Thirty million new customers signed up for Amazon in 2014, bringing its total active user base to 244 million. We looked at 3 specific insights from Amazon's history and talk about what sellers can learn from them today. The image from the 1st point is crazy...

1. Amazon’s Past And Present...
What It Can Mean For Sellers Today
Posted from iLoveToReview, November 17, 2015
By: Tina Marie Bueno

2. Amazon is the #1 Online Retailer
As of 2015:
★244 million active customers
★2 million Sellers worldwide
★ 200 million different products
★$88.99 billion sales
What does founder and CEO Jeff Bezos say to those numbers?
"It's still day one.”
That day one mindset drives Amazon’s commitment
to innovation & growth.

3. What do giants Mattel, Disney, Hewlett-Packard
& Google have in common with Amazon?

4.
Can you relate to those CEOs?
★ Perhaps your garage or basement is your brainstorming venue,
product warehouse, processing center or label factory too
★ Those founders had a slew of hair-pulling, nail-biting trial &
errors
Answer:
They started in a garage!

5. YOU probably have a lot in common with these CEO giants!
★They are all self-starters, self-
motivated, visionaries & recognize
boundless opportunities
★They had/have a dream of freedom --
financial, working for themselves, or
living life on their terms

6. THEN:
Amazon’s first website…dull, boring & uninteresting
They only sold books

7. NOW:
Amazon’s website today - 34,000 versions later…
clean, user friendly, 200 million products

8. "Our first system wasn't very good by today's comparison. It
wasn't very sexy or sophisticated, but it worked. It's so much
more important to get things started than it is to get things
perfect. Launch fast and learn fast. Make gradual, constant
improvements.”
Keith O'Brien
CEO
iLoveToReview

9. Within 2 months of launching
$20,000/week
books purchased
45 countries
1997
Seattle fulfillment center
93,000 square feet
operated mostly manually
Then:
2014
$88.99 billion net sales
2 billion products purchased
185 countries
2015
167 fulfillment centers globally
101.3 million square feet
more robotic
Now:

10. ★ Take advantage of Amazon support
★ Heed the advice shared by
experienced merchants
★ Let humble beginnings motivate you
★ Seek companies offering services
designed to drive sales, growth & new
customers
Amazon provides countless opportunities
for action oriented people…