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Short sharp episode today with Scott Kilmartin who comes on to discuss the Amazon vs. Treasurer Scott Morrison situation!

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’d know already that Amazon will be redirecting Australian users away from the likes of Amazon.com, amazon.co.uk et al. and back to amazon.com.au.

This is all in response to the Government requiring Amazon to collect GST for it, on any sale that any Australian makes on any of its global platforms.

Amazon’s response caught everyone off guard so I’ve got Scott on the show to try and work through what it means for Australian consumers and Australian Amazon sellers!

Enjoy.

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Today’s guest is Sophie Howard, a mum of 2 young kids, who’s built and sold her Amazon businesses from the South Island of New Zealand.

She’s a lifestyle business advocate who balances entrepreneurial and family life to create 6 and 7 figure businesses.

She takes us on her journey from how she chose her first product from Nepal all the way through to the coaching work she does now to help you start your journey selling on Amazon!

Along the way, she’s travelled and sourced products to sell on Amazon from India, Morocco, Budapest, China, India, Sri Lanka, the USA, New Zealand and more.

She truly has created incredible Amazon businesses by going completely against the mainstream ‘tactical’ approach most Amazon courses and gurus espouse. Her approach to product selection and sourcing is fascinating and fun.

Sophie is coming to Australia this week to do a live and free speaking tour around the country about how to make a healthy income selling products on Amazon.

If you’d like to get along to her events, click here to register and see what all the fuss is about.

Contact Sophie directly here: support @ aspiringentrepreneurs.com

Visit Sophie’s website over at https://aspiringentrepreneurs.com

Don’t forget to join my Facebook Group!

Join our meetup! We have an upcoming Amazon Q&A event on Thursday 7th of June 2018 here in Melbourne at RMIT.

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Aaron O’Sullivan from SystemsCultureImpact.com comes on the show today with a presentation! If you’d like to see the actual presentation, you can watch the replay on Youtube.

Without systems in place, there’s always a ceiling that you will hit in terms of being able to continue to launch successfully and delight your customers. So Systems, Culture, Impact helps Amazon businesses to scale up and helps them fully install systems into their businesses and create a great virtual team with a great team culture.

Aaron’s Background

Aaron started on Amazon in 2013. At first, it was a side gig while he was working in the mining industry in the far north of Australia. He dabbled in affiliate marketing before finding ASM1 and getting into the Amazon world. After attending the ASM event, Aaron went all in on Amazon. After 5 months he was able to quit his job and focus on his business full time. Meanwhile, his business partner was building a team of staff in the Philippines and asked Aaron to join. They ended up having a team of 45 staff running multiple different brands across all different types of industries and niches on Amazon.

It was a challenge to come up with the systems to be able to scale those different brands. That’s how Aaron learn what worked and what didn’t work and how to start a business online. He learned it pretty quickly, created a process and system for how to remove yourself as much out of business as possible and attracting great virtual assistants in the Philippines.

Aaron has been on numerous Podcasts and presented live at the SellerCon Conference as part of the Amazing Selling Machine (ASM) event!

Join our Facebook Group over at www.theaustralianseller.com/facebook

I’m speaking at the Search Marketing Summit in Sydney on the 30th May 2018 – Get your tickets!

I’m also hoping to be on an Amazon Sellers Panel with Ed Wiley and Calliope Sofianopoulos (Calli) at Retail Global on Friday 25th May at the Gold Coast. I know Calli is holding an Amazon Meet-up, so get your tickets and come join us!

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Giani hails from Geelong, Victoria and went in hard on an Amazon course; took a trip to Yiwu with some classmates to get ideas and source products, before deciding the hard-selling, “upselling” course wasn’t for him and he’d go it alone.

Along the way, there were some heart-stopping decisions as he sunk $20K of his kids’ education fund on launching 15 SKU’s to figure out which ones would work. He’s now all-in on 2 remaining products and after 6 months of darkness and grind, he’s seeing bright lights at the end of the tunnel.

I hope you enjoy this great story from Giani where shares his experiences getting going selling on Amazon.

You can reach Gianfranco at his website here: www.giani.com.au

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