E269: Managing a Growing Ecommerce Business, Moving it Off Amazon

Today’s guest is Aneta Winiarski, she operates from Toronto, Canada. Aneta owns and runs a kitchenware brand called Stylized Settings, which is sold exclusively on Amazon.  A growing business like hers can eat up a lot of time. As a mom to two boys, she’s looking at ways to have more control over that growth by diversifying away from Amazon. Give this episode a listen and you’ll learn: On the lack of women in the industry (2:13) How she got her start in ecommerce (5:06) How she started her kitchenware brand (6:51) Last year’s revenues and how’s 2019 going (8:43) The challenges she’s facing with the business (9:39) Diversifying from the Amazon-only world (10:10)  I also answered Aneta’s questions (17:08) on a bunch of topics including hiring more people and managing inventory. Here are the timestamps to that for easy reference. When Aneta should diversify away from Amazon (19:07) Outsourcing routine tasks in the business (22:04) Content creation - where to focus limited time and resources (31:34) Diversifying into Amazon Canada (39:30) Inventory management (46:00) This episode is part of our Women’s Month celebration. We’d love to see more women in the ecommerce industry, so if you are a female business owner, head over to www.ecomcrew.com/underthehood and tell us your story. We’d love to feature you on the podcast.