Can finally change my bio to seven figure seller🫡 Took the OA jump last June and never thought this would be possible, couldn’t have done it without all the amazing people in this community💵💵

Stop doing these yourself: Printing labels Tracking shipments by hand Building FBA shipments from scratch Uploading invoices one at a time Start doing these instead: Training someone to handle all of the above Spending that time sourcing Building the systems so it runs without you

Early on I reinvented everything. My own spreadsheets, my own workflows, figuring it all out the hard way. Then I joined a Discord, saw what everyone else was already using, and realized how much time I'd burned. You don't get extra points for figuring it out alone. Find people a few steps ahead of you.

Prep yourself: $0 in fees, 20 hours a week Prep center: $1 a unit, 0 hours a week Say your time is worth $50/hour, which is conservative. 20 hours is $1,000 a week. At 1,000 units a week, the prep center also costs $1,000. Same cost either way. One lets you grow, and the other caps you at however many hours you can stand to prep.

I used to do all my own product research. Hours a day, and I'd still only get through a fraction of the leads. Trained my VA on my exact criteria: BSR under 200k, $3+ profit, 30%+ ROI. Now they work through the lists and I only look at what passes. My time went back to buying decisions, which is where it actually matters.

I was nervous to hire my first VA. "What if they mess up my account?" So I started small. One task: sorting emails and buy sheets. Once that was solid, I added invoice creation. Then reconciling with suppliers. Then product research. Start with one task you can check easily. Build the trust in both directions, then hand over more.

Biggest mistake I made early on: repricing everything by hand to save a subscription fee. I was spending hours every week on it and still losing the buy box on price changes I didn't catch in time. Once you're past 10 ASINs, get a repricer. Even a cheap base plan like Aura pays for itself almost immediately. Don't let a monthly fee feel more expensive than your time.

What Walmart sourcing softwares do you guys use? Looking to change

"I can't afford a VA." I hear this constantly, and it's usually backwards. Every hour you spend on $5 work is an hour you're not spending on $100 work. That's a $95/hour gap. Over 40 hours a month, that's $3,800 of sourcing time you gave away to save $800. Run the math before you decide you can't afford it.

Stop thinking your VA costs you money. $5/hour VA at 160 hours is $800/month. They buy back 10 hours a week of your time. That's 40 hours a month. If your time is worth $100/hour, that's $4,000 of value created. That's not an expense. That's a 5x return.

Your VA is $5 an hour. But if they keep messing up and you're fixing it after them, you're really paying closer to $7 an hour once your time is in there. The fix isn't a new VA. Record a Loom of every task once and put them all in one shared folder. Schedule more calls with them, have them watch more youtube, the list goes on. Documentation pays for itself over a couple months

I'm 20 and I've sold over $5M on Amazon while being a full time student. I ski every weekend in winter. I DJ parties. I fish when I want. Amazon didn't take over my life. I built it around my life. That only works if you delegate the busy work and focus on what actually scales.

OA horror stories are real. Friends woke up to section 3 emails. Entire catalogs hard gated overnight. No option to reapply. One friend had to liquidate everything in 48 hours. Models like brand direct can for sure mitigate risk, but regardless it doesn't hurt to pull some profits out when available

Being a full time student running a 7 figure Amazon business is possible, but only because of systems. If I was still prepping every order and creating every invoice, I'd have failed out of school or quit Amazon. VAs plus prep centers is what lets me focus on school, a social life, hobbies, and still grow the business.

You don't need $10k to start Amazon. I started with under $1k doing retail arbitrage. Buy 5 to 10 units. Sell them. Reinvest. $500 turns into $700, then $1,000, then $1,500. Compound it for 6 months and you're at real capital. Stop waiting and just start with what you have.