Rock Your Brand Podcast

Are you concerned about the ecommerce industry and what the future might hold for sellers like you? If you aren’t sure where you should focus your business efforts going forward, you’ve come to the right place! On this episode of The Amazing Seller, you’ll hear from Scott as he takes time to walk through the good and the bad of selling on Amazon in 2020. If you are considering making any changes to your business, make sure to take time and listen to this informative episode of The Amazing Seller! 

Make sure to diversify your brand! 

How would you respond if you woke up one morning to find that your Amazon account was closed down? Would you be devastated or would you quickly spring to action and start putting your plan B into effect? For too many ecommerce sellers, failure is just one bad email from Amazon away. What if there was a way to future-proof your business and set yourself up for long-term growth? Tune into this episode of The Amazing Seller to hear more about how sellers like you can chart the best course for success!

Why it’s a good idea to sell on Amazon 

If you’ve been around the TAS community for very long, you know that Scott is passionate about helping sellers like you cut through all the complexity and find out how to make money selling products online. In 2020, is it still a good idea to sell products on Amazon? Is it profitable? According to Scott, the answer is, it depends :) 

There are a ton of helpful advantages that you get just by using a massive platform like Amazon. From converting shoppers to buyers, streamlining the buying experience, and obsessing about the customer there are several ways Amazon makes life easier for sellers. To hear Scott expand on this topic and more, make sure to listen to this powerful episode of The Amazing Seller!

The challenges of selling on Amazon 

Why take your product somewhere else instead of doubling down and tightening the margins to stay competitive on a massive ecommerce platform like Amazon? Is it even possible to sell products successfully while avoiding Amazon? If you are worried about putting all of your eggs in the Amazon basket, this is the episode for you! 

While it can make life so much easier selling on Amazon, the truth is, you are only really doing Amazon the favor. What incentive does Amazon have for helping sellers like you succeed? If you want to succeed, you have to do it on your own! Don’t get lulled into a false sense of security just because your product is selling well on Amazon. To learn more about protecting your business, make sure to listen to this episode of The Amazing Seller!

OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE OF THE AMAZING SELLER

  • [0:03] Scott’s introduction to this episode of the podcast!
  • [3:00] How secure is your business? Scott shares several examples
  • [11:45] The good news about Amazon. 
  • [16:00] The bad news about selling on Amazon. 
  • [26:00] Scott recaps the good and bad of selling on Amazon in 2020. 

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