How to Find and Sell the Best Amazon FBA Products on Amazon

1. Introduce the topic of Amazon FBA wholesale product hunting.

Amazon FBA is a business model in which Amazon sells products directly to customers through the website. Amazon FBA is a great way to get your products in front of thousands of consumers who are looking for them. Here are a few things to keep in mind when starting an Amazon FBA business:

•  Find a product that you know people are looking for.
•  Find a product that you can sell at a lower price than you could buy it in-store.
•  Figure out how to pack and ship your products.
•  Create a listing for your product on Amazon.
•  Monitor your sales and make necessary

2. Discuss the benefits of hunting for wholesale products on Amazon.

There are several benefits to hunting for wholesale products. First, you can find products that are not available through regular retail channels. Second, hunting for wholesale products can be a great way to find new and unique products that you may not be able to find at your local store. Third, hunting for wholesale products can be a great way to save money on your purchases. Fourth, hunting for wholesale products can be a great way to connect with new and interesting businesses. Finally, hunting for wholesale products can be a great way to build relationships with businesses that you may not have otherwise been able to connect with.

3. Describe the process of finding products to sell on Amazon.

This is an overview of the Amazon process for finding products to sell on the website. Amazon provides specific search results for various items, based on the product's product number, price, and sort of product catalog.

1) Pre-order your product

First, it is important to pre-order your product on Amazon. This will ensure that your product is available as soon as possible.

2) Search for products to sell

Once you have found the product you want to sell, you need to search for products to sell. This will help you find products to sell on Amazon in advance.

3) contract with the supplier

Once you have found the product you want to sell, you must then contract with the supplier. This will ensure that the product is made with care and is of the quality you expect.

4) produce the product

Once you have found the product you want to sell, you must then produce the product. This is

4. Share tips for finding the best products to sell on Amazon.

Being an Amazon seller can be a very rewarding position, but there are some VERY powerful tips you need to know to get there, three in particular. Whether you are a beginner or an expert when it comes to Amazon, these 3 powerful tips will help you achieve your goals as an Amazon seller.

Tip #1: Find hot sellers, buy that product at a lower price, then resell it on Amazon for a profit. Every product on Amazon is placed in a specific category that relates to it. And with each category on Amazon, there is also a top 10 list.

How does this apply to you now? Well, it's simple. Let's say you wanted to sell books on Amazon, but you didn't know which ones would sell. All you have to do is find any book on Amazon, scroll down and find the section called Amazon Best Seller Rank and click on "Top 100" next to it.

This will put you in the top 100 books that sell on Amazon. Find one that appeals to you, buy it in whatever quantity you can afford, and sell it for a profit. . Amazon has lots of categories for their products and each category has a top 100 list.

Tip #2: When you put your products up for auction, price your item/s 1 cent less than your best competitor. I have personally witnessed how it brings tremendous rewards. Being an Amazon seller can be very difficult because selling an item means competing with other sellers who are also selling the same item/s.

Since every seller will try to price their item to be more attractive than their competitors, it is best to price your item 1 cent less than the seller who is selling their item for the cheapest price. In other words, if you have 10 sellers selling 1 item from the price range of $5-$10, with the cheapest being $5, sell your item for $4.99.

1 penny less will not only make your item cheaper, but it will also grab the attention of the buyer(s), making your item the most viewed and most likely to be purchased.

Tip #3: Automatic Price Change! This tip is very similar to #2, but for those selling multiple items. A price change is, simply put, the price of your item is lower than a competitor's, whether it's by 1 cent or more. However, automatic repricing involves using a program that tracks all of the items that you sell and automatically reprices your item more or less than the competition.

Amazon Business Product Hunting| Most Important Business On amazon

 

It's a product hunt On the Amazon Business. Does this mean that you have opened your store on Amazon, how do you do it? We discussed all this in lecture 01. The store is now open, we need to find a product to sell. Let's find what to sell on Amazon? I would like to dispel a few misconceptions here. When Amazon came to Pakistan, many people said we have factories for shoes, and garments, we are making handmade products, can we sell on Amazon? My recommendation is please do not sell these products. If your product meets these parameters, do not sell your product on Amazon objections. So, let's begin. What products should and should not be sold on Amazon? You need to know; that any product sold should not weigh more than half a kg. Try to make it as easy as possible because it will be beneficial for you. There's a reason for that. Since we operate from Pakistan, the business model we have chosen to work on Amazon is called FBA, which means "Fulfillment by Amazon". We deliver our inventory to Amazon's warehouse and once we receive an order, it is Amazon's responsibility to deliver that order. When we are going to send huge inventory to Amazon warehouse and we prefer to work on air freight products. So whenever we talk about air, we should make sure that our products are small in volume and light in weight. You must remember that the work should be done with light products.

Then, whatever product you are going to sell, first look at how many people are selling the same product and how many people are selling, how good is their social profile? Now you ask what is a social profile? Social profile means how many reviews do they have? What is their rating? I believe if you want to work in the USA then the average rating of your competitor should be around 700-800.m Sorry but reviews should be around 700-800 and ratings should be 4.5 and above. Please note the difference between ratings and reviews. Many people come in and only give star ratings from 1 to 5 stars. If a product has 4.5 stars, it means that it is a good product and has fewer returns and refunds. Likewise, if there is a product with 3 stars or 2.5 stars (I'm talking about the average of competitors on page 1), know that people are not satisfied with the product and there is a higher chance of returns.

Another point to keep in mind is whenever you are researching a product, does it fall under 'dangerous good'? for example, are there any chemicals in it? Or is it battery-powered? Which are considered dangerous goods because there is a possibility of explosion or fire. And as I talked about fragile, you should avoid glass products because there is a chance that they will break during shipping, and even if Amazon ships this product, there is a chance of return because the customer can get many products in damaged condition. Whatever product you sell, try to make it $20+ and your profit margin should be around 25%. This means that if you are making a 25% profit on the product, you should sell it.

Then we need to see the product we are going to sell, does Amazon require any certification for it? For example, if you sell any health-related product, Amazon will ask you for certain certifications. This could give you a complex scenario that will be difficult for a newbie. If I explain it technically, there are gated and ungated categories on Amazon. If you want to work in a closed category, you must get approval from Amazon, called "pre-approval," and you must provide any certifications that Amazon requires. Then you need to figure out what is the keyword? A keyword is a kind of name for your product. It's the name people use to search for your product on Amazon. The actual name may be different, but we consider keywords ‘the sum of words that people search on Amazon. So, you also have to see the keyword that you are using, how many people are searching through that keyword?

For example, if you say that I have a shoe factory and we also manufacture ‘Khussa’ and I wanted to sell Khussa on Amazon. It is now important for you to know how many Khussa buyers are there on Amazon. How would you know how many people are looking for it? Well, that is related to search volume. Which we call ‘keyword search volume’. How many people are searching for your product name? If the search volume is good, you should work on it. But search volume is not the only criterion. For the product let me tell you an easy formula. The product that you are going to sell should be low competition, high demand, and high-profit margins.

If your product meets these three parameters then good. There are also other parameters that I have explained earlier like it should be lightweight, non-fragile, and not a dangerous good. You should also check whether your product is trendy or not? Like a trend starts, the sale gets boosted and then all down and the inventory that you have stocked is all useless. Avoid fashion-related products as fashion keeps coming and going. Like jeans and t-shirts, fashion keeps on changing. So, if you have a lot of stock and fashion gets outdated, your product won't sell. Also, don’t work on seasonal products like their sale is high in summer, but not in winter. For example, if you chose to sell an ice cube bucket, people will buy it in the summer, but what will you do in winter? We have to select products that are for all seasons and have consistent revenue and sales. To sell any product you should also know whether that product is patent or not?

If you are selling a patent design product then there could be a problem for you and your account could be suspended. So, it is very important to know all these things. Another thing that we Pakistanis have is that we look to sell only the products that we are manufacturing. Well, that will not happen. You must keep in mind all these parameters, another very important thing I want to share; your product should not be expiry-related. You must not sell any item that requires expiry. Because at times inventory is in stock for a longer period on Amazon and it gets expired and that inventory will be useless for you. Don’t sell food items as you know they all have expiry. There are lots of other products that have an expiry, for example, you have a tire factory and you want to sell cycle or tractor tires. First thing first, this product is out of our parameters (I am just quoting this for sake of example). Tires do have an expiry date. So, you don’t just sell any product with an expiry date as if the product stay gets over the limit, then there will be a problem for you.

 Now, I have discussed the basic parameters with you. Whatever you are going to sell on Amazon, get your product filtered through these parameters. If you feel that your product is in high demand, has low competition, and has a high-profit margin, then you must sell it. These are the basic parameters/criteria. Now you will say that you have applied so many filters on products please guide us from where we are going to get so many ideas. For ideas, there are many easy ways. Go to Amazon, find bestsellers and click it. Start exploring new products. Find bestsellers on Ali Express. You can find it by writing bestsellers in the search bar on Amazon or Ali Express. You will get many great ideas on Amazon, Ali Express, and Ali Baba. You will start getting many ideas then move from one product to the other and then so on. We also use another method where we go to ‘store friends’ of people who are selling and start spying on their products and see what else they are selling. Other than this there is a website watchcount.com which is related to eBay. It will show the watch count means which product is searched most by people. After this, you can get ideas from the generic keywords of Amazon. If I type Organic in the search bar bamboos appear if type a spoon then I may get a bamboo spoon, teaspoon, collapsible spoon, and travel spoon, hence Amazon will show me all generic results against the spoon.

Also, we use the minus string method in which by pressing the minus button we type some keywords and get many ideas. The best method that I found is to go to alibaba.com and type bestsellers of 2021 and search it. You will get a useful filter in that ‘country wise’ means suppliers are from which country. You select Pakistan from that list and find a product you can export to America or Europe. So, these are some of the ideas and techniques that I have shared with you. Now I will tell you to get ideas from other methods that are with the help of tools. For product hunting at Amazon, we use a few tools. The most important tool is helium 10 and it has a sub-tool named x-ray, we use Frankenstein, Magnet, and Black B. These are all sub-tools of helium 10. Then we use the chrome extension of Jungle Scout. We use market intelligence of Viral Launch. From these tools, we get the data of competitors and how much they are selling? Is their sale consistent? Are their reviews consistent? This is very important.n You are searching for any product, if its sale is not consistent, don’t sell it.n Why? because if only two people are bringing the sale, which is called a ‘dominant brand product’, you must not sell these products. And if you feel that your 1st-page competitor’s data has Amazon in the list (as a seller) then you should also avoid such products. Because where Amazon sells, your sale chance declines. You also need to see whether reviews are consistent and revenue is consistent.

While typing a keyword, keep in consideration that your keyword should not be a longtail keyword. Work on short-tail keywords like bamboo straws and please don’t use silicon collapsible washable reusable straws. This will be a long keyword and usually, customers don’t buy long keywords. You should think about being a buyer as to what customers would type. So, just like this, we get the data from the tools, then we also get much data like helium 10, (I am talking about ideas here). So, you come to Helium 10 and then to Black Box. It will ask what you want to search for? Then you will apply all the filters like the product within the range of $20, rating 4.5, review count around 500-600, and generate certain revenue.

Let me tell you another thing here, whatever product you are hunting for example if we talk about the U.S.A., the product must be generating $20,000. Many trainers would recommend $10,000. I do tell some for $10,000 means at least the average sale should be $10,000. It all depends on your capital and the amount that you have in your pocket. If you play on a higher budget, there will be high-risk but high profit as well. So, you can consider $10,000 as well. If you are working in the UK then your competitor's average revenue should be £6,000.

So, these are some of the ideas. You got some ideas from Black Box. Just like this, how would you know ‘what is the search volume of your keyword’? You can get this from the sub-tool ‘Magnet’.  The benefit of this tool is as you search your keyword on merchant word, not only it will share the search volume of your keyword but also share the details of all the relevant keywords. So, we do data collection in two types. One is done with the help of tools and the other is done manually. How would we know manually? Obviously if you right any keyword you will get results on the entire page

and from there you can check reviews and ratings, how much competition is there, and what is the average selling price? Is it $20 or not? There is another important thing, whatever keyword you have entered, you must see whether the results are similar or not. Manually, we also make an excel sheet where we enter the complete data of competitors and monitor their prices, sale, and BSR. We perform the same activity with the help of tools. In the end, we merge these spreadsheets and decide whether we are going to sell this product or not. I hope you have understood all that to sell on Amazon, and what processes you have to go through. Make a spreadsheet and analyze that product for at least one month by using manual product hunting and by collecting data from tools. The better your product research is, the chances of loss are lower. Otherwise, the failure ratio on Amazon is 95%. So, I have communicated everything to you. Usually, on Youtube, it is all theoretical and if you want to learn practically from me; sir please show us the practical, then you have to join our paid course.

Now you will ask about the fee for our paid course, which I will not tell you because you have to pass a few very strict parameters to join our paid course. First, you have to book your appointment and get an interview time. Your interview will be conducted, and if you pass, you can register for the physical or online class. To reserve your seat for the interview, below is the manager`s number, call now. Any questions related to this video, you can ask them in the comment section. I will answer that for you. As per your humbling request, we have started free-of-cost training for Virtual Assistants. consider the keywords "the sum of the words people search for on Amazon." So you also need to see the keyword you are using, how many people are searching for that keyword? For example, if you say I have a shoe factory and we also manufacture 'Khussa' and I wanted to sell Khussa on Amazon. Now you need to know how many buyers of Khussa there are on Amazon. How do you know how many people are searching for it? Well, it has to do with search volume. This is what we call "keyword search volume". How many people are searching for your product name? If the search volume is good, you should work on it. However, search volume is not the only criterion. For the product, let me tell you a simple formula. The product you are going to sell should have low competition, high demand, and high-profit margins.

If your product meets these three parameters, then very good. There are also other parameters that I explained earlier like it should be light, non-fragile, and non-hazardous. You should also check if your product is trendy or not? As a trend starts, sales pick up, and then everything goes down and the stock you have in stock is useless. Avoid products related to fashion as fashions come and go all the time. Just like jeans and t-shirts, fashion is always changing. So if you have a lot of inventory and the fashion goes out of date, your product won't sell. Also, don't work on seasonal products as their sales are high in summer but not in winter. For example, if you decided to sell a bucket of ice cubes, people will buy it in the summer, but what will you do in the winter? We need to choose products that are for all seasons and have consistent revenue and sales. If you want to sell any product, you should also know whether that product is patented or not?

If you are selling a product with a patented design, this may be a problem for you and your account may be suspended. So it is very important to know all these things. Another thing we Pakistanis have is that we try to sell only the products we make. Well, that's not going to happen. You have to keep in mind all these parameters, another very important thing I want to share; your product should not be related to expiration. You may not sell any item that requires expiration. Because sometimes inventory on Amazon is in stock for a long time and will expire and that inventory will be of no use to you. Don't sell foods because you know they all have expiration dates. There are plenty of other products that have expiration dates, for example, you have a tire factory and you want to sell tires for bikes or tractors. First of all, this product is out of our parameters (just for example). Tires have an expiration date. So you don't just sell any product with an expiry date, as if the balance of the product exceeds the limit, then there will be a problem for you.

 I have now discussed the basic parameters with you. Whatever you sell on Amazon, filter your product through these parameters. If you feel that your product is in high demand, has low competition, and has a high-profit margin, then you need to sell it. These are the basic parameters/criteria. Now you will say that you have applied so many filters to the products, please guide us from where we get so many ideas. There are many easy ways for ideas. Go to Amazon, find bestsellers and click on them. Start researching new products. Find bestsellers on Ali Express. You can find it by typing bestsellers in the search field on Amazon or Ali Express. You can get many great ideas on Amazon, Ali Express, and Ali Baba. You start getting many ideas, then move from one product to another, and so on. We also use another method where we go 'save friends' of people who are selling and they start spying on their products and see what else they are selling. In addition, there is a website called watchcount.com which is related to eBay. It will show the number of watches, which means which product people are searching for the most. Then you can get ideas from general Amazon keywords. Like if I type Organic in the search box and bamboo comes up, and if I type spoons, then I can get a bamboo spoon, teaspoon, folding spoon, and travel spoon, so Amazon will show me all the generic results against the spoon.

We also use the minus chain method, in which we press the minus button to enter keywords and get many ideas. The best method I have found is to go to alibaba.com and type in 2021 bestsellers and search for them. You get a useful filter in that "by country" means which country the suppliers are from. You select Pakistan from this list and find a product you can export to America or Europe. So, these are some of the ideas and techniques that I have shared with you. Now I will tell you to get ideas from other methods which are using tools. We use several tools to hunt for products on Amazon. The most important tool is helium 10 and it has a sub-tool called x-ray, we use Frankenstein, Magnet, and Black Box. These are all subtools of helium 10. Then we use the Jungle Scout chrome extension. We use Viral Launch market intelligence. From these tools, we get data about competitors and how much they sell? Are their sales consistent? Are their reviews consistent? This is very important.n You are looking for any product, if its sales are not consistent, don't sell it.n Why? because if only two people are bringing in a sale that is called a "dominant brand product" you are not allowed to sell those products. And if you feel that your competitor's listing on page 1 has Amazon listed (as a seller), then you should also avoid such products. Because where Amazon sells, your chances of making a sale decrease. You also need to see if the reviews are consistent and if the revenue is consistent.

When entering a keyword, keep in mind that the keyword should not be a longtail keyword. Work on short tail keywords like bamboo straws and please don't use silicone collapsible washable reusable straws. This will be a long-tail keyword and customers usually don't buy long-tail keywords. You should think about being a buyer and what customers would write. So, like this, we get data from instruments, then we also get a lot of data like helium 10 (I'm talking about ideas here). So you get to Helium 10 and then the Black Box. It will ask what do you want to search for? Then you use all the filters as a product in the $20 range, 4.5 ratings, around 500-600 reviews, and generate some income.

Let me tell you one more thing here, whatever product you are looking for, for example, if we are talking about the US, the product must generate $20,000. Many trainers would recommend $10,000. I tell someone that at $10,000, that means at least the average sale should be $10,000. It all depends on your capital and the amount you have in your pocket. If you play with a higher budget, you will have a high risk, but also a high profit. So you might as well consider $10,000. If you work in the UK then your com..... Click here to know more details.

Amazon Product Hunting| Amazon Business Product

 

I got the job of a lifetime at a large eCommerce company. It was exciting and I felt like an astronaut. Now, every day is a new kind of adventure as I have to figure out how we can improve. Our sales department is facing huge volume on daily basis. We don’t know what to do with this amount of work and orders.

It happened that one day my manager told me something about his team that he had never shared before. “Your team is having issues solving problems,” he said. He pointed down our stack of products and added two more items that needed improvements. We now had seven different stacks and trying to solve those problems took time. Sometimes it didn’t have any solution, and sometimes we tried other options but the process was time-consuming and we didn’t get any results. This was very frustrating for us as we wanted to try new things and make them successful.

All of sudden this idea occurred to me. What if there was someone who knows all the answers to such questions. Someone could use all existing experience and try to answer all the queries and help customers at the same time. And we would make ourselves useless. A perfect person for such a task would be an Amazon product hunter. So today let’s learn how they work.

How Do They Work?

Customer requirements are sorted by product specialist teams. These specialists analyze data from their past cases. This analysis results in a list of possible solutions. The specialist team members try to find a solution that fits all available requests. If in case it doesn’t fit everyone needs a different solution so that no common solution can’t be found. The last stage is where a customer asks for feedback on which solution solves his problem. At this point, only the best option has been selected. After a solution is selected there is another step again when the customer gets his new and improved solution. The customer gets a discount after shipping.

What does product discovery look like during the process?

The product discovery phase starts when you send your order. An email containing a link is sent to your account to request the inventory. Here your order status gets updated. In this phase, both sides (the seller who will ship the item and the buyer) have to meet via video chat. Both parties have to complete some basic form that helps them understand each other better. Once everything is settled, the customer gets a discount and is ready to pay. After receiving the discount the final part gets started. When a customer pays his bill he receives a confirmation email.

Amazon product hunters work 24/7 to find the best solution for each scenario. Their main role is to prioritize order requests over the current ones and try to optimize them with the highest chance of success. During the whole process, a lot of meetings and discussions take place between all teams. To give you a picture, they work more than 250 hours per week according to the reports done by their estimators. You have to imagine the complexity and effort needed to complete the project.

How Does It Affect Your Business Model?

This system might look complicated but it works really amazing if done right. For example, if one team finds a potential solution then it becomes easy for others to make similar decisions. As one decision can’t affect another decision-making team may not even know how to implement and what to use. Also, it reduces unnecessary overhead costs. Every single operation in the business can be optimized by using this method. Moreover, it’s simple to scale the model and increase its efficiency.

How Can It Help You?

These tools have made my life a lot better as I can get quick access to information about all the latest products and services. With their help, I can quickly assess our portfolio and try some innovative ideas on top of them. However, it has to be noted that these models are used most often for online stores and marketplaces and might not be considered useful for your eCommerce business. All products must be listed on your website and if necessary, you can add reviews, photos, and other details. Of course, you can still build your brand around the product page or create a review section. Using these methods you can attract more customers to your site, but I’m sure it won’t affect your revenue significantly since people don’t buy anything if they don’t know what to buy. Still, the impact might help you with marketing strategies.

What About Its Limitations?

One serious limitation of this approach is pricing. Because many companies want to sell more than one product per month, the price of each item should be unique as possible. Hence if the prices of particular products are the same then this tool might not be worth your time. Another thing is that product discovery is a lengthy process due to constant communication. But still, overall there are always some good reasons to adopt this system. Some examples:

You have a huge product catalog

You want to find the next big trend

You want to test new technology in a real-life environment

To reduce costs from ongoing operational support

To save a lot of time during negotiations

Some benefits you can expect with this product:

Cost reduction

Pricing flexibility

Better focus

No technical knowledge required

Scalable automation

Efficient

Time management techniques

Improvement tracking

Greater ROI

The following links will give detailed descriptions of their features:

ProductHunter:

ProductHunter is a popular product discovery platform that provides advanced machine learning technology. Most popular among small & medium-sized businesses because it includes multiple pricing tiers so it can be customized perfectly for your business model. Additionally, it integrates directly into Microsoft Dynamics GP and offers full integration with Salesforce CRM. Furthermore, it includes integrations with leading payment gateways such as Stripe and PayPal.

Click here to read a demo of why we love using ProductHunter

Rakuten:

Rakuten is a great e-commerce store software with fully integrated digital storefronts. It uses machine learning techniques to automatically discover and recommend relevant products for users based on their buying habits, browsing history, demographics, and more. Therefore, it is a highly scalable platform that enables retailers to easily manage and grow their brands with ease.

Click here to read a description of the Rakuten Digital Store Platform

Kinsta:

Kinsta allows merchants to quickly discover and manage their inventories in just a few clicks. It also incorporates various other products and services from partner vendors with powerful analytics and reporting tools.

Click here to read a demonstration of Kinsta.

Amazon Business Training| Most Grateful Fast Amazon Training

 

Amazone Business Traning:

we are again going to start theoretical training for Virtual Assistants. And if you possess the right intellect level, I am sure that you do not have to join our paid course and you can start your Amazon Business by learning from this course. Even if you do not have enough investment, after learning this course you will be able to serve people as a Virtual Assistant. So, let's move to the topic. Today is our 1st topic, in which we get to know What is Amazon? and how can we start working on it? Amazon is an E-commerce platform where you open your shop (that is your account) and sell your products. It is the same as you see shopping malls in the country, like Packages Mall and Emporium Mall in Lahore, and Centaurus Mall in Islamabad, and you will also find many malls in Karachi.

You would have seen many different shops and brands in the mall. Similarly, Amazon is a mall, where many brands sell their products. And when we sell our product with our own name, we will also be considered a brand. So, in simple words, to work on Amazon you will have to open your shop on Amazon. In easy words, you have to open your account on Amazon. After that account opening, you will display your products on Amazon. In Amazon terms, product displaying is called product listing. Just like any shop has racks, there is a list on Amazon. Whichever product you want to buy, you click on it and add it to your cart, make payment, and leave and that product is delivered to you at your home.

Now, how can we create an account on Amazon? As we see, account creation on Amazon is relatively easy but there are some policies and restrictions by Amazon that frustrates you at times as despite fulfilling everything, your account does not get activated. The first thing you need to know is whenever you are going to create an account on Amazon, which type of account should it be? Just like you go to the bank, they will ask you which type of bank account you want to open? Is it a current account or savings account or any other type of account?

You should know that there are two types of selling plans on Amazon. No. 1 is an individual selling plan and No. 2 is a professional selling plan. First, we will discuss the individual selling plan. If you sign up for your account on an individual selling plan, the first benefit you will get is that there is no subscription fee which generally Amazon charges on monthly basis. On the other hand, there is the disadvantage of it which is, you cannot sell your brand on an individual selling plan and Amazon will also charge a commission of $0.9 on each sale which is other than the FBA fee So, lets now discuss the other pattern, the second selling plan which is Professional Selling Plan.

When you sign up Professional Selling Plan, you can sell products with your name/brand name. When we talk about Professional Selling Plan, Amazon will charge a fixed monthly subscription fee which is $39.99 which will be exchanged into your local currency as per your selected country. Let me share something interesting with you, you can launch your brand in two different ways. There are two modes in Professional Selling Plan. First is Individual and second is Business. Let me clarify one thing here, please do not mix Individual under Professional Selling Plan with the Individual Selling Plan.

That is totally separate which we have already discussed and closed. Now we are discussing the Professional Selling Plan under which you can make two types of accounts No.1 is a Business Account and No. 2 is Individual Account. So, if you are going to sign up with Individual Account, you will have to share all of your personal information with Amazon and if you are signing up for a Business Account, you will have to share your business credentials with Amazon.

Let me explain it more. If you are signing up for Individual Account you will need, you should have a valid computerized CNIC (the one with the chip), your bank statement, your email ID, and your mobile number, and you should also have Meezan bank, Faysal bank, or any other bank`s debit or credit card. There are a few banks in which credit cards are accepted and there are others in which debit cards are accepted at Amazon. So whatever bank card you are using, you will get to know whether Amazon is accepting that or not. So, we will not go into bank details as we are just getting an overview here.

So, I have mentioned all the things that are required for the Individual Account. To sign up for Individual Account, Amazon will require two more things from you. Just like I have explained debit and credit cards to you, there are two methods, one Charged Method and the other Deposit Method. While signing up for the account, you must provide these two pieces of information to Amazon. Charged Method means, you have to share those card/bank details with Amazon, from which they can charge money

that is your monthly subscription fee.

If you decide to do some advertisement on Amazon, they can charge you for that. Simply, any money you Owed to Amazon will be deducted via Charged Method. Meezan and Faysal bank debit cards do work for this purpose and Amazon will charge you through that when you sign up for the account. Again, Amazon will not charge on Individual Selling Plan but on Individual Plan under Professional Selling Plan it will charge you $39.99 per month.

Now you know what Charged Method is. The second method is Deposit Method. If Amazon has to pay you against the product that you have sold on Amazon, on which account it should pay you here you will have to share your bank account details. But, if you are signing up from Pakistan, then currently Amazon is not allowed direct deposit into your bank. For this purpose, you will have to induct another bank in the middle, which is also called Virtual Bank. For example, Payoneer, Hyper Wallet, etc. you will need such sources where money is first deposited in those accounts and then into your bank account. Now come to Business Plan under Professional Selling Plan. In Business Plan, you will have to share your business details. If you are operating from Pakistan, you should have Pvt Ltd. Company.

You will have to share business credentials, share Charged Method and Deposit Method, email ID, contact number, bank statement, and share all the information of company directors. After providing all the information, Amazon will congratulate you on your successful account creation. Once the account is created, you will be happy that it is now created and we can use it but, it is not like that. Once you will enter your seller center you will see that account goes into verification. Once your account is in the verification stage, Amazon will require some documents for verification and identity proof.

So, if you are an individual, it will ask for a utility bill and/or CNIC/passport. So, you will share scanned copies of these documents. Many Pakistanis are making the same mistake which is when submitting CNIC copies, they are submitting mobile pictures which Amazon is rejecting. So, when submitting an ID card, you will separately scan the front and back sides of the ID card and upload it. If you are submitting a passport, then you have to scan it as a book, where you will scan the first page and then the second page which is the signed part. So, this is how you will submit these two documents. For utility bills, you can use electricity bills and/or PTCL bills.

Once you will submit the correct documents, your account will be successfully verified just like so many Pakistanis are now getting their accounts verified. Same in Business Plan, you will share business details and company registration documents as proof with Amazon and any other document that Amazon asks for. Remember one thing, Amazon is very simple only if you keep it simple. It is we who make situation complex. For example, if Amazon asks for an ID card, we suddenly get confused and upload pictures that are taken from a mobile camera, which Amazon will reject as Artificial Intelligence and robots are working on Amazon's side and we have to completely abide by instructions. Keep these things in mind and take your time to sign up for your Amazon account.

Now, here comes a new situation. You have signed up for Individual Plan under Professional Plan and now your business has grown and you want to shift your brand to a company. For this, you can at any time, switch from an Individual to Business Plan. How? You will have to undergo a text interview. Do not worry, it is very simple. You will find a text interview button and press it then you will be asked about your company details. Once you have shared all the details and saved them your account will be switched from Individual to Business. I would recommend that you should start from Individual Account and not from Business Account.

Once your brand is established, you can always switch to Business Plan. The benefit of switching to a Business Plan is that you can have your brand registry and trademark easily and as per my knowledge as I was talking to some consultants in the U.S Amazon has now started giving trademarks to individuals which were surprising to me So if you have a trademark with you, you can have a brand registry by using a trademark. What is a brand registry? Since it is our first lecture, you will get to know all the details about ‘how to get a brand registry?’ in upcoming lectures. So, today's topic was about types of Amazon accounts and their basics and now you also know how can you switch from Individual to Business.

Here comes another question. Both Individual and Business come under Professional Plan and even if we have not even sold a single unit, we are still being charged $39.99 per month. Can we avoid it? The answer is ‘yes’ it can be avoided.

For this, you have to downgrade your current Professional Selling Plan to Individual Selling Plan. How can you downgrade or upgrade? If you have your seller center open go to settings and then account info on the right bottom of the page you will see the ‘downgrade your account option. If you click it you will be downgraded from Professional Selling Plan to Individual Selling Plan. But if you see an upgrade option there it means you are already on Individual Selling Plan and you can switch to Professional Selling Plan at any time.

There is also a very important tab at the bottom of the page which is ‘User Permission’. This is very important for all Virtual Assistants since our course is all about Virtual Assistants. You must have heard about ‘Child Account Access. There is no child account word on Amazon, instead, there is user permission. So, if you get any client, he/she will not share login/password with you instead, they will give you child account access by clicking on the user permission button. Here the client will enter your email ID and name. An email will be sent to your email ID with steps to follow to get limited access to your client`s seller central. The access is to be controlled by the client and he can give you access as per the requirement you may only get PPC access, inventory management access, account handling access payments management access, or returns access.

So, in short, your client will give you access as per the contract/agreement between both parties. This was our lecture No. 1 of Amazon Virtual Assistant Training which you can also say is an overview and I hope that you would have a complete understanding of things. What are the Amazon account types and how can a Virtual Assistant can get access to their client account for which we use the word ‘user permission’ which is also known as ‘child account access.

I hope that you have learned everything. If you have any questions, do ask that in the comment section below. This all is just a theory and its practice is done under our ‘paid course’ which is started from first Monday of each month. If you want to sign up for the paid course, before you ask for the course fee, you will have to undergo an interview. So, if you want to register yourself for an interview slot, below are the manager's contact details book your slot now so that your interview can be conducted and you can be told about what Amazon is for you. Click here to know more.

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