada would technically be the “lowest hanging fruit” when it comes to expanding your business.

If you’re new to Facebook, find the quickest way you can earn from it. Remember, it’s always good to have another revenue stream outside of Amazon. In this episode, we’ll be focusing on creating a Facebook page and being able to optimize it for engagement.

We discuss the aftermath of the South Dakota vs Wayfair case and how it has invariably created the so-called economic nexus. This essentially means that the state can now require online sellers to collect state sales tax for online purchases, even if the seller doesn’t have a physical presence (e.g. an office or a warehouse) in that state. In South Dakota, the economic nexus threshold has been placed at 200 online purchases or $100k in revenue.

Growth Scout's Dave Huss shares how he was able to leverage Facebook as a marketing platform, with his brands’ business pages have 150,000 and 90,000 fans respectively.

When you’re a seven-figure Amazon seller, it’s tough staying on top of every little business detail. And if you’re anything like me, you experience separation anxiety whenever you need to hand over work to someone else to do. But as Mads explains, delegation is a necessary evil. As a business owner, you need to free your time so you can focus on big-ticket items.

Have you ever been in a position where you needed to decide between letting FBA drain your money on unsold inventory and just liquidating everything? While being put in this situation truly sucks, there are still some things that can be done to turn the situation around. This is what James and I talk about in this Under the Hood episode.

In this episode, I met up with three of my buddies in the industry, Greg Mercer from Jungle Scout, Steve Chou from My Wife Quit Her Job, and Scott Voelker from The Amazing Seller, to talk about our latest project called the 5 Minute Pitch. It’s an opportunity for bootstrapped online businesses to pitch their best business idea to us as judges and win $50,000.

Joining us in this episode is Noah Alhadeff. He’s a sales manager at Freightos, a “digital freight marketplace” that connects importers to freight forwarders. Noah offers some great advice for those who are new in their importing journey.

Prime Day has come and gone. Now, it’s time to pull up our stats and see how we fared.

If you’ve been a regular podcast listener, you would have heard me talk about Amazon suspending one of our best selling products. In this episode, I’m going to share more about that particular experience.

The last couple of months have a been marred by struggles. However, our wins definitely rank higher than our struggles. As a company, I’d say we are in a good place and poised to be in an even better one before the year is out. Here's a status update for each of my 18 goals in 2018.

In January 2017, I got hired as a picker at one of their oversize FBA warehouses in Vancouver. I worked for 8 hours and was paid CA$13.75 an hour. I had originally intended to work there for two weeks but had to cut it short to a few days. Still, it was more than enough time to have a good idea of what goes on inside these warehouses and what its like to work there.

It is really rewarding to be able to help someone grow and improve their ecommerce business. And in this episode, I got to catch up with David Wilson, one of our early guests in the Under the Hood segment. He talked about how he was able to get out of the slump his business was in with the help of the strategies I suggested and is now inching closer to his $20k profit goal.