Posts tagged Amazon
EP 177 - Rico's Ruminations - Rico on Failure Part 1

Description: Sits down and looks back on his early days in SFA. He talks about how to get by on bad decisions, selecting clients, and being blamed for failures on the project.

- SFA being audited, being forced to look back on past projects

- Not being proactive about dealing with products and selecting clients

- Pressure on operational expenses, getting clients during Chinese New Year

- Dealing with stubborn clients in the early days of SFA

- Being blamed by a client for lack of progress

- Consequences of clients that don’t read proposals/contracts

- Cancelling a project before starting it, dealing with clients that request refunds

- Trusting your gut when doing big decisions

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EP 175 - Amazon Listings Built to Last with Emma Schermer Tamir

Description:

In this episode, Rico interviews Emma Schermer Tamir, the owner and founder of Marketing by Emma — an Amazon Listing Optimization company. She talks about how it is to transition from a passionate writer to a business person and how hard to give up the control in order for her business to move forward. Check out out the whole story below.


Important Notes:

- Marketing as a great space on understanding how humans work and help businesses find success

- Teaching English as means to live migrate and live to another country

- Amazon FBA Community being relatively a small space in Business, Current Amazon FBA Climate

- Amazon Listing Optimization, Keyword Strategy, SEO, and Copywriting to help product/brand success

- An E-Commerce page is equivalent of your listing, the misconception of selling to everybody and taking on your biggest competitor

- How can a customer effectively choose your product

- How decision-paralysis costs her time and how she minimizes it, how hard to let go of her control to move forward

- Mentoring Writers, Operating the Business on a bigger picture, Being a Business Person first then Artist second

- Growing their business during the pandemic, Success in business with honesty and integrity

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EP 170 - Building Crowdfunding Campaigns in COVID-19 with Johnny Loh

Description:

As mentioned in this episode, similar to the 2008 recession, a lot of products or businesses will be launched after the pandemic. If you are one of the people forced to work from home or work online, this is the best time to think about launching a business/product. Tune in to this episode to know more.


Important Notes:

- Being location-independent, being a Brand Marketer, Starting a career from producing videos to E-Commerce

- Creating your own Brand rather than selling on Amazon, their Million-Dollar Product from Kickstarter

- Trying out the Digital Nomad lifestyle, living in Asia, Being an Amazon FBA Guru

- Struggles in Launching a Crowdfunding, Infringement in their first Brand of Silicone Rings

- A solid launch strategy doesn’t guarantee success, losing lots of money on multiple products they launched

- The Crowdfunding Climate: Then and Now, 2016 was the Golden year to launch a crowdfunding

- The Pandemic forcing people to work at home, and launch a commerce product

- Misconceptions in Crowdfunding, Pros, and Cons of Crowdfunding Platforms

- Personal Life struggles during the pandemic

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