Recent studies have shown Amazon accounts for 43% of all online sales. With this market dominance, it seems that anyone who is able to launch their product on Amazon has a surefire path towards success. If you have a physical product for sale (which might be videos, books or any other product), Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) is worth looking into. It lets you store your products in Amazon’s fulfillment centers. Amazon does all the work of getting your products to buyers. They pick, pack, ship, and provide customer service (if ever anything goes wrong) for these products. All you do is create... [...]

Blackbird has just been released for marketers who want to use the world-wide reach of Amazon to sell their products. This is a multi-faceted piece of software that everyone who wants a profitable Amazon-based business will find helpful. And it comes with training, not just on the software, but also on the strategy a successful Amazon seller needs to follow for best results. Previously, you needed several pieces of software to manage your Amazon business. Software to manage your email conversations with customers, software to track your sales, software to track your rankings, software to manage... [...]

Sean Donahoe has a new product coming out this morning. AzonAuthority was created to help you build highly-profitable real businesses selling physical products by leveraging the market power of Amazon in a true e-commerce environment. With AzonAuthority, you turn Amazon into your personal drop-shipping and payment handling system while creating a high-powered, authority store. At the heart of AzonAuthority is a proprietary SmartCart Engine that integrates with Amazon’s systems to make sure you sell most effectively. Donahoe says that unlike other Amazon affiliate stores, search engines treat... [...]

When we think of Amazon marketing, we normally think of building an affiliate website (typically with WordPress, these days.) But it isn’t actually necessary. There are other ways to take advantage of the powerful Amazon selling machine. Amazon Money Manual shows you how to sell products on Amazon without a website or worrying about building a mailing list. He says it shows you “the easiest way to sell products online without your own website” and says it is “a sure way to get thousands and thousands of visitors to buy your products.” In this approach, you are not... [...]

It’s Amazon.com, a selling machine like the world has never seen before. There are over 30,000 product categories and millions of products being sold on Amazon right now. In fact, Amazon did $61 Billion in revenue in 2012. But what most people don’t know is that 41% of Amazon’s revenue was driven by products that are sold by other people using the Amazon infrastructure and web site. There are thousands of Amazon Sellers that make up this 41% of Amazon’s revenue. And this opportunity is only going to grow each year with continued growth as Amazon grows. Matt Clark and Jason Katzenback... [...]

There are many ways that small marketers can make money with Amazon. The most familiar ways are as (1) affiliate marketers and (2) as Kindle authors. But there’s another way often overlooked: Fulfillment by Amazon (or “FBA”). Amazon moves a lot of physical products through its delivery process, and it has become one of the best in the world at fulfilling orders for physical products. Its FBA service lets you and me, insignificant marketers working from home, use their world-class fulfillment process to sell our products. What Kindle is for electronic books, FBA is for physical... [...]