As the world's number one cross-border e-commerce platform, Amazon has basically entered all mainstream developed e-commerce countries in Europe, America and Asia to date.
Among the sellers on Amazon's major global sites, Chinese sellers firmly account for the vast majority of the total.
Among all Chinese sellers, more than 80% of them operate in small teams, and some sellers even have only one person operating.
No matter it is operated by one person or a team, there is one position that is definitely crucial.
This position is: Amazon Operations.
Operations are very important because the operation of the entire company's products depends on operations, and a qualified operation is often the backbone of an Amazon company.
At the same time, operations work is very hard, and there are a lot of dirty and tiring work waiting for you to do, and sometimes you even have to bear huge economic risks because of your own mistakes.
Many people say that operations is a young person’s job, and older people will lose their competitiveness in the talent market.
There are also many operators who eventually move into management positions through their own efforts and become the top talents in the e-commerce food chain.
As an Amazon operator, no matter what kind of career plan you have, you must always have a clear understanding of your position, avoid pitfalls at work, and seize every opportunity to improve yourself.
Only in this way, when opportunity comes or when crisis strikes, you will be able to escape unscathed.
Let's talk about the habits that ruin yourself as an operator:
1. Think of yourself as a screw
In many large cross-border e-commerce companies, the division of labor between various positions has become very detailed. For an operator, this is actually not conducive to its own growth.
At this time, you are like a screw on a machine. No matter how many years you have worked in this machine, you are still only familiar with things within the scope of your job, and you will never learn other knowledge outside of your job.
At this time, you should learn more, read more, and enrich yourself. Never trap yourself in that invisible cage and cannot extricate yourself.
This is the vigilance that everyone should have by nature, to be prepared for danger in times of peace and prevent future troubles. You have to find a good way out for yourself. When you leave this company, can you be capable of doing the same or more senior job?
2. No awareness of time management
As an operator, I guess many people feel that there is simply not enough time in the day. It feels like operations people who have a lot of free time are probably just playing a supporting role in the company.
In such a fast-paced job, you must be good at allocating time effectively. At the beginning of each day's work, you should think clearly about how much time you should allocate to researching product selection, how much time you should spend researching competitors, and so on.
I often see some operators complaining smugly in the forums, saying that they just open the seller’s backend to check the data every day, and then start their day of gaming.
In fact, it is not just your operational work that will be ruined, it is more likely to be your life. After all, everyone is responsible for themselves, and no one can be relied on for a lifetime.
When it comes to time management and work efficiency, I would like to recommend a book called "The Pyramid Principle".
The book was written by Barbara Minto, the first female consultant at McKinsey. It focuses on the pyramid structure thinking method, which is a hierarchical and structured thinking and communication technique that can help us think and express efficiently.
The pyramid principle is "the process of thinking and expression oriented towards results or conclusions." When we think about or express something, we can first extract a central idea or put forward a final conclusion, and then have several sub-points to support this conclusion. Each sub-point may extend downward to a new point or require evidence as support, and extend downward layer by layer until there is no need to decompose and provide support anymore.
The thinking model presented in this way is a pyramid structure, so it is called the pyramid principle.
As an operator, clear thinking is one of the essential work abilities. I believe that after reading this book, your logical thinking ability will have a qualitative leap.
3. Lack of clear career planning
The technical content of Amazon's operations has always been difficult to quantify.
You can say that the operation position is very simple. Generally, a novice can get started in three to five months. Some novice can even train apprentices in just three months.
You can also say that this position is very complicated because it does involve a lot of operations. I have been working here for three to five years, but I still haven't grasped the essence of operations.
No matter which type of operation you belong to, you must think about your future path.
There are only three possible scenarios for operations development: changing careers, becoming a manager, or starting your own business.
In the current environment of "mass entrepreneurship and innovation", everyone wants to be a boss. Many of my friends have quit their jobs and started their own business, Amazon, at home.
Therefore, before you leave the company, it is best to hone yourself first, learn what you should learn, and master the resources around you.
Only in this way, when one day you decide to come out, you will not be timid and you can move forward boldly.
