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E Commerce Amazon FBA



Lish Aquino is a successful Amazon seller and shares that she works 4 hours per day at the comfort of her own home and earning 6 digit income monthly. Before that, she got threatened with job security with a baby coming. So she decided to find a way to start another stream of income and she discovered work at home. She found job as a freelancer before getting into Amazon. She had a client who was into e commerce and asked her to study about Amazon FBA, a course which cost a shocking $5,000!

  • do not get seasonal products at first 
  • do not compete with big brand at the beginning
  • she didn't give until she found a winning product
  • e commerce is 80% battle of the brain, 20% technical
  • success in e-commerce requires sacrifice of about 4-6 hours a day
  • sacrifice of salary for about 2 years to improve on the business
  • Amazon FBA is a passive business
  • Flow is
    • product sourcing
      • by sea, arrives to warehouse in 40 days and cheaper
      • by air, arrives to warehouse in 7-10 days and more pricey
      • product manufacturing takes about 30- days (you add the shipping time); that's how long before the products become available (approx 3 months)
    • product listing
      • upload product
      • needs UPC--barcodes talk
    • shipping label
    • promotion
      • Amazon has own ads
      • No email list needed
    • after sales
      • Amazon takes care of after sales and customer service
    • inventory management
      • makes order good for 3 months
      • on number of items = monthly sales x 3
  • the GOOD with Amazon FBA
    • own product, your own label
    • for long term
    • you can do it on your own
  • Follow One Course Until Successful (FOCUS)
  • There categories in Amazon which are restricted
    • beauty products
    • nutritionals
  • for a certain product, get 3 suppliers to send your supplies. Costs between $30-$50 per sample
  • on product mark-up, there is a calculator
  • use Payoneer to pay suppliers with Payoneer
  • Product sourcing criteria
    • $15-40 price to have adequate markup (Amazon fee is $5 per item)
    • it should be lightweight, 1 lbs and below to save on shipping and storage
    • best seller rank; 5000 and below
    • look for categories, those not gated (Google search: gated Amazon categories)
  • Patent search to avoid selling patented item
  • Tips on PPC
    • highest volume
    • double bid or increase bu 50%
    • keyword tool/ Helium tracker
  • Requires time, patience, higher capital

Important information regarding Amazon FBA
  • You will need a Professional Seller account. It is $40.00 bucks a month regardless of items sold
  • Custom fees and charges come when shipping products that have a combined value of $2500.
  • You will begin with 5000 unit limit
  • Have your supplier limit any additional instructions or papers on outside of the boxes your product is shipped in
  • have my first package from a new supplier shipped to my house first to see if they followed my instructions
  • picture quality correlates with sales
Richie Salvador shares
  • got own fulfillment service in the US; fulfillment by merchant
  • if products does not sell, you have to pay storage fee and removal fee
  • if you go out of stock, your Amazon listing rank goes down
  • he started on dropshipping then progressed to Amazon FBA when he got a winning product for private labe
  • he advocates local e commerce; international hit products can still make it big locally


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