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On today’s show please make welcome Marg Jolly, a great friend of mine who sells on Amazon and lives in Geelong!

Today’s Marg shares her story about how she got started through Adam Hudson’s Reliable Education course. Sadly, her first product she sourced from China didn’t work out so great – and she quickly realised that in order to go to the next level needed to seriously immerse herself in Facebook Groups, Masterminds, and meeting other local Amazon sellers.

Courses are a great way to start, but often masterminding, networking and 1-1 coaching can be super effective to help you reach your goals.

Marg now sources from India, via a supplier she met in Hong Kong on her way to the Canton fair!

Since that serendipitous crossing of paths to find her new Indian supplier, she and her partner Kevin are getting very close to their goal of making $100,000 in profit (not revenue) per year.

We also touch on Amazon’s Transparency program, part of Project Zero – Amazon’s program to stamp out counterfeiting on their platform.

I love Marg’s story because it’s real. Selling products on Amazon is often a grind, requiring persistence and tenacity and isn’t an ‘easy path to riches’ as some might have you believe!

Private Coaching? If you’d like to book a time to chat with me privately and confidentially about your Amazon Business either strategically or product ideas, shoot me a message to learn more at Chris@christhomas.com.au or book me directly for an hour at www.theaustralianseller.com/chris –

You also should join me and Marg in October for a week’s sourcing trip at the Delhi Fair – the dates are between Oct 14th and 20th – 5 Star hotels, meals provided, 3,000 exhibitors…

On this trip of a lifetime, you’ll learn:

Which products to source from India and from where
How to find and vet suppliers
How to manage quality
How to negotiate price, payment terms, order volumes
How sourcing from India is different from sourcing in China
Logistics and shipping 101
Cultural sensitivities
How to find profitable niches on Amazon
Building a long-term sustainable and profitable Private Label brand
And much more…

Learn more here!

Don’t forget to join the Australian Seller Family on Facebook

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On today’s show we welcome back to the show, Tim Jordan from Private Label Legion for Part 2 of our 2-part deep dive into Product research and Product launching.

On today’s show we cover a lot.

Tim’s a big fan of launching with Amazon Sponsored Ads so we dive deeply into that. We also talk about product reviews and the best way to get them!

We chat about other marketplaces outside of Amazon, and whether they’re worth pursuing.

Tim likes to test things out first before getting too far ahead with Brands and Trademarks and shopify sites and all that advanced stuff, but if a line of products takes off, he’s all in.

Finally Tim talks about the ‘end game’ experience of selling an Amazon business and how he was able to exit with a large 6 figure payday from his first Amazon business.


Private Coaching? If you’d like to book a time to chat with me privately and confidentially about your Amazon Business either strategically or product ideas, shoot me a message to learn more at Chris@christhomas.com.au  or book me directly for an hour at www.theaustralianseller.com/chris –

Tomorrow night (that’s the 20^th June 2019 – apologies if you’re listening to this episode in the future!) I’ll be hosting an India Sourcing info webinar with a previous guest to the show Meghla Bhardwaj, so to Join the Webinar, visit theaustralianseller.com/india

you should join me there in October for a week’s sourcing trip at the Delhi Fair – the dates are between Oct 14^th and 20^th – 5 Star hotels, meals provided, 3,000 exhibitors…

● Which products to source from India and from where

● How to find and vet suppliers

● How to manage quality

● How to negotiate price, payment terms, order volumes

● How sourcing from India is different from sourcing in China

● Logistics and shipping 101

● Cultural sensitivities

● How to find profitable niches on Amazon

● Building a long-term sustainable and profitable Private Label brand

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On today’s show we welcome Tim Jordan from Private Label Legion. I was introduced to Tim by Calli from Private Label Australia a few weeks ago at the Retail Global event and spent some time with him discussing his philosophy around product research and development.

Tim is a huge believer in starting your product research journey off Amazon, not on it, as most people do. Think Pinterest, Etsy, Life Hack blogs, trend watching sites, Instagram, Kickstarter – the list goes on…

Private Coaching? If you’d like to book a time to chat with me privately and confidentially about your Amazon Business either strategically or product ideas, shoot me a message to learn more at Chris@christhomas.com.au  or book me directly for an hour at www.theaustralianseller.com/chris –

India, you should join me there in October for a week’s sourcing trip at the Delhi Fair – the dates are between Oct 14^th and 20^th – 5 Star hotels, meals provided, 3,000 exhibitors…

● Which products to source from India and from where

● How to find and vet suppliers

● How to manage quality

● How to negotiate price, payment terms, order volumes

● How sourcing from India is different from sourcing in China

● Logistics and shipping 101

● Cultural sensitivities

● How to find profitable niches on Amazon

● Building a long-term sustainable and profitable Private Label brand

● And much more…

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On today’s show we welcome to the Australian Seller Family, Liz Cassidy who runs an Amazon Prep Service here in Australia called FBA Prep Australia.

Previously Liz was a 7 figure a year Amazon seller and now helps Local and International sellers fulfil their ecommerce orders as well as receive, bundle and prep them products ready to ship into Amazon Australia’s FBA warehouses.

Liz and I met at Retail Global for the first time last week and after a chat at her booth I just knew I had to get her on the show. Why? Well Liz has coal-face insights into the top performing categories on Amazon Australia which she shares with us today. She’s also witnessed first-hand how sellers get themselves into trouble on Amazon Australia! She’s seeing Amazon Australia grow rapidly as her customers continually increase the size of their shipments to Amazon Australia FBA. We also talk about other marketplaces to consider for the Australian online market.

Speaking of Amazon Australia, today, 6th of June 2019, Amazon’s starting to launch sponsored ads. Get in early and take advantage of what will undoubtedly be ridiculously cheap click costs.

Private Coaching? If you’d like to book a time to chat with me privately and confidentially about your Amazon Business either strategically or even to sanity check your product ideas, shoot me a message to learn more at Chris@christhomas.com.au  or book me directly for an hour at www.theaustralianseller.com/chris –

India, you definitely should join me there in October for a week’s sourcing trip at the Delhi Fair – the dates are between Oct 14^th and 20^th – 5 Star hotels, meals provided, 3,000 exhibitors…

● Which products to source from India and from where

● How to find and vet suppliers

● How to manage quality

● How to negotiate price, payment terms, order volumes

● How sourcing from India is different from sourcing in China

● Logistics and shipping 101

● Cultural sensitivities

● How to find profitable niches on Amazon

● Building a long-term sustainable and profitable Private Label brand

● And much more…

Don’t forget to join the Australian Seller Family on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/FBA-Prep-Australia-458187321212835/

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On today’s show we welcome Max, a 7 figure Amazon seller living quietly here in Melbourne Australia. Max used to be an ‘IT guy’, troubleshooting and fixing computers and networks, until he discovered Amazon. His dream was simple; ”I want to make money while I sleep” – but to paraphrase, he really wanted to stop trading his time for money.

He did a dodgy course, learned the ropes and luckily hit it out of the park with his first product in the kitchen category.

Today Max’s is turning over a million dollars in sales per year on Amazon, mainly in the USA, but he also sells in Europe and Australia.

We talk about how he scaled, about the Chinese work ethic, the recent round of Trump tariffs and strategies as well as sourcing from outside of China like India etc.

Speaking of India, you should join me there in October for a week’s sourcing trip at the Delhi Fair – the dates are between Oct 14^th and 20^th – 5 Star hotels, meals provided, 3,000 exhibitors…

● Which products to source from India and from where

● How to find and vet suppliers

● How to manage quality

● How to negotiate price, payment terms, order volumes

● How sourcing from India is different from sourcing in China

● Logistics and shipping 101

● Cultural sensitivities

● How to find profitable niches on Amazon

● Building a long-term sustainable and profitable Private Label brand

● And much more…

Find out more about the India Trip by emailing me over at chris @ christhomas.com.au or send me a DM on Facebook.

Private Coaching? If you’d like to book a time to chat with me privately, shoot me a message to learn more at Chris@christhomas.com.au

I’ll be a retail global this week (May 30^th-31^st) with Calli helping out on a couple of Amazon ‘injection labs’. Grab your last minute tickets by using TASRG to get a sizable discount at checkout over at retailglobal.com.au

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