GFAE045. Ecommerce Final Episode. This is the last episode of the Ecommerce Gladiator Series here at Global From Asia. The Amazon business is going along fine, there are some changes underway here at Global From Asia and we want to take this time on the last episode of the series to give a rundown of how it started and how it is now. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce045.
Chipping Away At Growing The Amazon Business, SalesVelocity with Marc Roca
GFAE044. Growing the Amazon Business. We have Marc Roca sharing the latest with the Amazon business- Para living we have the aqua green kits, new and improved, online as well as building up stronger feedback and sales velocity for the Sisitano moka pot. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce044.
Optimizing PPC Campaign For Our Amazon FBA Business with Brent Zahradnik
GFAE043. This edition of Global From Asia’s E-commerce Gladiator, we are recording in Bangkok, Thailand. Brent Zahradnik founder of AMZ Pathfinder, a PPC agency focused on Amazon Europe comes on the show with Mike and Marc. Let’s talk about Optimizing PPC campaign. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce043.
Join The FBA Business Partners Talking Shop & The Future with Marc Roca
GFAE042. Today’s podcast we have Marc Roca – his first time to join in the call as fba business partner.
We discussed Amazon PPC, building a brand vs selling on Amazon, product selection strategy, Q4 thought process and thinking about Chinese new year and new production orders for 2019.
Turning Around An Amazon FBA Business with Marc Roca
GFAE041. Welcome to the Ecommerce Gladiator series – and I am excited today to bring into the Colosseum – our newest gladiator – Para Living Inc’s new partner and General Manager – Marc Roca! A pleasure to finally introduce you on the show and talk about Amazon FBA turnaround. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce041.
Greetings from Yiwu, China – Reflections on Yiwu Sourcing for Amazon FBA with Ino Topalovic
GFAE040. Hello from the middle of Mainland China – we are recording live at our Yiwu sourcing Trip. It is a pleasure to bring back Ino on the show from Insight Quality – and discuss about our Yiwu sourcing reflections, how things went with the moka pot sourcing and other items in the past – and how we should do it better this time around. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce040.
What Makes a Successful Amazon FBA Seller?
GFAE039. We are back with Ecommerce Gladiator – and it is a pleasure to bring Meir Simhi back on the show. It has been a year since this business launched and you were the inspiration of starting it. We have all learned a lot here and today let’s discuss what has been working and what hasn’t. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce039.
Management Structure Review For Online Founding Teams, 1 CEO vs Multiple Department Heads?
GFAE038. What is the right way to structure a team working remotely – all as partners? With five equity partners in five different countries, Roland and Mike discuss the challenges and benefits for how things have been going for almost the past year with the company setup. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce038.
Amazon FBA CashFlow Realities – Fully Invested in Inventory
GFAE037. In today’s show we have our CEO of the Amazon business, Roland Bernath, and he and I share the progress of being almost fully invested in inventory and the pressure of balancing this “feast and famine” style of getting new inventory from China, loading it up in Amazon, and selling it – the cash flow balancing.
Optimizing Our Amazon Listing With Zack Franklin
GFAE036. We have in this episode Zack Franklin from AMZ Kungfu helping us with our amazon listing improvement. We will take a look at our current moka pot listing and for our listeners serious about Amazon, I hope you will learn from this and won’t get discouraged. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/episode036.
Structure and Optimization: Let’s Talk PPC
GFAE035. We are preparing for the main product launch We are thirty five shows deep here at the Global From Asia sub-series Ecommerce Gladiator – and as I type this the moka pot has finally shipped from China. The team nerves are being tested and Cadrian has been studying closely the PPC campaigns. He is using various software and one is Bid X a new kid on the block. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce035.
That Anxious Time When It Is Almost There
GFAE034. Anxious Ecommerce. So we are pushing through, Roland is bouncing back and forth between China and Europe like a ping pong ball it seems – he is here in China and we got to meetup while he was in Shenzhen. Seeing the photos of the moka pot and the photographer sending various versions is getting us on the edge of our seats! For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce034.
Spelling Mistakes, Tweaks, Shipping 1000 Pieces
GAE033. Just ship it. This week we have Roland and Mike sharing about the moka pots are FINALLY ready to ship – since maybe September/October we have been talking about this product. A mistake also slipped through the cracks, we dealt with it – sooner than later- and are shipping these bad boys to Amazon FBA. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce033..
8 Reflections After Re-Entering Amazon FBA and E-Commerce
GFAE032. We have recently made changes to the show schedules so today’s podcast is about some of my reflections on what we have been learning and what I am noticing in Amazon FBA in 2018. Here are my solo reflections in re-entering Amazon FBA.
New Business Partner, Negative Review, And Record Sales in the Amazon FBA Business
GFAE031. So many updates on this week’s show – new business partner, new products, new negative reviews, new positive reviews, record sales. This is truly the ecommerce gladiator arena that we promised you and I hope it motivates you to get in the game and enter the arena yourself – now let’s tune in. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce031.
First Full Month of Amazon FBA Sales Data
GFAE030. Our first full 30 days are complete – ecommerce gladiator is ALIVE! Cadrian, Roland, and Mike share their Amazon sales data, business partner updates, moka pot finally ready and more! For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce030
All Main Amazon Systems On – Shift Into Optimizing
GFAE029. In today’s episode we are discussing some of the steps we have been taking in getting things rolling, some of the financial management ideas, reports, pipeline, amazon optimizing and more. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce029.
The Product Is Live on Amazon & More Team Restructuring
GFAE028. In today’s episode we discuss our mini and short celebration of the product being live, the pressure to have it “launched”, various feedback we have been receiving on the right way to launch. Tune in as we tell you more about our amazon listing live! For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce028.
Dethawing After Chinese New Year & Hunting Down The Inbound Amazon Shipment
GFAE027. Episode 27 of Ecommerce Gladiator here for you today. This is one of those where I remind myself and listeners some of the risks when I made that first post announcing this venture – that I would have tough decisions to make with friends and fans of GFA. Today Roland and I talk about the progress of the shipment into Amazon, de-thawing after Chinese New Year and getting into the spring season, our virtual team getting established and more. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce027.
Pushing Through – Shipment Made Before Chinese New Year
GFAE026. We are moving forward! We got that shipment out before Chinese New Year and it really made us get things to get over that hump of sourcing and not selling – to now getting into marketing and sales mode – finally. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce026.
New Products, Team Updates, Keeping Momentum
GFAE025. There is lot of updates got some of the sadder news done at the beginning – combined with a battery too. New products, listeners and friends helping us along way and more! Will be doing these every other Friday – now Enjoy! For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce025.
Plowing Through Between Western and Chinese Holiday Seasons
GFAE024. It is a bit harder to do business during holidays since orders should be and you have to make sure you get the manufacturer to finish on time and get the logistics out the door. Today we have Roland on the call and discuss how we are plowing through. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce024.
Selling What We Got – Readjusting Amazon FBA Strategy for Production
GFAE023. Happy 2018 everyone, the E-commerce Gladiator series took last week off for the new year. This week we have Lorenzo and I discussing a great idea Meir suggested – bundling and selling the coffee accessories we currently have. So we are readjusting our Amazon FBA strategy. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce023.
Placed The Order, Contract with Factory Signed, Next Steps Planned
GFAE022. Episode 22 of Ecommerce Gladiator here, and the gladiators are still pushing forward. The last couple weeks have been brutal to us – Santa Claus may have almost left us coal – but we have made progress and placed the order! In this week’s update, we have a bunch of the partners on – Cadrian Chan, Lorenzo, and Roland discussing about our factory order placed.
Onto the Next Supplier & Our Small Order Hassles with Chris Gormley
GFAE021. It has been a quite emotional ride here with Lorenzo and Roland heading up the operations side and sourcing – a part of e-commerce that I am not a fan of at all! Listen to our small order hassles as we bring them back on the show from last week. Also pulling in some experts to help us, an American manufacturing expert – Chris Gormley. For full show notes, check out GlobalFromAsia.com/ecommerce021.