Handling Chaos in Amazon FBA Operations - Troy Johnston - Amazon Legends - Episode # 166

Today’s guest is a successful entrepreneur with 2 Amazon exits, one was building a brand in Health & Beauty, the other was building a SaaS platform (SellerTools) for Amazon sellers, which led him to his current role at Carbon6 as a M&A advisor. He's also an active mentor in the growing Amazon seller community on Facebook.

Takeaways:

•  Embrace the chaos to a degree, and then find that path, that sequence reverse engineering based on your goals and objectives. 
• Achieve a variety of outcomes, if you start selling on Amazon and utilize FBA, create a spectrum more of a cash flowing business where maybe you're running very lean, you're being very cost efficient in your business. 
• You can level up and be focusing more on structure, strategy and growth. 
• It's important to make sure that you bring online a reliable accountability system, a good project or task management tool that's suitable for your team. 
• Try some asset management tool online as well, that makes sure that when you're saving things, more active files, different assets, business or otherwise, you have a very clear place to save some of those resources.

Quote of the Show:

• What is your North Start and how do you make the best decisions for the desired outcome? What levers are the most beneficial to achieve 80/20 success on a platform like Amazon? 

Links:

• Personal – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/troyjohnston/ 
• Carbon6 – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/carbon6-technologies/
• Carbon6 – Website: https://www.carbon6.io/ 
• Carbon6 – Twitter: https://twitter.com/Carbon6io 
• Carbon6 – Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carbon6io/ 
• Carbon6 – Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Carbon6io 

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