A Journey To Amazon Asset Flipping | ft. Muhammad Auon | Podcast# 17 | TDP

Meet Mr. Mohammad Auon, Co-founder and CTO at FBA Bros, a dynamic agency created by him and his brother to build businesses from scratch to multi-product brands. He is the first person from Pakistan to flip an Amazon asset. He started his professional journey as an IT professional and worked as Software Engineer for a long span of 10 years.

After spending a decade in a software house he decided to change the domain and started his E-commerce Journey from Daraz back in 2013. Then he moved to Amazon in 2017 and started working on it over time. Due to the right strategies and his extraordinary passion towards FBA selling, he enjoyed exponential growth of revenue and ultimately after sustaining it organically he Flipped his first Amazon asset back in November 2019.

In this podcast, Muhammad Auon discussed about his early life & education. He started the conversation with his career as an IT professional, his enroute from IT to designing and then e-commerce field. While talking about his e-commerce journey he told us about his Amazon experience, specially when he flipped his first Amazon business.

We asked about his sourcing approach and techniques to source products as a Sourcing specialist, his tactics to convince suppliers to lower the prices and the strategies he uses to deal with quality issues during sourcing. The most interesting part of this conversation was his honesty about getting a higher profit on the same products while sourcing than others. We were also keen to know the reason for creating the E-commerce Alumni Network and the future plans of EAN and much more.

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00:00 CHAPTER
00:04 VIDEO HOOKS
01:05 INTRODUCTION
02:30 EARLY LIFE & EDUCATION
04:08 WHY YOU MOVE FROM PROGRAMMING TO DESIGNING FIELD
05:09 START OF ECOMMERCE JOURNEY
10:39 DID YOU TRY TO SOURCE YOUR OWN PRODUCT AS SOURCING EXPERT?
18:34 HOW DO YOU GET INTO AMAZON DOMAIN?
23:43 WAS YOUR FIRST PRODUCT LAUNCH A SUCCESS OR A FAILURE?
27:42 WHAT IS YOUR SOURCING APPROACH AS A SOURCING SPECIALIST?
31:14 HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO CONVINCE SUPPLIERS TO LOWER PRICES?
33:40 DID YOU ACHIEVE HIGHER PROFIT MARGINS ON SOME PRODUCTS THAN OTHER COULD?
40:14 HOW DO YOU DEAL WITH QUALITY ISSUES DURING SOURCING?
51:13 HOW DO YOU MANAGE TO FLIP YOUR FIRST AMAZON BUSINESS?
01:02:29 REASON BEHIND CREATING A E-COMMERCE ALUMNI NETWORK
01:10:54 FUTURE PLANS OF E-COMMERCE ALUMNI NETWORK?