How to Take an Idea from Concept to Launch with Amy Wees, CEO of Amazing at Home Business Consulting
Release Date: 04/02/2020
Strategies for Reinstating Amazon Account Suspensions With Lesley Hensell
Innovations and Breakthroughs
Lesley Hensell is the Co-founder of Riverbend Consulting, an e-commerce and Amazon consulting agency. The company’s experts help sellers resolve account listing suspensions and other challenges. Lesley has personally helped hundreds of third-party sellers get their Amazon accounts and ASINs back up and running for the past 10 years. She is the author of The Amazon Incubator: Grow Your Business or Hatch a New One, to be released in January 2024. In this episode… When Amazon sellers get their accounts suspended, it can damage their credibility among customers, lead to losses, and lower...
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Hardwon Advice on Entrepreneurship and Lead Generation With Lucas James
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Lucas James is the Co-founder and CEO of Twiz, a digital marketing agency focused on driving leads for B2B service companies and online stores. Based in Los Angeles, Twiz was founded on the idea that traditional marketing companies were charging businesses too much without producing enough results. Lucas is also the Co-host of the podcast, How To Scale an Agency, and produces a variety of other content in the area of AI news and developing tech. In this episode… Entrepreneurship requires taking careful and strategic steps to bring your ideas to life. To increase your probability of success,...
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Tips and Strategies for Building Recurring Revenue With Jordan Ross
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How To Be a Holistic Entrepreneur With Christene Marie
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Christene Marie is the Founder and CEO of The Knowing Agency, a brand identity and integrated marketing agency. The company helps empathy-driven brands develop marketing strategies to create connections with their target audiences. Christene has worked with brands like Amazon, Toyota, NAACP, and the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. She is also an international speaker and has a new book coming out this spring. In this episode… How much do you know about the people in your business? What strategies can you use to empower them? Developing interpersonal relationships with your team and customers...
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Best Practices for Succession Planning With Laurie Barkman
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Laurie Barkman is an M&A advisor and the former CEO of a $100 million revenue company that was sold to a Fortune 50 business. She now guides business owners as an M&A intermediary, facilitating both sell-side and buy-side transactions. Laurie is a dynamic speaker who has consulted, advised, and presented to hundreds of CEOs and business owners. She is the author of The Business Transition Handbook: How To Avoid Succession Pitfalls and Create Valuable Exit Options and is the host of the award-winning podcast, Succession Stories. In this episode… When planning to exit a business, the...
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A Supportive Community for Entrepreneurs
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Chris Heivly is a serial entrepreneur, angel investor, and the Managing Director at Build The Fort, an umbrella entity that serves entrepreneurs, and startup companies. He is one of the nation's leading experts on launching startups and has been dubbed The Startup Whisperer. Chris co-founded MapQuest, which was sold to AOL for $1.2 billion. He is also a public speaker and the author of Build The Fort: Why 5 Simple Lessons You Learned as a 10 year-old Can Set You Up for Startup Success as well as Build the Fort: The Startup Community Builder's Field Guide. In this episode…...
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Strategies for Preparing an e-Commerce Brand for Exit
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How To Create an Effective Sales Process
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How To Leverage Influencer Marketing With Gracey Ryback
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Gracey Ryback is a content creator, Amazon Live creator, and influencer marketing consultant. She works with e-commerce and Amazon brands to help them leverage the power of influencer marketing. With a focus on TikTok and Amazon Live, Gracey has worked with clients across multiple industries both on and off Amazon. She has grown a community of over one million followers. In this episode… Building a top brand on Amazon has become more difficult and expensive over the last couple of years. This is attributed to increased competition and the high costs of ads. To stand out from other players,...
info_outlineAmy Wees is the CEO of Amazing at Home Business Consulting, a company that focuses on helping brands develop unique products, validate them in the marketplace, source at profitable margins, and launch those products in e-Commerce with amazing brand messaging, copywriting, and search engine optimization. She is a successful product entrepreneur and a highly regarded business coach. She is an expert planner with 18 years of military planning experience and she holds three undergraduate and two graduate degrees.
Amy has three brands in the marketplace and more in the way. She is a brand builder, inventor, a patent holder, a teacher, a public speaker, search engine optimization (SEO) expert, and a copywriter.
In this episode…
Being an entrepreneur can be a lonely journey and having a supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs can not only help boost your confidence, it can even help you refine your product. And this is precisely what motivated Amy Wees to create a community for her coaching clients -- she wanted them to have a trusted group of experts who they can bounce ideas with and learn from.
Amy Wees has helped countless individuals jumpstart their business from conceptualization to launch and she says that having mentors and people to share ideas with can have a very powerful impact in your business and in life.
In this episode of Innovations & Breakthroughs, Rich Goldstein talks to Amy Wees about her very first invention, her coaching work and courses, why it’s important for innovators and entrepreneurs to research their product and be thoroughly acquainted with its manufacturing process, and the importance of studying a market before launching a product. Stay tuned.