Amazon Ebay Abritage & Making $$ for the Holiday Season

[Silkk]

Whats up breh?

You do professional photography for amazon products? Where are you located if so?

 

[LeVraiPapi]

I've been selling on amazon for years breh

oh okay then

Get that money!

 

[Silkk]

oh okay then

Get that money!

Lol i've just never went all in on making like a huge investment/bulk purchase and having professional photos, marketing, and whatnot.


It's always been half assed, ready to use my full ass and really eat

 

[MMS]

Lol i've just never went all in on making like a huge investment/bulk purchase and having professional photos, marketing, and whatnot.


It's always been half assed, ready to use my full ass and really eat

 

[Majestyx]

@Majestyx @CashmereThoughts

good day to you sir, you have questions or concerns?

 

[Majestyx]

@MMS @LeVraiPapi looking at getting a product photographer off of upwork.

Did yall brehs have to meet up with your products or you sent your photographers a sample of your product and told them what you wanted?

keeping it simple. breh sends me the products, i take photos. he picks which photos he wants. he sends monies, i send photos.

 

[Grizzly]

I like where this thread is going

I'm super locked in on Ebay right now. Two days ago I submitted a bulk removal order to Amazon so they could send the last bit of inventory I had in their warehouse to the crib (247 SKUs). I'm gonna create a second Ebay account to auction those off then once I hit 30+ sales, let it sit on ice until the Paypal hold wears off. The selling limit on my main account is at a mill so I can use that to raise the limit on the second one.

I had an account for years but started listing on an everyday basis late December, made my first sale on Jan 10 and now I'm about to hit 5 figures in sales. I made more in 4 weeks than I made the past 4 years that I had my Ebay account. Last week Saturday I took a few of my top sellers, made a Shopify site, put together some creatives in Affinity Designer, started a Facebook ad campaign and that store is at $475 in sales already. If ya'll only knew how many Shopify trials I went through without making a dime fam. That's a fukking W. I nixed the ads that were wasting me money and scaled up my winners today. Now I'm just gonna let the pixel do it's work until I'm ready to start retargeting.

Yesterday I opened accounts with two wholesalers so I got some other stuff in the works that will eventually lead me back to FBA on a larger scale but I'm maximizing Ebay right now. That's my moneymaker. I'm seriously considering upgrading to an Anchor subscription at this point.

The few things I can say to anyone trying to figure out this ecommerce thing is be persistent, keep expanding your knowledge, don't limit yourself and focus on your strengths. Try everything. Working on graphics for Merch By Amazon gave me the skills to put together an aesthetically pleasing ad creative. My biggest tip would be: Don't slack on your research. I recognized that that was one of my strengths. I can research a subject I know nothing about and break shyt down to it's last molecule until I understand it completely so I applied that to audience, product and niche research. Recognize your strengths and amplify them. It's okay sometimes to be like "I'm really fukking good at this" and not feel any type of way about that. One day I was thinking about the different types of suppliers I was able to build relationships with, different platforms I was able to make money on and shyt I'm doing that other sellers are not even thinking about doing like "damn how did I finesse this?" The average seller online is not chopping it up with an Antique rug salesman in Turkey on WhatsApp and getting him to ship rugs to bidders on LiveAuctioneers. That's what I was doing at one point. Look back at all of your past wins, recognize what separates you from the pack and hone in on that.

 

[MMS]

I like where this thread is going

I'm super locked in on Ebay right now. Two days ago I submitted a bulk removal order to Amazon so they could send the last bit of inventory I had in their warehouse to the crib (247 SKUs). I'm gonna create a second Ebay account to auction those off then once I hit 30+ sales, let it sit on ice until the Paypal hold wears off. The selling limit on my main account is at a mill so I can use that to raise the limit on the second one.

I had an account for years but started listing on an everyday basis late December, made my first sale on Jan 10 and now I'm about to hit 5 figures in sales. I made more in 4 weeks than I made the past 4 years that I had my Ebay account. Last week Saturday I took a few of my top sellers, made a Shopify site, put together some creatives in Affinity Designer, started a Facebook ad campaign and that store is at $475 in sales already. If ya'll only knew how many Shopify trials I went through without making a dime fam. That's a fukking W. I nixed the ads that were wasting me money and scaled up my winners today. Now I'm just gonna let the pixel do it's work until I'm ready to start retargeting.

Yesterday I opened accounts with two wholesalers so I got some other stuff in the works that will eventually lead me back to FBA on a larger scale but I'm maximizing Ebay right now. That's my moneymaker. I'm seriously considering upgrading to an Anchor subscription at this point.

The few things I can say to anyone trying to figure out this ecommerce thing is be persistent, keep expanding your knowledge, don't limit yourself and focus on your strengths. Try everything. Working on graphics for Merch By Amazon gave me the skills to put together an aesthetically pleasing ad creative. My biggest tip would be: Don't slack on your research. I recognized that that was one of my strengths. I can research a subject I know nothing about and break shyt down to it's last molecule until I understand it completely so I applied that to audience, product and niche research. Recognize your strengths and amplify them. It's okay sometimes to be like "I'm really fukking good at this" and not feel any type of way about that. One day I was thinking about the different types of suppliers I was able to build relationships with, different platforms I was able to make money on and shyt I'm doing that other sellers are not even thinking about doing like "damn how did I finesse this?" The average seller online is not chopping it up with an Antique rug salesman in Turkey on WhatsApp and getting him to ship rugs to bidders on LiveAuctioneers. That's what I was doing at one point. Look back at all of your past wins, recognize what separates you from the pack and hone in on that.

Great post!

It isnt said enough but developing and leveraging negotiation skills can be where most of your profit is made in e-commerce. Poor product selection at this stage can screw everything up but good selection can give you sales and wins for years.

Keep at it breh!

 

[MMS]

My partner is a signature away from closing a $100K deal with a real estate investor

pray for us brehs

 

[Grizzly]

I've officially hit $10k in online sales. That's in less than 2 months. God is good. This was one of a handful of goals that I set and I didn't know how I was going to pull it off but I kept listing, researching and making adjustments until I struck gold and I've been striking gold ever since. After a while you develop the ability to look at a product and say "I can make some good money off that." You literally know a winner when you see one. You already have an idea of what keywords you need to use to get your products in front of the right audience and how to price it accordingly. After that it's just a matter of finding the right supplier. I'm juiced about this though and I'm going to continue raising the bar. I'm tryna do $10k in a week now. shyt, more than that. I know I can pull it off.

I started my second Ebay store like I said I would in the previous post and I also ordered an Amazon Photo Studio so I can take more professional looking photos for my listings. The only thing I'm waiting on now is that and my poly mailers. My last shipment from the fulfillment center was delivered two days ago so I have all of my inventory. I was looking for a good camera in the $100-$200 range too but I think I'm gonna rock with my iPhone. Lighting seems to be what matters the most and the lightbox handles all of that.

Anyway, too much talking, lol. back to business. I'll holla in a couple weeks.

Sidebar: If anyone on here is interested in creating a Shopify site anytime soon I have the Shoptimized and Retina themes on deck for ya'll (non-nulled). Just shoot me a pm. Those are two of the highest converting themes you can get and will increase your chances for success. This is just a way to give back. If you need help with Ebay or getting started with FBA, I'm open to questions as well.

 

[Silkk]

I've officially hit $10k in online sales. That's in less than 2 months. God is good. This was one of a handful of goals that I set and I didn't know how I was going to pull it off but I kept listing, researching and making adjustments until I struck gold and I've been striking gold ever since. After a while you develop the ability to look at a product and say "I can make some good money off that." You literally know a winner when you see one. You already have an idea of what keywords you need to use to get your products in front of the right audience and how to price it accordingly. After that it's just a matter of finding the right supplier. I'm juiced about this though and I'm going to continue raising the bar. I'm tryna do $10k in a week now. shyt, more than that. I know I can pull it off.

I started my second Ebay store like I said I would in the previous post and I also ordered an Amazon Photo Studio so I can take more professional looking photos for my listings. The only thing I'm waiting on now is that and my poly mailers. My last shipment from the fulfillment center was delivered two days ago so I have all of my inventory. I was looking for a good camera in the $100-$200 range too but I think I'm gonna rock with my iPhone. Lighting seems to be what matters the most and the lightbox handles all of that.

Anyway, too much talking, lol. back to business. I'll holla in a couple weeks.

Sidebar: If anyone on here is interested in creating a Shopify site anytime soon I have the Shoptimized and Retina themes on deck for ya'll (non-nulled). Just shoot me a pm. Those are two of the highest converting themes you can get and will increase your chances for success. This is just a way to give back. If you need help with Ebay or getting started with FBA, I'm open to questions as well.

Keep your ass right here breh, I got some questions when I make it home

 

[Grizzly]

Keep your ass right here breh, I got some questions when I make it home

I'm here bro, lol. You know the Coli can be a huge time waster if you let it so I be in and out.

 

[Silkk]

I'm here bro, lol. You know the Coli can be a huge time waster if you let it so I be in and out.

Definitely, I'm probably gonna take a hiatus soon once I get everything figured out.

What are you using to drive traffic to your ebay listings? Or the best ways in your opinion?

 

[Grizzly]

Definitely, I'm probably gonna take a hiatus soon once I get everything figured out.

What are you using to drive traffic to your ebay listings? Or the best ways in your opinion?

The absolute best way to drive traffic is through promoted listings + markdown sales. When you're making a listing, Ebay always tells you the rate + cost to promote it and I always add that into the listing price. That way no matter how the customer finds your product you always come out on top. If a customer finds my product organically and purchases it then cool. I only have to pay the Final Value Fee (FVF) and I end up making extra profit from the ad fee (+). If they purchase it through promoted listings that's cool too. I already covered the ad fees so I'm not tripping off that. I'm not getting the extras but I'm still gonna make good profit cause I used smart pricing. Either way it goes, I'm in the green.

The best thing about this method is you start off using promoted listings but once you get more sales and more positive feedback you start getting more organic sales so you can lower your price and ad rate over time. For example, I created a listing last week and started off with double the trending ad rate on purpose just to get it moving. I got one sale here, one sale there, another sale until the end of the week I had like 4 total. These were all through promoted listings but I saw I had 20 watchers. This week the sales were still spread out but my search ranking was getting higher and higher. Yesterday, I woke up and checked my phone. I made two sales in my sleep and made another sale before the afternoon. That's a few hundo. All organic. I got people messaging me a few times a day now about this listing and I have 50+ watchers. I stopped running markdown sales for it and I can lower my ad rate because I'm getting organic search traffic now. Ebay has some great tools if you figure out how to use them to your advantage.

 

[Silkk]

The absolute best way to drive traffic is through promoted listings + markdown sales. When you're making a listing, Ebay always tells you the rate + cost to promote it and I always add that into the listing price. That way no matter how the customer finds your product you always come out on top. If a customer finds my product organically and purchases it then cool. I only have to pay the Final Value Fee (FVF) and I end up making extra profit from the ad fee (+). If they purchase it through promoted listings that's cool too. I already covered the ad fees so I'm not tripping off that. I'm not getting the extras but I'm still gonna make good profit cause I used smart pricing. Either way it goes, I'm in the green.

The best thing about this method is you start off using promoted listings but once you get more sales and more positive feedback you start getting more organic sales so you can lower your price and ad rate over time. For example, I created a listing last week and started off with double the trending ad rate on purpose just to get it moving. I got one sale here, one sale there, another sale until the end of the week I had like 4 total. These were all through promoted listings but I saw I had 20 watchers. This week the sales were still spread out but my search ranking was getting higher and higher. Yesterday, I woke up and checked my phone. I made two sales in my sleep and made another sale before the afternoon. That's a few hundo. All organic. I got people messaging me a few times a day now about this listing and I have 50+ watchers. I stopped running markdown sales for it and I can lower my ad rate because I'm getting organic search traffic now. Ebay has some great tools if you figure out how to use them to your advantage.

Props, gonna read over this tomorrow morning. May have some more questions, Need you to stick around through the weekend periodically lol.