3 Easy Steps To Sell on Amazon

Selling on Amazon is really straight forward and once you have listed a few items, you be thinking why did I not try this sooner. Also it gives you twice the exposure for the goods you have spent time product sourcing from places such as garage sales, estate sales, car boots, thrift store and in fact anywhere. Selling on Amazon is not rocket science, it is the same as all the other e-commerce platforms - buy low and sell high. It is as simple as that.

One of the common questions people ask about selling on Amazon and other platforms is how much money should I make on each item I sell - that is up to you, all I can say is you need to make a profit after all your costs are taken out. You can sell one item and make a lot of money, or you can sell loads of small items and make small amounts.

Step One - Open An Account - You need to register a seller account with Amazon, if you are just starting out open a basic account and once you have started to sell 40 items a month change the account to a paid pro-seller account - there are reasons why you do this and the break-even figure is 40 items. Opening an account is real simple and if you have a buying account it is as simple as a few clicks.

Step Two - Source Those Items - You are now ready to sell on the site, and as with eBay it is a good idea to play around on the site by selling books, DVD's, CD's that you have around the house. As long as the item has a bar code you can sell new right down the grades. If you are selling toys they have to be either new or collectible. (In future articles I will talk about how when you are a pro-merchant you can bundle items and make them unique to you)

Step Three - List like mad - There are a few ways on how to list on Amazon, the quick way is to go to the item page on Amazon and on the left you will see a Sell Yours Here, click this, add the details it asks, add the price you want (here it also tells you the low price and high price, sales rank etc), click another button and it tells you how much you are going to make, if you are happy, click again and the item is listed on the Amazon site. Yes it is that simple.