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Neil Asher from Aussie Online Entrepreneurs joins me this week! I had another issue with sound quality this week so not quite up to the standard you’re used to, sorry!

We chat about how he got started selling on Amazon, failed in his first attempt but he dusted himself off and has now created a multimillion-dollar Amazon empire, spanning all Amazon’s English speaking marketplaces, Amazon USA, Canada, Australia and India

So we talk about what it takes to set up on Amazon India, how he was able to set himself up there and how’s the Indian Marketplace has worked for him.

He also talks about how he drives super-cheap traffic from YouTube to his Amazon listings.

Of course, we also chat about Amazon Australia.

Private Coaching? If you’ve done an Amazon course, or you’re in the middle of one, or even if you’re just starting out shoot me a message Chris@christhomas.com.au to have a chat first about where you’re at before hand or book me directly for an hour at www.theaustralianseller.com/chris

India, the early bird discounts will be expiring at the end of July, so book now people https://www.indiasourcingtrip.com.  

I joined Meghla last week on a webinar which you can watch on my Facebook group page by heading over to www.theaustralianseller.com/facebook (almost 600 members now!). I showed how one Amazon seller has built a simple store selling ‘drawer knobs’ with sales over $27,000 USD per month. ‘Drawer knobs and handles’ are just one example of many 1,000’s of profitable and unique products you can source from India.

● 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 back to the show Regina Peterbergsky, to fill us in on the biggest Amazon seller event in the Western World, SellerCon.
• First off though, I want to apologise for the audio on my channel – sounds like there’s a witness protection filter and I sound really creepy. Wasn’t sure whether to publish today but Regina’s content was so choockas with quality jems that I just have to.
• We talk about launching products on Amazon using Search Find Buy (or SFB) – and StealthRank.
• The Brand Spanx is also discussed as well as the concept of FAIL (First Attempt At Learning)
  
  Need 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  Chris@christhomas.com.au to have a chat first about where you’re at beforehand or book me directly for an hour at www.theaustralianseller.com/chris –
  
  
• 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…
  
  I am also doing a live webinar tomorrow morning Saturday 6^th July at 11.00am with Meghla on product research tactics for our India sourcing trip – so Jump on Facebook to attend by visiting www.theaustralianseller.com/indiasourcing
• ● 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

Subscribe to Regina’s Podcast over at www.womenonamazon.com or join her Facebook Group, Women On Amazon (on Facebook!)

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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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