Welcome back to the show – great to be back after the Easter holidays. I managed to get myself into a fix on some tax issues which I’m working through! Fun and games there. Make sure you have more than enough cash in the bank to pay your taxes!
Some Amazon updates for this week.
Amazon’s really cracking down on email communications through the buyer messaging service. If you have an autoresponder set up and it’s saying something like if you’ve had a positive experience leave a product review and if you’ve had a problem, get in touch with me type ‘message’, change it immediately. It’s known as steering which means you’re directing people away from leaving a review if they’ve had a bad experience. That’s now a big ‘no-no’.
There have also been numerous cases or reports of people getting their accounts suspended when launching products using giveaways. As usual, Amazon’s being super vague as to the exact policy infringement, saying it might relate to BSR manipulation (BSR = Best Seller Rank), review manipulation to misuse of search and buy policies. It’s crazy and I’m still trying to figure out what’s going on there. You could argue a lightening deal is BSR manipulation, so as usual, everyone’s jumping at shadows not sure what’s causing it exactly.
Coaching? Get in touch spots filling fast. Go to www.theaustralianseller.com/chris
I’ll be on an incubator panel with Calli at Retail Global later in may – get your discounted tickets by heading over o the Retail Global and using promocode TASRG
Also likely to be doing an offsite training session with Hamish Conway from Sell Global on the Gold Coast – helping local QLD consumer brands and retailers with help and advice about setting up and scaling on Amazon.
Don’t forget to join the Australian Seller Family on Facebook TAS.com/facebook – almost at 400 members!
This week we welcome the Shawn Zhao
… from etailerHub and Hypersku a new dropshipping service…
Here’s Shawn’s Linkedin Profile
Anyway, I started by asking Shawn to introduce himself and how he got into the world of dropshipping…
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