What Should Amazon FBA sellers be Careful about before the Q4?
It’s September already, which means the fourth quarter of the year is fast approaching and as an Amazon FBA seller, you know exactly what that means.
Holiday Season!
It is a time to get excited as the last few months are extremely crucial to the profitability of Amazon FBA Sellers and E-commerce Sellers’ stores. Sales made during the holiday season are important because they could beat the sales made for the entire year combined. Amazon FBA Sellers’ sales during the holiday season as a store or a company could greatly push the profitability to the max or also lead to a lot of losses that could be detrimental to your company, but it all depends on how well you prepare.
2021 is a great time for E-commerce sales as it’s a post-pandemic period and a lot of people have resorted to shopping online. There is going to be a logistical issue thanks to the high influx of orders from various Amazon FBA Sellers which can lead to delays and an increase in costs. It will be a logistical issue for every forwarder from China.
To avoid frustration and to prevent your business from being affected by supply chain problems, there is a lot you must do to prepare and things you have to avoid or be careful about before the fourth quarter and enjoy successful shipping from China to the US instead of facing difficulties.
Forceget have put together these tips to help you prepare and make the best you can out of Q4:
1. Ensure you Plan Ahead
This is always the first step in making successful sales as an Amazon FBA Seller and restocking your inventory and easy shipping to Amazon FBA. Planning helps to keep you at the top of your game and ensures that you are prepared for anything.
Prepare for all the important holidays in Q4 like Halloween, Thanksgiving, Black Friday, Christmas Celebrations, and New Year’s Eve. Prepare your ad campaigning and marketing strategies and be ready to make sales.
2. Go Over and Perfect Your Logistics
Logistics will go a long way to play a huge role in the success and profitability of your company in Q4. Now more than ever, Amazon warehouses are backing up thanks to the significant delay in the receiving of goods from China happening since the huge congestion at the ports.
This can get worse as orders continue to increase in Q4, and therefore warehouses may be slower to receive products. So, restocking may take longer than usual and this is why you have to be careful and pay attention to Logistics. Amazon will most likely change its rules of restocking due to limited space. What this means is that you’ll no longer be able to frequently ship large shipments at a time but rather smaller shipments to Amazon frequently.
To perfectly restock your shop you will have to avoid Less than Truckload shipments. While Less than Truckload shipments are cheaper, they take longer to arrive, however, small parcels arrive way faster.
3. Makes Sure to Optimize your Listing
This is another important part that you cannot be ignored. Optimizing your listing in preparation for Q4 plays a huge role in the success of your store during the holiday season. You will optimize it for traffic to ensure that people find your products and when they eventually do, these products should be converted to sales.
To do this, you can use the industry practices and apply techniques that not only increase traffic but also convert. You can always observe how well your tactics work by checking the detailed sales for your product on the unit session percentage on Amazon. It will help you monitor your traffic and conversions. You can also test your product listing with “Management by Amazon,” their split-testing tool. Or you can use other free tools like Sellerly and Splitly.
Optimizing your listing will help your products stand out and not get lost in the background. Make sure to use the right keywords and professional photos of your products.
4. Make Sure Plan Your Budget
As Q4 quickly approaches it would be wise to use your budget efficiently. This is important as a lot of changes during Q4 may affect pricing. You should calculate how much you can afford for FBA shipping.
You also have to make sure to calculate and budget for products that sell fast enough to bring in profits and help you restock other goods. You do not want to budget for products that stay long in the warehouses and do not sell fast enough. In Q4, it is always the faster the better.😊
Conclusion
Q4 is an exciting time for everyone around the world but mostly for Amazon FBA Sellers because they can make so much from selling products. Hopefully, with these tips, you will be able to make the best out of Q4.
How can Forceget help?
Forceget is a top choice as an Amazon logistics service provider because it is a focused Amazon Freight Forwarder. We offer a broad variety of services for Amazon FBA sellers, with a network of warehouses both in the East and West Coasts of the US, Canada, and China. Warehousing, full container load (FCL), less than container load (LCL), air, and door-to-door transportation to fulfillment facilities are all included.
We also have a digital platform, where our customers can easily manage their inventory levels since they can track the exact location of each shipment.
