- So in this week's video, I want to show you how you
can quickly find items to bundle on Amazon FBA.
However, you can also use this same strategy of
how to find items to bundle and sell these same
bundle items on Ebay as well as your own website,
if you have your own website.
This strategy also works really well with dropshipping.
I also want to quickly explain why bundling rocks
if you're an Ebay, Amazon FBA, importer, or
a dropship seller, or all five.
Now, the great thing about this strategy is
it's really simple and very easy to replicate.
Which means, if you have one or more low cost virtual
assistants working for you, they can use this same
strategy to find exactly which items to bundle.
Anyone that's been following me long enough knows that
everything I do and teach must be easy to duplicate
or replicate so it can be outsourced to low cost,
overseas virtual assistants.
If you want to build a business that works without you,
you need to avoid complicated procedures that
only you can do.
Now if you want a business that runs completely
without you, every task must be able to be outsourced.
This bundling strategy is very easy to outsource.
Okay, let's start with why bundling rocks.
And let's start with Amazon.
Every item on Amazon has a ASIN number with a barcode.
ASIN, which is short for
Amazon Standard Identification Number.
Now, the ASIN is a 10 character alpha numeric
unique identify which is assigned by Amazon
and also Amazon's partners.
Now, the reason I'm talking about ASIN numbers is,
if an item on Amazon has had a lot of sales and a lot
of reviews, it can be very difficult to start selling
that same item if your on the ground floor and
you've never sold that item ever before.
The seller showing in the Buy Box on Amazon might have
already sold the same item 500+ times. So, if you choose
to sell that same item, it can often take some time
to gain momentum and for your listing to appear
high in the search results. So instead, or as well as
competing against other sellers, an extremely effective
method is simply create a brand new product with a
brand new ASIN number. This new product is the same
product, but with a bundled product.
The great thing is, Amazon shows you exactly which
products for you to bundle.
Let's say you're selling this coffee and espresso maker.
If you look at this item on Amazon, if you scroll down to
the bottom of the listing, Amazon shows you frequently
bought together.
This frequently bought together is absolute gold.
Amazon is telling you exactly what
buyers are choosing to purchase with this item.
These are the items that you can bundle. You can
also use this same information and bundle the same
items on Ebay and your own website, if you've got
your own website, and you can do this same bundling with it
on Amazon FBA or dropshipping.
Now, this normally leads to the next question of,
how do I get these items bundled from my supplier and
shipped to an Amazon warehouse.
Of course, life is really easy if the same supplier can
supply both items, but if that's not the case, what we do
is get supplier A to send their product to supplier B.
We then get supplier B to put item A and item B
in a plain brown box, and then simply stick a barcode on it
which has a new Amazon ASIN number.
Now most suppliers are happy to do this and
they normally don't charge much extra for doing it.
All this strategy requires from your supplier is a plain
cardboard box, and a sticky label which they can print out
from their laser printer.
And you can either get your supplier to print out the sticky
label or you can print them out yourself and send them to
your supplier.
And once supplier B has put the two items in a
cardboard box and slapped the stick on it, which has
the ASIN number and barcode, this can now be shipped
straight to an Amazon warehouse if you're selling on
Amazon FBA.
When you do this strategy of sending items from
supplier A to supplier B, to keep the shipping costs down,
try to always ship the lightest item to supplier B.
In other words, item A is always the lightest
and item B is the heaviest.
If you're dropshipping, try to always use bundle items
which come from one supplier. You can, of course,
use items from different dropship suppliers, but this really
jacks the price up cause now you need to pay lots of
shipping, and it obviously increases the workload as
you're now using two suppliers for each sale
for the one item.
Anyway, that's all for this week,
please scroll down and leave me a comment below.
Until next week, list more, sell more,
this is Neil Waterhouse.