Amazon’s Past And Present...What It Can Mean For Sellers Today

Posted from iLoveToReview, November 17, 2015 By: Tina Marie Bueno

Amazon is the #1 Online Retailer

As of 2015: ★244 million active customers

★2 million Sellers worldwide

★ 200 million different products

★$88.99 billion sales

What does founder and CEO Jeff Bezos say to those numbers? "It's still day one.”

That day one mindset drives Amazon’s commitment to innovation & growth.

What do giants Mattel, Disney, Hewlett-Packard

& Google have in common with Amazon?

Can you relate to those CEOs?

★ Perhaps your garage or basement is your brainstorming venue,

product warehouse, processing center or label factory too

★ Those founders had a slew of hair-pulling, nail-biting trial &

errors

Answer: They started in a garage!

YOU probably have a lot in common with these CEO giants!

★They are all self-starters, self-

motivated, visionaries & recognize

boundless opportunities

★They had/have a dream of freedom --

financial, working for themselves, or

living life on their terms

THEN:Amazon’s first website…dull, boring & uninteresting

They only sold books

NOW: Amazon’s website today - 34,000 versions later…

clean, user friendly, 200 million products

"Our first system wasn't very good by today's comparison. It wasn't very sexy or sophisticated, but it worked. It's so much more important to get things started than it is to get things perfect. Launch fast and learn fast. Make gradual, constant improvements.”

Keith O'BrienCEOiLoveToReview

Within 2 months of launching $20,000/week

books purchased45 countries

1997 Seattle fulfillment center

93,000 square feetoperated mostly manually

Then:2014

$88.99 billion net sales 2 billion products purchased

185 countries

2015 167 fulfillment centers globally

101.3 million square feet more robotic

Now:

★ Take advantage of Amazon support

★ Heed the advice shared by experienced merchants

★ Let humble beginnings motivate you

★ Seek companies offering services designed to drive sales, growth & new customers

Amazon provides countless opportunities

for action oriented people…