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Sequence new marketplace

The order I use when a US-native catalog goes into another market: selection, localization, compliance, fulfillment, then price.

Every cross-border launch tends to get treated as a one-off. Which market. What to localize. Who fulfills. What landed cost does to the price. Teams re-answer the same questions from scratch. The second market never gets cheaper than the first.

The order

Market selection first. Then a localization pass that goes beyond translation: search terms, sizing, imagery norms, claims rules. Then compliance and fulfillment routing, decided before a single listing goes live. Pricing is built from landed cost up — freight, duties, VAT, marketplace fees, FX — not home-market price copied across.

A 90-day plan that sequences those gates, each with an owner and an exit, is already written up in the cross-border case study. This is that motion, not a new product.

What this is not

Amazon-only work sold as the whole shop. A new channel folded into the last scope. Employer results presented as a JS Labs offer outcome. Site work sold as the launch.

You keep the vendor relationship and the ad account. A new channel is a new scope.

Want this run for your operation?

This playbook comes straight from client work. If you'd rather have it done than do it, that's what JS Labs is for.

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