- Hey everyone and welcome to today's video.
Today I'm going to be addressing the two most common issues
I see new online arbitrage sellers face for Amazon FBA
and that is they can't find profitable items
in Tactical Arbitrage,
and if they do those items are gated.
So I'm gonna give three solutions to that
as well as suggest certain areas to start
looking for items in.
So, the very first thing before I get into anything is,
is I want you to just to have the mindset
that setting up a scan should take 10 to 15 minutes
for proper research.
So what I mean by that is,
is you should be doing research on stores
which stores have sales.
So, you should be having certain stores that you're scanning
maybe once a week or once every other week,
and then there should be new stores that you're trying
but you're looking for the sales.
And you should be looking for the sales
regardless of whatever you're scanning,
but that you can do this
by going to TopCashback or Ebates first
and see okay what percent off of this store can I get.
And we're going to use Macy's as an example.
So let's say we go to Ebates
and we can get 10% off Macy's.
So the next step is,
okay let's go to the store
and see what sale they are having today.
So that may mean going scrolling
all the way down at the bottom
and clicking on sales.
You may have to scroll through something at the top.
Maybe, so let's say they're having
a 20% off storewide sale.
Now sometimes it's just a certain category
and maybe you just want to scan that particular category
with that percent off.
But we're going to use 20% off the entire store
as an example.
So counting our 10% off from Ebates,
the 20% off from the store
and let's say we have a credit card that's 1% cashback,
that's 31% off our entire purchase.
So now what you're going to do
is you're going to plug that into the filter section
in your Tactical Arbitrage,
that way when you run the scan
the Tactical Arbitrage will account for those discounts
to give you more items that you could possibly source.
Now, the next problem that people face is gated categories.
So, I'm gonna go ahead right here
and give you guys a list of categories
that I think are great for beginners
to start sourcing in.
Those categories include home and kitchen,
tools and home improvement, books,
sports and outdoors, arts crafts and sewing,
office products, grocery and gourmet foods,
garden and outdoor, pet supplies and baby.
Now there maybe some other products that you can list
in some of these other categories
that I didn't mention,
but those are great beginner categories
and I think you should just double down on those.
So now what you're going to do
is in the Easy Bulk section of your Tactical Arbitrage,
is only pick items that you see
that fall into those categories.
So sometimes it's just using common sense
and you're going, scrolling through the Easy Bulk,
finding items that match that lineup
with those Amazon categories
and just use your best judgment.
Sometimes it's not spelled out exactly in black and white.
Now once you do that and you select your categories
in your Easy Bulk,
you have your sale off, you run your scan,
you say, "Chris I'm still finding some gated brands."
And here's what I want you to do with those gated brands.
You're going to make a spreadsheet of these gated brands.
You're going to, you can sort 'em from A to Z if you'd like,
but just keep track of them.
And you're going to plug those in
to your Tactical Arbitrage filters
with words you do not want to show up in the scan,
and then that way those products do not show up
in your Tactical Arbitrage scans.
So then you're not going to get those gated brands
and you won't waste time with those.
But I'm going to even take it one step farther.
Now your goal is to get ungated in those brands,
and I'm not going to really touch on the ways to do that
in this video,
but I will leave a link in the description below
on a video I have of how to get ungated
as well as how to find wholesale suppliers online
from your laptop.
And those are really what you're going to want
to start selling with those brands.
So guys, that's pretty much it with this video.
I hope you found some value in it,
and I will see you next time.
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