I don’t need to tell you that Amazon is a powerhouse.
It is the most popular shopping app, the biggest online retailer, and Amazon Prime Day is almost approaching holiday status.
I’m going to show you a few ways here to make a great side-hustle on Amazon (one of them is redonkulously easy).
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Ok, so you want to use the power of Amazon to make money?
Seems like a no brainer since they have such great brand recognition and people trust them.
Let’s get to it!
The first way to really do it is to sell products there.
That means you buy a bunch of something and send it to Amazon’s fulfillment center.
The reason you send it there is so that Amazon does all the shipping and deals with that whole aspect.
They are going to charge you a fee for that service obviously, but it beats selling it out of your house where you may not even have the space, plus you gotta go ship that stuff every day.
A couple hours at the post office or UPS store will change your mind about that real quick.
The idea here is not to create something that takes over your life and all your time running your side business.
Now, finding a product and deciding how to market it is something you need to spend some time thinking about.
You can order products and create your own label rights to the product.
This means you buy or create a product and slap your own label on it.
Like if you had some shoes made up, you could call them Sklikes instead of Nikes.
I haven’t copyrighted that name yet, so you’re welcome.
This can potentially land you great profits and if your product sells well, then you can just keep ordering the same product.
Also, you could be literally the only one selling the item and you should at least differentiate it in some way from similar other products hopefully fixing their inherent problems.
These products could come from China or wherever you can get them made cheaply, but make sure the quality is decent.
They will send you samples so you can see the finished product before buying a thousand of them.
If you have a great product, then your brand/company can become valuable and be sold for millions maybe.
If you use that idea and it works, take me out for a steak.
The other ways to get product are to buy something that looks underpriced and resell it for more, or buy wholesale in bulk.
This has some pros and cons instead of having your own brand and product.
First of all, the brand recognition is already there and you don’t have to worry about reviews or taking the time to build a brand, logo, etc.
It’s faster to get started this way.
The downside is that profit margins may be tighter and you are competing with other people selling the same exact thing.
In many cases the highest seller is making almost no money on the product because you are all engaged in a price war and the consumer will look at the cheapest price on identical items.
The next awesome Amazon idea is to sell used items like books or even ebooks.
Used items have less competition than other areas and potentially higher profit margins for you if you are getting the items free or almost free.
Amazon has limitations here so make sure you understand what is allowed before you get yard sale crazy.
Ebooks are a great way to create something that is your own product and then just sell a digital product over and over again.
Each Ebook sale will most likely pay a small amount so volume is the name of the game here.
Get more people to buy or keep creating ebooks that sell.
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A couple things to consider:
Look at what your competition is doing and find some way to be different.
You can read the reviews on their products and see what their customers like and don’t like so that you can improve on their design, service or whatever they suck at.
Also, your picture and description should like nice.
If it looks like crap or doesn’t catch the eye well, your prospective customers are less likely to buy yours.
There are a lot of great products on Amazon not selling because of what it looks like on there.
So, if you’re sitting there like, “Ok Phil, these all sound like a lot of work and not that easy”
Since you have read this far, I’m going to give you the secret easiest way to make money from Amazon with no effort.
This makes all the other ways looks much more difficult.
You can become what’s called an Amazon associate.
If you go to Amazon.com and scroll down to the bottom, there’s a link that says “Become an Affiliate”.
This means that if you send someone to Amazon.com and they buy anything on the site, you will get a percentage of that sale.
Click that link and fill out a couple forms.
In five minutes you will be an affiliate and can start sending people there.
Once you get done, go search for something when you’re logged in as an affiliate and it will give you a link.
Copy and paste that link in an email, blog post, or on your facebook account and give a recommendation.
Anyone that buys will pay the same price as if they just went to the site normally, except now you get a commission!
Example:
Here’s a link for a book that changed my life:
Dr. Demartini is the very best in the world at understanding human behavior and this book contains simple but powerful hacks that help people “breakthrough” their own self-imposed barriers and actually start to experience success and happiness like never before.
It actually forces your brain to create new neural pathways so you stop procrastinating, living and thinking in unhealthy ways and actually get the results in wealth, relationships, and health and fitness that have eluded you.
I highly recommend this book to everyone as I am absolutely certain, it would change the world if enough people read it and do the work inside.
If you click the link above and buy the book, you will pay the same price as normal, but Amazon gives me a percentage of the sale for sending you there.
Even better, if you click the link and buy something else while you are there, I also get a percentage of that sale as well.
The percentage is small, but when you consider the amount of people that come here, it adds up to a substantial amount of money pretty quick.
I’m actually in the process of helping my daughter get some links for her Instagram audience.
If you don’t have an audience, then you need to sit down and figure out how you are going to get one.
This involves having something to talk about and then getting your message in front of enough people so that they start to listen and follow you.
If you need help with that, there is training in my #1 Recommendation for that as well.
Thank you for reading.
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Phillip Adams