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Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

#203 - Don’t be afraid of boat shipping

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom | Amazon FBA Seller & Agency Founder

Amazon, Business, Amazonfba, Selling, Marketing, Entrepreneurship, Personalbusiness, Productbusiness, Ecommerce, Onlinebusiness

4.9816 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2022

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, I talk about why you shouldn't be afraid of boat shipping. It may not be worth it to ship air express when it eats up most of your margins. 

 

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0:00.0

Do not be afraid of boat shipping. You do not have to ship Air Express.

0:07.0

Guys, for Air Express shipping, most likely you're going to pay somewhere around $10 to $20 per kilo.

0:15.0

Now that's if you're shipping over 100 kilos of goods. And if that expense, if that cost, eats too much into your profit

0:22.3

margin, it's not worth it. It's just not worth it to ship Air Express.

0:32.8

What's up, guys? You're listening to another episode of Selling on Amazon with Andy Isam.

0:38.0

Do not be afraid of boat shipping. I'm getting so many messages lately, not only from you guys,

0:45.6

podcast listeners on social media, but also from students in my coaching program about the

0:51.6

crazy expensive costs of shipping.

0:54.9

And that's because most of you, or I should say most of the messages that I get from you guys,

1:01.3

are related to Air Express shipping.

1:03.8

And I totally understand why it's because I've been talking into your ear for the last two years

1:08.6

saying Air Express shipping is the way to go.

1:11.6

But guys, air express shipping is not for everyone.

1:17.0

Guys, it depends on your product.

1:19.4

It depends on where you're shipping it to, the volume of your product, the volumetric

1:24.8

weight of your product.

1:26.2

I've got podcast episodes explaining

1:27.9

all this in further detail. So if you're confused about the different shipping methods or what

1:33.0

is volumetric weight even mean, go scroll through the podcast episodes, guys, and learn as much

1:38.6

as you can about these different shipping methods, about FOB, EXW. I have a great episode about shipping from China directly to an

1:47.4

Amazon FBA warehouse of, again, lots of podcast episodes here for you guys to help you with

1:53.0

importing, with shipping and all that kind of good stuff. But I really wanted to focus this

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