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Insight
Schramm: Scaling an Amazon business is like adopting a growing tiger
“Of course, it's in the beginning. It, Sounds and feels very, very promising and easy, but in fact, it's, it is like adopting a tiger. When it's a little one you see a nice video on YouTube or Amazon or Instagram, like how cute is to have a tiger, and you think…”
Opinion
Schramm: Selling exclusively on Amazon turns into a sophisticated prison
“Working in the Amazon operational system was probably the hardest understanding how the algorithm works. And also, you know, what was my biggest realization there is that what started as a dream of a freedom Like what I was saying, I can focus on what I really…”
Opinion
Arun: Digital convenience apps fuel debt and financial stress in younger generations
“Convenience has become very, it's like a fingertip, flip card, Amazon, Zomato, Swiggy, you name it, you get it, and the faster the money goes away. Now that's another problem we have. So whatever we earn, we spend, credit cards, debts, you know, people are in …”
Assertion Contradicted
Amazon launched a free competitor one month after Gazdecki sold his startup
“When I sold my previous business, it was a drag and drop mobile app builder. Within a month, Amazon released a free version of what I had built.”
Disclosure
Schramm: Combine Amazon Vine reviews with PPC to trigger organic ranking
“I was using the wine platform program that Amazon is providing to give the first reviews, and once the first reviews were there, Pushing the PPC campaign was allowing me to start selling, and once you get positive reviews, and you get more visibility, the algo…”
Disclosure
Schramm: Customer acquisition relied exclusively on the Amazon platform
“Well, I was selling exclusively at Amazon, so of course it was Amazon bringing the customers.”