#1731 - Q&A: How do you 'build your platform' if you're selling on Amazon?
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 September 2021
⏱️ ? minutes
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Today’s caller has an important question: if you use Fulfillment by Amazon, how do you go about building your platform? After all, Amazon controls the entire customer service process and doesn’t even let you know who’s buying.
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| 1:05.1 | The fulfillment by Amazon program is massive. At last count, there were more than two |
| 1:10.0 | million vendors. Two million vendors, the majority of which are small businesses and |
| 1:14.3 | side hustlers who use Amazon's platform to reach consumers. There are a lot of benefits to |
| 1:19.2 | this program. It makes a lot of things pretty simple, easy, turnkey, and we have featured a lot |
| 1:24.0 | of stories in the archives of listeners just like you who have used this program to great success. |
| 1:30.3 | All that's pretty awesome, right? But what is the downside? Well, surprisingly, Jeff Bezos does |
| 1:34.9 | not actually wake up every day and think, how can I give away every advantage I have? |
| 1:40.1 | And today's caller has an important question that highlights one of the big downsides, |
| 1:44.3 | which is if you use FBA, that's fulfillment by Amazon, how do you go about building your |
| 1:49.8 | platform? Because you always hear that advice too. You hear about, you should build your platform, |
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