#414 - The Part No One Wants To Talk About

Selling on Amazon with Andy Isom

Andy Isom

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

4.9 • 816 Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Nobody talks about what happens after you hit your first $10K month on Amazon. The excitement fades. The adrenaline wears off. And suddenly, the business you were fired up about starts to feel... repetitive.

But here’s the truth: this is the part that actually builds a brand.

In this episode, I’m breaking down what happens after the initial wins—and why learning to master the boring stuff is exactly what separates sellers who scale from those who stall.

Plus, I cover this week’s Amazon updates:

FBA restock delays are affecting West Coast fulfillment centers—some shipments are taking over a week to be received.

Trump has proposed lowering Chinese import tariffs from 145% to 80%, which could have ripple effects for your sourcing strategy.

All my resources to help and services can be found on my website: https://andyisom.com/

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0:00.0	Nobody tells you this part. After you start making sales, after you hit your first five figures,
0:05.0	it doesn't get more exciting. It gets repetitive. But if you don't learn to love that part,
0:10.5	you'll never build something that lasts.
0:25.8	What's up guys? Welcome back to Built by Business with Andy Isam. In this episode, we're going to talk about the part that no one wants to talk about after you start making sales. But first, a quick
0:32.0	update of what's happening right now. There's reports out there that FBIBA inbound delays are hitting the U.S.
0:38.4	West Coast fulfillment centers. A lot of sellers are reporting inbound inventory not showing up
0:43.4	as available for eight to 10 days after the inventory is delivered to the fulfillment center.
0:49.3	So again, if you're sending that inventory off to Amazon FBA, go in and take a peek every couple of days,
0:56.2	especially if you're not seeing your inventory available. Go take a peek at the shipment report,
1:00.5	the shipping details, because I've also seen with some of my listeners where there's,
1:06.6	you know, outstanding information that needs to be submitted, tracking numbers, invoices, especially
1:11.8	if you're shipping direct from your supplier and you're not using Amazon's partnered carrier
1:15.9	shipping. So just make sure you're checking, make sure you don't have any issues with stranded
1:19.2	inventory, listing issues, stuff like that. And if you do, obviously, guys, if you run into
1:23.4	issues like this and you're like, I don't know what broke. I don't know how to fix it. Just hit me up. Guys, if it's a quick fix, we're going to fix it for you for free. Like,
1:30.5	I have no problem. We've got the team to do it, especially for those of you who are listening
1:34.1	to the podcast and dropping that five-star review for me. So be aware of that. We've got the conversation going down proposedly today. Obviously,
1:45.3	this episode is releasing Saturday morning. But US and Chinese officials are scheduled to meet this
1:51.2	weekend in Switzerland. And we're going to see what happens. We're going to see what the
1:56.4	fallout slash resolution that comes from this. There's a lot of tension around these trade negotiations.
2:04.4	We've already heard the release from Donald Trump from the mouth or fingers or thumbs, I should say,
2:08.5	thumbs on social media of Donald Trump saying that he'd be willing to reduce tariffs from China
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