#768 – Amazon Seller Strategies From the Accelerate Floor

What does growth look like for someone launching their first product compared with sellers running multimillion-dollar businesses? Recorded live on the floor of Amazon Accelerate, this episode of the Serious Sellers Podcast brings together seven sellers with different backgrounds, business models, and lessons to share. Bradley Sutton starts with Sky Balukonis, who grew a disposable napkin business from roughly $40,000-$50,000 in first-year sales to a projected $1.4 million annually. Sky explains how disciplined reinvestment, careful cash flow management, and premium positioning helped an everyday product stand out.
Danial Khosravi and Nick Karafilov share how they use Claude connected to Helium 10 through MCP to research keywords, improve listing copy, and prepare a data-backed presentation for a Walmart buyer. They also explain how advice from a Helium 10 Elite call with Bradley pushed them to build their Walmart presence, prepare retail-ready packaging, and generate TikTok content. Those efforts helped put them in front of a buyer, with a potential retail agreement still pending at the time of recording. Meanwhile, first-time Amazon seller Todd Gabel discusses launching a windshield sticker-removal film and using AI-assisted research to understand keywords and competitors.

Youseong Ha of Neudorff offers a different perspective on product selection, explaining why he moved from skincare into the more challenging gardening and pesticide category. His approach centers on finding unmet customer needs and delivering meaningful product differentiation. Brothers Ben and Josh Garmon then share lessons from a business generating approximately $20-30 million annually through manufacturer partnerships and e-commerce operations. Their focus is profitability, dependable execution, and a roughly even split between FBA and FBM, with merchant fulfillment giving them flexibility to assemble bundles from shared inventory.

The episode closes with Sugam Dhal from Amazon’s Middle East global selling team, who discusses expansion opportunities in the UAE and Saudi Arabia and potential incentives for qualifying brands. Across these conversations, the message is clear: growth comes from understanding customers, managing resources carefully, and acting on opportunities with purpose. Whether you are preparing your first listing or managing millions in sales, choose one lesson you can apply now. A stronger product, a smarter workflow, or a better fulfillment strategy could become the foundation for your next stage of growth.

In episode 768 of the Serious Sellers Podcast, Bradley and his guests discuss:

• 00:00 – Introduction
• 01:42 – Sky Balukonis-Gee’s Seller Journey
• 04:23 – Reinvesting Profits And Premium Product Positioning
• 06:45 – Meet Danial Khosravi And Nick Karafilov
• 09:43 – Using Claude And The Helium 10 MCP
• 13:15 – Preparing A Brand For Walmart Retail
• 16:42 – Todd Gabel’s First Amazon Product
• 20:35 – Youseong Ha’s Move Into Gardening Products
• 26:52 – Finding Gaps And Meeting Customer Needs
• 28:31 – Ben And Josh Garmon’s Manufacturer Partnerships
• 32:16 – Combining FBA, FBM, And Flexible Bundles
• 33:55 – Middle East Expansion With Sugam Dhal

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