Selling on Amazon has provided us with the most amazing opportunity we have encountered: It allowed us to grow and scale our business with minimal infrastructure. For example, in many cases we have over a thousand orders a day (particularly in peak season), but only three full-time employees processing products.

In most circles of the world this wouldn’t be possible, but with Amazon it absolutely is. Amazon FBA allows us to scale without needing lots of employees and crazy systems to do it. I say this because I want to talk about some of the amazing things Amazon has allowed us to do, and use that to transition into something you might not know about:

When it comes to hiring a virtual assistant (VA) it can be normal to feel overwhelmed at first. For those who haven’t done it, this sounds incredibly daunting. Honestly, I felt the same way at the beginning. I was under this impression for the longest time until one of the students in our course mentioned to me how amazing his VAs were doing. 

He asked about our VAs and I told him we didn’t currently have any, but I was curious about what his VAs worked on for him. He actually showed me the VA worksheets that his company uses and I was floored at the level of productivity!

Since day one, we decided that we were going to do EVERYTHING in our power to be completely above board. It certainly was not lost on us there were opportunities that were against Amazon’s rules (which would be highly profitable) but we chose to go the other direction. We realized that our longevity was important if we wanted to create a business. It’s much easier to sleep at night when you try to do the right thing.!

The truth is: selling on Amazon has NEVER been easier. Amazon makes it easy because they want to introduce more sellers to serve the needs of their gigantic customer base, and create a more competitive marketplace.

This may seem daunting, but it really is not, and I wanted to help dispel some of the myths that might prevent you from taking action and getting started.

Who says time can’t be bought?

Wrapping up 2016 is an exciting time for us. We are going to land around $7,000,000 in sales, currently have 10 full-time employees, operating a 10,000 sq. ft. warehouse, and are sending and receiving inventory on the FTL (full truck load) level. Things couldn’t be going any better!!

Congratulations!!

You’ve set out and started your very own online business.

No more boss or timeclock or annoying co-workers.  You are the master of your own destiny.  You’re the Big Cheese, Head Honcho, Chief Executive Officer.

Which begs the question, why are you not acting like it?

Imagine, if you will, a wildly successful gold miner who has spent months(perhaps even years) refining his technique and has become well-trained and experienced in all the intricacies of gold mining, from necessary equipment to the best prospects for finding the precious ore.

One day while having a conversation with a fellow miner our gold miner is asked, “Why don’t you also collect the platinum and silver while mining for gold?  I mean, you’ve already put up the site, primed the location, and setup the mine for retrieving gold, so extracting the silver and platinum while already that far into the earth would only require a very small amount of effort!”