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Welcome To (Amazon Flat File) Hell! - Part Two: The Solution

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In the first post on this subject, entitled Welcome To (Amazon Flat File) Hell! - Part One: The Problem ,  I detailed my numerous travails encountered whilst attempting to get an Amazon flat file product upload to work. For the second post in this series it seemed naturally fair to present the solution which, after a lot of trial, error and experimentation, provided the concluding "a-ha!" moment to a week of frustration.  By the close of the first post, just to recap, I had more-or-less exhausted all of my ideas on how to fix the Amazon 8058 error. Just to remind you: By now I was really up against it in terms of needing to find a solution to this problem. I was only a couple of days away from really needing the SKUs on Amazon so that I could get the first orders placed within our deadline and we weren't very far away from our target date to launch either. In addition, Amazon had recently sent me and the team an internal promotional calendar with details of their planned...
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Welcome To (Amazon Flat File) Hell! - Part One: The Problem

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Everyone knows how notoriously difficult it is to get started on Amazon these days.  Gone are the days when, with just a little bit of work, you could find a product category to sell in that had the potential, from research and looking / copying similar products, to earn a few grand.  Allegedly all you had to do - open a professional seller account, source your product, create a new listing or, if you were adding to the existing catalogue just create a unique SKU to include your marketplace offer for consideration by the algorithmically factored 'BuyBox', ship your items into the relevant Amazon fulfilment centre (Amazon doesn't call them 'warehouses' because Amazonian's have their own language for everything) for FBA, then wait for your products to index and rank on the site before the orders start to roll in. More experienced private label sellers would, of course, also be looking to get brand registered and run paid advertising. Traditionally these have alway...
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Starting an Etsy Print on Demand Store from (almost) nothing

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UPDATE: This is copy of an original article that I posted on LinkedIn back in April 2022. I'm reproducing here on this blog platform in order to publish some content that I can use to test the integration and feeds into my new website https://www.karlsimpson.co.uk. As it's now January 2023 and a lot has happened since (not least a few more sales) at some point soon I'll publish an update on progress since last year. Until then please enjoy my original writings on the subject of launching an Etsy print on demand store with no prior experience. I started my print on demand store back in Sept 2021 with a goal to see if I could scale a business with absolutely minimal investment and no tangible product or expensive product R&D costs. E-commerce has been a goldmine for many entrepreneurs but the reality is you can't just get started with nothing... or can you...?? The initial challenge was deciding what to sell and who to buy it from. There are many POD suppliers out the...
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