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recently wrote an article on LinkedIn
about how to create your first online
store in Amazon now make sure to put
that link in the description however
today I want to show you guys my
first-hand experience on posting a
product online on Amazon and I'll be
using these headphones that I have here
and I'm actually wearing to show you
guys how to do all of this I'm gonna try
to be as concise as possible throughout
this entire tutorial so you'll be able
to list your first product in less than
15 minutes on Amazon
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first thing that you're going to want to
do is to sign in to your Amazon seller
central account now once you've signed
in to your Amazon central account you'll
be greeted with this page here and so
it's as easy as going to your inventory
tab and scrolling down to see add a
product so we're going to click that and
this page is a search tool that allows
you to find the product that you're
selling so it's going to ask you to
enter a product name at UPC EAN ISBN or
a si n a UPC or a universal product code
is a barcode that's always stamped on
the back of some type of packaging it
helps suppliers and manufacturers and
sellers and distributors identify what
that product is as well as some data
behind it so this barcode is a
requirement for Amazon prior to even add
anything on to seller central and this
is a 12 digit numerical only number and
EAN is a European article number ISBN is
the international standard book number
and the a si n is the Amazon serial
identification number so if you do know
what any of these are for your product
and it's currently on the market find
that code typically it's a barcode on
the back of the packaging and enter that
in here for this example I'm going to
assume that you do not have a UPC or any
of these other identification numbers
and this is a new product that you're
it's going to be on Amazon so what I'm
going to show you is how to get this UPC
so this website here is called barcodes
mania.com and they sell UPC barcodes at
a discounted price and are certified so
we'll go down to here and then you're
gonna have to purchase at least a couple
of these so you purchase one five and so
on they get cheaper with the the more
that you buy so let's just pretend that
you're just buying that one UPC code for
your product you click this and click
buy and then proceed to checkout after
you've checked out on barcodes mania and
you finish the transaction within the
first hour you should receive an email
from them containing an attachment and
within this attachment you're gonna see
this once you download that attachment
you're gonna see this folder and you're
see your EIN your UPC this label
template which doesn't matter your
certificate of authenticity and this
instructions right here so we're gonna
jump right into the UPC s here and
open up this file right here that says
UPC spreadsheet Excel once you up homes
that excel sheet you'll see the number
of UPC codes that you purchased so what
you want to do is copy that first UPC
code and paste it into the search bar
now you should not see this no item
should pop up if you just recently
purchased that UPC but I wanted to show
you guys how this works so this is
actually that the headphones that we're
gonna be listing today and I already
have them on Amazon and selling so this
is my UPC code that I'm selling it with
and in the correspondence the same code
for the ein is shown right here now for
you know products are gonna show up
there what you'll want to do is click
this create a new listing button right
here now this is gonna ask you to select
a product category on Amazon so the
easiest thing that I found without
getting too far into detail here is go
to the search bar down below and type in
what you're selling so for me it's
in-ear headphones if you look at these
the one that closely matches is this
earbud headphones so if someone wants to
find my product then go from electronics
headphones earbud headphones and
specifically another category I guess of
the earbud headphones so we're gonna
sell with this category here and this is
gonna be the first product page to edit
the information shown here so what we
need to do is add that UPC number that
you had added in here and on the right
side identify what it is for us it's the
UPC now it's important to know once this
is put in here and you click Save and
finish to post your product on Amazon
you're not gonna be able to a justice so
if you ever want to make further changes
to your product that affect your your
brand or the manufacturer or you want to
change the UPC code that's tied to that
product you're gonna delete that posting
and then relist it next we're gonna go
down to here and this is asking us for
the title and so i've gonna copy paste
what I already have in there you wanna
make sure this title has enough detail
and it captures the customer potential
customers eyes whenever they're
scrolling through so you want to add all
kind of the the main features about this
so for me it's the Bluetooth 5.0 has
touch controls and it comes with a
magnetic charging case so those are
important to a customer as well as you
know if it's sweat resistant I want to
add that in there
and built-in mic so add some key
features in your title something that
looks attractive for your brand if it
already has a brand like these
headphones shown here then as you can
see the tws is actually the brand
however if this is a product that you're
making you can claim your own brand as
well as if you're customizing a product
that you're receiving from a supplier
that's specifically to your brand and
has your brand on it
then enter your brand here so that'd be
the brain that you select for me it's
tws and the manufacturer again it's
sometimes if you just want to copy the
brand that works or you can put the
manufacturer supplier that it came from
doesn't matter a whole lot and same with
the manufacturing part number I usually
just put one or something that helps me
identify what this is so for me I'm
gonna put the i-12 and they're white all
right that does it for that section so
we go to variations now this page is
only really important if you're selling
multiple products that have different
variations such as color so for me for
these headphones if I was selling the
white headphones as well as the black
and the red and the green then I want to
add all those different variations in
color so if color name or if there's
different sizes such as if you're
selling t-shirts you have small medium
large extra-large yeah this is where you
do all that third tab here is your offer
so the seller SKU this is also something
that cannot be adjusted once you put it
into place here and this is really your
unique identifier for that product so
again I'm just gonna do what I did for
the manufacturer and part number by 12
white and then your price for us we're
gonna sell these for $20 and then enter
your quantity now if you're selling
these on Amazon fulfillment by Amazon
FBA it doesn't really matter what you
put in there because whatever they
receive they're gonna update your
quantity if you're selling these and
their merchant fulfilled meaning that
you're selling these yourself enter the
quantity that you have so for us we have
25 of them in a condition new it's gonna
ask for your fulfillment channel here so
are you gonna ship these yourself and
handle the customer service or you're
gonna have Amazon do it for a fee we'll
say that these are going to be merchant
fulfilled and we're selling them
ourselves and then you made to go back
and update the quantity
lastly the images here it's important
that the first image has a white
background or else Amazon's actually
going to reject it
so click this and we're gonna find our
images here it's as you can see in this
image shown here has a white background
however you can still see the head
function here so add up all your
pictures you can have the second and
third and so on those pictures can have
a different colored background if you
want I just like to keep it all one
color and keep it all white looks more
professional alright so at that point if
that's all you want to do and you want a
simple Amazon page click Save and finish
however if you want to make it more
attractive and easier to find on
Amazon's market then you want to click
this advanced view up here now this is
going to bring up a whole nother level
of tabs here but the two important ones
that I want to take a look at with you
are the description and the keywords the
description is the essential information
that you want to display to your
potential customers if it's an
electronic you want to show the
technical specifications that someone
may be interested in or if it's a you
know clothing in fashion you may want to
hit on the type of material that you're
using as well as some key features of
that clothing and unique aspects it's
important to note that this description
it is HTML based for those you do not
know what that means it's a coding
language if you want to break up your
lines or bold something specifically
you're gonna have to do it with HTML
coding but don't worry I have an
easy-to-use website shown here and this
is HTML code editor it's on the left
here you'll add your HTML code on the
right it will preview what it would look
like on Amazon's description so as you
can see if I write in ear headphones and
then over here if I had you know I click
to enter to go down the next line item
it's not gonna do that it's just gonna
continue on as it is HTML code so if you
want to break something up you're gonna
add this and then we're gonna copy and
paste this in between the break so now
if I write something here it's gonna be
the line below see so for this
description here I've already copy and
pasted what I'm planning to put in my
description so we'll paste that into
here and as you can see it kinda looks
messy if you look to the left here
however in this preview this is what
actually is gonna be shown on Amazon so
have the technical specification bolded
left here as well as the characteristic
here so we'll copy all this go back to
our description and paste it into there
next are the bullet points bolt points
are always shown to the right of your
image or below if you're on your phone
and these are the first descriptive
items that someone is going to see when
they click your listing so what I always
like to do is I usually use one word to
identify what this entire sentence is
going to be describing so for the first
one I think it is probably the most
important characteristics for these
headphones is that if they're
comfortable and elaborate on why they're
comfortable there organ amah Klee
designed to stay in your ear during the
most active moments in your life while
providing comfort and water resistance
so you can add up to five of these I
would go ahead and add all five if
there's value in those sentences and
those characteristics definitely add
them here now here's the legal
disclaimer you can add anything if this
is for adults only or for children of
certain ages and above and then if
there's any type of CPS eye warning you
know if it's a choking hazard or it
contains small magnets you want to
indicate that here just to protect
yourself lastly are the search terms the
keywords that are shown here so we'll
add anything that's descriptive that
someone may put into the Amazon search
bar to find your product so for us I'm
going to put Bluetooth in the air
headphones white so anything descriptive
that you can add in here put it in here
and you want to make sure that there is
no repetition
there's no competitor brand names or
asons I actually sold these before and I
put air pods in here and my site
actually got taken down so make sure you
don't put anything that could be
trademarked copyrighted anything that
has a brand that's already out there
just avoid it just put very general
terms that describe your brand and your
product once you've added all those in
there just click Save and finish it will
take some time for Amazon to look at the
detailed page that you just created and
for them to approve it so typically this
can take anywhere for the first time
between 30 to 60 minutes and I've seen
it as long as over a day so just be
patient and once it's posted you'll go
to your inventory and go down to manage
inventory once you get to your manage
inventory you'll go ahead and click that
link that's shown there and then you
should see your page displayed there
so here's the title that we created the
brand name right here here are the
bullet points and all the images as you
scroll down we'll get to our description
so again this is just as we saw it in
that preview section on the HTML code
editor so without this you know just be
all one continuous line if you use the
HTML code and you break up your lines
and you bold some things it looks much
more professional the bottom line so
that does it guys thank you for watching
I hope you have a better understanding
now of how to add your first product on
Amazon store it's really not that
difficult once you see how it's done and
now you can just replicate that process
for your next product and so on if
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content in my next video I'm gonna show
you guys how to take an image in a
lightbox that you can construct yourself
to have that white background that am
sahn's looking for I know that's one
part that I kind of skipped over and
assume that you guys would have a
product with that white background
already preset now it isn't that
difficult once you create your own
lightbox and you have a decent camera
but I'm also going to show you guys how
to do it with a smartphone so anyone can
just about really do it alright make
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