Using Amazon FBA to Create a Business for Your Freedom
Amazon has both a SKU and an FNSKU data ID for each of your listings. The SKU is your free-form text you use to identify “this” listing. The FNSKU is Amazon’s generated data for THEM to identify your item in their warehouse system. They are not interchangeable when referring to them. FYI In the Send … Read more
Amazon is in the Warehouse business handling millions of inbound and outbound shipments. Their processes are invisible to we Sellers, and that makes for some confusion and concerns while they are processing our shipments. This is how I explain the shipment process to Sellers with concerns. For anybody else with these sorts of questions about … Read more
In 2022, Amazon implemented a mandatory change to the FBA shipment process. They call it Send to Amazon, and claim it makes the FBA shipment process easier. Well, according to many, it isn’t easy — At All. It is Soooo Confusing! The truth is, it is a change, and change isn’t always accepted, embraced, or … Read more
Selling on eBay, Etsy, or on Amazon as Merchant Fulfilled (MF or FBM) is an easy way to add additional revenue to your business. But, it means that you have to ship all the individual orders to the customer. It isn’t hard, but can appear intimidating. I can show it to you. Shipping Supplies First, … Read more
In the Process of Find It, List It, Ship It, Repeat, it’s time to share how we do our Ship It. We have developed a couple of processes to make it go faster. I build a “Ship List” of things to ship this week. It’s a Word doc with a table to organize our shipping. … Read more
Someone asked for a “dumbed down” version of how to pack and ship to FBA, Here is my response in a FaceBook post. ====================== Dumbed down… Put ’em in a box. Tape it up. Put labels on ’em. Take ’em to the UPS Store. Not so dumb. — Create a Shipping Plan by selecting your … Read more
What-the! I am not cheering the virus and its devastation, deaths, illness, or economic disaster. Fortunately, Sandi and I are still personally unaffected by the virus. The farm routines, the dogs and walking them, the limited shopping — nothing really different despite Oregon’s lock-down policies. I am woo-hoo-ing our Amazon business happenings because of the … Read more
The secret to FBA (and any online ecommerce endeavor) is Find It List It Ship It Repeat You have to have something to sell. Finding that ONE item seems like the ultimate goal, but it’s not. Products come and go. Styles, interests, fads, new technology, celebrities, even companies, all change over time. There isn’t a … Read more