What's up guys?

This is Andy back with another Amazon quick tip.

This is a question that was asked on my weekly Q&A call with my coaching students.

Enjoy.

What process do you take when forecasting inventory orders for Q4 and when do you open that inventory order?

Ooh, this is an excellent question. If it's your first Q4, this is going to be really, really tough.

Like, it's going to be really tough to calculate what Q4 inventory is going to look like.

You can go look on Jungle Scout and I would look at like how search demand increases in Q4 for like a lot of your core keywords so go check that

and that'll give you kind of an idea of like how much demand is going to spike that doesn't mean

like oh my sales are going to go to a million dollars no not necessarily but sales should

increase by a little bit so you can plan for that as far as timing because I would say now timing

is probably the same for pretty much everyone. Whether you're

going to order 100,000 units or a thousand units. You want to get on this sooner rather than later

or you could totally miss the boat. And here's the other thing, guys. Like this is not 2019.

In 2019 when we were doing this, we could do our Q4 order. Like, we would plan it out in September,

send the email in, end of September, maybe beginning of October, and then like get our

order within a few, a few weeks. And it's like, okay, November, December, we're like selling.

That is not the case anymore. Like, it's way more busy. Amazon's way busier. It's, you know,

poor, everything is more, everything is more backed up and more delayed. Amazon's way busier. It's, you know, poor. Everything is more,

everything is more backed up and more delayed. So I would recommend doing all of your Q4 planning

like yesterday. We've already done our Q4 planning. But for most people, like you could probably

do it June, July, I would say. June, July. And for us, like August, if you're

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