Marketing and listing your product
do you have to list your amazon fba product before you buy in bulk off your supplier? also, are you allowed to advertise your own product on your own social media accounts or is this not allowed please? hope someone can help. thank you. carys
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you need to read the seller university pages before you start - link at the bottom of your seller central homepage
you can’t list your stock on amazon before you buy it. You have to have the stock in your possession - or ready to send from your supplier and then create a shipment to amazon by creating the listing and sending stock. Once your items are fully received, amazon will then display them for sale
but there is a lot more to it -an awful lot more
you can advertise your amazon listing on social media - but not the other way round
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Before you even think of selling on Amazon, you need a good working knowledge of general business practice and management, including at the very least
˙ Types of business organization - sole trader, partnership, limited company etc
˙ Taxation – income or corporation tax, VAT, National Insurance contributions
˙ Insurance – product liability, use of premises for storing goods, use of car for business purposes
˙ Product knowledge (you won’t get far if you know nothing about what you are selling) and sources of supply
˙ Accounts – basic book-keeping skills and record-keeping (invoices etc)
˙ Any licensing, registration and safety regulations for your specific products – toys, food, alcohol, electrical goods etc
˙ Contract and consumer law, including online selling
˙ Costing, pricing, profit forecasting and other financial management
When you’ve learnt all that, do as others have advised - work through Amazon’s Seller University. Forget anything you saw on Youtube videos: they are incomplete and misleading. Selling on Amazon is a lot more complicated than they pretend
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Just out of interest, what it is you are importing and was it from Alibaba?
