Amazon FBA Made Easy Simple Introduction to Amazon FBA

This course is designed to give you an introduction to the Amazon FBA process and to help you assess whether this might be for you. I stress that it is an introductory course and if you find it helpful you might like to consider taking our comprehensive Amazon FBA course, authored by myself and Sergey Kasimov.

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Getting started on Amazon means setting up a seller account. This lecture explains what you need to do to achieve this and warns about the pitfall of setting up an account too soon.

You need to tell Amazon how they are going to be able to pay you and this lecture explains the options you have available to you.

In order to start to understand the Amazon FBA system, you need to get to grips with Amazon's category system and understand the hierarchy. This is the key to knowing where to start looking for potential products to sell and more importantly recognising which product categories to avoid.

Now that you understand Amazon's categories you can use their best seller lists to start to find products that you might like to consider selling. These are arranged by category and sub category, In this lecture, I provide the link which shows you where you can find these lists and how to make the most of them.

Before you rush to decide what to sell, I share some advice here on the key characteristics of the ideal product that you should consider selling on Amazon. These criteria will help you to screen down a long list of ideas into a list which is more manageable.

Here you will discover some easy tips to make your supplier search much more effective in Google. I also recommend that if you are starting off, you consider searching only for US suppliers.

Alibaba is a Chinese online market place where you can search for and source suppliers of your potential product that you wish to sell on Amazon FBA. I explain how to screen only the best suppliers and how to ensure that you search only for US suppliers if that is what you have decided to do.

In this lecture, discover the process you need to follow when contacting suppliers to ensure that your sourcing exercise is productive. We also recommend one key step you must take to make sure that the quality of your product is everything you want it to be.

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In this lecture find out about the logistic requirements for getting your course from your supplier to Amazon and in particular, the addiitional complications of importing your products to the US from overseas.

When you list your product in the market place, you need to make sure that you really do the best job possible in order to get potential customers to convert and buy your product. Here you will discover the four key parts of an Amazon FBA listing and how to optimise for best results.

Selling your first product is only the beginning of your Amazon FBA experience. Here you will discover what you can do to grow your business beyond the first product and the key strategy to achieve this.

Ratings and Reviews are the life blood of your Amazon FBA business. Here we help you to understand why and how to go about getting them from your customers. You can also use these to gain market intelligence from your competitors. Find out how in this lecture.

Getting amazing pictures for your Amazon FBA product can substantially increase your sales learn how to do this cheaply without compromising quality in this video

Growing your Amazon FBA business will require some effort on your part and in this lecture you will discover some of the marketing techniques that you can adopt in order to ensure your page receives as much traffic as you can generate. More traffic, more sales.

Inventory management is a key aspect of Amazon FBA which is often overlooked. You must manage your inventory daily and never run out of stock. Equally, if something is not selling, it costs you money to have it stored by Amazon, so find out here what you should do about it.

Here we show you how to go into Alibaba and identify potential products to source to sell on Amazon and how to avoid some of the pitfalls that you might encounter. We also show you Aliexpress as an alternative source of products.

This video shows you how Sergey screens potential products and demonstrates the pros and cons of different products and he explains why he likes some and dislikes others.

So now you have a good understanding of what you need to do if you are going to set up your own Amazon FBA business? What do you think? Are you ready? You can discover much more about how to set up an Amazon FBA business in the comprehensive course which has been co-authored by Segey Kasimov and myself.

Here you will discover the Slidedeck for the course which you can download and use as notes.