Want to know how much it costs to start an Amazon FBA business? Good news! It’s not a TON of money, and I’m going to share with you how you can get started for well under $1,000!
It’s not a TON of money, and I’m going to share with you how you can get started for well under $1,000!
One of the BEST things about selling on Amazon is that you don’t have to spend a lot of money to do it. There are so many other business opportunities where you have to buy “kits”, or pay franchise fees, or build fancy websites!
With Amazon, you don’t have to do any of those things.
You never have to sell to your friends and you never have to “pay” money to your “upline”.
3 Must Haves For Starting Your Amazon Business:
There are 3 things that I recommend you spending money on when you decide that selling on Amazon is for you.
- Inventory
- Tools & Supplies
- Training
Inventory
Inventory is what you are going to be selling on Amazon. This is the baseline of your business and how much money you will make.
Since this is a business of reselling, you have to have things to sell to the customers.
I recommend starting with around $500 in “seed money” that you can use to purchase inventory with.
The reason I recommend this amount is because it will give you a good amount of products so you can start seeing sales right away, without running out of inventory on day one (this is a good/bad problem).
When you start buying inventory, make sure to use the Amazon Seller App or the FBA Calculator to make sure the items are going to be profitable. There are lots of fees that come with the sales you have on Amazon, so they need to be calculated ahead of time.
Tools & Supplies
You can start your Amazon business without many tools or supplies, but there are a few that you MUST HAVE.
To start with, here are the bare minimum things you need to get started:
- Computer - where you work inside your seller account
- Smart Phone - what you use to look up products in the store
- Scanning App - you can use the Amazon Seller App for free
- Printer - to print box shipping labels and product labels
- Paper or Shipping Labels - used for sending your products to Amazon
- Avery Address Labels - used to label the items you send in, so Amazon knows they are yours
- Scale - to weigh the boxes you are sending into Amazon (can be a bathroom scale)
- Boxes - don’t have to be new, just have to be clean. You can get free ones from stores like Walmart or grocery stores. Or buy them for around $1 a piece.
- Packing / Shipping Tape - To close the boxes you are sending to Amazon
Assuming you already have a smartphone, computer and printer you could get the rest for under $100.
You can see all of the exact versions that we recommend on our recommended tools page.
Training
When it comes to starting an Amazon business, taking a training course is absolutely optional! But, I highly recommend it.
Our Amazon Boot Camp is a step-by-step video course that will take you from the concept of having an Amazon business, to making sales.
Sure, you can spend time checking out all of the free information on YouTube, Google searches, and blogs. But, do you really want to spend 20 hours piecemealing a bunch of information from multiple sources? Or would you rather learn from ONE person who has been where you are now? Selling on Amazon has made us a full-time income for over 5 years now. So we know what we are talking about!
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Is it necessary to have a LASER printer (at least, in the beginning)? We have an HP Officejet Pro 8500A Plus printer, which works great for us, but I ‘ve read that a LASER printer is necessary. I don’t know that I can afford another printer right now, along with the other tools needed, but I want to start off right and not have my shipments rejected by Amazon.
You can use that to start with 🙂
Thank you! I read that the need/requirement for a laser printer had something to do with the labels possibly smudging or rubbing off (before arriving at Amazon???), so do I need to do anything other than print them off and use them as normal before I send them?
Does your videos teach people how to sell on Amazon as a “middle person”? Meaning selling products from say WalMart through your Amazon account?
the strategy that we teach is called retail arbitrage. Buying locally or online from major retailers. Then selling them on Amazon.
Hello my name is david im loveing what i see,and im intersted in your Boot Camp on how you teach Retail Arbitrage, but do u teach on how to Private Labelling aswell.
we do not teach private label 🙂
I am FBM seller generating $30000 permonth on amazon and other platform.but I am sick of customer services which cost me 40% of time.I am considering transfer my main business to FBA, that’s how I found your blog, very informative, thank you!
just subscribed your list, 5 must have tool is cool!