What to Sell on Amazon: 11 Ways to Find Profitable Amazon Product Ideas

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In a previous post, we already discussed how to make money on Amazon. In this post, I’ll go in-depth on what to sell on the platform through Amazon FBA.

Fulfillment by Amazon is an initiative by the world’s largest online selling marketplace to help businesses store their products at fulfillment centers. Amazon is also responsible for packing and shipping the products to buyers.

By signing up for an account, you place your delivery process and customer service support in the hands of Amazon. Doing so allows you to focus on your business instead of worrying about shipments and customer relations.

More importantly, you get to reach out to millions of users shopping on Amazon – 244 million active users and counting, to be exact. Making your products searchable on Amazon increases your chances of getting found by your audience and generating a sale.

Now, you might be thinking that Amazon FBA is not for you because you don’t have any products to sell.

However, you don’t need to have a product on hand just yet. This post will help you determine what to sell on Amazon and the steps you need to take to bring your ideas to life and into your customer’s hands.

That said, we won’t be dealing with retail arbitrage in this post. We aren’t looking for retail products to be sold on Amazon at marked-up prices.

While people have found success with retail arbitrage on Amazon, there are a lot of issues with becoming a seller of someone else’s product like fighting for the buy box, lack of supply, and direct competition on the product listing. 

The growing disadvantages of retail arbitrage are what makes Amazon FBA a better option. You will have better earning potential by developing the products from scratch.

Top Selling Categories On Amazon

You can access all of Amazon’s top categories for free on Amazon’s best seller list. Don’t let anyone convince you that you need to pay to get access to Amazon’s best selling categories.

Trending products can be worth a look. Keep in mind that you want something that will still be a valuable long-term investment in your Amazon efforts.

Here are Amazon’s best selling categories:

Toys & Games

This niche makes a lot of sense. When even Toys R Us is going out of business, you know that online toy sales is really picking up some steam. 

This may be a market that you could break into with some ease. It’s not like all the options are that complex. You can check Amazon’s best seller lists to see what’s popular right now to find profitable products to sell. 

Product listings give you plenty of information to write review posts on each product.

Toys are super hot during the Christmas season, but hobbyists and birthdays mean you will see sales year round.

You can look at product descriptions to see if you’re excited about getting into. Study some Amazon ads to see where toy providers are dropping money to get more sales.

All this information is easily available on Amazon.com. Add in the strong shift to online sales over brick and mortar retail and you can see the potential here!

The rise of online sales for toys and games makes this niche all the more appealing. It becomes a self-feeding cycle.

The more games are sold online, the worse that retail stores perform. The worse that retail stores perform, the more toys and games are sold online.

If you can get a foot into this niche, you could build a raving fan base of people who love your product. Even so, it might be tough to get into the Toys & Games niche since there are so many name brand businesses dominating.

Electronics

Electronics is a category where Amazon is dominating with their own products. I can imagine that this would be pretty tough to break into. You can see that a lot of the top sellers are items that Amazon owns and manufactures:

This is a niche that I would be very slow to get involved with.

Camera & Photo

Here is a niche that might have some space for you. The Camera & Photo category has a wide range of items: home cameras, disposable camera, even cameras inside of pens. There are miniature microscopes and even light up selfie rings (I have no idea what these do, but someone is buying them by the truck loads).

This can be a challenging niche if you take it head on. But there are many back doors for a clever amazon FBA seller.

You’re not looking to make a new type of camera most of the time. But camera caps, carrying bags, portable lighting, portable green screens, stands, and light boxes are just a few of the types of gear that could make for a good Amazon FBA dropshipping opportunity.

This is a niche where a savvy entrepreneur could provide a new take on an old technology. This category has name brands (avoid those) but isn’t dominated by household names.

Video Games

Gift cards, consoles, and actual video games. There isn’t much you can do with this niche, to be honest.

Not as an Amazon FBA seller, anyway.

Books

Now this is a category that is ripe for new businesses. Selling a book isn’t the same process as selling a showerhead or an inflatable pool, but the money is there.

Amazon has made it crazy easy to self publish a book on their platform. There are the popular stories of kindle authors who made a small fortune becoming big best sellers on Kindle.

Even more common are the many thousands of authors who used Kindle to make thousands of dollars a month. Often setting up to make Kindle a passive income stream.

For some individuals, Kindle has become a full-time Amazon business, while for others it is a reliable side income. This  Kindle self-publishing study looks at the viability of publishing as a way to make money from Amazon without the risk or level of involvement that Amazon FBA or actually selling requires.

This niche is filled with opportunity and is waiting to be seized by the right entrepreneur.

Clothing, Shoes, & Jewelry

Clothing, shoes, & jewelry is another niche where there’s a lot of possibility for smart entrepreneurs. Be warned though: this niche is pretty crowded. It’s a lot easier to make a shirt than it is to come up with a unique idea for a new product.

That means you will be running into Amazon sellers at all levels. Those who are pure beginners. As well as the professional seller who really knows how to pick the right product, cut down on shipping costs, and making a selling plan to get the most out of their business.

If you get into this niche, you’ll need to be smart about coming up with new designs. You want to build something attractive that is different than other items on the marketplace.

Coming up with the right original designs for your products will be critical to succeeding as an amazon seller. Your product listings will need to pop. Your product descriptions will need to be on point. 

We have a whole post about selling Tshirts on Amazon if you want to learn more.

Developing Your Amazon Best Seller 

Just because these categories are the “best sellers” on Amazon does not mean that your product has to be in one of these categories. In fact, having a product in one of these categories could be a terrible idea! These are the best sellers, so you’re guaranteed to have a ton of competition.

Amazon has a whopping 41 different categories at the time of writing. Almost every one of these is ripe for a creative entrepreneur.

However some product ideas are simply going to have more competition than others.

But how can you know which one is best for you?

What to Sell on Amazon FBA

What you should do now is find a product that you can private label. China is the best place to search for products due to low production costs, which yields higher profit once sold.

More importantly, you need to figure out what to sell on Amazon, which is the most crucial component of your Amazon FBA strategy.

By choosing the right product, you can make a nice profit of up to $60,000 per month (or more). On the other hand, selecting the wrong product to sell won’t let you earn enough money. It won’t matter if you picked a high-quality product from a cheap supplier and optimized its listing on Amazon.

What is important is whether or not people will buy it from you.

Therefore, this post is about the process of researching for a product that would sell through Amazon FBA. I will discuss the factors that you need to consider to determine the profitability of the product. I will also provide case studies that put the tips into actual practice so you can emulate them when you start conducting your product research.

Before we get into what you should selling, let’s talk about what you shouldn’t be selling. 

What Shouldn’t I Sell On Amazon? 

I think it’s important to cover this first, because it’s a common trap that new FBA sellers fall into. 

That is, selling a “me too” product that offers no real value or difference from the hundreds of competitors on Amazon. 

An example, when I searched “dog brush” on Amazon I found over 4,000 results, and here were a few at the top: 

The first red flag about this is that one of the top results is a guy selling for $3.94 with Prime shipping! 

If you’ve ever sold FBA, you know that after Amazon fees this guy is definitely losing money. 

That’s how cut-throat the pricing is for dog brushes. 

Good for customers, but not good for any Amazon seller trying to actually make a profit.

Besides that, you have to ask yourself the question – do I have some innovation to the dog brush that would allow me to charge a premium price (so I can make a profit) and outrank these entrenched competitors who are losing money or making very small margins?

There are many sellers on Amazon losing money with every sale. Avoid that group by doing the math on all fees and expenses!

Unless you’ve got a real passion for dog brushes and some relatively deep pockets where you can afford to sell hundreds or thousands of units at a loss to move up in the rankings, you should probably just move onto the next idea. 

You definitely don’t want to just jump over to Aliexpress and buy a standard dog brush, slap your logo on it and try to sell it. 

That’s a recipe for losing money from seller central. Even if you are passionate about dog brushes, one look at the competition here should tell you that this product idea should be dead on arrival. Time to move down the list.

Where to Find Amazon Product Ideas to Sell

Now that we know what you don’t want to sell on Amazon, what kinds of things should you sell? 

While there isn’t a perfect formula for evaluating ideas (it’s both an art and a science) here are the traits you should look for: 

1. Scratch Your Own Itch

This isn’t a cliché we invented, but it works! 

If you’ve got a problem or an inconvenience in your life, odds are that it’s something other people struggle with, too. 

Can you create a product to make that problem go away? If so, then you’re likely to have a group of people who also want to buy it. 

This could be the start of developing a very profitable product!

This is how many individuals begin their successful FBA businesses. He or she started with a product in his house that he used every day, but didn’t particularly like. They realized making the changes they wanted probably would be fairly simple, so he reached out to manufacturers on Alibaba and started working on getting a sample made. 

Fast forward a few months and that amazon seller then has a new product live and selling on Amazon that sold over $4,000  in it’s first 30 days. 

2. Don’t Take on a Million Competitors

There are times when competition is a good thing. 

It usually means that demand exists and there is money to be made. However, some product categories on Amazon are just so oversaturated with competitors, it’s very difficult for a new seller to compete. 

While it may feel like every kind of item on Amazon has a million sellers already, that’s not the case.

There are still opportunities to launch products that have demand, but don’t already have tens of thousands of competitors. 

Helium 10 is a fantastic tool for finding these opportunities. 

Using their Cerebro tool, you can paste in the ASIN number of any product on Amazon and find out what keywords it ranks for. Here’s an example of when I put in the ASIN “B00MLBPDQ2” which is a top selling makeup removing wipe: 

Notice that in addition to the search volume, they give you a number of competing products and similar products around that keyword. 

This is an estimate based on the number you’ve probably noticed before on Amazon.com after you search a particular product. Here’s an example when I search baseball helmet, there are over 20,000 results:

But when I search one of the auto-complete suggestions for baseball helmet, which is “baseball helmet holder for dugout” there are only 29 results. 

Certainly there is more analysis to be done before launching my own brand of baseball helmet holders, but hopefully you see the point that it’s much easier to come in and compete against 29 other sellers instead of 20,000. 

The obvious counter-argument to this point is if only 29 people are selling a product, is anybody actually buying them? 

Sometimes no. But sometimes a little research will show you that a small number of Amazon vendors are actually doing very well.

This is why product category research is so important. The quality of your research into Amazon niches is often the difference between finding a profitable product and a loser.

This is also where tools like Jungle Scout and the best seller rank come in handy (which we’ll talk about in a minute). 

But if you’re trying to decide between 2 different items to sell on Amazon and one has 50,000 competitors and the other has only 500, I’d lean toward the one with only 500, even if demand was slightly lower. 

3. Choose a Product Sold Between $10-100

This is not a hard set rule.  However, if you are just getting started, the ideal price range of products to consider selling is under $100. Many sellers do well with higher priced products, and if you have the higher capital that is required (typically), then by all means go for it.

Choosing a really expensive product sounds like a great idea, because in theory, you can make more money. 

However, think about yourself for a moment as a consumer. 

Once you creep up above $100, you’re out of the “impulse buy” category. Now you’re talking about things like laptops, TVs, furniture, etc. where you’re probably going to talk to your spouse, read more reviews, look for videos on YouTube, etc.

However, if you’re buying something that costs about $25, you’re probably not going to spend the same amount of time doing that extra research. 

The cheaper the product is, the less likely customers will find more information about it.

Customers are more willing to impulse buy products at a lower price point, especially if it addresses their needs.

When choosing a product, look for a product that costs $10-50 to sell and focus on selling it in volume.

Amazon vendors who focus on these types of products ae far more likely to be profitable than those who don’t.

Also, since you will be buying the products from China, you need to consider the cost of each part required to assemble your product, especially if it’s an intricate piece. Delivering items to be sold for more than $50 to your doorstep could get expensive.

If you’re still new to Amazon FBA, then it is best to settle with simple and cheaper items to private label for now.

Once you’re a professional seller who understands the ins and outs of selling on Amazon you’ll be in a better place to tackle something more complicated in the Amazon marketplace.

4. Choose a Product with a Good Bestseller Rank

The performance of your product on Amazon depends on the market demand.

An old business professor of mine would always go through this hypothetical investor pitch where he assured you that his company made the best quality product and there was nothing else like it anywhere.

The bad news was that they made buggy whips.

As Americans started driving automobiles, even the best buggy whip makers were out of luck because nobody needed to buy them anymore.

So when choosing a new product to sell on Amazon, you want to make sure you’re not about to invest in a 21st century buggy whip.

A metric that you can refer to in choosing a product to sell on Amazon is its bestsellers rank (BSR).

If similar products are ranking on top of the list (a best seller rank of 1 is the best selling product in the category), it means that there’s demand for them.

Choosing products identical to the ones found in the list allows you to position your business on par with these bestsellers. As a result, you can attract the target market of bestselling products and get them to buy from you instead.

Finding an Amazon best seller that has room for new products is a great sign of a very profitable potential niche!

You want to see that several of the top listings have a BSR around 3,000 or better. 

I heard a great tip on the AMPM podcast which said you should look for the top 3 results with BSR under 3,000. This means not only is there demand for the product, but there also isn’t just one product selling well. At least 3 different products are hot sellers, which is an indicator that the market is receptive of different brands. 

Also, the BSR I am referring to here is the main category. In the image above, the main category (Pet Supplies) hosts the product (under Cats > Little & Housebreaking > Little category). While the subcategory BSR of the product is impressive, its performance on the main category is what matters more. Since it will be competing against other pet supplies products, a high BSR means that it is an in-demand product.

Want a shortcut?  I recommend using Jungle Scout to automatically pull the Amazon bestseller ranks AND displaying the estimated monthly revenue for each product.

5. No Dominant Brand(s) in the Market

Brand recognition is really important, especially in some industries. 

You may not remember what brand of toilet paper you bought last, but the odds are you thought about brand when you bought your last car. 

Brand dominance can be a big factor on Amazon as well. If you use Jungle Scout to evaluate sales numbers on grass seed shows that Scotts Turf Builder sells $100,000 per month and the no-name brands sell $2,000 – that’s an indicator that consumers are brand loyal in this category. 

In some cases, it’s just tough to break in against the really big brands that own a category. 

For example, if you go search “running shoes” on Amazon you’ll see a lot of first page results from these guys: 

Ever heard of those brands? 

You probably aren’t thinking of launching something as involved as a running shoe company, but hopefully, you get the idea.

If the top results are dominated by household names, then you should probably keep looking. Unless you can come up something some really creative advantage you could have that would cause someone to pass up the brands they know to try out your lesser-known product. 

Even then, understand that as an Amazon vendor you will be fighting an uphill battle no matter how good your product is.

6. Competitors With Low Review Counts

Reviews are huge on Amazon. 

It’s not the only ranking factor for products, but there’s a reason that many of the top results on page 1 have tons of reviews, that are mostly positive. 

Amazon’s goal is to sell products, so they like showing products that convert the best near the top of their search rankings. 

Since thousands of glowing reviews tend to convert lookers into buyers, there’s a direct correlation between lots of positive reviews and high search rankings on Amazon. 

If every product on page 1 of the results for your main keyword has over 50 reviews, that could be problematic for you.

That’s not to say it’s impossible, but getting 50 reviews takes awhile and that means you’re going up against some pretty entrenched, long term sellers who have a nice sales history on Amazon. Generally, you don’t open an Amazon seller account and end up on page one the next day in a competitive niche.

So if you’re looking for an easier win, then looking for keywords with multiple products on page 1 with less than 50 reviews. If there are some with less than 10 reviews or even NO reviews – even better! 

This simply means that if you follow a nice launch formula and start picking up a few reviews in the early days of your product going live, you’ll have a better shot at getting to page 1 in the short term. 

7. Size Matters

Many FBA courses recommend that you sell a product that would fit inside of shoebox. The reason they say that is because your shipping and fulfillment costs for that item are going to be much lower compared to selling something awkward and heavy like a ping pong table. Selling fees and shipping costs are always important to keep in line.

I don’t agree that your product has to be small and light to be successful. 

There are plenty of heavy, oversized items that do very well on Amazon. However, you should know the dimensions and weight and which tier you’ll fall into before you decide to buy a product. 

Here’s a look at how Amazon categorizes based on size: 

For more information about product size tiers, click here.

The best way to get an idea of what your FBA costs will be is to use Amazon’s calculator and put in an item that is very similar to yours in terms of size and weight. 

If the margins are there for an oversized item, go for it! It’s usually a little riskier because you are going to spend more to buy inventory, but the payoff can also be much larger if it works. 

It’s ideal to find something small and light, but you need to make sure it fits all these other criteria in terms of competition, sales rank/demand, and sufficient margin. 

The problem with small and light is that it’s the same thing every other aspiring FBA seller is being told to look for – so you’re more likely to find products that are completely saturated where price wars are common. 

So expanding the size of your “shoebox” is a smart idea. Just make sure you understand how it affects your shipping and fulfillment costs before you make that big purchase order. 

8. High Margins Are King

Once you have a product that passes all the requirements above, you can now find suppliers who will provide you the product that you will private label at low costs compared to what you can sell it for (margin).

As mentioned, China is the first thing that people search for when it comes to affordable suppliers. A quick check on Alibaba for the product you want to sell will reveal to you a slew of results to choose from.

Open the pages of products you’re interested in purchasing and compare their prices with the ones on sale at Amazon. Ideally, you want to find a product that costs at least 75% less than the retail price on Amazon.

For example, if you see the average retail price on Amazon is $10, you want to pay no more than $2.50 for that item.

Margin matters for a lot reasons. 

First and foremost, it’s what determines if you’re making or losing money. You don’t want to do all this work just to break even do you? 

You also need a healthy profit margin to cover hidden fees that come with selling on Amazon that you’re probably not accounting for when you’re working on finding what to sell. 

For example, Amazon charges both short term and long term storage fees for keeping items at their warehouse.

These numbers are always changing, but it’s a variable cost that you will have a hard time estimating at this early stage in the process. 

You’re also going to get returns from customers. In some cases you can resell those items as used, but there are still costs involved there and many times it’s just a loss. 

Don’t forget:

• Amazon warehouse storage fees
• Shipping fees
• Amazon’s cut from selling fees
• Figure in other fees/taxes
• Concentrate on improving that margin!

So if you’re margins are really tight in the “perfect world” scenario where you sell every item for full price and never get a return, you’re going to run into some problems when the unexpected happens. 

So when evaluating what you should sell, don’t lie to yourself about the numbers because you really want to launch a particular item. 

If you’re buying a standard sized item for $10, retailing it for $19.99 on Amazon just isn’t going to work – that retail price probably needs to be more like $35 – $40 to leave yourself plenty of margin after all the fees and hidden costs.  

Keep a close eye on those numbers in your Amazon account and at vendor central. Those margins are where an Amazon store makes its profit…or ends up in  the red.

Is it profitable to sell on Amazon? Absolutely – as long as you watch those margins!

9. Find a Highly Searched Amazon Keyword

Similar to SEO, you need to find the best keyword for your product to maximize your earnings potential. Finding a relevant keyword with a high search volume on Amazon is your top priority.

Unless they know the exact name of what you’re selling on Amazon, users can only see your product if they type in the keyword related to your product.

By targeting the most searched keywords in the platform, you can increase your visibility to your target market in the hopes of getting them to buy your product.

There are a couple of tools that can unearth the monthly Amazon search volume for related keywords.

• Keyword Tool – The tool helps you find keyword suggestions that you should consider to use for optimizing your product page.
• Jungle Scout – The Amazon product research tool offers a comprehensive keyword feature that shows the different products which appear on search results.  Each product also reveals the BSR, estimated sales, estimated revenues, and more.
• Merchant Words – The tool contains over 60 million keywords that Amazon users enter on the search bar to shop. It also shows the search volume for each keyword to help you decide which ones to optimize for.
• Helium 10 – Helium 10 has become our favorite keyword research tool for Amazon, with a bunch of powerful metrics to help you decide whether you should sell a particular product. 

Aside from these tools, Long Tail Pro allows you to find the average Amazon reviews for each keyword. As mentioned, you should choose a product with the least reviews as possible so you could get indexed on the first page of search results.

By finding the least number of reviews for related keywords in conjunction with other data available from the tools mentioned above, you can determine which ones you should focus on.

I’ve even heard convincing arguments that understanding the keyword research numbers is actually more important than knowing the best seller rank and sales numbers on Amazon.

Why? 

Because if Helium 10 is saying 10,000 people search for a particular keyword but the top selling item is only selling a 100 units per month, that’s probably an indication that the items for sale on Amazon aren’t good quality, have poor photos, or some other factor that results in people leaving Amazon to buy that item elsewhere. 

10. Competitor Pages Not Optimized

Aside from customer reviews, there are other factors considered in figuring out which pages that rank on the first page of Amazon search for a keyword. In short, the page should provide all the information necessary for users to make an informed decision about the product. Amazon has a page that details the best practices of developing your product pages to make them informative to users.

Frequently, the ones appearing on the first page of Amazon search have optimized product pages. However, there are pages whose elements still need improvement.

Below are the most common mistakes that prevent product pages from performing well:

• Few or low-quality product images
• Non-descriptive product title
• Limited description
• Unhelpful bullet points

If you can find pages that commit these mistakes, then it is an opportunity for you to optimize your pages based on the weaknesses of the other ones ranking on the first page. 

The lack of images or the lack of quality images is probably the most important one to look for. 

Images can make or break a product. They can make the difference between creating a product that becomes an Amazon best seller and having your products gather dust in Amazon’s warehouse.

Eye-popping images create a good impression. Terrible fuzzy images will do the opposite.

People buying online may have never actually seen the item they are about to purchase in a store – so the photos, description, and reviews are just about all they have to go off of. 

If they aren’t sure of what they are getting from the photos, they are likely going to buy something else. 

So if you see lots of listing on page 1 that have one picture, or a few poor pictures – that means you’ve got an opportunity to stand out from the crowd and out sell them. 

11. Keep It Simple

The final piece of advice when figuring out what to sell on Amazon is to stick to the simple stuff. 

If you’ve got this idea for a drone that can pair to your Gmail account and automatically go pick up your pizza when you order it…

Just stop right now. 

Way too complicated. 

I’m assuming that if you’re still reading, you’re probably thinking of Amazon FBA as side hustle opportunity and you don’t have a full-time research & development team on staff. 

You need to stick to ideas that you can translate to (most likely) an overseas supplier who speaks English as a second language and needs to translate what you want to a sample maker who is actually going to bring your idea to life. 

If you can’t explain your product to one of your buddies without confusing them, good luck getting that message across to a factory in China. 

So as you’re filtering through your ideas, think about the innovations and modifications you can make to existing products that are relatively easy to explain using marked up photos or a short video demonstration. 

Here are some examples of what I mean.

Yes, you want to be innovative. 

But, the more complicated a product is, the more things that can go wrong during production, and the more time and money you’ll spend finding someone who can actually make it. 

In the end, some of the best product ideas are simple solutions to common problems – not some wild new invention. 

Case Studies

Now that we’ve discussed the things about what to sell on Amazon, it’s time to see these practices in action from the different case studies featured below. While you want to be creative learning from those Amazon sellers who have done what you want to do.

Success doesn’t happen by accident. 

These case studies show the importance of good keyword & market research, great product descriptions, and a profitable selling plan. The right product for an fba seller is going to consistently have a combination of all these.

Manny Coats – $75,762.35 in First Month

Manny shares his impressive run selling private label products on Amazon in just a month. He details in this post and podcast the process of researching and selling the three products. Manny mentions the work that was put in launching the products (12 to 16 hours of work from Monday to Sunday).

Not to mention, he also ran into some problems such as losing stickers to close the boxes and Amazon losing one of his shipments.

Nonetheless, the results more than compensate for the work he’s put into this successful project.

Key takeaway: Manny chose a product in anticipation of the holiday season to maximize sales. He was selling a product under the toys category. The stock got sold out before Christmas, which is an encouraging sign. By choosing a product to sell based on trends and season, Manny was able to make the most out of his Amazon FBA campaign.

Manny also happens to have created a tool called, Helium 10 that makes finding profitable products to sell on Amazon much easier.  Check out our Helium 10 review.

Scott Voelker – $35,000+/month

One person that has encouraged lots of people to pursue selling private label products on Amazon is Scott Voelker of The Amazing Seller.  There is a Niche Pursuits podcast interview with Scott Voelker that went in-depth discussing his story and strategies. 

Before venturing into the world of Amazon FBA, Scott owned a very profitable photography studio. He wanted to build a business that didn’t take much of his time, so he turned to Amazon for help.

On the first month of selling products on Amazon, he earned $4,000, which wasn’t bad. However, after nine months of refining his processes, he made a solid five-figure income monthly and never looked back.

Key takeaway: Scott admits that there’s no shortcut to finding that product that would sell like hotcakes on Amazon. However, he emphasizes the importance of depth when it comes to choosing your business. What Scott means is that you have to pick a product on Amazon in which you can still make a substantial amount of sales in the position you can get your product page within Amazon search.

By approaching your product research in a strategic manner, you can unlock your true earnings potential in Amazon FBA.

David Bryant – $1 million/year

Another person that has done well selling physical products is David Bryant. Unlike other so-called private label product seller gurus, David is far ahead of the pack as he discusses in this Niche Pursuits podcast about the practices of importing products from China to be sold on Amazon.

Aside from the usual route of searching Alibaba for the supplier, he recommends getting a sourcing agent. This person is responsible for finding you the best products to be sold for you.

Key takeaway: Unlike others, David believes that researching can help unearth the best product that you should sell, but he is an advocate of going with your gut when making decisions. Also, he suggests that people should start selling a product that they are passionate about. Since they are fully informed about the product, it will be much easier for them to sell the product to their audience.

Another tip he shares is choosing a product that has lots of potential for add-ons. For example, if you are selling mountain climbing shoes, you can branch out to selling related products like harnesses, ropes, and others.

Tips For Finding The Best Products To Sell On Amazon FBA

It can be tough to know the exact best product for you to sell on Amazon FBA. And there’s no way for us to tell you the “best” because even if we did, there’s no doubt that others would steal it.

So here are a few tips to sum up this article and help you find the best products to sell on Amazon FBA:

• Solve a need in the marketplace. Don’t create a “me too” product
• Don’t blend in to the competition and don’t enter a market with a ton of powerful competition
• Choose a product that sells between $10 and $100
• Choose a product with a decent number of sales per day. You can use Jungle Scout’s free traffic estimator to see how many sales you would make at a certain best seller rank
• Avoid name brand competitors. If you know the names of any of your would-be competition, it’s best to avoid that niche
• Look for competitors with just a few reviews
• Look for products that are physically small to save yourself some transportation and storage costs
• Find products that you can buy cheap on Aliexpress and sell for a lot on Amazon. Look for a product that you can sell for at least 3x your purchase price
• Go after “low hanging fruit” that have high search volumes but low competition
• Can you find competitors that don’t mention their target keyword often? That’s a great sign! You might could steal many of your competition’s buyers
• Start with simple products. You probably won’t need a patent or anything, so go back to the drawing board if you can’t explain the product to your grandmother

Wrapping it up

Finding the right type of product to sell is critical to your success for Amazon FBA. You not only need to be passionate about the product, but need to put the work in to prove that the product will sell in the market. Becoming a successful Amazon seller doesn’t happen by accident.

The tips above should help guide you in choosing which product to go with. The research process is exhaustive and time-consuming, but it is a necessary step to make sure that you are doing everything correctly. At the same time, your research should provide you all the information you need to know to make it easier for you to succeed.

I also suggest that you read up on the case studies featured above to help you understand the level of commitment you should have to make the same amount of money, if not more!