SC55: How Chris Thomas is focusing in on new product development to grow (Update Episode)

Jennifer Dunn is our guest today. Jennifer works at TaxJar, a company that helps you track and automate the process of filing sales tax payments for your physical products. There's an important deadline coming up about sales tax and you'll want to hear this conversation before the deadline passes. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

Kevin Weeks is the guest today. Kevin works at Payability, a company that allows you to get next day payments from your Amazon Seller Central account. Kevin speaks to us about how to improve margins, improve relationships with your suppliers, get funding for your business and more. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

Kiri Masters is the guest today. She is the founder and CEO of Bobsled Marketing an agency focused on the Amazon platform. She works with clients that do at least $2 million a year or more annually outside of Amazon. On this episode she dives into a lot of the key elements that Amazon sellers should focus on that she's seen have fantastic results with her clients. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

Casey is the guest today and currently doing $30,000 per month. He also has two new products launching in November and expects to increase his sales heading into 2017 even further. In this episode Casey also talks about what he's doing to implement some unique off Amazon strategies to grow his brand website. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

Jake is the guest today and in this episode he talks about how he's implemented some unique product selection tips into the products that he's selling and additionally how he approaches the development of his products to be sure that he's creating something that his target audience will love. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

On today's episode we've brought back Scott Voelker, our guest from episode 5 which aired back in December 2015. Scott shared his story of selling on Amazon when he was first on the show but today we're talking about off Amazon strategies. Scott believes Amazon is still the best sales channel to launch on but that eventually you need to expand to other areas as well and that's the focus of today's episode. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

Stefan is the guest today and in this episode he talks about what he's done to replace himself in his ecommerce business from all of the day to day operations. Stefan is now focused entirely on the strategy of the ecommerce company along with the rest of his online businesses while his replacement handles the growth of his ecommerce company. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

On today's episode we've brought back Brad, our guest from episode 4. Brad previously shared some of the unique strategies he was implementing to market his product offline by attending festivals and getting great face to face customer feedback. Over a year has passed since we last spoke and in today's episode Brad talks about moving his production from China to the US, bringing on more partners in his business to help with capital and spread the workload around. Brad is also launching a Kickstarter campaign to help drive his production move to the US. We cover all that and more on today's episode. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

Chris Thomas is back on our show to talk about how his business is doing after he was first on the Sellercast show back on episode 2 nearly a year ago. Chris tried entering the travel vertical but after trying a couple products he decided to focus his efforts on new product development within his primary vertical to grow his business instead. Listen in to hear more about what Chris has been doing. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.

On today's episode we've brought back Spencer Haws, our guest from episode 13 which aired back in December 2015. When Spencer was first on the show he shared how he was getting traffic to his ecommerce brand website and how his sales were doing on Amazon. Today roughly 10 months later we get an update from Spencer on his sales data but he also shares how he's now getting over 1,400 unique visitors a day to his ecommerce brand website. Spencer shared several tips on how to get traffic to your own brand website and also shared a unique method that he's making extra money from his brand website from. You can read the show notes and look at the resources mentioned in this episode by clicking here. Also, if you'd like to get more reviews for your products on Amazon check out Salesbacker.