Coli Brehs Who Need A Side Hustle: Let Me Put You Up On Game With Amazon FBA

[Hawaiian Punch]

Just wanted to give everybody in this thread props. Matter of fact this whole forum. Went official and got my company going and once I got all the accounts set up I signed up for a amazon profession account. Being doing a combination of merchant fulfilled orders and fba. I did research before and made sure I had basic items like a fba scan account, Bluetooth scanner, scale, label printer and packing materials. Did retail arbitrage at yard sales and clearance isles. First package I sent to amazon had shyt selling damn near right as it hit the receiving center. I'm still pretty new to this so I still have to navigate the waters of getting the right inventory but it feels good to make a flip online.

In addition to that I set up a dropshipping site and have an online shop. Been hitting social media hard with my designs and other items I have for sale. Applied for merch by amazon but I know it's a long wait. Few items sold here and there, but I have work to do. Right now for me it's all about staying diversified. Throw as many nets out there and seeing what bites. Very excited nonetheless.

 

[Hawaiian Punch]

Yea why not. Amazon gets way more traffic that Esty.

fukk Etsy. Those a$$holes banned my shop for violating their times. I don't care I own my site name and was using them as a redirect.

 

[satam55]

Good Morning America segment from a few weeks ago:

Ryan Grant said raiding the discount aisles at big box stores and flipping the items on Amazon started as a side hustle but has since become a booming business.

 

[MasterOfAllHeSurveyz]

How much web content are you writing on a daily basis on average? I ask cuz I do freelance on Upwork every now and then, and I have to write a bunch of shyt for almost pennies. Shyt is frustrating as hell, but I choose that evil or working part time elsewhere.

I think I'm in the same boat as you bruh. It's to the point that for some of these rates I gotta use voice dictation software just to make it make sense. That's why I'm trying to diversify my income streams.

Say NO to content mills. You could be making a couple of Gs/month minimum in no time using freelance job boards & Google to build your initial portfolio (example Google search string: "write for us" + "$XXX"). Get paid actual dollar amounts ($50 to $500) instead of fishing at the bottom of the barrel on those types of sites for pennies.

The most I've ever made for a single article was $2500 for a feature in one of those corny airplane magazines you'd think that no one ever reads.

I mostly write for Vultr & Linode if I need some easy quick cash. Unfortunately, I'm learning that Vultr gets backlogged to hell around the holidays though. If they approve all of my submitted tuts, I'll get $2625 for 8 original and 3 update tutorials. The only downside for both is strict adherence to the Markdown (YAML) format.

 

[vanza]

When you pay shipping fees, do you make up for it by charging shipping on amazon?

I do similar thing, I charge but im not that into it unlike my sibling..buying things from China too, real cheap and sell it for more money here, almost all companies get from China

 

[Alaafin]

@BlackPearl The Empress

was private labeling a better experience than reselling? trying to figure out if the hassle with chinese suppliers is worth it

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

@BlackPearl The Empress

was private labeling a better experience than reselling? trying to figure out if the hassle with chinese suppliers is worth it

It's a long term vs short term.

Reselling is short term. Generally, easy to find and easy to ship out with very little research however it is not sustainable.

Private labeling takes more time and cost more $$ upfront but is better in the long term b/c you do not share listings, you can brand etc

However, I'd rather have 10 private label products any day rather than 10 items from resell.

In short, do both. Don't limit yourself.

 

[Silkk]

Bump, need to read through this as well

 

[Mofongo]

I killed this Christmas. Next Christmas is gonna be crazy.

Details?

 

[MMS]

I actually have posted a guide for Amazon FBA on Youtube

Our business plan and guide (receive it through my Facebook messenger link)
Messenger

It will link you to videos for each of my sections. Will stay completely free for COLI users (planning to up the price to $297)

Subscribe if you like it!

 

[CASHAPP]

I sell damn near everything man; the only categories I don't sell in are the gated ones (Grocery, DVDs, Clothes, Automotive, Health/Beauty) although I am currently in the approval process to get in on those. Grocery and Health/Beauty are particularly appealing because people in those categories are extremely brand loyal and tend to re-order the same product once they run out.

Generally speaking your best shot is going for the most recognizable brands (ex: right now I'm pumping a lot of GE light bulbs) because people gravitate to those, but you never know what's going to have a high profit margin. That's another thing, when scanning never assume you know what will or won't sell. Sometimes the cruddiest, cheapest looking product on the rack is the one that has a high margin, there's simply no way to know until you scan it.

As far as your question about quantity. This is what sets liquidation stores above retail spots. There's money to be made at places like Target and Ross etc so I don't intend to shyt on those, but generally they're only going to carry 1 to 8 of any one product. Whereas at liquidation spots, they're more likely to have a dozen or more of a product and they will gladly clear out the shelf/go into the back to get the rest because they want that old merch to GTFO so they can get in new stuff.

Hope that answers your question.



I was listening to a podcast (check link) where this cac couple was talking about how they're making six figures annually from FBA. I'm not there yet but I've learned a lot from their podcast and site.

I ordered a case of 20 Express Boxes for free on UPS.com, have you used these boxes before and do you have an idea on how much the shipping fees would come out to? Like on average, its better to buy in bulk right? What would the range of the shipping fees be if I got say 200 books? And remember this large UPS Express Box just holds up to 30 pounds

 

[Silkk]

I ordered a case of 20 Express Boxes for free on UPS.com, have you used these boxes before and do you have an idea on how much the shipping fees would come out to? Like on average, its better to buy in bulk right? What would the range of the shipping fees be if I got say 200 books? And remember this large UPS Express Box just holds up to 30 pounds

How?

Any way to get free packing peanuts/air bubbles?

 

[Silkk]

Just checked.....

Just got a gang of free shipping supplies from UPS. Bout to do the same with USPS.

How the hell I ain't been knew about this

 

[CASHAPP]

Just checked.....

Just got a gang of free shipping supplies from UPS. Bout to do the same with USPS.

How the hell I ain't been knew about this

Yep basically you just need an account

You can also get 1 year of UPS Smart Pickup where they can pick up your FBA packages that you leave out. You can choose to select delivery in advanced or do it randomly throughout the week.

1-Year UPS Smart Pickup Trial Free (new and current customers)

You just call them and have them make sure your address is added to their list

always great to find some shortcuts in this business

What i'm gonna focus on now is finding promo codes for when i get the shipping fees in Amazon FBA. I wanna be paying as little as possible.

By the way I chose to just pick up boxes from Home Depot that hold up to 50 pounds. With the exception of the free UPS pickup i learned in life that free ain't always the best. But using their express boxes with a 30 pound limit will increase fees for all of us. I think we save more money if we use the regular UPS boxes that hold up to 50 pounds or from Home Depot Lowes or wherever

Anyone who appreciates this info I gave can you make a small $1 donation to my GoFundMe.

 

[Silkk]

@ATLANTA Any way to get free pickup or get shipping for free with either USPS or UPS?