It is official
Amazon sellers have officially won
Now, I'm not making this video to toot my own horn
or call anyone out
But any person who is in the business of brick and mortar
who have just stayed to one
asset in their business of selling products
any distributor, wholesaler
I'm not gonna say, I told you so
but obviously it's not people's fault
the crazy madness going on the world right now
That brick and mortar stores
distributors, things like that, are going out of business
However, this is really funny because
this is the first time in history
And actually, never been a better time to actually
be an Amazon seller
Like, this is now
Like, oh my gosh, you're an Amazon seller
It's like, you're the only person that's like
able to help us out right now
If you don't know what I'm talking about
my name's Beau Crabill and I sell products on Amazon
And how I do that is, I buy products low
from distributors of big name brand products
So think of like, Target, right?
Target, they buy products at wholesale from distributors
they buy low and they sell high
They don't own any brands
they are not the manufacturer, nothing like that
So now, through that supply chain of manufacturers and wholesalers
the issue that can, has happened with some Amazon sellers is there's
a section of suppliers and manufacturers that refuse
to sell directly to Amazon sellers
For what reason exactly, you might think?
A lot of the reasons is, one, they're really old
I would usually call 'em old hags
Like hey, you have, you know
you're not adapting to the new trends and the new ways
'Cause that's really
The reason I'm making video
Again, it's not to like, brag and say, oh
Amazon has taken over
Actually, a business partner, Tai Lopez
he actually just made a video similar about this
About how e-commerce is, you know, officially won
But this is more just about that if you are running a business
and if you're not adapting, even as an Amazon seller, right?
You could be an Amazon seller
and if you just focused on selling really profitable products
and just doing FBA, your business may be down a little bit right now
My businesses were
If I do the math, we're up about 30%
since all this crazy stuff has happened
From like, what we were doing to now
Which is good, but it's because we've been able to adapt
We see where the money's at
That's one thing that you should remember throughout this video
and just, you know, operate an Amazon business
is follow the money
So, if you wanna learn how to start an Amazon business
check out my description down below
There's a link to my course
that shows you from A to Z on how to sell on Amazon
But, you know, again, this video
is if you are an Amazon seller, you source products from distributors
And with that, distributors, some sell on Amazon, some don't
Now, these people are gonna go bankrupt
or they're gonna have no business
Because they say, you know, we don't sell to Amazon sellers because
Again, some of 'em, they have no actual reason
Some of it's because like
they think that more revenue is sold in brick and mortar
which is actually true
They believe that Amazon sellers manipulate prices
and they don't stay true
Yeah, I mean, some Amazon sellers do that
and it doesn't help anyone out at all
However, I actually just got off a call with
It was an Amazon seller the other day
He's like, yeah, I never compete on price anymore
just because like, there's too many idiots out there
So that's a valid reason why suppliers have never done so
However, what we've been doing in my Amazon business
We're calling up these suppliers and say, hey, you know
I heard, we called you up a few months ago
and you said you don't wanna work with any Amazon sellers
And how'd they do?
This past few weeks, I've never had more brands
reach out to me and say, hey, you know
we know we ignored that whole Amazon thing
this last couple of years, but let's, you know
let's put it in your hands now
It's really interesting because a lot of
people who have product businesses
or selling physical products, they have completely ignored
Completely ignored Amazon
So, you know, what can I say in this video
Again, there's not really too much I wanna talk about
If you're, one, selling on Amazon
you know, check out some trainings and courses
But again, this is not to brag
It's just that like, if you don't adapt
And as an Amazon seller right now, how could you adapt?
Well, there's many things you can do right now
It's a little hard to get an Amazon account right now
I know Amazon is kind of slowing down getting new sellers on
It's still very, very possible to become a new seller on Amazon
But make sure that you don't have just one avenue
of selling products
So like right now, in my business, we do FBM
you know, we do eBay, we sell on Walmart
a bunch of different platforms
If you're a dropshipper and things like that
people are real bad right now
Amazon is getting
I've seen it, they were doing this prior to this anyway
before the whole madness came out
But, Amazon is now being more stricter than ever
on who is selling on their platform
And what I mean by that is that if you're not
running your business the right way
So if you're doing arbitrage
Well, actually, this is funny
I should make a video about this too, how arbitrage sellers
I told you so
But again, I don't wanna be super negative in that
It's just that if
And literally, if you watched my very first
one of my very first YouTube videos
is I've talked about how arbitrage is not a scalable business
People are gonna cut this off at some point
Like, if you're doing online arbitrage and retail arbitrage
Like, I don't know, people are
Like, it's eventually not gonna work
And now, I mean, there's definitely gonna be some crazy things
But anyway, Amazon is limiting
and making it a lot harder for sellers who make mistakes
So, if you're not running your business in a legit way
Which, there's practically two ways to run a legit Amazon business
You can have your own brand
or you can sell other people's brands
If you're doing dropshipping, if you're doing arbitrage
if you're doing online arbitrage, tactical arbitrage
if you're doing whatever knows sketchy stuff
that you're thinking about doing
you're gonna get kicked off very quickly
And Amazon is actually
This is funny, Amazon is holding back people's money
You actually have to make an appeal to get your money back
So if you get on their platform, play on their playground
and if you do something like dropshipping
and, you know, you get kicked off
they're like, good luck to your money
You can get it back
But anyway, so this video
not really giving so much insights here
If you wanna learn how to sell on Amazon
check out the links in my description
I have my Online Retail Mastery course that there's been
hundreds and hundreds of successful people
who've been able to operate their Amazon business from home
But this is kind of an I told you so
So if you're an Amazon seller right now
call up suppliers that told you
oh, we don't work with Amazon sellers because of
you know, you know it's a BS reason
It's 'cause they're old, they don't know
'Cause, it's actually really funny
A lot of people in the
what do you wanna call it, wholesale industry, retail industry
really are not intelligent
They make the same mistakes that a lot of people make
They make this like, they are not good at accounting
they don't adapt
Some are really good
You know, that's why a lot of people
their business is gonna skyrocket over the next couple of years
That's also, to keep in mind is like, make sure
you're working with the right people
you have trust with people
We actually
I kid you not, we've cut our relationship off with a few distributors
the last few weeks
It's not because that they don't have good products
It's because we feel like they're not ethical anymore
'cause they're doing things that are trying to price gouge
Like, a lot of people are
you know, getting mad at retailers and Amazon sellers right now
for price gouging
But in reality, it's not because
And Amazon's realizing this right now
They're selling products on amazon.com too
and they're realizing, it's actually the wholesalers and distributors
I've cut off three distributors just recently because
Like, we literally try to get products to donate to people
and they were like, literally marking up 4x
I'm like, dude
Like, that's messed up
But anyway, let me know if you have any questions
about selling on Amazon
But Amazon sellers officially won
So, if you're an Amazon seller
Like, is this a good time to sink into the business?
Like, it's literally never been a better time
Like, there was a little bit of like, what do you wanna call it
hesitance that like, Amazon sellers were not respected
because we just are running a business from, whatever, our underwear
Which, you know, sometimes that's true
But people think you're just, it's not a legit business
Which now, it's like, San Diego here
It's a ghost town
Which, again, I'm not saying like, oh, I told you so because of this
I'm just saying like, if you're not adapting
if you don't have multiple sources of income
and all the people who disrespected Amazon sellers
you know, sorry for that
Anyway, have a great day
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