Resources

This page contains links to products, services, and resources that I personally use or have used and find provide a lot of value to my business. 

Please note that some of these links are affiliate links.  These links do not  cost you anything extra, and purchasing through them helps me to be able to put out free content on this site.  These are all products that I personally use, if you purchase through the links provided, I truly thank you!

Tools from Ryan Grant:

The Complete Arbitrage Playbook – If you’re feeling lost when it comes to selling on Amazon, you can learn everything you need to know in this self-paced course. From setting up your seller account to finding profitable inventory to getting the items sold — it’s all here. Learn more now.

High Output Wholesale – If you want to start sourcing inventory in bulk without starting your own brand or importing items from China, this is for you. It teaches how to find items to sell, how to find suppliers who will work with you, and how to manage the entire process. Learn more here. 

The Complete Guide to FBA Reimbursements – This is a guide that I wrote that covers every method I am aware of to get reimbursements from Amazon.  It comes with a money back guarantee that if you do not receive more in reimbursements than you pay for the book after putting the processes in place, you will get a full refund.

Software Services:

Inventory Lab –  I use this service for all of my listing and accounting needs.  It saves me time when listing, and makes the accounting side of things very simple.

Scoutify – This is the primary scanning app that I use in retail stores, and is included in the InventoryLab subscription, so there’s no added cost here for me.

Bqool – This is a service that I am using to help automate the pricing of my items.  Using this tool, I set the lowest and highest prices I am willing to sell an item for based on the competition, as well as how I want to be priced relative to the competition and their software takes care of making sure my price remains competitive. Using an automated repricer saves my team and I a huge amount of time every week. Sign up for a free trial HERE.

Price Checker 2: This software is what we use for evaluating the wholesale price lists we receive from our suppliers. We are able to input a list of the products, and then the software will automatically evaluate their profitability on Amazon. It takes the process of evaluating price lists from many hours to just a few minutes. If you are evaluating wholesale price lists, I’d recommend trying it out. You can check it out here.  

Tactical Arbitrage – This tool helps to automate the process of online arbitrage.  You can have it evaluate links from retailers in bulk at over 400 different sites.  I am able to input links that I want evaluated and then the software is able to take it from there. This tool makes online arbitrage significantly more efficient. You can sign up for a 7 day free trial HERE.

Onlinejobs.ph – This is the service I use to hire virtual assistants to help with my Amazon business.  I have have had better luck here than with upwork.  The quality of work for the price is excellent, and the individuals on the site understand English very well.  Check it out HERE.

Revseller – This is a chrome extension that helps to reduce research time by displaying sales rank, category, and profitability at the top of each product page directly on any item you are looking at on Amazon. You can check it out and sign up for a free trial if interested HERE. 

Sellerise – The main reason I use this tool is to help with reimbursements from Amazon. They make it easy to find where Amazon owes me money and they don’t charge a commission on the reimbursements they find. The software has a lot of other helpful features, but the reimbursements is a primary reason I stay subscribed. You can sign up for a 7 day free trial here. 

Gusto – This is the service I use for payroll and have been very happy with. They make things extremely easy, and I haven’t had any issues and have been using them since 2017. You can get a $100+ bonus after you run your first payroll if you sign up through my Gusto link. 

IP Alert – This is a tool I use for retail and online arbitrage to help avoid intellectual property (IP) complaints. It has a database of brands that are known to file IP complaints against sellers. The tool will proactively let you know this when you are evaluating products so you can factor this into your sourcing decisions. Learn more here. 

Tools:

USB Barcode Scanner – This is the one that I am using now.  It comes with it’s own stand and is able to “auto-detect” motion so that you don’t have to pull the trigger every time to scan.  This saves me a ton of time when listing items.

Shipping Scale for sending items to FBA. I recommend getting a scale that has the display for the weight separate from the scale for easy viewing like the one I’ll link to. It’s also important that you have one that can go up to 50 pounds as that’s the max weight limit for sending to FBA. This is the shipping scale I use for FBA. 

Shipping Scale for seller fulfilling items. – If you start to seller fulfill a lot of items, then having a scale that can automatically input the weights into your shipping software is extremely convenient. I’ve been using Veeqo for all of my seller fulfilled orders, and this scale makes it so I can input the weight with 1 click. If you ship a lot of packages that vary in size, this is a very convenient set up. This is the one I use. 

Scotty Peelers – If you do retail arbitrage, these are great for removing price stickers from items purchased on clearance.  I have found that using a paring knife also works well for removing these stickers, although I can’t officially recommend using paring knife as it’s a bit dangerous.

Heat Gun – I use this to help remove labels from products, as well as labels from shipping boxes.  Running the heat gun over a price sticker or label will make it significantly easier to peel off. If you are in a household that has a hair dryer, that might work just as well, but these work great for helping to remove tough labels.

Dymo 550 Turbo Label Printer – I use this printer to print individual item labels to go on items that I am sending to FBA.  You can find the labels I use in the “supplies” section.  I find the Dymo printer to be drastically faster than the “30 -up” labels, and is well worth the investment if you are labeling your items.

Supplies:

Self-Seal Polybags – I use these to create multi-packs and for items that are partially exposed that require bagging per Amazon guidelines.  I like this set of bags as it gives you 4 different sizes that are very useful.  I now often buy my bags from Uline, but you have to purchase 1,000 of each size at a time, so I will often buy the multipack of bags linked here. Make sure you buy ones with the suffocation warning on them too. 

Kraft Paper – I use this for “void fill” when packing FBA boxes.  I find this to be a very convenient option to fill any extra space in FBA boxes.

Sold as a Set Labels – I use these when creating multi-packs.  If you don’t want to buy labels, you can also print off individual sold as set labels using a Dymo printer.  At about 3 cents a label though, I find these to be well worth having around.

Goo Gone – This works great for cleaning up any residue that might be left behind by clearance stickers.

Shipping Tape – This is the tape I use, I generally buy 36 rolls at a time and it’s a little over $1 per roll. 

Business Credit Cards I Use:

Capital One:

The main card I use is the Capital One Spark which earns 2% cash back on all purchases. If you prefer cash back this card is hard to beat. You can learn more and check the current sign up bonus here. 

American Express: 

The first card I like from American Express is the Business Gold card. The main reason I like it is it allows you to earn 4 points per dollar spent on advertising, and that includes money spent on Amazon ads. For most sellers this makes it a no brainer. 

The second is the American Express Business Platinum. This card comes with a lot of perks but the main one I like it for is to get 35% back when booking with points on an airline of your choice. The points you use to book can come from any card, including the Business Gold. So the 35% in points back perk creates value quickly. 

Both the Platinum and Gold both usually have generous sign up bonuses. At the time I’m writing this both sign up bonuses are worth over $1,000. You can learn more about both cards here. 

Chase:

The main Chase card I like is the Chase Ink Business Preferred. It offers 3X points on shipping purchases and advertising through search engines and social media. If you advertise directly through Facebook or Google this card is a great option. They also offer a generous sign up bonus. At the time I’m writing this the sign up bonus is worth $900. You can learn more and apply here. 

For all business credit cards I use I always pay in full each month and don’t pay interest. If you open cards, I recommend the same. Only put on the cards what you can pay in full. 

Related to credit cards one additional service I use is Melio. This is a tool that lets you pay with a credit card for services that typically don’t accept credit cards. Depending on how you value your credit card rewards this can be a very good option. You can learn more about Melio here. 

Saving Money On Purchases:

Social Media:

Online Selling Experiment Facebook Page

Online Selling Experiment Youtube Channel 

My X (formerly Twitter) account 

That’s all I have for now, I will continue to update this page as things change and if I add anything new to my business.