#995: What Keepa can and can't do that few understand. Make better inventory decisions after hearing this!
Silent Sales Machine Radio
Jim Cockrum
4.8 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 8 April 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
Today's show discusses an inexpensive power tool for Amazon sellers called "Keepa".
Keepa is an indispensable part of any responsible and knowledgeable reseller on Amazon.
While it's an incredibly useful tool in the hands of an experienced seller, there are several things it cannot do that many sellers assume it CAN do!
The things keepa CAN NOT tell you include:
> The buy box price across all regions
> When sales are occurring or how many are happening (not tool can do that)
> Which sellers are winning sales (it can only tell you about the buy box in one area)
It can help you make fantastic inventory decisions, BUT if you make false assumptions about the data that keepa is giving you, you'll wind up missing so many great ASINs and you'll be prematurely jumping on bad ASINs.
You can watch this epsiode on our YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/9xp2mKxhnxg
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Silent Sales Machine Radio. My name is Jim. So glad to have you listening with me. Today, it's just you and me hanging out talking about Amazon seller strategy. And you hear us talk often around here about a tool called Keepa. Now, if you're brand new to selling on Amazon and you've never experimented with the tools that we use that |
| 0:23.8 | help us make good inventory decisions. Let me spend just a brief moment explaining what KIPA is |
| 0:30.0 | and why we like it so much. It's just $20 a month and it's a power tool. It's really a vital |
| 0:35.5 | tool for sellers. Matter of fact, we typically |
| 0:38.7 | tell new sellers, hey, you don't need any tools. Just sign up for an Amazon selling account, |
| 0:45.6 | which gets you seller central, and then learn to use Keepa the way we teach it. But there's a lot of |
| 0:51.4 | bad information out there about what Keepa is, what it can do. |
| 0:55.8 | Sometimes new sellers will say, hey, just show me exactly what settings to put into Keepa so I can find good inventory. |
| 1:05.3 | Well, you've got to understand what Keepa is and isn't telling you. It's important to know there's certain things that can |
| 1:12.8 | definitely help you out with, but there's other assumptions you could make, and you'll be |
| 1:18.2 | misusing the tool, unfortunately, meaning you'll be making bad assumptions about your inventory |
| 1:25.0 | and probably wind up buying things you shouldn't be, |
| 1:28.2 | or worse yet, walking right past great products that you definitely should be investing in. |
| 1:35.0 | Now, I'm not going to go in depth and to keep a training today. |
| 1:38.9 | We do that in the proven Amazon course. |
| 1:41.6 | We really break it down for you. |
| 1:43.8 | That's the course that's been used |
| 1:45.6 | by the hundreds of people you've heard interviewed on this podcast, for example, who have built |
| 1:51.4 | amazing businesses. We train them how to use Keepa, and there's dozens of different ways. There's |
| 1:57.1 | an incredible module inside the proven Amazon course library that really breaks it down for you, brand new content. |
| 2:03.2 | So that's all there. |
| 2:04.5 | So, yeah, we love to teach KIPA strategies to sellers. |
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