My Amazon Guy How to Have an Amazon Corporate Career with Jacob Privette #61
For entrepreneurs, being a business owner selling on Amazon is the only path they seek. For others, there's desire to tack the corporate track, being an eCommerce marketing manager of Amazon. Today we talk to an aspiring Amazon eCommerce marketing manager Jacob Privette about his path. Jacob is a former agency employee at My Amazon Guy. And he's seen both sides of this equation.
Jacob's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacobprivette/
Jacob thanks for joining me, as I understand it you just got married a couple weeks ago, how's the married life?
Let's talk about your Amazon and eCommerce background to qualify to you our listeners. What have you accomplished in your career?
If someone else wanted to start their career on Amazon right now what you advise they do, and why is it go work at My Amazon Guy or another agency?
What skills have come in handy that you wouldn't have predicted?
- Google Sheets
- Excel Sheets
- Calculating financials is so important. How profitable is something. How does something affect my bottom line.
What's the the difference between growing a corporate Amazon client vs your own hustle.
- Every bat swing has to be super calculated. If get it wrong $1,000 here could have cascading effects.
- Quantity of decision makers goes up significantly.
- Find alignment
- Expectations
- Omni channel
- MAP Pricing
- Distribution Control
Let's talk culture and working with people. When building an Amazon account with a omni channel corporation, it's not just you and and seller central is it.
- Number of employees affects culture
- Make employees feel valued
- Goal setting
- Growing Relationships - even harder remote.
- Crystal Knows - used to see people's personality with LinkedIn app: https://www.crystalknows.com/app/register?profile_id=9ad986c4-2fdb-417c-8337-6ab71cf12bbf&tasks=accept_referral%2Cnotify_inviter
Relationships
- Ecommerce is a tight nit community.
Best class in college that no one should miss
- Organizational behavior - psychology of business.
What do you wish you had learned years ago?
- Be yourself. Emotional authentic.
What's the last book you read and what did you get out of it?
- Reddit: How to motivate social distancing.
Another reference material: "Getting Things Done."