Do you need software when selling on Amazon? Long time blog readers will know that I’ve always preached outsourcing and utilising software and tools as much as possible in your online business. After all you don’t want it to turn into an online job as I call it, where you spend the majority of your day doing menial, repetitive tasks. No! That’s not the idea at all and in fact you should be doing the opposite and trying to maximise the time you spend on high level tasks and decisions that can make a real difference to your business. But I will warn that there’s a limit to this. Don’t be one of ..read more

While my own Amazon FBA business is still fully focused on private label products, I started a trial of flipping / arbitrage selling last year, using Henry, an Amazon Sharks member, as our guinea pig. Following on from his introduction to flipping post from last year where he covered the results of his first month flipping on Amazon UK, it’s now the end of his first full year and time for another update. So without any further ado from me, let’s get to it! Rather than make you wait until the end to find out, let’s get straight to my final results and then I’ll work backwards and break it all d ..read more

Do you need to register a Limited company? The question of whether or not to register a Limited company is one of the first decisions you have to make when starting an Amazon FBA business in the UK. And I’ve written about this extensively and gone over all the pros and cons of operating as a sole trader vs a Ltd company so I won’t cover that all again now. But long story short if your business is doing well then sooner or later you will want to register a Limited company for your Amazon FBA business, mainly due to the flexibility it gives you in terms of extracting as much profit while paying ..read more

Another year, another Amazon FBA fee increase! As you will have most likely heard by now, from May 12th 2022, Amazon are adding a 4.3% fuel and inflation surcharge to FBA fulfilment fees for the UK, Germany, France, Italy, and Spain. What has caused the fee increase? This has mainly come about as a result of increasing oil and fuel costs: Brent Crude Oil Price I’ve seen a lot of reactions to this most recent fee increase announcement and they are understandably negative… after all nobody wants to pay more in fees! Especially considering that it’s on top of the small increase to fulfilment fees ..read more

Product pictures can make or break your Amazon business. Long-time blog readers will now that I’ve been stressing for years now how product photography is one of the most important aspects of selling online, and this applies more than ever with Amazon. And don’t think I’m exaggerating here! For me product pictures and reviews are the two most important factors when it comes to being successful on Amazon. Even the listing and description, which some people agonise and spend hours over, are nowhere near as important. Just think about it – customers can’t see or touch or test your product, so wha ..read more

In today’s post I want to share a quick tip that I’m shocked the majority of Amazon sellers don’t seem to know about – how to remove negative reviews! And this is something that really does work 99% of the time. But before you get too excited I’m talking about seller feedback here – NOT product reviews. Product vs Seller Reviews on Amazon For those who don’t already sell on Amazon, there are two types of reviews you can get for an order. You can get seller feedback, where the customer rates you as a seller, and you can also get a product rating / review. Now back in the eBay days seller feedba ..read more

First of all, hi and welcome back! I know the blog posts have been sporadic recently as I’ve been incredibly busy dealing with some personal issues. But I have some very big plans and ideas for this blog coming up which I’m very excited to share with you all! This includes launching a brand new product on Amazon FBA and tracking the progress every step of the way on AndrewMinalto.com, right from the product research stage all the way to the launch and beyond. I’m still considering whether to do it myself or possibly even select one of my Amazon Sharks members or blog readers to do it. That way ..read more

It’s safe to say the biggest struggle for most Amazon FBA sellers this year has been dealing with restock and storage limits. The change from ASIN based limits to category based limits came with no warning and created some real problems for a lot of Amazon businesses. Here is a typical perspective on the challenges. Restock Limits Thankfully storage limits are fairly easy to handle once you understand how it works – you simply have to keep your IPI score above 500 and you won’t have any storage limits to deal with. If you do need help with your IPI (inventory performance index) and gettin ..read more

There has always been a lot of interest in flipping, also known as arbitrage selling, but this has really taken off post-Covid where so many people have looked to start a side hustle after seeing how risky it is to rely solely on one source of income.  I covered the flipping business model in detail in this blog post and went over the differences between flipping and private label (the latter being my own, preferred Amazon business) and while I’m personally not a huge fan of the arbitrage model, I do recognise that it can be a great entry point for beginner ecommerce sellers. Flipping al ..read more

Hi and welcome to part 3 of my complete guide to advertising on Amazon! In case you missed them, in part 1 we covered how PPC advertising on Amazon is often the difference between a failed and successful product launch and I walked through the process for creating your very first automatic ad campaign on Amazon step by step. And in part 2 we got into the really important part, using your auto campaign to create a manual advertising campaign. At this point your auto and manual campaigns should have been running for a few weeks and ideally are already generating sales.  I wouldn’t be conce ..read more