How We Help New Sellers Avoid These 5.5 Newbie Traps

Charles Fitzgerald Butler
4 min readOct 18, 2023

There are Newbie traps when starting your eCommerce store has been made simple (not easy) with the help of online platforms like Amazon, Shopify, eBay, Etc. Amazon is the king of eCommerce. In fact, 1 out of 3 Americans are Amazon Prime Members.

Amazon’s dominance has made it a top destination for online sellers. You have the option to dropship items from name brands and sell your own products via Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA), or Fulfillment by Merchant (FBM).

According to JungleScout an Amazon Data Tracking Service 76% of Amazon Sellers are profitable. 46% of sellers said their profits increased from 2020 to 2021. The average full-time (40+ hours) seller earns $42,000 per year (our average client earns six figures per year).

As I mentioned it is simple but not easy. There is a difference. Do you have the time to grow a successful store? Can you survive the learning curve? Have you figured out what products to sell? Will you dropship, use FBA, or FBM? Are you willing to learn how to update your catalog, keep up with price changes, and stop competitors from stealing your listings?

Here are 5.5 Newbie Traps that we can help you avoid:

1. Lack of Capital

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