The Definitive Guide to Selling on Amazon

As a former journalist, the plethora of click-bait headlines across the web is nauseating. I’ve had to draw the line plenty of times in my writing career, refusing to call something “definitive,” comprehensive” or “all-inclusive” if it wasn’t that.

This book requires no such moral delineation.

This book’s headline, Definitive Guide, is the only possible way to describe what you will find in the subsequent chapters. It is by far the most complete and actionable information out there discussing how exactly to sell on Amazon.

Here are some things you’ll find throughout the book:

- How expanding to Amazon helped a Water Polo company successfully sell swimwear to Alaska
- 7 skills you must have to win on Amazon, as told to you by the former business head of Selling on Amazon
- How you could lose on Amazon by winning –– and other tips and tricks to avoid a double-sided sword - Real examples of how to successfully sell on Amazon, when to use which strategies and growth hacking tips that edge on the side of controversial
- Pitfalls that trip up even the best Amazon sellers out there –– and how to avoid each and every one of them
- How to win the Buy Box, as told by Feedvisor, the unencumbered champion of Buy Box wins, where 82% of Amazon’s sales happen
- Why mobile matters most –– 70% of Amazon customers made purchases on Amazon’s mobile site –– and how to optimize for it
- Pricing and repricing strategies for both resellers and private label sellers alike –– plus tips to make you more, faster
- How to get a 320% increase in sales in less than 10 minutes (hint: Amazon has SEO, too)
- What The Mountain has to do with an Amazon customer review legend –– and how you can jump start your own with a simple email
- A step-by-step guide to determining, once and for all, your actual Amazon revenue –– calculations and exactly what to measure are all included
- Growth hacking tips and tricks that could earn you $5,000 for every hour you spend focused on Amazon

You will find everything you need to start selling and winning on Amazon here. I can also assure you it will be a vital resource you continue to reference as you grow Amazon as a revenue channel.

Even for those sellers already highly profitable on Amazon, there are nuggets of insight to even further increase sales and operationalize your Amazon business.

What are you waiting for? Dive in. Take action. Grow your business.

Tracey Wallace is the Editor-in-Chief at BigCommerce where she works with multi-million dollars brand to uncover online selling tactics to 3x growth. Previously, she covered ecommerce and online selling for Mashable and ELLE.com. She launched her career in ecommerce with NaturallyCurly and Y-Combinator backed Shoptiques, where she helped grow the brands from startup to profitability.