When I first started selling on Amazon, I placed a huge emphasis on replenishable products. That strategy has proven well as there are no clearance items in inventory as that requires too much time and energy. My first thought in the beginning was to purchase products that are consumable to be a replenishable. Don’t fall
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Without dancing around the subject too much, I was banned from Target. They were my number one supplier. The History In February I had just started and ordered 6 units and spent about $50 to test things out. The orange line is the units ordered and the bar is the $ ordered. In June, there
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Chase’s Ink credit cards offer primary collision insurance, but many folks forget to tell you that the rental is primary for business purposes. Auto Rental Collision Damage Waiver Decline the rental company’s collision insurance and charge the entire rental cost to your card. Coverage is primary when renting for business purposes and provides reimbursement up to
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I recently took a trip and made sure I checked out a few stores to source product for retail arbitrage. While I was out researching, it reminded me to write about how to find the best product to retail arbitrage. It’s really simple because if we think at a higher level of how a store
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In the last twelve months, Amazon has been making changes to how sellers sell on the platform. At a high level they started to gate certain categories where you need to submit documentation to sell in that particular category. If you are expanding your business and are looking to expand into other categories, finding your
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4 years ago, I started “travel hacking.” I have always focused on earning the points and miles with some kind of spend. Optimizing the usage of points and miles is a weakness of mine. As an example, I don’t know the fancy routing rules to utilize a stop over or open jaw of a program. My overall
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Joe who writes asthejoeflies gave us his thoughts on not chasing a deal and highlights why he will not be doing the JetBlue deal. I may be biased because I am based in New York where JetBlue has their hub. I might also be biased because my life situation is different than his and many others
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How It All Started I wanted to expand into another exchange to see if I could sell for higher rates. In the June of 2015, I reached out to CardCash to sell gift cards asking them about their bulk program. It took a lot of follow up from me before an account manager reached out
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No, this post isn’t about those kind of happy endings so get your head back into the game. A few months ago @PFDigest tweeted a link about hotel requests that were very funny. Ridiculous / hilarious hotel requests… fulfilled! I encourage you all to check these out. http://t.co/X8HKIMFTNP — PF Digest (@PFDigest) October 10, 2015 American
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Originally, I wasn’t going to write a blog post about this as I did not think it was that exciting, but since @FarEastExplorer asked for details, I am sharing you the story. In the last 6 months, I’ve met some amazing people from my day job. There’s no better satisfaction than being able to connect with them to
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