Ever Thought About Selling Your Products on Amazon?

Many people ask me how they can start an online store. There are also many others who contact me about marketing their products online. Well, Amazon has a great solution – for both of these issues!

In fact, they offer multiple ways for vendors to sell through the Amazon website, and they are much faster and easier that creating your own website from scratch (and setting up all of the systems that go along with it).

The great thing about selling on Amazon.com is that you can get your products in front of a lot of people – who are at the site to buy stuff. Unlike eBay, Amazon targets a different group of customers who are not necessarily looking for bargain-basement prices but are rather hoping for a quick and easy purchase.

Now, there are a few options you have:

1. First, you can list products for sale.

This means you add your merchandise to Amazon’s catalog of products and you pay a fee whenever a product sells. There are no fees to list. You also have the option to pay a monthly selling fee if you sell greater than 40 items per month.

2. Second, you can set up your own Amazon web store.

Some benefits to this is that you get to use their reliable and secure platform, plus nice selling gadgets are built right in, like merchant accounts, merchandising widgets and search engine optimization features. You essentially receive many benefits of a professional store – without having to de everything yourself.

3. Third, you can place product ads.

This is similar to placing ads in the Google search engine, where advertisers pay only when a visitor clicks on their ad. The major difference is that the ad is located in an online marketplace, where you can assume most people are there to  buy something. Right now, new advertisers can sign up and get $75 worth of free clicks. It’s a great time for small businesses to test out the advertising service if they want to sell their products online.

There is no reason why you couldn’t take advantage of more than one of the above options. This way, you could see which method works best for you. Alternatively, some sellers start using one selection and increase their advertising as their revenue grows.

Get more information at Amazon Seller Central.

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