Part 2 in a 3-Part Series
Dear reader:
If you read “How to Sell on Amazon for Beginners - Part 1,” then you now have an overview of how selling on Amazon works.
Let’s get into the nitty gritty details of how to open a seller account, find items to sell, calculate your net profit, and how to price your items.
How to Sell on Amazon Step-By-Step
Step 1: Open a seller account as an individual or professional. Go to Amazon Seller Central and click on “Register now.”
Part 1 in a 3-Part Series
Dear Reader:
Are you curious about selling on Amazon and don’t know where to start? Well, you are in luck!
I just put together this “How to Sell on Amazon for Beginners” guide that will help you get started immediately.
This is the most comprehensive step-by-step guide to date that will help any new Amazon seller reach their goals. It is a 3-part series, so make sure to read all 3 parts. And at the end of Part #3, I'll give you my best free and inexpensive resources so you can get even more help! [click to continue…]
In 2015 (4 years ago), I started hearing about “online book arbitrage,” the practice of mining Amazon for cheap merchant fulfilled books that could be resold via FBA (back on Amazon) at a profit.
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It’s easier than ever for Amazon FBA sellers to make more money from home when using online arbitrage software. Today I’ll tell you about my personal favorite tool to use.
Like you, I would spend hours online looking for deals to buy and then flip on Amazon or eBay. One day I said “there has to be an easier way.” So I tried using online arbitrage software that was either expensive, useless, or both. So I did the next best thing: [click to continue…]
If you're an Amazon seller searching for services that tell you what you can buy to resell, you've probably bumped into 'BOLO' (Be On The Lookout) groups on Facebook or elsewhere.
"What's a BOLO group?" you ask?
A BOLO group is, simply, a group of online sellers sharing product leads with each other.
The product leads are what they've found in stores - some are online - that are selling at those stores for a price far less than on Amazon, and sometimes eBay.
Thus, by joining a BOLO group - usually for a fee - you can be alerted to those product sourcing ideas, too. Then you can visit your local stores and try to locate the same products with the objective of buying it and then selling it online for a significant profit. (As you know, that's called "retail arbitrage.")
But do those BOLO groups really work? [click to continue…]
Online arbitrage sourcing is one of my favorite ways to source products and make money selling on Amazon. What I love about this method is that it is so easy for anyone with Internet access and a small amount of cash or credit card to get started. [click to continue…]
Hi Readers:
As you're enjoying the income from your Q4 2018 Amazon and eBay sales, you should be effectively managing your 2019 sourcing, spending and budgeting. Extra money is always easy to spend, but please do it wisely and with some forethought. To help you, [click to continue…]
Amazing Selling Machine (ASM) is not a scam by any means. I think it's way overpriced, but it's not a scam.
There, I said it.
ASM does NOT compensate me if you buy their $4997+ program. Go ahead, get it here. <-- That's not an affiliate link. (Translation: I don't get paid anything if you buy it.)
Why am I saying it's not a scam, then? Well, it isn't. If you remember a few years ago, I gave those guys (Matt and Jason, founders of ASM) a really hard time, and went out of my way to discourage you from signing up.
But as years went by, a weird thing happened. Those guys proved that they're a legitimate business. And they kept churning out legitimate Amazon seller success stories*, growing and hiring at their office in Houston Texas, attracting quality partners, and honoring all their 30-day refund requests from customers.
But I'm still not promoting ASM. That may sound crazy to you. Because as an affiliate with the size of my audience - 17,000+ unique readers, 4,000+ Facebook followers, and 10,000+ YouTube subscribers - I could make an easy $50,000+ in affiliate commissions from ASM every year!
Am I stupid? No. I'm not promoting it because the price - up to $6,000 if you pay in installments - unsettles me a little. That's not ASM's fault - they're pricing what the market will bear. Thousands of ambitious Amazon sellers will buy it. Some will succeed, others will fail - but that has nothing to do with ASM (more on that in a moment).
So with ASM's high price of entry - remember you still have to pay for your product manufacturing, marketing, and more - what can you do?
See, many of my readers want to sell their own branded products on Amazon, but they're hard-pressed for cash, just starting out, or not ready to make such a large financial commitment.
Good news! There are other trusted Amazon systems/courses that focus on sourcing and selling your own branded products on Amazon, for a fraction of the price. And they're all from my honest, trustworthy partners.
And many of you will ask me "Jordan, what's the difference between Amazing Selling Machine and your recommended alternative?"
The truthful answer: Not a whole lot.
All the trusted courses:
But none of them has THE magic bullet to your success. Nor do they offer anything that makes private label markedly "easier" or "faster".
(Some of them will respond to this post and say "Yeah but we have ___________ features that make us really unique from the rest!". That's a great selling point but it's not critical to you pulling off private label successfully. I don't care what the features are.)
See, an Amazon seller's degree of success tends to directly correlate to the amount of work he/she puts in to learning and doing, regardless of which trusted course they take.
I'll say it again:
An Amazon seller's degree of success tends to directly correlate to the amount of work he/she puts in to learning and doing...
A course (again, a trusted one) is something that can help you along the way. If you follow it step-by-step and execute, it's a tremendous asset.
And with other trusted courses generally teaching the same tactics, why pay that much? You don't need the bells and whistles to be sucessful.
So, what is my top recommendation** for you?
Proven Private Label 3.0 Plus Mentorship Program ($497) from my trusted partners. All the instructors are seasoned, successful Amazon sellers. Proven Private Label will teach you Private Label the "Easy Way" via their 8 step-by-step modules and live mentoring (30 days of mentoring in their Facebook group are included, then $47/month afterward if you elect to continue with mentoring). You get lifetime access and lifetime updates to the Private Label courses and a 30 day, 10o% money back guarantee. Right now it's my top pick. At least read the testimonials halfway down the page here.
My most critical advice for you: whether you buy ASM, another course/system, or learn on your own for free: Take action. I've seen hundreds of sellers fail because they don't take the first few steps - they just prematurely quit. Take action, follow through, ask questions, and pick yourself up if you fall down.
I welcome your comments and feedback below.
-Jordan
*I am an affiliate of some of my recommendations above (Not ASM). That means if you buy any of them, I may receive a small commission from them.
Online arbitrage is still a viable way to make money selling on Amazon. It is one of 3 major ways I still source products today and it continues to bring in plenty of money. [click to continue…]
If you source textbooks to resell, note that there are counterfeits out there. Not enough to scare you into avoid the business entirely, but enough to keep your eyes peeled.
It's appealing for the unscrupulous to commit the crime [click to continue…]
