• Amazon is direct-to-consumer.
  What I mean by this is that selling on Amazon does not require you to market your products the same way that having your own Shopify website would. Amazon is already the largest e-comm platform in the world with hundreds of millions of users actively searching for products to buy - meaning your product is already exposed to tons of people just by being listed for sale on Amazon. When you're selling on Shopify for example, no one is going to ever see your product unless you are doing some form of marketing. This means that you are much more inclined to having organic sales with a smaller budget because the platform you are selling on already has consistent traffic.
  


• Selling on Amazon is mostly autopilot.
  Before I go further, I do want to make it clear that selling on Amazon is not easy and will not make you rich in just a few months. It requires a lot of research and planning before your product even hits the market. However once sales are live, there is not much work that goes into it because Amazon is handling all your inventory and customer service. The main thing you focus on throughout the week is monitoring inventory count and managing your ads, which in total does not account for a ton of time.
  


• More consistent earnings.
  Earnings are a lot more consistent on Amazon compared to other platforms because of their unique ranking algorithm. Similar to search engines, your product can be ranked for particular keywords or phrases. Your ranking is built upon several factors: impressions, conversions, listing quality, traffic/sales consistency, etc. The higher your ranking, the more consistent flow of traffic you will have to your listing which means a more consistent revenue stream. Selling on platforms like Shopify, for example, you likely aren't getting any traffic to your website at all unless you are running adds, have incredible SEO, or have built a brand with a large following. Just like eBay, Amazon already has a massive user-base that are actively searching for products to buy.
  


• Larger/easier scaling opportunities.
  Having a product/brand that already has consistent sales on Amazon sets you up for massive scaling opportunities in other retail markets. Granted, the same could be said if you have a Shopify brand for example, however using the FBA infrastructure makes this process very easy to start. Amazon FBA offers what is called "multi-channel fulfillment," which essentially means you can use the FBA services on your own website or through other online retailers like Walmart for example, or even other countries Amazon offers their products to. If you aren't sure what I mean by this, you are still storing your products at Amazon's fulfillment centers and having them manage your inventory and shipments. But your products are also listed for sale on your own website or other retailer's websites, and anytime you get a sale Amazon will ship to the customer. Everything is connected seamlessly, making it extremely easy to sell through several different channels all through the same platform.
  

(Nov 23, 2018 07:26 PM)Junior. Wrote:  Thank you very much for this information I was in search for it.

(Nov 26, 2018 12:29 AM)Royac Wrote:  Great post man!
Amazon is the way to start!

(Nov 29, 2018 08:32 PM)wrathog Wrote:  Thank you for this detailed post. Is it possible to dropship items ?