I started selling in July 2022. Five months later it was November, and I did what most beginners do without realizing they are doing it. Nothing different. I sourced the same way. I sent my inventory in the same way. I did not touch FBM. I did not build a list of brands, I did not watch a single sale date, I did not think about my cash for one second. November showed up, I sold more than usual, and I felt pretty good about myself. Across that November and December I cleared somewhere around three grand in profit. For a guy five months in, that felt like proof I knew what I was doing. Here is what I actually learned, and it took me until the next year to see it. Q4 does not punish you for showing up unprepared. That is the trap. If you send in mediocre inventory in a mediocre way, Q4 still pays you more than October did, and you walk into January thinking you had a good season. You never find out what the season could have paid you, so you never change anything. I only saw it in year two, when I ran the same two months on purpose. Same guy, roughly the same skill. Different preparation. It was not close. Every Q4 since has taught me the same lesson in a slightly different way, and I say it to my students every single year: you are going to finish December wishing you had more money, more inventory, and more products ready. That is the whole game. So here is the version of it I wish somebody had handed me in September 2022. September is the month nobody respects September feels like nothing is happening. That is exactly why it is the most valuable month you have. September is for looking backwards and building lists. If you sold anything at all this year, go pull your data. Which brands did you actually sell? Which of those are you still ungated in? Which source websites came through for you, and when do those stores historically run their sales? Every one of those answers is a lead you do not have to go find in November, when you will not have time to find anything.

Can you add a little button to hide listings where the brand owner is the buy box owner? Like brand=Bentgo, buy box owner = Bentgo direct

FBA vs FBM in Canada, and before you ask: yes, I teach FBA mainly, so why am I out here preaching FBM? Because when you're new, you don't have a capital problem you can fix. But you do have a speed problem you can fix. Think about it. You and a bigger seller find the same deal on sale. He orders 100, you order 20. He preps it, ships it to Amazon, waits for check-in, maybe it travels east coast to west coast, 5 to 6 weeks before his first sale. If you're FBM, yours is listed day one, priced just under the Buy Box, and you're sold out before his shipment even checks in. Now do that on a credit card and you can sell out AND reorder before the bill is even due. That's how you build capital when you don't have any. But it's not free money. I ship 5 times a week. If you can't ship every day or every other day, you lose the whole edge and FBA is still how you actually scale. Question for the group are you FBA only right now, or have you tried FBM? And if you haven't, what's the blocker: space, time, or no Stallion near you?

Does anyone else new have problems sourcing. I've spent hours trying and so far I've come up with always being gated or super unprofitable using sellerID method or Amazon owns the buy box. This is frustrating. I'm committed but haven't found one thing that I can actually buy in Canada? Any tips would be wonderful.

If you want to find ungated leads quicker this is for you. CanFlip tells you what you're ungated on keepa BEFORE you even open up the amazon page, making sourcing so much quicker. You can go on Canflip.ca and click sign up and it will bring you to the extension page. Quick notes: - install the extension - Head to keepa - Follow the instructions and sign in to your amazon account + whop account - make sure to have the amazon URL tab in your keepa product finder colomns. All the above instructions are repeated along the sign up process. Let me know if you come across a bug so i cant correct it ASAP! A Youtube video demonstrating it coming soon!