The six most profitable ways to make money on

Amazon. You don't even have to have a product of your own. You don't have

to ship it anywhere. All you have to do is promote products that

already exist in the Amazon marketplace. Amazon

FBA versus Amazon FBM. What is the

difference? you're going to get a very, very small margin

on those dropshipping products because you're not putting in the investment to

buy the stock. If I'm thinking about any of these six ways, I'm going

with ****. It's made me a multi-millionaire. I'm

Matthew Fraser, and this is Amazon Ecom

Secrets. I'll be sharing with you the secrets that helped me go from

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you're ready to escape the nine-to-five and live life on your terms,

let me show you the way. Hey, guys. Welcome to Amazon Ecom Secrets. My

name is Matthew Fraser, a $45 million Amazon

eCommerce seller. Today, I'm going to tell you six

ways to generate income with Amazon. Let's

dive into it. The first way to generate income on

Amazon is through one of two ways, Amazon FBA

versus Amazon FBM. You're going to

say, Matt, what does that mean? Amazon FBA stands for Fulfilled By

Amazon, and Amazon FBM is Fulfilled By

Merchant. What is the difference? The difference is FBA means you

can Get your product, send it into the Amazon

warehouse and then Amazon will pick, pack and

ship your product to the customer and they'll even

handle most of the customer inquiries. The

other method is FBM fulfilled by merchant, which

means exactly that. You have to pick, pack, and ship

your own product to the customer. Now, that can generally be from

your own house where you may live or your place

of business where you're storing your stock. And the reason why

people love Amazon and love selling on Amazon is because Amazon

is an absolute behemoth giant of

a retailer. They've got millions and millions of people coming

to Amazon every single day. So unlike you having to

sell on your own website, Amazon's already got the customers

and the eyeballs looking for products, right? And

hopefully, it's your product. Compare that to your own

website, and this could even be a Shopify-based website.

You've got to now get the eyeballs on that website. So that means you've got

to now find your own customers and traffic through things

like Facebook advertising, TikTok, Google,

or even email lists. So there are the differences. Now,

the second way to generate income on Amazon is

through Amazon's affiliate marketing program. You can

actually earn commissions by promoting Amazon products through

affiliate links. People like to use things like websites, blogs,

social media, or even email newsletters. Now,

what you're going to absolutely love about this, it's free to sign

up to Amazon to become an affiliate and get your affiliate links.

And when you promote these products through, let's say,

your own website, and the customer now clicks on your website

and goes to Amazon, now they might go there

to buy a baby pram, for example.

But while they're there, they may also buy a book, some

nappies, some clothing. Amazon's going

to pay you a commission, not just on the very first product that

you were advertising, which in this case was the BabyPram, they're also

going to pay you on all the other items that the customer also

purchased. Isn't that crazy? So that means you

don't even have to have a product of your own, you

don't have to ship it anywhere, all you have to do is promote products that

already exist in the Amazon marketplace. I

know I can hear you saying, and I can hear my clients even saying this, but

Matthew, how come you haven't told us about this already? This

is amazing. Why are you teaching us how to get a product and send

it into Amazon? Well, of course, it's not all just

like straightforward and that easy. It would be easy

if you've got a website already, right? But

you can't just have a website and then Just expect sales to

come through. You've got to have a website, but you've now also got

to take care of what I said in the first instance was

you've got to get now traffic. You've got to get people coming to your website. Let's

pretend for a second a perfect case scenario. Let's

say that you had a website that was promoting baby

products and it was already bringing in 100,000 views

onto your website every single month. And

one of the things that you had on your website was a

blog comparing the different types of prams in

the marketplace. And each one of those prams had

a special affiliate link going to

Amazon. So no matter which pram the customer clicked

on to check out, they all were going to Amazon. And

no matter which one they bought, either one, all of them, one of them, you

were going to get paid. So it didn't really matter. And

that would be a great way to get some affiliate income

from Amazon without actually having to even stock or

buy the product yourself. Isn't that incredible? But

it's going to take a lot of work to build up that website and get those

people coming to your website. Now, the third way to generate income

by using Amazon is through a method called dropshipping. Now,

particularly, I'm not really a fan of

dropshipping. I've never used the dropshipping method, but it's certainly something that

you can investigate. So let me tell you about it. The way dropshipping would

work is that you create a listing on Amazon for

a particular product, but you have to prearrange the

product with the dropshipper. So let's just say that

you're selling iPhone cases. You

have a listing on Amazon that's selling iPhone cases. Now

you have to prearrange a deal with a drop shipper

who's holding the iPhone cases in a

warehouse facility already in the USA,

if you're selling in USA. So when the customer buys

that product on Amazon, You send an

email notification to the dropshipper. The dropshipper then

pickpacks and ships the product to the customer. It

is very, very similar model to the FBM

model I told you about, the Fulfilled By Merchant. In this case, the

merchant is going to be the dropshipper shipping the product to

the customer. When you think about it, you're going to say, That's another bloody

great method to sell on Amazon. How good is this? I

don't have to design the product. I don't have to stock

the product in Amazon. I don't have to buy it up front. I

don't have to create a brand, logos or

trademark. This is freaking genius. Now, could

be, but here's the deal. you're going to get a very, very

small margin on those dropshipping products because you're

not putting in the investment to buy the stock. The dropshipper

has put in the investment to buy the stock. They're holding the stock ready

for you to make a sale of their product on Amazon.

And so they're going to offer you a very small percentage. And you're going

to say, that's brilliant. I could do that. Yes, you

could. But in the Amazon marketplace, you've still

got to be able to get customers. Now, I told you in the beginning, yes,

there are millions of people coming to Amazon every single day. That

is for sure. But in the sea of iPhone

cases, you've still got to stand out in the crowd. There's thousands

of iPhone cases. There's probably millions of iPhone cases, to be honest. You've

got to be able to stand out in the crowd of iPhone cases. So

the only way to do that is Two

ways. One, you've got an incredibly optimized product

listing, meaning that your title, your bullet points and

your description are just completely A1 full

of keywords that are going to show up when

someone types it in to the search engine on

Amazon. That's the first way. And the second way is through

PPC, which is pay-per-click advertising. So

imagine if you've got this, I mean, how much would a phone case cost,

for example? Let's say it retails, I'm going to say best case, let's say

it retails for like five bucks for this. And your margin,

let's say in dollar terms, is $1. You're going to make $1 profit

every time you make a sale. Out of that, it's got to come Amazon's

fees, that's already going to be 15%. Then you've got

to take away the cost of actually advertising. Now,

here's the deal. Advertising might cost you 50 cents a click. So

in two clicks, you've already lost money on

that iPhone case. Now, that is just one example. So in

short, if you're going to try dropshipping, I'm not saying don't

do it. You're going to have to really, really be careful of your numbers because you're

going to have to make sure that there's enough profit margin in there to

advertise that product within the marketplace. It could be something interesting

for you to check out, that's for sure. The fourth way to generate income via

Amazon is something called Merch by Amazon. It's

essentially just a print-on-demand system. Amazon's

tapped into the many, many other print-on-demand types of methods

out there and they're doing it now in-house. Now, what does this mean? Let's

just say you've got your own brand and you

want to have that brand or design on a t-shirt. You can

upload that design into Amazon and then when the customer buys

your product, Amazon will then print the t-shirt and

ship it to the customer. Now, this is great because

you don't have to stock the t-shirt in Amazon. So

there's minimal upfront cost except for your design.

And you can even earn royalties on each sale of

your design that you sell through Amazon. So it's a

really, really great way to start small in the marketplace. Of

course, if you come up with something really amazing, it could go really

big. For example, imagine if Kim Kardashian was

to wear your t-shirt. You could sell millions. So

where could merch by Amazon or print-on-demand be good for

you? Let's just say you're thinking about designing your own

clothing brand. Rather than going to the cost of

manufacturing thousands of units out of China and getting

your design printed on the t-shirts, for example, you could

actually test the market in Amazon that, yes,

you're going to have less upfront profit, but

it could be a really simple way to test the market before you

go hammer and tongs and spend $20,000, $30,000 on stock,

only to find out later on that it just didn't work. Amazon is

the perfect testing ground for your brand. The fifth

way of generating an income on Amazon is

through their Kindle Direct Publishing or KDP program.

Now, if you don't know, Kindle is simply a place where

you have e-books, like digital books. And of course, the

great thing about digital books is that there's no printing costs.

And so if you're thinking about that book that you've always wanted to publish, whether

autobiography or maybe it's like a fantasy book, there's simply

less barriers to entry when putting it into the Amazon marketplace.

Now, just like a lot of products, you still have to focus on

getting your listing known. So you might have to do some

advertising within the marketplace to get your product seen

by a lot of people. But here's the thing, If you've already

got a huge database, whether that's through your social media,

for example, perhaps you're someone like me, but you're actually someone really,

really famous, not like me, and you've got like

millions of followers, all you would have to do is

put your book into Amazon Marketplace through their Kindle program

and then just advertise it to your millions of followers. That

would be an incredibly cheap way to get some sales

of your book into the Marketplace. The other great thing

about doing a Kindle is that you control the

content. Now, if you were to go to a publisher to get your

book actually printed, a lot of the times the publisher will want to go through

the book. cross out certain things or you can't say this, I

wouldn't say that, forget about that. You have full

control because you're not going through a middleman. So you can put it up on

Amazon Kindle and then just start selling and let the market decide

if the book is worthy or not. So you can reach a global

audience as well and you can get royalties on these books forever

as long as the product is advertised and for sale in

the Amazon marketplace. So imagine if you went the other route

where you actually had to go through a publisher and print a hard copy book. It

costs a lot of money to do that, that's the first thing. but you might find

that your reach is limited because in a digital

world, you can easily have the English transferred over

to any other language. Now all of a sudden, your book is

completely global with like zero cost

because you haven't had to go to the trouble of printing million different

languages in hardcopy form. It's also a great way

to test your book in the marketplace before

you go to hardcopy. So if you find that people love the digital version

and there's a demand for it to go to hardcopy, then you know you're on

a winner because you've already proven it in the digital marketplace. The

sixth way to generate income on the Amazon marketplace is

through a program called Amazon Handmade. This is

where you can sell, obviously, handmade products through the

Amazon platform. And it's ideal for people who are

like crafters or artists and makers and things like that.

There are certainly some pros and cons when it comes to handmade though.

If you're thinking that you want to sell millions of a particular product,

but it's a handmade product, you might find there's barriers within

the manufacturing because you simply just cannot produce them

quick enough to meet the demand. That's why a

lot of people don't do handmade, because they're doing mass production. But

if you're doing something that's very niche, you only want a

certain selection of them, maybe each particular product

is unique to itself, so there's something very, very special

about every single product, then maybe the Amazon handmade

program is for you. And it's certainly a great way to

reach a mass audience. Traditionally, People

who are doing handmade would take them down to like the local markets

down the road and you'd have only the people that

were coming to the markets. And then it went from there to, hey, I'm

putting it on a website. Now you can go to Facebook. But

with so many people coming to Amazon for particular products

in the handmade niche, it could be a really, really advantageous move

for you to just simply get more of your product to

more people around the world. Now, I'm someone who's not

in the handmade niche, so I take the time to actually do a

bit of deep diving and say, well, what is even something that I could sell

that's handmade? And I'll give you some examples I just looked up for you. Candles, bath

bombs, art prints, ceramics, handmade, obviously,

jewelry, pet supplies, candy, tote

bags, woodworking, photography, soap

dispensers, personalized gifts, music

for example, or paintings. These are all types of things that

you could sell in the Amazon handmade section. All right guys, so

I've given you six ways to generate income using

the Amazon platform. But let me give you my personal opinion

and I'm going to rank them from one to six as to which

is the most profitable to the least profitable. Number one,

Amazon FBA. Number two, Kindle

Direct Publishing. Number three, 3. Amazon Affiliate

Marketing 4. Amazon Handmade 5. Merch

by Amazon 6. Dropshipping Alright

guys, thank you so much. I hope you've enjoyed that episode as we went into that deep

dive of all the different ways and probably ways that you didn't even know you

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