Amazon by far is one of the largest online marketplace with such a diverse professional business module, I rate Amazon.com the leading company and marketplace when if comes to entrepreneurship opportunities.

Amazon inception starts in the US from back in 1998.  In the beginning the cure business was the sale of books, CDs and DVDs among other things, today they expand wide and far with their business strategy which includes entrepreneur opportunities.

 I will includes  some of the opportunities with the information on how they can be beneficial to your product and company. Some of them may not be for you or require some level of qualification to join however, I will provide the information for you to decide.

Selling on Amazon

When it comes to selling media item online Amazon is the leader in this area, not only can you sell media items like books, software, CDs and DVDs, today you can sell a variety of items from toys, games, furniture, electronics and even services.

Even if you have invented a product, service or have a unique item to sell, Amazon can be that marketplace.  You can also sell that unique product on eBay as well.

Whats separate Amazon from eBay in the marketplace area, is that in order for you to sell in certain categories on Amazon.com you have to be qualify before you can list while on eBay, you just signed up and start selling no question ask.

Amazon platform is very simple to used, most of the time the product you are planing to sell is already on Amazon. Next to the item on Amazon, you will normally see a link that said “sell yours”, the process is very simple and straight forward.

If you are planning on not only selling a few item but starting a power house business on Amazon, the facility and technology available for you to do so.   You can bulk list thousand of item on Amazon from a simple configured spread sheet that streamline the entire process.  

Before I outline the different business  opportunity and service available on Amazon, I would like to point out the fundamental difference between Amazon and eBay.  That difference is the fee’s.  Fee’s will kill your business and burst your bottom line. To give you an example.  I once list over 150,000 books on Amazon for sale and  I didn’t have to pay a single listing fee and my listing will be live or will not expire until sold.  Amazon Only charges a flat $39 monthly fee for the marketplace service.  

Now, if I was to list this inventory on eBay for thirty days in a eBay store at .25cent per item which will expire of thirty days, the cost will be so outrageous and risky comparing to Amazon and worst off, you may not even sell 25% of your inventory.  Lets do the math: .25 * 150,000= $37,500.00 in fee’s not calculating finally value fee and store fee. while Amazon will be $0.00 plus $39.99 monthly. 

Both marketplace gives you similar or the same type of exposure for your product, just different platform… see Selling on Amazon for more detail

Fulfillment by Amazon
You sell it, we ship it. After 10 years and millions of orders and customers, Amazon has created one of the most advanced fulfillment networks in the world and your business can now benefit from our expertise. When a customer places an order we pick, pack, and ship it. Just let Amazon do all of it.

Fulfillment by Amazon, what is this?  Well, say you want to go in business big time selling thousands of product and shipping 100’s of merchandise daily, this could be a very painstaking task for one or even ten individual.

With the fulfillment by Amazon service, you can link with supply all over the world, and have Amazon storage the inventory and pack and ship whenever you have a sale while you take care of the marketing and bookkeeping.  Amazon store it and ship, you just take care on the business aspect.

Associates
Earn up to 10% in referral fees by linking to Amazon products and add compelling content to your site visitors enjoyment. The Associates program allows you to choose any items from the millions listed in our online catalog and promote them on your website.

For those who are new to Amazon Associates, I have to let you know its a win win business strategy for you to gain some extra income. with the associate program, you can start your own website and populate it with all the inventory from Amazon or you may want to just specialized in a niche market like DVDs or Baby clothing.

Many people may not know this, but did you know that Amazon.com powered and supply target.com with most of the inventory they selling…?  Take a look at the bottom of target.com and you will see the notice “Powered by Amazon.com, also look at the page-source and you will notice that most of the images are linked from Amazon.com

I also have some information on how you can have an online store Powered by Amazon.com but I need to do more research in this area before I post but you can send me a message and I will let you know where I’m at with my research.

If you need to find other  alternative online marekplace click here 

See a Amazon for a list of other services…

Read eBay VS Amazon Pt1 

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