Selling On Amazon & Other Online Adventures 2024 Latest Happenings
Amazon Seller Live Training 2024 Coming soon... Instead of inviting you to sign up for my training course, I highly recommend you register for SSF 2024 in Singapore on 19-20 Nov 2024, because this is a huge unprecedented opportunity to supercharge your selling journey that you should not miss! Find out more below: 
SOUTHERN SELLER FEST 2024 (SSF 2024), 19-20 Nov 2024, SINGAPORE I attended SSF 2022 in Sydney, Australia. Subsequently my Amazon sales increased by 50% over the next few months! This got me thinking. Many significant growth spurts in my business journey can be traced back to live, in-person events. Not events by Amazon, but events by sellers, for sellers, where you experience powerful, first-hand, real-life actionable insights from people who have gone from zero to six, seven and eight figures. When I was a newbie seller, I flew from Singapore to Texas for a seller conference. That event immediately helped me grow from a few thousand in sales to USD15,000 a month on Amazon. So in 2023, I connected SSF's founders with Amazon Global Selling's staff in Singapore, with the dream of bringing this world-class Amazon seller event to Singapore, as I realised the seller community in Singapore has never experienced a world-class seller event that can supercharge their Amazon selling journey. Amazon's Global Selling Team in Singapore has done a good job organising events in Singapore for several years, but there's nothing like a summit for sellers, by sellers, which are far more powerful, inspiring, and practical than events by Amazon, with sharing and topics by Amazon. Unbelievable effort has been put in to bring SSF from Sydney to Singapore in 2024! It really seemed impossible at many points. Arranging for the top speakers to come here, securing the venue, convincing Amazon and other sponsors to participate, and taking the risk of doing this at break-even cost to keep the ticket price as low as possible so more people can benefit. Fyi people from the UK, US, and Australia who have been to previous Southern Seller Fests, know how great the speakers are, and understand the value this event brings to their business have already booked their event tickets, hotel and flights to be in Singapore! So if you live in Singapore or in the region, you really don't want to miss out on being at SSF 2024, especially at the current early-bird price with USD100 off! More info: 
SSF 2024 Official Website
Amazon Global Selling Summit 2023
Date: 11-12 Oct 2023 Venue: Marina Bay Sands I'll be speaking at 3 sessions, but what excites me the most is introducing SKUdrop to Amazon sellers from the region! SKUdrop is a game-changing solution that provides cheap storage in China, simple and efficient shipping in small or large volumes from China to Amazon FBA, and a super user-friendly and convenient interface that auto syncs with Amazon Seller Central that makes sending shipment incredibly easier. Make sure to register for the Amazon Global Selling Summit and visit the SKUdrop booth, where they will be offering an amazing lifetime waiver of their USD9.99 monthly subscription and USD500 worth of FREE shipping credits (no minimum spend needed)! 
Amazon recently hosted me on another livestream. There was lots of interaction and questions came in fast and furious. You can watch the recording of the "Ask Me Anything About Selling On Amazon" session below:
Life is a journey. One that can be full of ups and downs. The last 10 years have been especially interesting as I stepped out from many years of salaried employment into the world of e-commerce and discovered selling on Amazon. It has been a new season fraught with unknown challenges and huge opportunities.
This online journal serves as a chronicle of my online entrepreneurial adventures (and misadventures) as they unfold. These include dabbling in Internet marketing, creating an online shop and most importantly SELLING ON AMAZON from outside the USA. Hopefully my successes and failures will be helpful to many, the contents here will generate fruitful discussions, resources will be shared, and most of all that some of us will get to know each other better along the way. I started blogging in "chapters" from end 2012. From September 2013, things took a major turn for the better when I found the amazing team and resources in the Proven Amazon Course... And that's when this journey really took off! Before you go any further, I strongly recommend you first click on the link to join these two FREE Facebook groups: These are very helpful and constructive groups. The first group has thousands of helpful members and the moderation team keeps the culture extremely helpful. The second smaller group started out from a meetup of sellers in Singapore and has grown to include Amazon's management team amongst its members! We all have many questions, especially when starting out! Being a member of these Facebook Groups, you can ask all your questions and they will be answered positively and constructively. Do not underestimate how important being part of a genuinely helpful community can be. Interacting with the right people has been one of the most critical keys to my success. The other huge key has been understanding the power of KEYWORDS. I cannot emphasize the importance of keywords enough. It is the foundation to success online success because the primary way people find anything online is through search. And it's not just Google or Bing that are search engines, Amazon and any shopping site/app are also search engines that match product results to each customer's search query. A big part of online advertising is also keyword-driven. Therefore knowing how to research and analyze the right keywords to use, how to optimize them in a listing, and how to advertise effectively with them is absolutely critical to establishing and scaling online sales. Here's a short 22 min video about keywords that I did for Global Sources. For a more extensive video and write-up I have a page that covers keywords and how they are the foundational key to successful online sales. If you want a quick overview of selling on Amazon, watch the short video below by Amazon for a quick summary of how I started to sell on Amazon and why I think it's good sales channel. Amazon approached me to shoot the video as the first Singapore seller ever featured on their Amazon Seller Success Story series.
Before you read further, have you applied to join the Facebook groups?
For a step-by-step guide on how to get started selling on Amazon, go to Amazon FBA 101. Once that's done, click here to start at the beginning of the journey... or go to the Blog for the latest posts, or check out my reviews of the tools and resources I have found most helpful. Everything else can be easily found from the menu or the search box at the top. Latest Updates
July 2022: Just posted 3 announcements for July
12 May 2021: Amazon Updates - May 2021
9 Mar 2021: Key Amazon Updates - March 2021
16 Jan 2021: News for the New Year - info about:
14-15 Oct 2020: Just uploaded two 1 hour webinars on Amazon PPC Advertising. I learnt alot from joining a 6 week PPC mastermind with Ritu Java, CEO of PPC Ninja and invited her to share with the community. 20 Aug 2020: Spoke at this year's Global Sources Online Show. I was invited to speak at Global Source's Summit in Hong Kong, but due to Covid-19, this year's trade show was held online. I spoke on the keywords as one of the foundational keys to Amazon and online success. The video is posted above on this page and I also have a page with a more in-depth video and article about keywords. 31 Jul 2020: Amazon just released Negative Product Targeting! This has been an Amazon PPC advertising feature that has been long awaited. I just spent several hours yesterday adding negative product targets to my numerous automatic campaigns. This should bring their ACOS down significantly. This post explains negative targeting. Apr 2020: My Amazon Seller Live Training course is now online! With the Covid-19 lockdown, I've moved my training course completely online. It comprises 2 full days of live, interactive webinars plus four 1-to-1 consultations. Now anyone, anywhere in the world can sign up for my live training. Each intake is still restricted to a maximum of 15 people so that I can support everyone individually. 5 Apr 2020: New page on Product Photography and Images. Find out how to create images for your online listings. 5 Feb 2020: Want to start selling on Amazon? One of the first choices you have to make is whether to register for a Professional or Individual Amazon Seller Account. I get asked this very often and decided to spend some time explaining the main differences so you can make a well-informed decision. Details at Amazon Professional vs Individual Selling Plans. 17 Nov 2019: Lots of new seller account registrations are facing problems with getting stuck at Seller Identity Verification and/or Seller Performance Review. Amazon reached out to me to share a guide and escalation template they prepared to help sellers. You can find these at this page: Seller Identity Verification and Seller Performance Review. 4 July 2019: Amazon coupons is a powerful way to improve both your click-through rates and conversions. I just spent the whole day writing this post to show you how to create Amazon coupons with step-by-step screenshots of the whole process so you can do it easily! 18 Sep 2018: Just wrote a new page on How to Increase Amazon Sales by understanding and optimising for traffic, click-throughs and conversions. 27 May 2018: After sharing the tools I use, several readers asked me what I would choose if I could only pick 1 tool. After extended practical use, Helium 10 is easily my favourite and most used tool. Actually it's a sweet suite of 12 tools. I explain why and how I use it in my Helium 10 Review. 17 Mar 2018: Posted a list of the Amazon tools I use after constantly getting asked to recommend the tools I use for Amazon seller research. 23 Feb 2018: Many of you have asked me to conduct training classes. After 2-3 years, I have good news! I've just launched AMAZON SELLER - SINGAPORE TRAINING. The first class sold out in just over 1 day. Due to popular demand, I'm planning the fourth class on 11-12 June 2018. Click on the link to find out more and let me know your preferred dates if you want to sign up. 11 Dec 2017: Just added my latest blog post on how to estimate Amazon sales for Q4 and plan inventory to meet demand without overstocking. I use one of my products as example to calculate how much quantity to stock, lead times, and when to order. 17 Nov 2017: The Proven Amazon Course (PAC) is on sale at $100 off! This is the main resource I use and recommend that has helped me start selling successfully on Amazon and grow a sustainable online business with multiple income streams. I've said multiple times that it's worth at least $3000 and been a far better investment than what I paid for my Master's degree course. The price will be increasing to over $400 in early 2018, so grab it now to lock in your price at $299. Find out more in my Proven Amazon Course Review and Amazing Selling Machine vs PAC Comparison. 4 March 2017: Amazon just reimbursed me $1230.62 for units that they lost or damaged in their warehouses. Reimbursements are supposed to be automatic, but they miss a fair number of units. In the last 3 years, I've compiled and requested for reimburse manually. This can be fairly complicated but it's worth the effort as I've been reimbursed close to $10,000 that would otherwise have been "lost" in the system. I follow the steps in the Complete Guide To FBA Reimbursements each time I do this every 6 months. 27 Oct 2016: I address some frequently asked questions about selling on Amazon during Q4. 5 Mar 2016: Latest newsletter - Download Suspension Prevention ebook by Cynthia Stine FREE (sold by Amazon at $25.73). Free download is available till 16 March 2017. Also how I spent a few minutes to get back several thousand dollars in unpaid Amazon FBA reimbursements from Seller Support. 31 Mar 2016: Based on the challenges I encounter and the questions from other sellers, I've started a whole new section that covers the essential steps to sell on Amazon, answers frequently asked questions and explains the issues faced by Amazon Sellers. Check out the Amazon FBA Guide. Also added a new blog post today. Jan 2016: I've sent newsletters with useful info, tips and tools since 2014. Realising that anyone who signs up to join the journey after a newsletter is emailed would miss out on the wealth of practical points shared in previous emails, I've copied and pasted them on to this site so you won't miss out! Click on Newsletter in the top menu to read the newsletters past and present! 30 Aug 2015: Just wrote my Proven Amazon Course Review including a screenshot of its contents. Click the link to read it. Are you living outside the USA but sell (or want to sell) on Amazon? You're warmly invited to join our Singapore and International FBA FaceBook group at www.facebook.com/groups/MySilentTeamSG. Remember to sign up on the right to get your free list of prep companies and receive occasional emails with useful tips and info!
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