
Identify your unique value and translate it into a Shopify business. Use keyword research to find unmet demand in sub-niches via Google keyword planner and autosuggest.
Defines a buyer persona for Shopify clients by identifying demographics, psychographics, and behavior; uses free templates and forum research to tailor product descriptions, marketing, and branding.
Define a clear Shopify brand from the start by selecting a target personality, colors, and fonts, using a professional logo, then test variations with Fiverr designers and surveys.
Understand your client's objectives and growth stage to tailor tasks that align with their strategy. Use structured templates and proactive problem solving to deliver clear results and save time.
Learn how Amazon's listing elements, including keywords and titles, drive buyer decisions. Explore how sellers optimize price, delivery, bullet points, and reviews to win the buy box.
Discover basic Amazon keyword research using the autosuggest bar and free Helium 10, identify keywords like chopsticks and training chopsticks, and refine with Cerebro and Magnet.
Learn to assess Amazon product viability through market size, growth, and top competitor analysis, using a market analysis template to define product specs and listing opportunities.
Master Amazon copywriting by crafting concise titles within a 200-character limit, building bullet points and image text around customer problems, benefits, and features, with keyword optimization and A plus content.
Learn to create and interpret sales, PPC, stock movement, ranking, and review changes reports using Excel and table management tools to deliver actionable recommendations to Amazon sellers.
Learn how to use the most common Excel and Google Sheets formulas for Amazon VA tasks, including sum, average, count, if, sumif, countif, max/min ifs, vlookup, index, and match.
Learn to build multiple criteria formulas in Excel or Google Sheets, using and/or with if to flag shirts under 50% margin or pants under 20% margin.
Master creating sleek line charts to display sales development for shirts and pants and a cost breakdown with margins, plus practical recommendations to optimize pricing and costs.
Learn a four-step system to win Amazon sellers as clients by crafting personalized pitches, targeting unoptimized listings, estimating potential revenue, and outlining concrete improvements.
Specialize in a niche to stand out as an Amazon virtual assistant, then craft a polished listing with a professional image and smart pricing to attract clients.
Create a professional CV using Canva, select minimalist templates, add infographics, customize colors to fit the Amazon theme, and showcase Amazon skills like listing SEO, advertising, and reporting.
E-commerce businesses are growing rapidly around the world.
As online stores expand, many founders and sellers rely on Virtual Assistants (VAs) to help manage daily operations, marketing tasks, and platform management.
For people looking for flexible, location-independent work, this creates a strong opportunity.
But clients don’t hire virtual assistants just because they understand the concept of e-commerce.
They hire VAs who can step into real tasks and support their business immediately.
This course focuses on exactly that.
Instead of explaining the theory of virtual assistance, it shows how the work is actually done inside real e-commerce businesses.
The lessons are designed to feel like learning directly from someone experienced in e-commerce operations, explaining the tasks clearly and step by step.
Virtual assistant foundations
The course begins by explaining how successful virtual assistants approach their work.
Students learn how to think from a client’s perspective and develop the habits that make VAs reliable and valuable.
Topics include:
• understanding the role of a VA in modern businesses
• organizing tasks efficiently
• communicating clearly with clients
• adapting to different tools and platforms
These foundations help students operate confidently inside professional environments.
Working with Shopify businesses
The course then moves into practical work on Shopify, one of the most widely used e-commerce platforms.
Students learn how Shopify stores are structured and how virtual assistants support store operations.
Topics include:
• Shopify store setup
• product research and product pages
• understanding store structure and key metrics
• email marketing basics
• managing ads and social media
• reading store analytics and profit reporting
This section focuses on the tasks Shopify clients commonly assign to VAs.
Amazon virtual assistant skills
The next section focuses on working with Amazon sellers.
Students explore the tools and workflows used inside Seller Central, including the operational tasks VAs handle every day.
Students learn how to work with:
• Seller Central dashboards
• customer service workflows
• supply chain management basics
• keyword and product research
• listing copywriting
• advertising fundamentals
• analytics and reporting
The course also includes hands-on spreadsheet tasks that reflect real work assigned to Amazon virtual assistants.
Finding clients and getting hired
The final section shows how to turn these skills into real opportunities.
Students learn practical ways to present their abilities and connect with potential clients.
Topics include:
• positioning yourself as an e-commerce VA
• creating a strong CV or resume
• marketing your services online
• finding clients through platforms such as Fiverr
• building your own simple marketing presence
The goal of this course
By the end of the course, students will understand how e-commerce virtual assistants support real businesses and what tasks clients actually expect them to perform.
The course prepares students to work confidently with Shopify stores and Amazon sellers, while also helping them position themselves professionally when seeking clients or remote work opportunities.
The goal is simple:
To help students move from learning about e-commerce to being ready to work as an E-Commerce Virtual Assistant.
Udemy offers a 30-day money-back guarantee, so students can explore the course and decide if it’s right for them with no risk.
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The Modern Sellers
Most online courses teach steps: how to click through a setup, how to follow a script until the platform updates and the script breaks. TMS teaches the thinking behind the action. How a pricing decision is made. How a buyer decides. How a manager evaluates a channel. Commercial systems that work in any role, any market, for a lifetime. Give a person a fish and you feed them for a day. TMS teaches fishing — in any water, in any weather.
The primary instructor, Martyn, manages ecommerce channels for businesses up to $100M/yr — full channel ownership, team management, and regular presentation of strategy and results to C-level stakeholders. He holds a Business Management Honors degree.