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If you want to make money on Amazon in 2022, you aren't alone.
Amazon has become the one-stop-shop for peoples' shopping needs, which means that the opportunity to successfully sell on Amazon has never been greater.
According to the National Retail Federation, Amazon has become one of the world’s largest retailers and is now competing with some of the biggest shopping malls, like Walmart.
I'm going to share with you four proven models for how to make money on Amazon. Are you ready to learn which models are most worth pursuing?
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Amazon is one of the biggest companies in the world.
By selling products on Amazon, you are taking advantage of their powerful web traffic. They literally have hundreds of millions of customers on their website and continue to grow exponentially. Even better, they are now carving out a name for themselves in the international marketplace.
I believe that selling on Amazon is one of the best ways to get started making money online. It provides a platform upon which you can branch-off and build your own online brand. Here are four ways that you can make money on Amazon in 2021.
1. Amazon FBA
Amazon FBA stands for fulfillment by Amazon, meaning that you are selling physical products on Amazon. If you go to Amazon.com, most of the products are physical. You too can sell any product that you want on Amazon. However, there are certain products that will do better than others.
When it comes to selling physical products, the method for success is to do what is called “private labeling.” This means that you find a product in a certain niche that has high demand and that you are want to build your business around. This could be yoga, outdoor, kitchenware, self-development, etc.
You want to do research on Amazon in order to identify what is selling well. In order to do this, I encourage you to look at the Amazon Best Seller Ranking. From there, you need to find a supplier or manufacturer, via a website like Alibaba.com, that is already making a product that you want to sell. You then put your own logo or packaging on that product and sell it on Amazon under your brand name.
Once your product is ready to sell, you ship it to one of Amazon's fulfillment centers. These centers store products for Amazon sellers. They are responsible for handling all of the shipping and logistics for you. All you have to do is set up your Amazon listing and market your product. Amazon FBA takes care of the rest. This is the most common and popular way of making money on Amazon.
The biggest pro of this business model is its scalability of it. I know people that are making 6 figures, per year, selling on Amazon. When you first start selling on Amazon the first thing that you need to do is decide which marketplace you want to sell your products in. Amazon.com is the biggest marketplace, followed by Amazon.co.uk, Amazon Germany, Canada, Australia, etc. When it comes to selling on Amazon, you can sell anywhere.
It doesn't matter where you live. Let's say that you want to sell in the U.S. It will require that you ship your inventory from your manufacturer to Amazon's warehouse in the U.S. However, when your product and inventory are in the U.S., you can't sell them globally.
That's why it's important to choose one marketplace, create success there and then expand internationally. You can start your Amazon business in Canada or the UK. Those will be smaller markets with less potential, but that also means less competition, which can bring greater opportunities as well.
The biggest con of selling on Amazon is that it costs money to invest in inventory. With any business, there will be a startup cost. If you can't afford to start a business, I don't know if entrepreneurship is the right path for you. It's important to remember that a business won't provide you with long-term income right away. It takes about 3 months to launch a physical product on Amazon.
Amazon is a more complex business model, which is why I recommend that you get a great course that can guide you, step-by-step, on how to successfully sell on Amazon. However, once you get a product live and do the work to market it, you can experience amazing success. You can launch multiple products, go more international, or go off of Amazon and build your own e-commerce store through Shopify or Woocommerce.
If you want to learn more about Amazon FBA, I encourage you to subscribe to my YouTube channel where I have a lot of videos that dive deeper into this business model.
2. Book Publishing
What a lot of people don't realize is that Amazon started off as an online bookstore. Amazon has wiped out a lot of the local retail bookstores because people are now buying books on Amazon. Publishing books is a great way to make money on Amazon.
There are 3 different ways you can do this – Kindle publishing, paperback, or audiobooks. The reason why publishing is a great opportunity is that there are many niches that you can publish and sell books in. I'm a big fan of non-fiction books because they solve specific problems for people. On the backend, the opportunity to make money is greater with nonfiction versus fiction books.
Publishing books on Amazon is an easy and inexpensive way to make money. The only investment that you need to make is the creation of a book cover, which you can get for as low as $5-10. I recommend hiring someone via Fiverr.com.
Secondly, it's important to realize that you don't have to be a writer in order to publish books on Amazon. If you want to write your own book, go ahead! However, you can also hire a ghostwriter to do the heavy lifting for you. You need to realize that the way you make money on Amazon is as a publisher, not as a writer. You pay someone upfront to write your book, but you own the rights to the content and receive the profits that you make from the sales.
I recommend that your first book be a short read. When you are first starting out, the goal isn't to make money. Rather, it's an opportunity for you to test out the market and make sure that there is a demand for your book. Once you have this knowledge, you can go back and improve it. This is a smart way of mitigating risk. Once you publish your book, within 24 hours, your book is live on Amazon.
One con of this model is that the potential to make money isn't as great as it is to sell physical products on Amazon. For example, I know Amazon sellers that are making $1-10 million per year, whereas successful Kindle publishers are mostly making $10-50,000 per year. It can also be more challenging to differentiate yourself with books, which is why you need to market and promote them more.
One great benefit of the Kindle publishing model is that it provides you with an opportunity to be a loss leader. This is a product or service that is sold or offered in order to attract new customers or to sell additional products. You can use a book to presell or upsell a product.
Let's say that you have a video training program that you want to promote that aligns with the content of your book. At the end of your eBook, you could have a call to action that promotes your course, which in turn, will allow you to create more leads to your products or services.
If you publish a Kindle book, you can sell it for anywhere from .99 cents to $10. If it's a paperback book, you can sell it for $20-30. However, the real money is made on the backend. You could also use your eBook to funnel people into an email list. Once they are on your email list, you can then promote other peoples' products as an affiliate.
3. Affiliate Marketing
Amazon has its own affiliate program called “Amazon Associates” that you can join for free. This gives you the ability to promote or sell any product on Amazon and earn a commission from doing so. Once you are set up, you can do a search inside of Amazon Associates for any product that you want to promote.
One of the benefits of this model is that people aren't skeptical about buying from Amazon because they have created trust with people. Thus, the conversion rate of the products is really high.
Secondly, when someone clicks on your affiliate link, you make a commission from any additional products that they add to their shopping cart. However, the downside to this is that this opportunity only exists within a 24-hour window of time.
Another con of this model is that you don't get much of a commission from being an Amazon Associates affiliate. You only make about 3-5% in commissions. The only way to make good money from this business model is if you do affiliate marketing for high-ticket products, meaning those that sell for $1,000 or more. That is when it can really add up. I know a few people that are making 6 figures from doing this, but it's rare.
4. Retail Arbitrage
Retail arbitrage is all about re-selling products on Amazon. For example, let's say that you go to Walmart and you see a yoga mat that's on sale for $20. You can scan that same yoga mat onto your Amazon app and find out how much that it is selling for on Amazon. If it's only selling for $40 on Amazon, you can buy it, keep it in the packaging, ship it to Amazon's fulfillment centers, and re-sell it on Amazon underneath that product's listing. If people buy it at that price point ($40), you just made a $20 profit, minus the shipping costs.
You can do OK with this model, but you won't make a significant amount of money. This one involves trading your time for money, whereas the other models are more passive and scalable.
The Best Ways To Make Money On Amazon in 2022
Of the four models, the ones that I see having the greatest potential to make money from would be selling physical products on Amazon FBA and/or publishing books on Amazon.
To really succeed at these models, it will require more than just putting up a product on Amazon or publishing a book. Just because your product is on Amazon, it doesn't mean that it has any credibility yet. Amazon is a search engine. If your product is brand new and you don't have any reviews or sales to back it up, your product won't show up when people search for it.
It's your job to promote your product. For example, you could promote your Amazon listing by leveraging Facebook. You could create a group that will help you build a community around the niche that your product is in. Similarly, you could run Facebook ads that funnel into your product.
On another note, you could find influencers who could promote your product on their YouTube channel or Instagram page. Doing so will allow you to tap into a whole new target audience.
The exact same thing goes for promoting and marketing your book. I believe that blogging and SEO make the most sense because you are selling something that someone is reading. If you can create a blog and write high-quality content, people will be more likely to buy your book because they are already getting value from you. The focus is on creating traffic and attracting people to you.
I would recommend that you think about how you can make both of the models work together. Again, decide on the niche and market. For example, if you are going to sell yoga mats, sell yoga books. Have them cross-promote one another.
More importantly, look at doing affiliate marketing on the backend all around the same niche and market, all through leveraging the power of Amazon. You want to build a Parthenon, not just a one-legged stool. When you have multiple streams of income, your business will be more secure.
Are you ready to make money on Amazon in 2022?
There has never been a better time to build a business, make passive income, and achieve financial freedom. Now that you've got the information about how to do this, you've got to apply what you have learned. Which Amazon business model will you take action with?
Do you want my proven step-by-step system for publishing books on Amazon? CLICK HERE to purchase my new and improved Mastering Book Publishing course!
Do you want to sell on Amazon FBA in 2022? CLICK HERE to get instant access to my FREE Amazon FBA Training!
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