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Moran: Most Amazon sales come from organic search keyword ranking
“Most of them come from organic sales from ranking for keywords.”
Ryan Moran: Physical products drive 75% of monthly revenue
“Well, in February we did 1.3 million and that was right after a launch because like 300 ish thousand came from a launch of the coaching. So the, my, what I call my real businesses, the businesses that I actually operate and that don't have my name attached to …”
Moran: 90% of physical product revenue comes from Amazon
“Yeah, we have retail presence. We have an e-commerce store, but 90% of our revenue right now is from Amazon.”
Bickley: Amazon drove 15% of Hold Your Haunches 2015 sales
“And I would say we, 15% of one and a half million dollars in sales in 15 was from Amazon.”
Voelker: Adding 999 units to Amazon cart tracks competitor daily sales
“The way that you do it is you can just do the nine, nine, nine trick. And what that is, is you go to that person's that, that competitor, you go to their page, you type in that you want to order 999 units. You can't say a thousand. It's gotta be 999. You do th…”
Voelker: Amazon storefront generated $307k gross revenue at 38% margin
“Gross net revenue is 307,000, and I'm, right now I'm about averaging about 38% margin on that.”
Companion Cabinet transitioned from on-premise to SaaS during 2008 crash
“So that started in the late nineties. Mostly on premise. And then in oh eight, when Amazon just started showing its creds in the cloud is when we actually converted over the market crash of 2008 and nine. And that's how we ultimately became a SaaS company.”
Ariza: A Single Amazon Fulfillment Center Costs Over $100M
“If you look at Amazon, for example, you're going to find that a single location could cost even more than a hundred billion, a hundred million dollars.”
Adler: Flume Water hardware retails for $199 on Amazon and DTC
“The hardware is going to cost you one nine nine. So you can buy it on Amazon. You can buy it on our website, but it's 109 nine dollars right now online.”
Human Proof Designs lists a $4K revenue affiliate site for $10K
“If you look right now, we have a niche site in the organic foods market which is really popular nowadays with healthy eating. That site is selling for 10,000. It's a revenue producing site that has made, earned about 4000 dollars in revenue so far this year us…”
Arnott: Seller SEO Is Bootstrapped via a Seven-Figure Amazon Business
“Yeah, it's all bootstrapped. You know, we, like I said, we have a seven figure Amazon business. So just all bootstrapped.”
Vandenberg: Chili Piper bases every decision on Amazon-style long-form memos
“Well, that, that meeting organized with a long form memo, right? Where every decision is based on a memo. We do that. The same thing. We, It's working really well.”
Kilkka: Arbitrage System Initially Required at Least a $5 Price Spread
“We set certain parameters, like we needed at least a five dollar price difference to make it even worthwhile. And then we increased that over time.”
Robbins: Regrets selling his Amazon stock upon leaving in 2006
“Don't sell your Amazon stock when you quit.”
Sandler sells several thousand books yearly via keynotes, outperforming Amazon
“I sell more going out to speaking engagements than I sell through Amazon. So I would say several thousand a year I sell through speaking engagements just because my keynote audiences are the ones that buy my book.”
Gillivan: Amazon business generates $1M to $2M annually with 10 freelancers
“So right now, the company still operates. We're doing between one and two million dollars in revenue per year, and we have a team of about 10 people located around the world, just freelancers experts within different aspects of running Amazon stores, who are h…”
Loterzo: Cumulative book downloads total roughly 35,000 to 40,000
“It's probably around the 35 to 40,000 mark.”
Michael Slavin nets $7 per book on Amazon versus $14 direct
“Amazon, when they sell a book, I make seven dollars, and when I sell it myself, there's about a four dollar cost, so I make the difference on that cost.”
Ali: Adscend Acquired Slice App Users for a $2 CPA
“So we just finished up a really big campaign with a company called slice and they do like, they're basically like a shopping assistant and package tracker app top rated on the, on, on the app market. And we were acquiring users for them that were linking their…”