I have been a successful eBay seller since 1999 and made a full-time living on eBay since 2006.  But that is changing.  About 6 years ago we started selling on Amazon in addition to eBay, but our Amazon business was just a fraction of our eBay sales.  But all that changed in 2010.  In late 2010 we moved our inventory into Amazon’s FBA program.  FBA stands for Fulfillment By Amazon.

Amazon FBA works this way:

1. You box up your merchandise and send it all to Amazon
2. Each item is labeled with a unique bar code that identifies the products as belonging to you
3. When one of your products is purchased, Amazon collects the money, ships the product to the customer and handles all the customer service and returns if any
4. Every two weeks Amazon sends you a check for the amount of your sales minus the Amazon fees

This is a super way for all of us seniors to sell.  No more wrapping and packaging individual items and taking them to the post office.  Amazon does all the work for you.  And –even better, you can also sell the items in Amazon’s warehouse to your eBay customers.  When something sells on eBay, all you do is log into Amazon and tell Amazon to ship it to your eBay customer.  Even better, Amazon gets incredibly low shipping rates from UPS because of their volume.  And they pass those rates on to you.  This makes you more competitive on eBay because you can charge lower shipping rates.

Now what sells on Amazon?

With the exception of books and media items, most goods sold on Amazon are new merchandise.  If you are selling used, vintage, antique or collectible goods – then eBay is still the best place to sell.  But if you sell used books, records, DVDs, etc., or new merchandise, then Amazon is the place to sell.

Since moving into Amazon’s FBA program, our sales on Amazon are now running ten to one over eBay for the same products.  Amazon’s fees for this are higher than on eBay, but we get higher prices on Amazon and our goods sell so much faster that overall we make a lot more money.

If you want to learn how to sell on Amazon’s FBA program, I got together with Jim Cockrum, Chris Green and Suzanne Wells (all Amazon experts) and created the Proven Amazon Course.  This course takes you step by step through setting up your Amazon account, finding wholesale products to sell and shipping your products to Amazon.  So check out the Proven Amazon Course and you will be up and running within one week.

The folks at Wealthy Affiliate University have come out with an excellent and FREE – Internet Wealth Guide.   This is a really great little book.  Yes they want to sell you something –but the book is not a sales piece. Rather its a way to introduce you to the training and their product.

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Here is a little from the introduction to give you a feel for whats in there:

Today I am going to be completely, 100% honest with you. This whole online business thing can be difficult to understand and very frustrating and there have been some crazy changes that have taken place over the last year.
First FTC changed the affiliate laws in the US. Then Google hammered over 1 Million Adwords accounts with a suspension. Then Google updated their search algorithm with their latest “Panda” update and has been updating their search rankings every 4-7 weeks since.

Then we have apps, mobile, smartphones, iPads…

So I can understand the confusion and frustration. Carson and I are here to give you some clarity in the whole situation and give you a “path” in which you can follow to attain traffic and earn money in today’s Internet environment, along with tomorrows!
Cool?

I recently sat down with Carson for an entire day. We typically meet once per week to talk about business, but this day was a little different.

We spent it talking about where we think the Internet is headed. We have 1,000’s of people within Wealthy Affiliate that are our personal responsibility to inform and educate on the latest marketing techniques and strategies that work today.
This discussion got a little off topic. We ended up spending the whole day outlining a plan that would help people who aren’t even members of ours get traffic, SEO pages into Google, back- linking strategies, learn the latest techniques, and ultimately earn money.

They publish this book every year or so. This is the brand new 2011/2012 edition just released this week.

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Learn How To Sell on Amazon

According to Comscore Amazon is now the number one shopping destination on the web with over 20-million visitors a month.  eBay is a distant second with 15-million. If you are not selling on Amazon you are missing a huge market.  But Amazon works differently than eBay and some training is in order. The Proven Amazon Course is your ticket to that training –and the price has just been reduced by $100.

This is a very temporary price cut.

The Proven Amazon Course has easily been our most successful training course to date.  Its called the “proven” course because it really works.  And, it comes with a money back guarantee if you are not satisfied for any reason.

Why is Amazon FBA the Perfect Online Business Opportunity for Seniors?

The trouble with a normal online business whether it be selling on eBay, or from a website or from Amazon is all the hassle of packing and shipping.  Well Amazon FBA fixes that. FBA stands for Fulfillment By Amazon. With FBA you send your merchandise to Amazon.  Amazon sells it for you, collects the money and ships it for you.  Then they send you a check.

I recently attended the annual Amazon sellers conference in Seattle and I have to tell you that about 35% of the sellers who were there were fellow seniors.  One fellow was 72 and in a wheelchair.  He has a $10,000 a month Amazon business using FBA.

Here are some great reasons to learn how to sell on Amazon:

o  Mashable.com recently reported that one in five people were on Amazon.com in the month of June 2011. Amazon is the MOST shopped website ever.

o  You can send virtually ANY item with a barcode on it to Amazon and they’ll list, sell and ship it for you…and send you a check every two weeks. You can even put barcodes on your own stuff and send it to them.

o  You can visit the “discount” aisle (or closeout section of a website) of virtually any chain store (Wal-mart, Target, Big Lots, Meijer, Toys-R-Us etc.)  and find profitable (200-300% is easy) inventory. Box it all up in one box, and send it to Amazon. They do the rest.
For example:  Just last week I found Rachel Ray Cooler Totes at Costco for $11.95 each.  No one had them on Amazon.  I bought a dozen and sold all of them for $39 each.  I also found Cars2 Sticker sets for kids for $9.90 at Costco and am getting $24.95 for them on Amazon –and Amazon is doing all the work.

Why is our training so good?

o  We include videos, eBooks to read and tons of step by step screenshots to show you how it all works.  And there is a forum where you can get help from experts:  A handful of world class experts monitor the forum to assist students as they build an Amazon biz and make it as hands free as possible.

These incredible experts are people like Chris Green, Bob Willey, Suzanne Wells, Skip McGrath (me), Julie Anna Schultz, Nathan Holmquist, Steve Lindhorst, JB Malik, and Stephanie Inge.  These are THE Amazon selling POWER PLAYERS and they are hanging out with hundreds of excited Amazon sellers on the discussion forums of the  Proven Amazon Course.

o  The training we’ve put together is by far the best you’ll find on the subject and has been endorsed and promoted by nearly EVERY major expert in the Amazon selling arena.

Proven Amazon Course

This highly discounted price will not last long. So don’t wait.

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We also have a UK Version of the Proven Amazon Course.  Click here for the UK Version

I have been an eBay seller for over ten years and made my full-time living there for the past 6 years.  I have always recommended eBay as a great place for us retired folks to make extra money, but you may want to consider Amazon as well.

One of the questions I get from older folks is about drop shipping because they don’t want to deal with going out looking for merchandise and then having to pack and ship the goods.  Well Amazon solves this problem.

Many people think that everything you buy on Amazon is sold by Amazon but that’s not the case.  Over 50% of all the goods sold on Amazon come from small independent sellers –thousands of them working from home.  Until recently Amazon was like eBay in the sense that you had to purchase goods first and then pack and ship them to buyers.  But last year, Amazon started FBA – Fulfillment by Amazon.  This is a service where you purchase your goods, ship them to Amazon (using their own low shipping rates) and when you make a sale, Amazon fulfills the order for you.  They pack and ship the goods at their expense.

This is so cool.  Now you can go on vacation and not have to worry about your business.  When you make a sale, Amazon collects the money, deducts a small fee, ships the goods to the customer and makes a deposit to your bank account.

Last week I bought a case of Ceramic Chef’s knives from a local wholesale source.  I sent them to Amazon the day after I received them.

Three days later I had my first sale and have been making about one sale a day of just those knives.  I have several sizes. I make about $5.00 on the smallest one and right around $26 (after Amazon fees) on the larger ones.  Best of all, I don’t have to deal with customers.  No emails, no shipping.  Amazon does all the work and I just collect the money.

If you want to learn how to do this, Jim Cockrum and I have come out with a training course called The Proven Amazon Course.  Take a look at this and see if its for you.  he is offering a $40 discount to my readers for the rest of March. After that the price will go up.