Hey, everyone. This is Stefan from projectlifemastery.com. In this video I'm
going to share with you three must-read books for Amazon sellers, so if you've published a
Kindle book, a paperback book to Amazon, maybe you sell physical products on Amazon, if you
sell anything on Amazon, then I believe these three books will benefit you and
your Amazon business. Now, the very first book that I recommend, that I
believe is a must-read for anyone selling on Amazon, and I'm still blown
away by how many people haven't read this book that sell on Amazon, it's
called The Everything Store and The Everything Store is a book that
basically shares the story about Amazon. It's a few years old now, but it shares the
story about Amazon, how Amazon got started, about Jeff Bezos, the founder of
Amazon, and how he initially started selling books through online retail and
how they were able to grow their business; how they invented the Kindle then got
into the whole Kindle publishing scene and caused a lot of controversy with other
traditional publishers out there. How they got into their fulfillment centers
and just all the different markets they expanded in, all the failures they've
had. It's just a really good educational book that can help you understand Amazon. I
think that if you're going to sell on Amazon, you got to understand that you're
partnering with them. You're dependent on Amazon. You're working together. If you're
going to invest so much time into your Amazon business and
invest money into it, I think it's important to understand the actual
business that you're working with.
In The Everything Store you're really going to learn how Amazon thinks. You're going to
understand their culture, their mindset, their vision, their values. I think
this is really important because that can help align you with Amazon so that you
can have better success. Also, I believe that one of the most important skills in
business is the ability to anticipate, to be able to see the road ahead, to
anticipate potential challenges, pitfalls, the different direction of what's
coming next. By understanding Amazon and how they think and their vision, then
that can really help you understand how they think and be able to see the road
ahead so that you can grow your business and align with them
in the best possible way. I highly recommend this book. I'll provide a link to this
book in the description somewhere or maybe on a blog post so you can check
them out on Amazon if you choose. I highly recommend that one. The second
book that I recommend it's called The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster by Darren
Hardy. This is a fantastic book for anyone that wants to be an entrepreneur
or someone that is already an entrepreneur. There's a lot of great mindset
stuff in terms of entrepreneurship in there. What I found from my
experience of working with a lot of Amazon sellers, Kindle publishers, is for most
people, starting an Amazon business is their very first business.
Right? They've never had any other business before that point. A lot of people
that I work with and people that I have seen that got started on selling on Amazon,
they're going from a job, being an employee, to now being self-employed
part time, and eventually want to become a full time entrepreneur.
Those are two different worlds.
Going from self-employed or an employee, there's a totally
different mindset with that. There's more security that's involved in that. You're
having someone else tell you what to do. Then often times,
when people go to be self-employed, wanting to be an entrepreneur, there's a
lot of struggles in that transition. All of a sudden they have a to be their own boss. They have
to set their own schedule, they have to discipline themselves. All of sudden there's
more variety, there's more risk associated, more potential of failure.
I've noticed a lot of people, they never encountered failure before. Right?
They've never encountered failure in their job. They're just used to getting their paycheck
and showing up. They get paid for working eight hours a day and that's it,
whereas when you have a business, you could work eight hours a day, it doesn't matter.
You're not going to get paid for that. You only get paid based on results that
you produce. It's a different mindset and I think that you got to equip yourself to
understand that business is a lot different. It could be challenging. It's a
roller coaster as this book says. There's highs and there's lows. You are
going to fail. You are going to lose money. You are going to encounter obstacles and
challenges that come up. I've seen that a lot of people, because they don't
have the mindset, they can crumble under pressure. They can crumble under these
failures. That can really devastate them and make them want to give up.
This book really demonstrates what it takes to be an entrepreneur. It helps you
with your mindset.
It helps you prepare yourself and gives you a lot of motivation and tools
and concepts that can help you succeed in your business, so I really recommend this
book for anyone that's selling on Amazon or anyone that wants to be an
entrepreneur, because I got a lot of value from it and I've been an entrepreneur for the last
eight or nine years of my life, and I still got value from it. I just read it last
month. Really great book. Recommend that one. The third one that I I
recommend is a book called The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco.
This is a book that I read back in 2013 and it really got me in the mindset of
being a millionaire and what it takes to be a millionaire and really
provided me with a lot of just the mindset of just changing, to really
shifting my thinking and helped me really understand how an internet business is
one of the best opportunities that we've been given. It's really a privilege for us
to be able to sell online, how it's provided so much opportunity for us and
that it's a superior business model to a lot of traditional business models that
exist. Any time you can leverage technology to do a lot of work for you
as opposed to having a lot of employees that you depend on on an offline
business, it's always going to be a lot easier to scale that kind of business when
you can leverage technology in that way. It just really gave me a lot of
of motivation. The book is written in a way where it's just like no BS. It just cuts through the
fluff, gives you what you need to know and it's just pure straight talk,
which I really love and enjoy as I tend to really resonate with that. That's a
book that really resonated with me at the time and really benefited me and I
think it'll really benefit anyone that wants to sell on Amazon, sell online or
build any sort of online business. Those are the top three books that I recommend.
The Everything Store, The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster by Darren Hardy and The
Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco.
I'll have links to these books below in the description as well as a blog post that
will link some more information to them. I want to thank you guys for watching this
video. By the way, if you have a certain book that you recommend,
that you've read, that has benefited you, make sure to share it below. Leave a comment below this
video or below this blog post and share what that book is. I'm always looking for
books to read. I know a lot of people watching this, they're always looking for
recommendation as well, so leave a comment below. Let me know a book that's really
benefited you and your journey selling on Amazon or as an entrepreneur.
I'd love to hear what that is. Thanks for watching.
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