#4 Vanessa Hung – How To Survive and Thrive in the Amazon FBA Selling Jungle!

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The fast and ever-changing nature of the Amazon marketplace for sellers could scare many, but not our guest for today’s show, Vanessa Hung.

Thriving in creativity and innovation, Vanessa sits with Joie in this episode of the Fearless Sellers Podcast to reveal the secrets to her influential success in the industry despite the rapidly changing policies and practices, which include embracing discomfort and constant innovation and developing a problem-solving mindset.

Vanessa is the CEO of Online Seller Solutions as well as a Community Ambassador at Carbon6.

Vanessa’s journey started as an E-commerce manager for another company that wanted to get on Amazon. She was responsible for building the company's presence on the platform from the ground up, but because the company was a reseller and not a brand, she wasn’t in charge of product development or shipping from China.

Seeing businesses like that navigate the otherwise unsexy side of Amazon with a degree of difficulty, which includes things like inventory management, order fulfillment, and customer service, Vanessa realized the opportunity—she could form an agency that provides this support to them—and made the best out of it!

Though starting the agency was a big risk as it required leaving her previous E-commerce manager job, and it did cause her nine months of financial difficulty, she kept going because she believed in the idea. Today, it has almost 20 employees, and she’s proud of the progress they have made. And though she occasionally compares her agency with bigger ones employing 100-200 people, she’s proud of her growth.

Of the many lessons she gives away today, the important ones include:

• Vanessa’s pet peeve of people not being real about the difficulties of selling on Amazon. As an educator in the space, she tries to put out real content to help sellers understand the real challengesthey may face. She also gets underneath the presence of automation in the industry and advises people to stay away from it, encouraging people to reach out to them for real advice.
• Frustrated at people overselling the ease of the Amazon sellers’ business, Vanessa emphasizes that starting a business on Amazon is not easy but rewarding but you have to be all-in for it if you want to succeed. And though it’s not uncommon for people to get lost in the vast sea of opportunities, you have to remind yourself to stick to your niche.
• She also discusses the importance of surrounding yourself with people who are aligned with your vision and mindset when starting a business. Vanessa mentions that her team is composed of rockstars and that she owes a lot to them for taking things off her plate. Learning how to delegate is important to achieve success.

Time Stamps

[00:00] Intro

[00:11] A Day In Joie’s Show

[01:12] Making the unsexy sexy: Meet Vanessa Hung, Founder and CEO of Online Seller Solutions

[03:20] How Vanessa’s business grew after she started with it in 2019

[04:43] Vanessa’s decision to move to Salt Lake City from Venezuela after falling in love with the place since visiting it the first time this year

[06:09] Learning to snowboard and why it’s one of her most favorite things to do today

[09:18] Why the constant changes and innovationsmotivate Vanessa to continue in the Amazon space

[10:45] Working 9-5 to make someone else money vs. taking control of your time and making your own money

[12:49] The unsexy side of Amazon and how Vanessa identified it to talk about it

[17:32] How Vanessa started “Online Seller Solution”

[20:26] Vanessa’s biggest pet peeve in the Amazon industry

[21:45] How anybody can become an Amazon seller

[23:51] Why Vanessa’s biggest pet peeve is not keeping it real

[24:53] Automation? What’s that? + Why you can steer clear of that

[26:50] There’s a place for everyone to be selling on Amazon

[28:16] Advice for listeners wanting to pivot from their current job to something else, especially Amazon FBA

[32:14] “If you cannot commit to it, don’t do it.”

[33:55] “If you want to start and you want to be successful, surround yourself with people that are aligned with your vision and with your mindset.”

[36:24] Vanessa’s final thoughts before closing in for today

Connect with Joie:

Instagram: @joieroberts.official

LinkedIn: @joietamkinroberts

Connect with Vanessa:

Instagram: @itsVanessaHung

Interested in building your own Amazon business in partnership with 7 and 8 figure Amazon Sellers?

If so, apply for your free consultation with Joie Roberts and the AMZ Insiders' team of experts here => www.amzinsiders.org/apply?sl=fp