hey what's up guys so we talk a lot
about print on demand on this channel
but
a lot of you guys know that my
e-commerce journey my personal journey
actually started with amazon fba and
alibaba
played a big role in me sourcing
my first product and ultimately building
a relationship that's spanned over four
years now
with the supplier of that first product
that i've grown into a brand
over 10 skus that i'm very proud of you
know i mean looking back i would have
never guessed it would get this far
uh but it's you know made me quite a bit
of money and
i want that for everybody for every one
of you um those of you guys that have
caught some of my interviews that i've
done lately
i like to highlight some print on demand
success stories
on my channel especially people like in
my facebook community
and we often talk about like what's next
and um they often have their sites set
on
expanding their print-on-demand business
uh to amazon
seller central if they're not already
there and then often using the seller
central account
to sell physical private label products
or you know it could be wholesale uh but
typically using fulfillment by amazon
and i've even had people on
that were experts in walmart and you can
expand that physical product business
onto other platforms of course you
already know we're a big fan of doing
that
on this channel so specifically what i
want to show you today
is how we can use alibaba to connect
with suppliers and manufacturers around
the world because typically that's what
we're going to have to do
if we want to uh be competitive with our
pricing so i'm going to show you exactly
how to do that and i'm going to show you
a couple examples
of real products that we can use and i'm
going to touch on
a promotion that they're running in
march called the march expo so stay
tuned
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all right so let's talk about alibaba i
will of course drop a link to the
website
in the description as well as a link to
their youtube channel in case you'd like
to follow them
for updates they've got some really cool
stuff in the works i mean it's certainly
changed uh for the better since i first
used it in
late 2016. so this is what the website
currently looks like and this is where i
come
when i begin the search to source
a product or at least to find additional
information about what the like
manufacturing costs are going to be
and that also helps me project like what
the inbound shipping costs are going to
be if i want to import that
into the united states i've also sold on
uh via amazon's pan european program
where it allows me to sell
in five international markets in europe
but only have to send inventory to a
single location
so you know it basically starts here
though right there at the top
the search bar i typed in stackable
plastic
storage bin then i hit search now you'll
instantly get results it actually says
6935 results
for stackable plastic storage bin but i
want to
thin that out a little bit what i always
recommend doing is on the left hand side
you have some filters
under supplier types i always check
trade assurance
where you get a 30 day window as long as
you
use alibaba's payments they'll basically
refund you if anything goes wrong
at a high level of course there's terms
and conditions there that you can
explore but at a high level that's what
you're
you're getting protection there and you
can check verified supplier
which also uh increases your
likelihood of having a good experience
let's say i mean i've never had a bad
experience i'm lucky maybe knock on wood
although i don't know that many people
that have i've always had great
experiences
using alibaba when you use verified
supplier
these factories that you work with will
have gone through a
third-party audit an extensive
third-party audit
so they don't give that out lightly and
that's just another layer of security
that you can rest your hat on
now also i put a little arrow over there
on the
march label now if you guys are watching
this video outside of the window of the
march expo that may not be there
but because that is there let's talk a
little bit about the
march expo in a second
and what it means by the way you can see
there that i've checked all three of
those and then it has changed
the search results a little bit and by
the way
i mean look at the second product from
the right it's giving you
stackable storage units i don't think i
saw those on amazon and it's showing you
that you can use these for shoes
and i mean i don't know about you guys i
might just this might just be me but
like i could use that product right
there
i've got way too many shoes shoes are
one of those things that like i can't
help myself but splurge on it's one of
those things i'm willing to splurge on
um i don't really think twice about it
like if i want a pair of shoes i just
buy them
not to brag or anything but you know
it's just one of those things um all
right so
now let me tell you a second about the
march expo i'm releasing this video
early on in march that is intentional
because i want you guys to be able to
take advantage of this if you've been
thinking about
looking at alibaba for potentially a
product that you want to sell
online by the way you don't have to do
it on amazon or through amazon fba you
can order it to your house and manually
fulfill orders through a marketplace
like ebay
a lot of people get their start doing
that i personally i mean that was the
first way i ever sold online
so you can consider that you can also
use craigslist don't overlook craigslist
i mean a lot of people are on that site
all right so by the way i'll put a link
to the march expo
in the description so you can come right
here to this page check it out
one of the cool things i saw earlier
this is so random right but i was like
looking at the live streams page and i
don't think i captured a picture of
the one i want to tell you about but um
i took a screenshot of three different
live streams that i was watching earlier
but there was one specifically that like
of all the products it was so random
they were showing off um like high-end
concert um concert lighting you know
what i mean like it's not just concerts
i guess in my mind it's always concerts
but like
uh professional venue lighting you know
like the one thing i miss most
due to kovid is live music live concerts
you know and i
me and some of my buddies were into the
electronic music scene and you just get
to see some crazy light shows
and so of course the first live stream
that i tuned into
was somebody demoing these like high-end
light show lights and it was super cool
um you know so this is i mean you don't
have to check out the live streams
if it's not your thing i was just kind
of exploring like what's going on here
and the one in the bottom left corner by
the way they all speak english
and the one in the bottom left corner
was like really professionally run
they it was almost like they were
running like a qvc you guys remember qvc
that television channel
where they bring the product in and then
they basically are like selling it to
you
so the one on the bottom left was really
impressive
so in addition to the live streams here
are just some high level things i wanted
to highlight
that are a part of the march expo all
right there's over a million new
products that are being
i guess launched to the public or open
to the public there's limited discounts
there's over 50 000 suppliers that were
selected to participate
and over 15 000 of them are showing off
these products
via live streams so they're basically
running throughout the day i think i
read that there was like on average a
thousand live streams a day
and you can get free shipping for new
buyers on your first order
i put a separate slide here just to
elaborate on the free shipping some
notes
so the first order uh for new for new
buyers you get free shipping
alibaba has selected shipping carriers
in specific countries so as you would
imagine it's not like completely
open-ended there are some terms that
will apply
you can get a 30 or sorry on a product
that is over 30
you can get shipping discounts up to 40
and
on products over a thousand dollars or
product orders over a thousand dollars
you can get shipping discounts up to
one hundred dollars hey when we're
flipping products for a profit
anything that affects the bottom line in
your favor helps so i wanted to make you
guys aware of that
so bouncing back to the stackable
storage containers that we found on
amazon by the way they're selling
six for 13.25
and also if you look at the dimensions
that they put in the title these are
actually smaller than
i think they look at a glance like i
think they were i thought they were
bigger at least
when i initially saw the picture but i
think they're a little bit smaller than
they seem
which would help save on like shipping
costs for instance
storage fees at amazon these are all
things you have to consider this is why
i spent as long as i did writing an
amazon fba course
because i wanted to make sure that
everybody who learns how to sell on
amazon from me
considers all of these even if it's your
first time selling a product on amazon
so here we go bounce back to alibaba
make sure that we
enabled the trade assurance verified
supplier and in this case i checked the
march expo
filter and i ended up finding basically
the exact same product so who knows this
could be the same manufacturer
jungle scout side note does actually
have another tool where they help
connect
products on amazon to the same
manufacturer
i'm not exactly sure how they do that i
think they went in depth
in their youtube channel actually
talking about how they do it but just
letting you know that is out there too
so i'll put a link to jungle scout in
the description if you want to check
that out
but here you can find the product
listed on alibaba by the way when you
get to the actual listing screen when
you click a product
from the search results you don't just
go to like
it's not like amazon where you find the
product page
and multiple people can sell it that are
competing for the buy box
on alibaba you can find the same product
being sold by
different suppliers and they each have
their own listing so i just wanted to
make sure you guys knew that
now if you scroll down on this page you
can find sections
and they will show you similar products
so
what i always recommend doing is
reaching out to more than one supplier
and you know just asking questions
asking them to give you
quotes on what you may project
as your first order quantity which most
likely
is not going to be as many units as you
would project to sell
once your product is really established
and ranking high on
amazon which if you're thinking how do i
get those numbers
going back to the gen the jungle scout
chrome extension
that helps you project the numbers that
you'll be seeing once your product is
established so you want to ask those
questions ahead of time
build a little bit of rapport with your
supplier
and then you know don't go in and just
only ask one supplier
or purchase immediately from one
supplier you also want to order samples
you know it's just a best practice so or
at least in my mind it's a best practice
so
this section helps you find other
suppliers that you can talk to
and potentially work with you know you
want to figure out which one's the best
fit for you
and move forward with them because like
i said you might find yourself in my
shoes four years later
um having a relationship a really strong
relationship built
with your suppliers i mean i've actually
flown to china
and uh didn't get to meet that supplier
but i i met with my freight forwarder
that i've worked with for over four
years so that was a really cool
experience as well
all right so you can also scroll further
down and you can find a description of
the product and notice the other tab
is the company profile i always
recommend checking that out
uh they put a lot of cool information
typically i mean most in most
of my experience they'll often put like
a video tour
of their um facilities and stuff like
that and while i was in china i actually
got to tour a couple
um manufacturing facilities as well and
uh you know it was cool because it
wasn't like you know it was very it was
very
professional is the way i would describe
it like we got a very professional tour
and then so when you're ready to move
forward guys on the sidebar
that i showed you you can find these
three buttons right well four buttons
but
start order contact supplier call us or
add to cart
now like i mentioned earlier my personal
recommendation
reach out to the supplier use the
contact supplier
alibaba has a messaging system built
into the website
and in addition to using that it's
really easy to use
you get emails when you um essentially
you get an email when you receive a
message
so if you forget to check the only
reason i'm mentioning this is because
let's say you reach out to like five
different suppliers you may get
responses at different times
so you'll get an email typically when
you receive a response reminding you to
go
and um you know continue the
conversation so
oh and then i mentioned that you don't
have to use the jungle scout product
database to find
opportunities of products to sell on
amazon by the way
it's often favorable to be early to sell
anything on amazon we talked about that
in the print-on-demand context
but also you know it can be physical
products that you maybe sell under your
own private label
now you can go to the march expo again
it's linked in the description
and you can scroll down on the page and
you can find things like top trends by
category
editor's choice i'll also put a little
video overlay here
just showing me scrolling down
additional product suggestions
that you can find right there on that
page so if anything catches your eye
you know go and find it on amazon this
is where it does help to have that
jungle scout chrome extension because
then you can get a really quick insight
without having to you know spend 30
minutes or an hour manually combing
through and trying to project if you can
be successful selling that product
you know when you have the jungle scout
chrome extension it really helps to like
you know start here this is your list of
products bounce on over to amazon which
is a unique marketplace because again
they give us bsr with bsr we can project
the sales without you know what other
marketplace does that i'm not aware of
any
so amazon's awesome alibaba's awesome
because they're giving you
an like a really long list of products
that you can check out and it's right
there at your fingertips you don't have
to go pay for you know the jungle scout
product database
so check that out guys and hey that's
all i wanted to cover in this video
thank you so much for watching till the
end i hope you like it i know we talk a
lot about print on demand but don't
forget
my route started with private label on
amazon via amazon fba so i'm happy to
make this video for you guys i hope
you check out the march expo and that's
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