EP 66 - Backtalk Live - Steve Answers Live Questions from Awesomers

Steve Answers Live Questions from Awesomers Join us as we present another live question and answer session with entrepreneurs and Awesomers from around the world. Today’s episode is a back talk episode where host Steve Simonson answers questions from a live audience. Here are some important discussions on today’s episode: New E-commerce legislation, sales taxes, tariffs and what it means for your business Handling positive and negative reviews on Amazon DHL’s new cross-border COD service Getting ready for Q4 - giveaway promotions, lightning deals and store management So listen to today’s episode and learn more about our exciting discussion with Awesomers army of listeners. 01:21 (Steve introduces the back talk live episode.) 04:54 (Steve talks about the bribes and other dirty rotten scoundrels in China.) 20:03 (Steve talks about tariff.) 24:49 (Steve answers questions about sales taxes.) 27:26 (Steve talks about DHL.) 38:59 (Steve answers more questions about PPC and Amazon tools.) 41:58 (Steve talks about the indexing problem at Amazon.) 49:06 (Steve answers a question about patented products.) 52:35 (Steve answers questions about shipment inspection.) 57:57 (Audience question - does anyone use more than one vendor for the same product SKU?) 1:00:37 (Steve answers the last question and wraps up the episode.) Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope that you will join me on this Awesomer journey. SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit SymoGlobal.com to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. 01:21 (Steve introduces the back talk live episode.) Steve: Awesomers.com podcast series episode Number 66. And today we are doing another back talk live episode, and this is where we join some members of the community live. If you want to find the community and go to Facebook and find the Awesomers.com Facebook Page there's also the Awesomers.com Professional or Amazon Professional Sellers Group which you can join. And this allows you to do a little bit of interaction and a little bit of socializing maybe some Q&A on a regular basis where the community can help you out and it's over 5,000? I don't remember, 5700 members of that? And that's been going a couple years even before the Awesomers podcast kicked off and part of the purpose was just to help people in a free way and give them an opportunity to ask questions and help each other as well. And I should tell you just as a matter of interest, that particular group has almost 2,000 banned people from the group. Because when somebody comes and they show up and they're just self-serving or they're mean or they're just like “hey I can get you blackhat reviews” or any other kind of skullduggery or tomfoolery we just ban them. Well we don't bother, we don't have time to say, “Hell no. Follow the rule. Did you read the