We have seen a lot of activity in the market for Amazon sellers getting an exit in the past couple of years, but now, things are changing. As buyers are seeing the impact of covid, post covid bump in missed calculations and the impact on logistics and rising costs in raw materials - the landscape is shifting again. A lot of the aggregators and brokers have moved the bar on what they are purchasing and representing in the exit process. Today, Liran Hirschkorn will join me, as we discuss this topi...
May 04, 2022•27 min
This week on Inspired with Bell... Shawn Hart has been a lifelong serial entrepreneur, created and sold 17 businesses, sold his first business to make his first million dollars at age 27. He's written two books about business and marketing. Shawn is the co-founder of Post Purchase PRO which focusses full time on helping other Amazon sellers make every customer more valuable and keep them around longer with the only done for you email marketing service specifically for Amazon sellers....
May 03, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Knowing who your competitors are, what they offer on and off amazon, what their marketing and branding strategies are etc is CRUCIAL and can really help you when developing a brand and or products. On Thursdays with Sharon, Sharon Even gives an overview of what competitor analysis is, why it is important and how it is done.
May 01, 2022•17 min
Amy Wees joins me today to discuss the various options of sourcing from Mexico, China and the USA. With rising material costs and logistics in the toilet, it is always handy to look around at the various opportunities that are on hand. China has the scale and very responsive, this is not always the case in other countries. We discuss this and much more on today's show.
Apr 27, 2022•21 min
Richard Hollowood and Jim Mann from Close Brothers join me today to speak more in-depth about where to put your money in both the short and long term. We chat about off shore and the pros and cons, Pensions, the difference between Investment Adviser, Wealth Manager and a Relationship Manager. Jim joined Close Brothers in September 2021 to manage a range of global portfolios for offshore institutional and private clients and is based in Guernsey. Jim trained as an equity analyst and worked for Me...
Apr 26, 2022•34 min
This week on Inspired with Bell... Janelle Page’s career in business and marketing began in elementary when she first started selling lollipops and candy bars to her fellow schoolmates. Her resume includes successful ventures in marketing, real estate, sports nutrition, supplements, events, consulting, teaching, and public speaking. Over the years, she has created and sold several companies, as well as helped hundreds of brands—both large and small—grow their business. Most recently, she led the...
Apr 26, 2022•1 hr 1 min
Paul Harvey joins me today for an interesting conversation... Amazon operators are in high demand due to the influx of aggregators. But most companies and aggregators are struggling to find good talent. The irony is that most Amazon sellers fail... but still know a lot more than the aggregator's without operational chops and would be an asset to any ecom business. Seller Sessions is now sold out! 10 tickets left for Branded By Women.Grab tickets for Branded By Women Live brought to you by Brande...
Apr 21, 2022•22 min
This week on Inspired with Bell... This is a mindset show and the Pinterest info is at 58 mins if you want to start from there. Bio: Matt Parker is Co-Founder of Pinformative; a marketing ,e-Learning development agency that works with Pinterest and is dedicated to scaling brands from a multitude of marketplaces including Amazon, Ebay, Shopify & Etsy. Matt has worked with many well known blue-chip companies all over the World including clients such as Universal Studios and the BBC television ...
Apr 19, 2022•1 hr 5 min
On Thursdays with Sharon, Sharon Even welcomes back Refael Elbaz CEO of Unicargo International Logistics to give us an update on the current Shipping & Logistics situation. We go over: * USTR Exclusion of 352 products from Trump tariffs - Can you get refunds on the tariffs paid, if so how and what you need to know. * Update on current Shipping Rates * Port Congestion Update - How many Vesicles at anchor, time it takes to pass customs currently, and our prediction of what is to come * China L...
Apr 17, 2022•44 min
Brandon Nutter from Ampd joins me today to discuss external traffic and how that impacts on the store vs product page. Many of the results show a greater attribution for reduced ACoS and how best to set this up. We discuss products and user intent, how to plug the leaks and the copy on your Google Ads for a better yield. Seller Sessions is now sold out! 19 tickets left for Branded By Women.Grab tickets for Branded By Women Live brought to you by Branded. Use Discount code: 10BBW Grab Tickets Now...
Apr 17, 2022•19 min
Make your Amazon account healthier – and more profitable – one ASIN at a time Lesley Hensell is co-founder of Riverbend Consulting, where she oversees the client services team. Lesley has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers get their suspended Amazon accounts and ASINs back up and running. She leverages two decades as a small business consultant to solve the underlying business issues in online retail businesses, resulting in improved operations and profitability. She has been an A...
Apr 13, 2022•18 min
This week on Inspired With Bell... As a refugee from Kyiv (Ukraine), Regina was not born into an entrepreneurial family - but she did watch he parents work hard for their new life and opportunities. Deciding in her mid teens that a "normal" life was too boring for her, Regina has spent the last 35 years figuring out what she wants to be when she grows up. An expert at jumping out of planes and building the parachute on the way down, she has travelled the world, built businesses, spoken on stages...
Apr 12, 2022•51 min
As supply chain gets more and more complicated, lockdowns in China keep popping up and sourcing from China continues to become harder, we as product developers have learned that allowing our businesses to be solely dependent on manufacturing in China is not an option anymore. Mexico is a great option for many reasons - but how can we find suppliers? On Thursdays with Sharon, Sharon shows how she has been able to find Mexican-based tradeshows, summits, manufacturers, logistics companies and much ...
Apr 08, 2022•18 min
Mina is multiple seven-figure seller in the supplement industry, investor, Amazon PPC expert, and founder of Trivium Group, an Amazon Advertising agency. Mina excels at developing cutting-edge supplements for different target audiences and combines his passion for supplements, his background in chemical engineering and chemistry, and his expertise in PPC to crush the competition on Amazon. He has spoken on every major stage in the Amazon industry, consulted over 400 brands, consulted 3 aggregato...
Apr 07, 2022•46 min
Darren is CEO of Vendo, a is a 360° digital growth agency specializing in online marketplaces such as Amazon and Walmart.com having. Darren has 20 years+ of ecommerce experience including affiliate marketing, PPC marketing, marketplace strategy, supply chain, sourcing, and all areas of general ecommerce management. He believes that in today's highlight competitive online marketplaces you need to win as much off of those platforms as on them by building brand awareness. Darren is very passionate ...
Apr 06, 2022•28 min
This week on inspired with Bell... Paul Baron has been in the digital marketing space since 2008 and has been an eCommerce brand owner selling on Amazon since 2015. He is a million dollar Amazon seller, international Keynote speaker on Chatbots and Influencer marketing, and a sought-after expert consultant on all things digital marketing- specifically Influencer and Chatbot Marketing Automation. His brands have received consulting from Shark Tank’s Barbara Corcoran and have been featured on the ...
Apr 05, 2022•52 min
On Thursdays with Sharon, Sharon goes over the new Query Performance Dashboard in Brand Analytics. The Query Performance Dashboard Provides visibility into your search term's performance based on shoppers' search behavior. For the selected timeframe, it shows metrics of the top terms of your catalog or ASIN (e.g., search displays, clicks, adds to shopping cart, and purchases). This information can help you to understand customer demand, what queries lead buyers to your products, at what stage yo...
Apr 01, 2022•28 min
Today Andy Arnott joins as we discuss some of the future possibilities for marketing on the cutting edge for Amazon sellers. The impact of AI on Marketing, Machine Learning and how to use in your business. How AI can improve your supply chain and why those that do use AI will have the upper hand. Andy started selling on Amazon in 2012 and hit 7 figures in sales within the first year of starting the business. Before starting his Amazon business, he worked for the US government in the aerospace in...
Mar 31, 2022•50 min
Today we take a look at what is going on for Amazon sellers inside the Ukraine the impact on their families and Amazon business. Today, Vitalii Khyzhniak joins me to gives us some insight on how things are going and the effects of those around him. Vitalii Khyzhniak is an Amazon advertising and marketing expert, Chief Executive Officer at Profit Whales, a full-service marketing agency for Amazon brands, that accelerates sales growth using on & off Amazon traffic to give them an edge over com...
Mar 30, 2022•24 min
Yev Marusenko is founder of Zontracker, tracking $4B+ of Amazon sales including attribution from Facebook ads. He also created the georank tracker for regional Amazon keyword ranks in each US state. With Zontracker, Georank, and Wego behind him, he is taking a data-driven and innovation approach from e-commerce to web3. ___________________________________________________ Grab Tickets for Seller Sessions Live Brought to you by Thrasio on May 7, 2022 Featuring: Ivelin Demirov, Tim Jordan, Destaney...
Mar 29, 2022•1 hr 3 min
This week on Inspired With Bell... 14 year old entrepreneur ready to conquer the world. From a young age Hayden has realised that he can make money through different small business opportunities. His journey is inspiring and uplifting and a must listen for all your business owners coming through the ranks. ___________________________________________________ Grab Tickets for Seller Sessions Live Brought to you by Thrasio on May 7, 2022 Featuring: Ivelin Demirov, Tim Jordan, Destaney Wishon, Adam ...
Mar 28, 2022•52 min
This is part 2 of Dima's story where we dive into the Amazon area of his career on the road to building and running 7 businesses. Dima is a master of balance. He maintains a crazy work ethic without compromising on happiness or his amazing lifestyle. He has 7 companies, 2 kids, a wife and sweet dog.His business began in 2013 and he hit $500k monthly revenue within 120 days of starting out. Dima has also been through downs as well as ups - including firing 36 out of his first 40 employees. He is ...
Mar 24, 2022•1 hr 8 min
Dima is a master of balance. He maintains a crazy work ethic without compromising on happiness or his amazing lifestyle. He has 7 companies, 2 kids, a wife and sweet dog.His business began in 2013 and he hit $500k monthly revenue within 120 days of starting out. Dima has also been through downs as well as ups - including firing 36 out of his first 40 employees. He is a high-energy, inspiring character with a heart bigger than Jeff Bezo's bank account. ____________________________________________...
Mar 23, 2022•51 min
Amazon is bringing out new tools this year to help Brands (only accessible to brand registered 3rd party sellers) with Insights on Search Performance of Their Products. On Thursdays with Sharon today Sharon introduces the new Search Catalog Performance Dashboard which is currently available for all Brand Registered Sellers from the Brand Analytics Dashboard, and also touches on a not yet released dashboard called "Query Performance Dashboard" which should be launched within the coming months. He...
Mar 21, 2022•22 min
Shelley started on Amazon in 2015 and one of the only people I know that sold two brands at the same time to two different aggregators. Two lots of discovery, two lots negotiations and double the stress. Whilst having help with the process using two different brokers both were over the line in a three month window. More info on Shelley and Scale For Etail https://www.facebook.com/groups/scaleforetail https://scaleforetail.com/upcoming-events/ ___________________________________________________ G...
Mar 15, 2022•40 min
Steve Simonson returns to chat about the impact on metals, gas, oil and plastics from the current situation the world faces and those affect on both sides. Prices are increasing already in homes across many countries. Energy, people, materials and production are key drivers for brand owners across many product categories on Amazon. From internal circuit boards in electronics to plastics that account for many underpinned components that drive manufacturing. _______________________________________...
Mar 15, 2022•30 min
On Thursdays with Sharon Even, Sharon welcomes a "not so typical" Amazon Seller who shares his story of building an assorted Snack Box company. Nick Neve is an Actor, Turned Subscription Box Seller, Turned Amazon Seller, Who has seen great success buying Niche Snacks Wholesale in the USA and creating different types of Snack Boxes under his brand in America on Amazon, Etsy and his own store. During this interview (which is a long one), Nick shares his story of struggling to make ends meet to how...
Mar 11, 2022•1 hr 56 min
Liran Hirschhorn returns to go in-depth on how he and his team using third party eye balls including running white listed ads against influencer profiles. Using a mixture of Hispey, MixMax, Upfluence (Free Chrome Experience) they dial in to get the maximum return. We discuss group buys on weekly stories over a month to maximise exposure (calculating eyes for each stories and expressed conversion rate)... And bartering for your budget requirements and never paying the ad rate card. The chat is ma...
Mar 09, 2022•32 min
Destaney Wishon returns to the show as we talk all things Amazon PPC. As Amazon PPC is clearly moving towards (for a while now) a full pay to play model at the top of search and the endless adding of new ad placements. What impact does this leave for the buyer experience? Sponsored Products is still 75% > of where the conversions are but what about the other ad types that are unproven? Do you invest early to play to win and then ride the wave before the CPC's go up, or do you get more cute wi...
Mar 08, 2022•16 min
Frankie Quiroz is a serial eCommerce brand genius who has successfully built 8-Figure Brands. Frankie is the Co-Founder of Tuned in Tokyo and Drip Creationz. Starting from rock bottom in a small town in Riverside, California; Frankie achieved acclaim by building his first 8-Figure Clothing Empire known as Tuned in Tokyo (the leader in automotive apparel and social media popular brand with over 1 million organic followers) in the summer of 2015. What started out as a dream has blossomed into a gl...
Mar 08, 2022•47 min
