EP 86 - Vladi Gordon - Benefits of Using Profitability Analytics Tool in Your Amazon Business Part 1

Benefits of Using Profitability Analytics Tool in Your Amazon Business Part 1 There are huge commercial advantages in using profitability analytics software in E-commerce businesses. It can provide accurate and real-time view of your profit and calculate indicators and presents them in an actionable form. On today’s podcast, Steve Simonson introduces us to Vladi Gordon, co-founder of Sellerboard. Sellerboard is a profit analytics tool for Amazon sellers. Vladi has worked in the software business for many years, building and managing various software products and projects for E-commerce companies. Here are some of the things that Vladi shares on today’s episode: Vladi’s origin story growing up in Moldova. What Sellerboard is all about and how it helps Amazon businesses. The advantages and disadvantages of selling trend products on Amazon. So put on your headphones and be inspired by Vladi’s amazing Amazon success story. 02:15 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Vladi Gordon of Sellerboard.) 09:06 (Vladi shares the defining moment that put him on the road he’s in today.) 10:44 (Vladi shares the impact of the book Good to Great to his life.) 15:20 (Vladi shares the first time he launched a product in Amazon.) Welcome to the Awesomers.com podcast. If you love to learn and if you're motivated to expand your mind and heck if you desire to break through those traditional paradigms and find your own version of success, you are in the right place. Awesomers around the world are on a journey to improve their lives and the lives of those around them. We believe in paying it forward and we fundamentally try to live up to the great Zig Ziglar quote where he said, "You can have everything in your life you want if you help enough other people get what they want." It doesn't matter where you came from. It only matters where you're going. My name is Steve Simonson and I hope that you will join me on this Awesomer journey. SPONSOR ADVERTISEMENT If you're launching a new product manufactured in China, you will need professional high-resolution Amazon ready photographs. Because Symo Global has a team of professionals in China, you will oftentimes receive your listing photographs before your product even leaves the country. This streamlined process will save you the time money and energy needed to concentrate on marketing and other creative content strategies before your item is in stock and ready for sale. Visit SymoGlobal.com to learn more. Because a picture should be worth one thousand keywords. You're listening to the Awesomers podcast. Steve: You're listening to episode number 86 on the Awesomers.com podcast series. And as you may have guessed, all you have to do is run over to Awesomers.com/86 to see relevant show notes and details and maybe some of the links that we talked about in today's episode. Now today is part one of a three-part series with Vladi Gordon and we'll talking about some of the fun things that he's been through in terms of his experience and his background with software development working for Big Blue also known as IBM in his prior career and then that evolving into kind of the Amazon side of the business and then ultimately back into software. It's kind of like a ricochet -- software, Amazon, software. And today we're going to talk a lot about that journey. And we’ll also talk about as Vladi calls it five Amazon profit killers. So you are going to love today's episode. I'm glad you're here. I hope you're glad to be here too. 02:15 (Steve introduces today’s guest, Vladi Gordon of Sellerboard.) Hey, Awesomers. It's me, Steve Simonson, and I'm back again with another episode of the Awesomers.com podcast series. And today I'm joined by Vladi Gordon. Vladi, how are you, buddy? Vladi: Hello, Steve! Thanks for having me. Steve: Great! Glad to have you indeed. And I've already read in kind of your background and your bio a little bit to tell people a little bit more about you from the