STEPS TO BECOME AN AMAZON SELLER
INTRODUCTION: Amazon is the most visited online shopping marketplace, and more people believe in Amazon for online shopping. It has become trendy in today’s world for e-commerce and online shopping, and buyers get lots of benefits when shopping online. But you can also sell the product with Amazon FBA as a seller. Amazon launched the Amazon FBA program in 2006 to help third-party sellers scale their businesses by leveraging Amazon’s advanced logistics infrastructure and customer service network. Starting and running an online business is much easier with Amazon FBA as Amazon does much of the heavy lifting. You no longer have to worry about warehousing your inventory and shipping logistics and can focus on other key aspects of your Amazon FBA business. Amazon handles inventory storage, order fulfillment, and customer service on their behalf.
STEP1. CREATE SELLER ACCOUNT: You first have to sign up for an Amazon seller account to become an Amazon FBA Seller. There are six steps need to be followed:
1. Firstly, go to https://services.amazon.com 2. Scroll down the page, below the heading “Become an Amazon seller”. On the right side, look for the ‘See Pricing -→’ link (below the ‘Make Money’ header) and click it.
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Choose one between individual or professional seller account. Enter your email and select ‘Create a New Account’
Choose your ‘Business location’ and ‘Business type’ Enter your personal information Choose your marketplace Enter your billing and product information At last, validate address, if the address displayed is correct, clicking on the ‘Confirm’ button.
STEP2. SOURCE PRODUCT TO SELL: The key to successful selling on Amazon is simple – sell a product that is in high demand, but with low competition. There are various characteristic of good product given are as:
1. Small (fits in a shoebox) and Lightweight 2. Less than 200 reviews for the top sellers 3. Low seasonality
4. Simple to manufacture 5. Can be improved
STEP3. CHOOSE FULFILLMENT METHOD: Amazon Marketplace sellers have three different fulfillment methods when fulfilling Prime orders which are as:
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Fulfillment by Amazon: Amazon seller use FBA, because it saves them the hassle of arranging it on their own. When you select FBA, Amazon will manage the entire fulfillment process for you
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Seller Fulfilled Prime by Merchant: With this option, you’ll be responsible for all aspects of the order, fulfillment, and shipping process. This may be a cheaper way to go and allows you to maintain control of your products and inventory.
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Seller Fulfilled Prime using a third party fulfillment (3PF) partner: Use of a 3PF allows sellers to display the Prime badge, as long as the solution meets strict SFP requirements. Naturally the 3PF must be able to meet the 2-day shipping requirement for Prime orders.
STEP4. CREATE AMAZON LISTING: If you want to make your Amazon listing process as easy as possible, gather these items before you create your listing.
• When signed into your Amazon Seller Central, travel to Catalog > Add Products. On this page, find the “List a new product” box and enter your product name. On the first “Vital Info” tab, you will need to fill out the Product ID, Next, move to the “Offer” tab. Here, “Compliance” tab is the area where you can provide any battery information (if relevant) to your product, In the “Images” tab, you can submit up to nine images.
STEP5. PACKAGE AND SHIP PRODUCT: You can send your inventory to Amazon by creating a shipping plan, packing your products, and sending them to the fulfillment centers that Amazon designates, using the carrier of your choice. Inventory that is sent to a fulfillment center is usually scanned and made available for sale within three business days of delivery.
Send your products to the locations that Amazon designates for your shipping plan. This ensures that your inventory is placed closer to customers and reduces the order delivery time for your products.
STEP6. OPTIMIZE LISTING AND GROW SALE: If yUu want your product to rank higher in the Amazon search results? You can improve the ranking (Amazon SEO, or search engine optimization) as well as increase traffic and sales simply by carefully optimizing your product listing. Amazon listing optimization is the process of upgrading product pages to improve their search visibility, click-through rate (CTR) and conversion rate (CR) and finally generate more sales. This process includes: keyword discovery, optimizing listing text and image content and increasing number of reviews.
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