#113 - Amazon will destroy your life... If you let it.
Built by Business: Amazon FBA, E-Commerce, Brand Building
Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder
4.9 • 816 Ratings
🗓️ 17 January 2022
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
There are ways you can set up your business with Amazon to destroy your life, like trying to compete with Amazon basics-type products! In this episode, I talk about the various ways that you can use strategy to help your Amazon business have a better likelihood of success!
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| 0:00.0 | Andy, I used to sell on Amazon. I was selling iPhone charging cables and I was crushing |
| 0:06.9 | it. I was doing really well. And then Amazon came in and released an Amazon Basics version |
| 0:13.0 | of my iPhone charging cable in a matter of weeks and I had to shut down my business. |
| 0:17.1 | Your livelihood has just been destroyed. Diversifying ads protection. |
| 0:26.1 | Amazon will destroy your life if you let it. |
| 0:33.9 | What's up, guys? |
| 0:38.9 | You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam. |
| 0:44.4 | Amazon will destroy your life if you let it. |
| 0:51.2 | This is a kind of a clickbaity podcast episode title and I did that very much on purpose. |
| 0:55.0 | But we're going to talk about a little bit of the dark side maybe of Amazon. Try to look through the lens of the opposition, people who are very anti-Amazon |
| 1:01.9 | in the world of e-commerce, because I was reading a quote this past week from an article on |
| 1:09.7 | Geekwire called Is Amazon Good for Small Businesses? And I was talking to my |
| 1:16.3 | coaching students on my live weekly Zoom call. And this was one of the articles that I was sharing. |
| 1:21.4 | I normally spend the first 20 to 30 minutes of our weekly Zoom calls talking about Amazon |
| 1:26.4 | news and updates, talking about what's |
| 1:28.3 | happening in the world of e-commerce. I read articles all the time, so I'm sharing tidbits and |
| 1:32.2 | things from what I read. And I was reading this article this past week. And it was really |
| 1:36.7 | interesting. It was a debate between a few different parties, but mainly a, let's call it, |
| 1:43.7 | an anti-Amazon side and a pro-Amazon side. |
| 1:47.2 | So people arguing the fact that Amazon is not good for small businesses. |
| 1:52.0 | It is destroying our U.S. e-commerce economy. |
| 1:56.1 | It's bad for it. |
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