Selling products on any merchant site is not a simple task. Therefore, if you are looking for a secondary income, start with the right vision. If you are planning to sell on Amazon, know the common pitfalls that many sellers encounter and how you can avoid them. To succeed and become a top seller, know how to make money selling on Amazon.

Discover what it Takes to Become an Amazon Featured Merchant

As a merchant seller on Amazon, you will no longer struggle to sell products. With good feedback, it will take you just few months to feature here. Normally, though Amazon won’t show you how to become a merchant seller, have the right type of seller account, consistent sales and good reviews.

Use the Right Fulfillment Service

This is an important factor on how to make money selling on amazon. Let Amazon fulfill the product for you. You can ship out items in bulk but for individual orders, leave that to the fulfillment service. This way you will have time to grow your business and increase sales.

Choose Products Suited for Your Business Size and Available Space

Sell products that you can easily manage. As a starter, you can sell products that don’t require a lot of work and as you progress further, you can now venture into bigger products.

Be Flexible with your Pricing Strategy and Promotions

Most sellers on Amazon tend to under-price products to attract more buyers. The best thing you can do is look at your competitors and then sell products that have little competition. Then you can reduce prices if you want more sales or raise them by 3% or less to earn more profit.

Determine What Your Margins Are

This is also an important factor on how to make money selling on Amazon because when you buy a product to sell, you need to cover the product cost. So if you set low prices, you may even fail to pay the selling fees imposed by Amazon. Therefore, find more information about the product, the fees involved, shipping costs too and then sell the right product that will benefit you.

Take Advantage of simple Marketing Opportunities within Amazon

Amazon is always testing new tools that you can use to boost your sales and increase your income. Great results will however depend on the product you have chosen.

Get ready for the Holidays

During holidays sales usually tend to increase above average. This can be good time for you as an Amazon seller unless you run out of stock. Therefore, know how to forecast demand especially if you are selling seasonal products. This is a great way on how to make money selling on Amazon and you won’t miss out on sales that would have boosted your earnings.

Make use of Seller Central Reports

You will find great tools and reports too on your seller account on Amazon also known as the Amazon Seller Central. Here you can track your sales, your promotions, check your inventory, reasons for returns and refunds too. This information will help you forecast future sales and increase your income.

Most importantly, remember to follow Amazon’s rules and guidelines while selling. Getting banned after working so hard to build and promote yourself as a seller is very frustrating. This is also a key aspect on how to make money selling on amazon.

In 2004, “950,000 titles out of the 1.2 million tracked by Nielsen Bookscan sold fewer than 99 copies. Another 200,000 sold fewer than 1,000 copies. Only 25,000 sold more than 5,000 copies. The average book in America sells about 500 copies.”

— Publisher’s Weekly, July 17, 2006

You don’t necessarily have to sell a lot of books to become an Amazon bestseller, and there are distinct advantages to this title.

Once you become an Amazon bestselling author you can forevermore be referred to as a “bestselling author.”

If you have joint venture partners, with a bit of planning, you can engineer a mass e-mail campaign with incentive bonuses to buy your book from Amazon on a certain day. Your book becomes an Amazon bestseller in one of your categories using this method.

Nobody knows how many copies it takes to hit the bestseller mark because Amazon has its own proprietary algorithm.

I receive reports from my book distributor each month, but no data on which bookstores sold how many books.

Amazon will not give you a plaque to verify your bestseller status, so we monitor Amazon every minute and photograph a computer screen shot to verify books as bestsellers.

Amazon updates their numbers every hour. Yet your book becomes a bestseller “by rate” rather than numbers of copies sold. This means we must sell as many books as we can in the shortest amount of time!

When my clients ask me what Amazon bestseller status actually means, it makes me laugh. My business partner and I have the attitude that “It’s all made up” — meaning life in general. We create in our lives by what we believe to be true, and we have the ability to create another belief for ourselves and change our lives.

It is the same for bestseller status. It means whatever an author or a reader wants it to mean.

In my workshops, I sometimes ask students what dollar value they would put on becoming a # 1 Amazon Bestselling Author. The responses range from $65,000.00 and higher to almost nothing. But most of them see it as a great advantage.

For my books, it has been an extremely advantageous, by:

1. Attracting more Sales at Higher Prices

2. Attracting Better-Quality Customers

3. Standing out from the Competition

4. Conferring Expert Status

5. Assigning Celebrity Status

6. Creating Instant Credibility

The same is possible for you!

First, the disclaimers: Since the algorithm Amazon uses to generate its sales ranking is proprietary, the details contained herein are extrapolated from research and field tests. The resulting consensus finds Amazon’s system to provide marginal sales data at best.

To whit, read Amazon’s own definition of its system, slightly paraphrased from their FAQ: “The Sales Ranking system exhibits how books are selling. The lower the number, the higher the sales. The calculation is based on sales and is updated each hour to reflect recent and historical sales of every item sold. We hope you find the Amazon.com Sales Rank interesting!” This last sentence seems to indicate Amazon’s own perspective on the importance with which the sales rankings should be viewed.

You’re not supposed to find the sales rankings informative or helpful. You’re supposed to find them interesting.

In actuality, the process is somewhat more convoluted than they let on. Only the top 10,000 books are updated every hour and the ranking does not depend upon the actual number of books sold, but rather, on a comparison against the sales figures of the other 9,999 books within that same hour. Simultaneously, a trending calculation is applied to arrive at a computerized sales trajectory. So, hypothetically, a book that held a ranking of 2,000 at 2pm and 3,000 at 3pm, might hold a 4,000 ranking at 4pm, even if it actually sold MORE books between 3-4 than it did between 2-3.

Books with rankings between 10,000 and 100,000 are recalculated once a day, rather than once an hour. Current projections, as well as historic sales information play a key role in these calculations. In fact, the predictive nature of the Amazon ranking system is what makes it possible for a newly-released book to outrank an older established title, even though the actual sales figures for the latter far exceed the former.

Books with rankings over 100,000 are also recalculated every day and applied with historic sales information and projections, although in the case of these books, history takes a back seat. Sales projections and trending take an active role here, which is why a book’s ranking can leap from 900,000 to 200,000 in the span of 24 hours or less. Does this mean the book has sold 700,000 copies in 24 hours? Absolutely not! What it does mean is that recent activity (i.e. purchases) for that book is trending higher than those 700,000 books it just surpassed. But, don’t get excited just yet; since the activity of those 700,000 other books range from slow to stagnant, one or two orders are sufficient to catapult a ranking.

If a book’s ranking breaks into the top 100,000, the sales history calculation starts to rear its head, which is why a “phenomenon” book has a hard time maintaining a high, legitimate ranking. A phenomenon is defined by a book that leaps from the high hundred-thousands into the lower thousands (or better) in the span of 24 hours or less, usually due to some concentrated marketing initiatives. Since Amazon’s sales history for that title doesn’t support the leap, the spike occurs and then quickly drops again.

HOW DOES ALL THIS TRANSLATE TO ACTUAL SALES FIGURES?

Since the data is recalculated every hour and/or every day (depending upon a book’s current ranking), it’s impossible to get cumulative sales figures, although those figures are applied to the algorithm during the calculation. No, to get a very rough idea of the actual number of books being sold, the sales ranking has to be dissected dynamically, with the same immediacy as the ranking being calculated, (hourly for top 10,000 books or daily for top 100,000 books). Chart the ranking of a top 10,000 book every hour for 24 hours and divide by 24 to arrive at its average daily ranking. In the case of a top 100,000 book, take its ranking every day for 7 days and divide by 7 to arrive at its average weekly ranking.

Bear in mind that this next piece of information is extremely arbitrary, based upon sales ranking/sales figure comparisons and data received from third party sources. In other words, it’s probably completely wrong. But rather than disclaiming this chart until the cows come home, I’ll just say this: It is difficult to make sense of something that doesn’t make sense. But it sure is interesting, and now, perhaps, even slightly helpful.

If the book’s average ranking is:

2,000,000-plus, then perhaps a single inventory/consignment copy has been ordered.

1,000,000-plus, the current trends indicate total sales will most likely be under 40.

100,00-plus, then current trends indicate total sales will most likely be under 200.

10,000-plus, you can estimate between 1 – 10 copies are being sold per week.

1,000-plus, you can estimate between 10 – 100 copies are being sold per week.

100-plus, you can estimate between 100 – 200 copies are being sold per week.

10-plus, you can estimate between 200 – 1000 copies are being sold per week.

In the top 10, you can estimate over 1,000 copies are per week

The Amazon Rainforest is home to numerous species that make up twenty percent of those found on the planet. Covering an area of ​​two and a half million square miles, representing two-thirds of South America, the Amazon Rainforest expands into nine countries: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, Suriname, Ecuador, French Guiana and Guiana.

The Amazon Rainforest, considered to be the world's largest natural resource, constitutes over fifty percent of the earth's total rainforest.

Known as the earth's lungs it produces over twenty percent of the Earth's oxygen; more than any other single source. As such, it is a vital source of the air that we breathe.

Its 'canopies are home to the iconic toucan with its' thick, short neck and its large colorful beak in combinations of red, black, blue, white and red. Additionally, the Amazon Rainforest hosts over one third of the total bird species found on Earth. Many of which are in danger of extinction due to mans encroachment on and deforestation of the rainforest.

In addition to its abundant avian population, the Amazon Rainforest is also home to the capybara. At two feet tall and weighing in at over one hundred pounds, the capybara it is the planet's largest rodent. An endangered species, it is an excellent swimmer, spending most of its' days, and nights, in and under the water. The capybara exists primarily on a diet of aquatic vegetation, melons, squash and grass.

The Amazon Rainforests largest mammal is not a land animal, as you might suspect, but lives in the Amazon River and its' tributaries, the Amazonian manatee. Also known as sea cows (a reputation earned from its herbivorous habits and spending most of its days grazing). Some have even supposed they saw mermaids when encountering the Amazonian manatee.

Considered the most beautiful of all the Amazon Rainforest's creatures is the mythical Amazon pink river dolphin. Suffering from the effects of development of the Amazon Rainforest, the Amazon pink river dolphin is a severely endangered species due to the pollution of its' habitat from agriculture, mining and industry. Local fishermen do not see the dolphin for its beauty due to its habit of tearing holes in their nets to steal their catch.

A beautiful, but deadly, Amazon Rainforest resident is the jaguar. An excellent hunter, and natural athlete, the jaguar grows to up six feet long and can weigh as much as two hundred pounds. Naturally adept on land or water, the jaguar can climb trees or run in search of its prey, or swim after aquatic prey such as the pirarucu or turtles.

A less attractive, but just as dangerous, Amazon Rainforest resident is its largest predator, the black caiman. With no natural enemies, other than man, it can grow to as large as twenty feet in length and weigh in at over three thousand pounds. It has been known to eat the likes of giant river otters, capybara and even humans.

Of course the Amazon Rainforest, with its diverse animal population, is home not only to large predators, but also the nearly microscopic. One of the most deadly of which is the poison arrow frog. Harmless if left alone it possesses the most powerful toxin known to man. Its toxin can kill as many as one hundred people. The Amazon Indians have long harvested the frog for its poison, which they use on the tips of their arrows when hunting.

The Amazon is a healthy environment for the fabled anaconda, which grows its entire life. The largest ever caught was approximately twenty eight feet long with a girth of forty four inches and estimated to weigh nearly five hundred pounds.

The most infamous of all the Amazon Rainforest's wildlife is undoubtedly the piranha. The most feared and best known of all the rainforest's creatures is the red bellied piranha. Feeding in large schools they can converge upon, and devour with their razor sharp teeth, such prey as caimans, anacondas and jaguars. However, contrary to popular myths attacks on humans are extremely rare.

If you’re a self-published author, chances are you’ll be offering your books for sale on Amazon.com. Whether or not you currently have an account, there are a few things you should know about navigating Amazon’s Kindle platform most effectively as a published author, particularly if you choose to use one or more pen names.

However, before we dive into the meat of the matter, let’s go over why and when you would want to use a pen name, how using one affects your publishing accounts, how to approach social media and other important considerations for using a pen name.

Why and when to use a pen name?

A “pen name” or pseudonym, is an assumed name that many writers choose to use instead of their real name. But why would anyone, especially you, want to do that?

There are a gamut of reasons that many authors give for why they use a pen name at some point in their career. However, some of the most common are:

• To safeguard their real identity.
• To not be restricted by using their real name.
• To distinguish between the different kinds of books they write.

These are all excellent reasons to decide on a pen name and then use it to set up your author account.

How does using a pen name affect your publishing accounts?

Once you make the decision to use a pen name instead of your actual name, there are a few restrictions you’ll have to deal with as a publisher on Amazon’s platform.

• You can’t use your pen name to create verified reviews.
• You can’t comment or use the discussion boards with the pen name.
• You are restricted to using a single name in Amazon discussion groups.

This is because Amazon has strict rules that only allow accounts with verified payment methods to complete certain actions. This leaves you very limited in certain respects if you use one or more pen names.

How should you deal with social media when using a pen name?

It is one thing to use your pen name to set up an author account and on the cover of your book, but how do you use it for other areas of book publishing and promotion, such as with social media?

• Facebook – You can only set up one main Facebook page using your real name. However, you can set up single pages to promote your books using each one of your pen names.

• Twitter – It’s easy to set up several Twitter accounts for each of your pen names so you can keep your book promotions separate.

• Goodreads – This platform only allows one main profile for each author, so if you want to promote using different pen names, you’ll have to set up several individual accounts using different emails.

How to Set Up Your Author Page with a Pen Name

Here are the steps you should take to set up your Amazon Author Page with a pen name.

In order to set up your Author Page you must already have a main Amazon account and at least one book already listed and available for purchase on Amazon.com.

If you don’t already have a main Amazon account, select the sign-in option that says “No, I am a new customer” and follow the instructions to set up a new account.

If you don’t already have a book listed on Amazon, use the Kindle Direct Publishing page to upload your first book.

Once you have your Amazon account created and your book uploaded, use the following steps to set up your account with your pen name.

1. Copy and paste the following link into your browser: https://authorcentral.amazon.com/
2. Click “Join Now”.
3. Input your Amazon sign-in email address and password and press enter.
4. Read through the Terms and Conditions in Author Central and click “Agree” to accept them and move forward.
5. Once your Author Page opens up, navigate to the “Books” tab and click the “Add More Books” button.
6. Do a search for the name of the book you wrote using your pen name and add the selection. If you cannot find the book by Title, try searching for it by ISBN number.
7. A pop-up box will appear stating that “You are not listed as the author… ” An option at the bottom of the pop-up box will state “If you write under a different name, let us know”. Click that link.
8. An email confirmation will be sent to your associated Amazon account. Find the email and click the confirmation link to verify that you are the author of the book and it is your pen name.
9. Once your identity is verified, that pen name will now be associated with your Author Central account.
10. Repeat steps six to nine for up to three (3) pen names on a single account.

Switching Between Pen Names in Your Amazon Author Account

If you have more than one pen name associated with your Amazon Author account, here is how to switch between each one.

1. Navigate to your Author account page and click the drop down menu beside your name at the top of the page.
2. Select the pen name you want to use from the list.

It’s a simple as that! You are free to switch back and forth at any time depending on how and when you want to use a particular pen name.

What do you do if you have more than three (3) pen names?

If you’ll be writing up a storm and need more than 3 pen names, there is a simple way around the 3 name limitation on your Amazon author account.

You’ll have to open a second Amazon Author account with a different email address and follow the steps outlined above to add up to three additional pen names that will be associated with that account.

If necessary, you can repeat this process as many times as you’d like to set up more pen names.

Keep in mind that even though you may set up several Author Accounts and associated pen names, you can have only one Kindle Direct Publishing account per person no matter how many pen names you choose to have.

Note: Always remember to log out of your secondary, tertiary, etc. Author accounts and back into your primary account before logging into your Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing account to be able to see all of your listed books.

Important Considerations When Using Pen Names on Amazon

If you plan to write and self-publish books on an international scale (that is outside of the main Amazon.com store) you’ll have to set up accounts on each international Amazon site that you want your books to be available on.

While it sounds intimidating, the process is actually quite simple.

1. Go to your browser and enter the URL associated with the Amazon Author central for the country you are targeting. So for example, http://authorcentral.amazon.co.uk (United Kingdom)
2. When the page opens, create your author profile and add your books using the same steps you would on the main Amazon.com site.

Depending on the types of books you plan to write, using pen names may be an important part of your book creation and branding strategy. Use these simple steps to set up your Amazon Author Pages and pen names and you’ll have all of the flexibility and anonymity you need to self-publish with confidence.

Choosing the best Amazon SEO company can be somewhat difficult to decide. Since Amazon is very strict in framing its policies, SEO campaigns are not that so easy. You’ll have to consider many factors so as to arrive at a decision that will be beneficial for your business.

Are you looking for an Amazon SEO company to improve your product ranking? It would be better if you take some time to do a little bit of homework before hiring the best one for your business.

What is your budget?

Do some research and find what internet marketing companies are typically charging? Consider your product and determine a suitable budget. You’ll need to be prepared to adjust your budget depending on your product marketing and related business goals.

Reputation of an Amazon SEO Company

Read the customer reviews an Amazon SEO Company may have on their website. If they’ve generated success for a product on Amazon, most probably they have the resources to do it again.

Do they guarantee #1 ranking of your product?

If they do, you have a reason to doubt their integrity. As the Amazon SEO selection tips say, no one can guarantee #1 ranking on Amazon. There might be some fraudulent SEO companies but if you know what to look for when choosing an Amazon SEO company, the risk of getting deals with fraudsters is reduced.

Get Advice from friends

Word of mouth is very important for the credibility of any company. You can find somebody who can recommend you the best one for your business. Furthermore, if the company is a known fraudster, you will find a lot of information about them on the internet.

Ask for their past work done on Amazon

Always feel free to ask the SEO professional about the Amazon products they have optimized and seek the references from their clients. Check their credentials and ask them how much time they took to achieve success. If they don’t rank well for the past work done on Amazon, obviously, they are not experts in their field.

High cost does not guarantee high quality work

If you want to pay more, this does not mean that you will get more. There can be a reason that the SEO Company might work incompetently, thus they have incredibly high costs, and are not concerned with the quality of work.

The above mentioned are some of the most important factors that you can consider while choosing an Amazon SEO Company.

If you’ve bought a book from Amazon, you’ve probably had the author ask you to post a review of the book. While you might not think much about the request, the author is focused on getting good reviews.

There are a variety of reasons that book reviews are important on Amazon, but here are the eight most important ones from an author’s perspective.

1. A book review helps other readers determine whether or not the book is for them. Nothing is worse that someone who already knows a lot about a topic buying a book, then discovering it’s for beginners. Or vice versa.

While authors generally try to explain who the book is for, a good review can reinforce that point more effectively.

2. A well-written review points out the things to look for in the book. Since you often highlight your favorite portions of the book in your review, it makes it easy for other readers to look forward to that section. It also helps highlight the content that is most relevant to readers – and that provides valuable feedback to the author for their next book.

3. One review encourages the next one. Not everyone wants to be the first in line, so you are doing a great service by being the first person to write a book review. Once you’ve gotten the ball rolling, one review leads to another, with readers often piggy-backing comments, responding to others’ comments.

Also note that you don’t have to write a review in order to comment on a review. You can join the conversation about a book at any time.

4. The more positive reviews a book receives, the better it ranks. The better it ranks, the more people see it. The more they see it, the more likely they are to buy it. So by posting a positive book review you are helping the book move up the ranks for more exposure.

And a note about the star ranking – anything below 4 stars is considered “not recommended”, so it helps to be generous with your stars.

5. The simple act of “liking” a review helps boost that review up the list of reviews. As a result, the book reviews appear in the order of the most helpful first. Therefore, whether or not you write a review, take time to read and rate the reviews already posted.

6. Once a book has 10 reviews, it’s eligible to be included in the “also bought” listing, as well as the “you might like” recommendations. These listings, in turn, add to the number of sales the book is likely to receive.

7. After an unspecified number of positive reviews, a book can be included in the “Recommended For You” emails sent to individual Amazon readers. As with every other step of the review process, this adds significantly to the number of sales a book may receive.

8. Many book review sites will not consider a book for review unless they have a number of reviews on the Amazon book page.

With these eight items in mind, you’ll understand why book reviews are important and why an Amazon author is asking you to write a review on the books you buy.

Nowadays, you can purchase things with the help of just few mouse clicks. Online shopping has made things really easier for us. Behind the delighting experience of shopping, there are numbers of ecommerce websites. In simple words, where you get thousands of products under a single roof and can also purchase them is known as eCommerce websites.

These modern business tactics have helped exploring various impressive aspects of internet marketing. But while developing such a website, you need really attentive to the consumer's requirements. The Amazon web store is such an all-in-one eCommerce platform that not only takes care of the customer needs also, maintains the overall flexibility of the process. It helps you build and operate a profitable online store. It has a trusted name in the field of developing eCommerce websites.

Let's have a glance at some of the salient features of Amazon web store

• Technical infrastructure is really strong
• It contains technically designed templates that are customizable
• The search engine optimized websites offers easy navigation irrespective of which search engine you use.
• Customer confidentiality is maintained with the help of SSL certification.

All the above facilities can be easily available if the Amazon web store design is applied properly. Here are some steps which will let you design an Amazon web store in a credible and innovative way that certainly attracts massive traffic.

1. In the first step the shop owners have to decide whether they want to sell their products from Amazon Marketplace only. The Amazon store design platform allows both these process. Sellers who chose to stay with both these channel enjoy a comparatively lower transaction fee. But adding products can be a bit difficult for those choosing to stay with both the channels. Upon to decide, sellers needs to click the "Get started" button.
2. In the next step, sellers need to register with Amazon and create a new account. For this reason a valid email address is required. After that, the web store will ask for the name of the seller and a password. Once the password is created, the web store will ask for more information. For the purpose of verification, Amazon will call the seller on the given number. After accepting the terms and conditions, users need to click on the "Complete Registration" button.
3. Through Amazon seller central, users can manage their new web store. Before posting the products, seller needs to choose the store logo, product images, descriptions, UPC codes etc.
4. For each product added to the Amazon Web store, sellers need to have an UPC though they can start with only the product name. They can even provide the ASIN (Amazon Standard Identification Number). After that sellers will need to product descriptions like condition (it has to be new), price, quantity etc.
5. On the next step, sellers need to provide the category of the product in order to organize the search process. Sellers can also create new categories by clicking the golden colored "New" button.
6. To help the users achieve a fast and easy functioning of their store, Amazon Web store provides a number of themes and basic layouts. Though the options are limited, users can customize their theme.
7. Due to a long and tricky URL, sellers choose to use their own domain. In a seller central there is a link under the "Get Started" button where sellers can customize their own store's URL. Your domain registration will be required for this.
8. Finally, it's time to publish your store and sell products. Whatever options you choose, first step depends on that, your products will be displayed on your own store or both your store and Amazon marketplace.

There’s more than one way you can make money selling on Amazon. I’m going to tell you about the main ones in this article.

First of all, Amazon Marketplace. Marketplace offers you an opportunity to sell products (not just books but a whole range of things) on the exact same page on Amazon’s website where Amazon sell the product themselves. So you get to compete with them head-on, and even get to compete with them on price. Selling prices are fixed – Marketplace isn’t an auction. You can list an unlimited number of items for free but what they call a referral fee is charged on each sale. Marketplace is for both new and used products.

Marketplace is suitable whether you just want to make some spare cash part time, but also if you want to start a ‘proper’ small business.

The other main way to make money is Amazon Associates. Associates is basically an affiliate programme.

How To Sell on Amazon Marketplace

It’s very easy to get started with Amazon Marketplace. You don’t need to register in advance. You can open a seller account when you list your first product.

If you already have a buyer account on Amazon you can add your seller account to that.

To register as a seller you will need a business name, an address, a display name, a credit card and a telephone contact number. That’s all you need to get started.

Go to the Amazon site, scroll down the page to ‘Make Money With Us’ and then ‘Sell On Amazon’. You will then see two options:

Sell a little or sell a lot? Amazon offers two entry points into Marketplace which they informally tag as ‘selling a little’ or ‘selling a lot’.

Basically ‘a little’ is for occasional and hobby sellers who expect to sell less than 35 items a month. It costs 86p plus a referral fee for each sale. You are also restricted to the product categories you can sell in. However, the advantage is that it costs virtually nothing to start and there are no ongoing charges if, initially, you don’t sell very much.

Selling ‘a lot’ is for professional sellers who expect to sell more than 35 items a month. You pay a 28.75 monthly fixed fee and a referral fee. You can sell in all the Amazon product categories.

It isn’t always viable to list low price, low volume products as a ‘sell a little’ seller. To do that you need to be a ‘sell a lot’ seller! However, I’d recommend you take the ‘selling a little’ route to start out with. You can always upgrade later.

Choose your option, then fill in the online form.

Pro Merchant Sellers

Once you are selling ‘a lot’ you will probably also want to become what Amazon call a Pro Merchant Seller. Pro Merchants have access to volume selling and bulk listing tools. There is a web interface that allows you to more easily manage your product descriptions, inventory and orders. You will also be able to export and import information to and from your account.

Once you get up and running the selling a lot/Pro Merchant option will work out much cheaper and, importantly, will allow you to work on tighter margins and make money from sales that those who sell just a little can’t.

Amazon Marketplace Selling – how to sell your products

Now let’s take a look at exactly how you put products up for sale on Amazon Marketplace.

The idea of Marketplace is that you sell your product on exactly the same page on which Amazon and any other Marketplace sellers sell it.

So, first, find the equivalent new product in the Amazon catalogue. Use the ‘Search’ tool at the top of the Amazon home page. Put in the product type and name and Amazon will automatically take you to the correct page to list it.

Next, check carefully that the product type, brand and model number or whatever Amazon has found for you is the correct one.

Once you reach that page you’ll find a button called ‘Sell Yours Here’. Click on it, sign into your seller account, and you can now list your product immediately.

Now this is the really clever thing about Amazon.

Assuming the product already exists in the Amazon catalogue a listing is ready made for you to use. You don’t have to write a description or upload a photo. All you need to do is state what condition your product is in (i.e. new or one of several standard used descriptions), state the quantity you have for sale and fill in the price you require. Also decide what postage options you want to offer. (At this stage you can also decide whether you are willing to send the product abroad or not.)

If you wish, you can add a further description up to 2,000 characters (not words). This will help you differentiate your product or offering from Amazon and from other sellers.

Then, Amazon will give you a summary of your listing to check and also confirm what their fees will be if the item sells. If you’re happy with this just click ‘Submit Your Listing’ and you’re off. Once you’ve done this your item is automatically listed until it sells or for 60 days (indefinitely if you’re a Pro Merchant).

What’s an ASIN? ASIN stands for Amazon Standard Identification Number. Almost every product on their site has its own ASIN – a unique code they use to identify it. If you know the ASIN you can list it directly using that. (For books, the ASIN is the same as the ISBN number on the jacket.)

When you’re looking for an affiliate, somewhere to post your Amazon Links and AdSense, the advice you’ll get from any given sector might be different, but… We’ve found 7 specific hot topics that rock our world financially. And you can build your business from anywhere. You just need a computer, a website, and a way to send email, do social media, and write. Yeah… Writing is a key component of most any affiliate market, but you can do this.

1 – Camping and Survival Gear

No matter who is sitting in the oval office, campers, hunters, and survivalists are always looking for great ways to survive the coming apocalypse. Yeah, it will arrive eventually, whether it’s by way of natural disaster or some man-made BOOM. The truth is, we all need to know how to survive without technology.

Even if it’s nothing more than a book to read when the computer’s down.

2 – Golf Gear and Sports Equipment

You’d think since every man in the white house is addicted to his par count, golf gear would have outsold its lifespan. Nope. It’s still one of the hottest topics on the internet. And that site about golf shoes? Yeah, it is my highest hitter. Specialize in a given topic and you’ll have this one at the bank!

3 – House Flipping and Remodel Tips or Equipment

You might go to Lowes, or Home Depot for supplies, but that equipment purchase online from Amazon.com with directions from a great website? You bet your Uncle John’s hammer they’ll take your advice over the fix it biscuit they find at the local hardware store, especially if you include pictures and details about why you’d recommend the Black & Decker over Stanley.

4 – Mommy Tips and Child Care

Toys. Kids clothing. Furniture. Accessories. Child Care ideas. Helpful tips for raising children, and anything ‘mommy’ related will kick off a big stir online, and there are so many relevant forums to market your site from. IDEAS are everywhere. You don’t have to write about everything that happens in your house, there are plenty of inspiring stories to share.

5 – How to ANYTHING

If you know how to… write about it. Find affiliate products and links. Share them on your site. And talk about it to your friends.

6 – Dogs and Pets

It’s worth it to pay for dog grooming articles, to post on my Pet Affiliate Site, because people spend thousands of dollars each year on their pets.

7 – Books & Videos

Of course… Whatever suits your fancy, find a topic and build a site where you can share your link.