Real Way People Make Money Reselling on Amazon in 2026
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Real Way People Make Money Reselling on Amazon in 2026

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"To succeed in Amazon reselling by 2026, focus on the AMW formula to start selling in 30 days with a minimum $1,000 investment, and prioritize building relationships rather than juggling multiple side hustles."

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Real Way People Make Money Reselling on Amazon in 2026 Speaker 1: What's up guys? Welcome. Welcome. Welcome. This is the agenda for our call today. Okay. I'm going to first tell you a bit about myself. I'm going to talk about some of the best selling items that I've sold in the last few years that have made me a lot of money as a reseller. We're gonna tackle the question that everyone always asks whenever they want to start selling on Amazon. And this is the same question they asked today, they asked last year, they asked five years ago, they even asked when I first started. I mean, I asked this question when I first started seven years ago, right? So we can address that today. Is Amazon saturated? Number four, we'll talk about the different models on Amazon, which one is right for you. We'll talk about what the new formula for 2026 looks like. I call it the AMW formula. I want to show you how you can start selling in 30 days because that's why we're here. I want to show you about how quickly you can start selling in the reselling space, the expected return on your investment, how to make your one cane 30 days and then ultimately our exclusive challenge that is happening in this webinar only and then we'll get into Q&A. For now, you know, I'm monitoring the Q&A, the chat. If you have any questions as we move on, as I go through the slides, feel free to just comment. I'll see it. This is live. So I'll see your questions as we go on. But if it's something more in depth, maybe we'll leave it to the end. But at least if you put your questions now, I can maybe look at it as I move forward and I can address it as I get to the right topics. Let's get into this guys. Right, let's get into why this business is not for you. If you have any of these thoughts, This business is probably not for you because I want to paint a picture, right? Amazon in the last seven years has been painted as this thing where you can make a lot of money and you know, you can just get on it and everybody can make money doing it, right? But I've taught over 200 people, right? I've seen people come and go. And these are the main reasons why people leave, why people fail, why people start excited and then just quit. A lot of people have the wrong expectations. People want to quit their job in one month. People want it to be fast and easy. People want to juggle 10 different side hustles. They want to day trade. They want to do crypto. They want to do sales on the side for high ticket items. They want to do drop shipping. Today's thing is TikTok affiliate and live shopping if you follow Gary V. There's just too many things. You can't become experts at everything and you only have so much time in a day. If you think that you can just do this sitting at home, this is something else that I've noticed is that sure, this business is online. I mean, I'm in Greece right now. You can do it from anywhere. But if you think that you can just sit at home and do this without leaving your house, without having to go to maybe trade shows and meeting people in storefronts, then you're also mistaken, right? You have to get uncomfortable. The last thing is you don't have money or credits by inventory, right? This is an inventory-based business. So understand that you need capital to start. And we'll get into the details of that. You don't need that much, right? You just need maybe like a thousand bucks or at least a couple hundred bucks to get going. But you have to have the mindset of, hey, I'm willing to spend money to make money, okay? So these are like the biggest pitfalls I've seen in people just starting and then failing, okay? Understand that this is for you. This is for you if you're good with people and you like building relationships. This is the business of relationships. So if you find yourself for that to be a skill, then this is great for you. If you have a computer and you like spending time on your computer, this is also really good because obviously a lot of the things that we do is on the computer, but it's also building relationships and talking to people. Okay, so these two things are literally the whole business. And then the last one is if you wanna be your own boss and you wanna have the freedom like me to work from anywhere, like in Europe right now, I'm here for the next two months, just literally living This is the perfect business for you, right? That's the aspiration. Okay. Also, by the way, I know a lot of you guys have joined right now as a visitor. It would be helpful if you joined with your name so we can at least like have your names in here. We could kind of just make that a little more personal. So, you know, if you have a question, just make sure that you introduce yourself so we know who you are and what your name is because right now it just says visitor for a lot of you guys. Okay, so just a little side note. Now, let's get into a little bit about me, guys. My name is Nick Mullany. I'm 32 years old. I have a Master's of Engineering in Entrepreneurship. And this was not planned, but I went into the lifestyle of an immigrant family and I went into school, I did engineering, but once I turned 24, 25, I started to really think for myself and I was like, is this really what I want to do? And I really started to think about where we're headed. And where the future is and that's when I started to just sell products online and I went from Shopify to, you know, Even building a brand on Amazon and then ultimately to reselling and partnering with brands and just doing retail and reselling on Amazon. And that's when I realized, okay, I found something really cool here. And I currently now own and operate my own Amazon reselling business that does about 100K a month, split between US and Canada. So I sell products in both marketplaces. I've generated over $5 million in sales on the platform in the last seven years. And my life before that was simply this, right? Like these are all images of me while in school, right? This was me doing my bachelor's degree and then going into my master's degree and just following the road of education. But like I said, I started to really think for myself and I was like, huh, like what can I do to do something different? Like how can I try to test things that are not just, you know, the proper path of going down school? I started to test different things. I tried to build an interior design business, which I hated. I knew nothing about it and I didn't like it. I started to code a little bit, which you can see in the picture on the right. I was like, this is too introverted. I don't want to just sit on my computer all day long and code alone. I was like, okay, this is not something I want to do either. That's when I started to get into eCommerce. eCommerce was the third or fourth thing I found when I was really just testing the water. And I found this product. This product was my first product that I started to resell. And I realized that there was an arbitrage, which means that there's a difference in markets where when it comes to buying it from the US and then selling it in Canada, I realized it was way cheaper in the US and it was way more expensive in Canada. So, Obviously, I started to source it from the US. At first, just like 10 units or something and then sell it in Canada and I would make the difference until I finally found someone else who can sell it to me for cheaper for a bigger amount. So instead of buying 10, I would buy 30. And if you buy more supply and demand logistically, you get it for cheaper. And so I just kept doing that. It was kind of like rinse and repeat. It was almost like common sense for me. I didn't realize that it was wholesale. I didn't realize that I was starting a business and that I, you know, scale it. And so the product here on Amazon at the time was about 120 bucks and I was getting it for like 50 bucks US. So, you know, converted, it's probably around 70, 75 bucks. And then after fees and everything, I would make like 15 bucks a pop. Right? And let's actually go back here for a second. If you look, let me make sure that the slide works here. If you look under the Amazon's choice tab, you can see that it says 5,000 bought in the past month. Right? K means thousands. So more than 5,000 units were sold in the past month. So that's crazy. That's like 5,000 times this price. That's $500,000 sold in the last month. And I was just taking a slice of that. It was as simple as that. I didn't have to create the listing. I didn't have to do anything. All I did was create an offer in the existing listing. So it was crazy. How easy it was, right? And the orders just started to come in because I had supply for the product. I had the authentic product. I just needed to package them and send them to the customers. And this was before I figured out that Amazon can do that for you, right? We call it FBA versus FBM. FBA stands for fulfillment by Amazon. That's when you ship the products to Amazon, like let's say all 100 units before you've sold them and then Amazon will store them and then when people buy them, Amazon will ship them one by one to people. FBM is when it's fulfilled by merchant. So you are the person that is in charge of packing and shipping and customer service and so on. Right. Of course, Amazon charges more if they do the fulfillment. But trust me, it's so much easier. It's so much better. They prefer it. And you can be free and just be anywhere and not even see the products. So this is before I even realized I could do that. And you can see here. I'm on the bus and I made my 50th online sale at the time and I was super stoked. And this was kind of like a new road for me. So, you know, it all led to this now. All of these pictures here have been taken in the last couple of years of me traveling the world full time, put everything in storage about five years ago. And I've just been living out of Airbnbs and I work in different hotels and traveling the world and just working on my computer. I find and form new relationships at trade shows and online and I'll travel to my suppliers and I'll see them, I'll meet them. But most of the time we do everything over the phone, over the computer. Of course, face-to-face helps a lot as well. I'm able to see my family. I'm able to travel with friends. I'm able to fly business class. I'm able to be here where I'm at right now in Greece for the next couple months with my dad. I flew him out and we just spend the holidays somewhere around the world. It's been a huge, huge delta. Okay. And I just want to show you where I started from someone who went to school, who was told to just do that and then started to really think for myself and decided to, you know what, I'm going to build something else and I'm going to really work hard at it and do it right. This was seven years ago when I made that decision. So don't think that you can do it in like six months, right? Obviously you can do it way quicker with me and with obviously me trying to help you here. You can do it way quicker than I did. However, it still takes work. There's still a learning curve. There's different learning curves for different people. And so I just want to show you what's possible, but it's not possible without the work and more importantly, the commitment. Okay. Now, The question I want you to start thinking about is what would you do if you had more money? What would you do if you had more freedom? How would you spend your days? What would you do when you woke up? Where would you go? Who would you call up? Who would you spend time with? The reason why these questions are important is because this is what's going to push you six months down the road after you've committed or one year down the road when you've committed and things go wrong. Okay. This is super important right now. It might seem like, okay, whatever, like, yeah, of course I want more money. I want more freedom, but I'm telling you, you need to answer these and either write them down and put them in front of your computer or somewhere where you spend a lot of time. So just remind yourself every day when you're slaving away, when you're working hard, when you're not watching Netflix, when you come home from work and you're like, I need to spend two hours building this. If this is not in front of you, it's easy to just say, whatever, I'll just do it tomorrow. But if you remind yourself that, hey, This is what I'm working for. That's when things change. That's when your discipline starts to build. That's when you start to push yourself. And in the first three to six months, that's when it matters the most because that's the place where you will quit, where most people quit. Right. So if you have these answers written down, if you have it on your desktop, if you have it printed out somewhere and you have them very clear and you've actually taken the time to answer them and put them out there, that's when things change. Okay. I'm going to go away from this slide now and you can just be like, yeah, like I should do that. And it's as easy as just thinking, yeah, I should do that, but then not doing it. It's as easy as not doing it, but it's also as easy as you right now being like, I'm going to do it. So like right now, what I'm trying to encourage you to do is make sure that you do this because you can easily say, I'm not going to do it and then move on. But if you do it, that's the difference between everyone here and you is that you will do it. And that's how it starts. The more you do, the more the snowball goes on, the more the flywheel turns. And a lot of these decisions, it's very easy to say, I'll do it later, I'll do it tomorrow. But if you can do it right now, and if you keep yourself accountable, that's what's going to differentiate you from actually coming back to me six months or one year down the road and saying, Nick, I did it. So I want to stress that importance. I want to show you guys a couple of the products that have performed the best for me. These are like headache products in the US, kind of like Tylenol in Canada. We have Excedrin in the US. They have caffeine and some other acetaminophen inside the ingredients that actually don't make it available in Canada. This was one of my best products ever, like in the last seven years. I've made $25,000 just off of one listing. But you can see there's four listings here and I've easily made over like 50 grand here just with one product. And then I've sold eye drops and even goggles. And so this is what's available to you when you're a reseller. You have products that you don't build brands around. You have products that you don't really care about manufacturing. It's all about meeting the demand that is already on Amazon and by sourcing the products from good, credible distributors and suppliers. That's all we do. That's all we do. All the work is focused on making those relationships and then ultimately Figuring out which products work well and just meeting the demand. Simple as that. Now, some of my sales in the last couple days or even the last couple of weeks are shown as is. My Black Friday was pretty good and I didn't put any promotions out at all. Sold about $4,600 worth of product. And because I sell everyday products like skincare and coffee, I don't put up promotions for Black Friday. And still my sales increased, right? Normally I'm hovering around, I want to say 3,000. And so you can see here that my sales grew to about 4,600. And so that was really good. You can see just by being online, you take advantage of holidays like Black Friday and Cyber Monday and so on. So far for the month of December, I've sold about $26,000 worth of goods in the last 10 days. And of course, everybody wants to see profit. So here are a couple days in November that I want to show you in terms of profit. This is a screenshot I took back then. You can see for a day that does about $3,300, you're making about $500 in profit. So that's kind of what you can expect as well, if not better, because We're going to be doing different techniques that I'll talk about, which usually do yield higher profits, but is not as scalable, but it's a perfect place for all the beginners to get started. I'll show you guys that in a sec. Here are a couple of my students. I just want to show you what's possible. Other students who have been able to grow their Amazon accounts in the US and in Canada, it doesn't matter. It's just about picking one and really going with it. In terms of expectations, right, a lot of people will probably buy a couple products and then just wait until that gets sold out. And so you can see here, number one, one of my students once, you know, stocked one product and sold a bunch on their like fourth day and then went out of stock and then they had to wait for their money to come back and then restock, right? And then ultimately you start to do that for a couple products and build a bit of a baseline. And then you start to get to, Consistent sales, right? And consistent inventory being in your Amazon account. And then ultimately when you get to the third level here, which I would say in about 12 months where consistency becomes a decent number, right? Like you can see here, one of my students was consistently bringing in at least $8,000 to $10,000 a month in sales. And of course you're spending more money than testing new products. And so other months will get bigger and bigger. And this is like the perfect graph to see where it grows, but then it comes down because you have inventory issues and cashflow issues, but then ultimately it goes back up. So this is a perfect transition and expectation of what your 12 months would look like. Okay. Now, the best feeling ever, the reason why I got into this business seven years ago, the reason why you should get into this business is because of this. This feeling never gets old. It's probably the third or fourth thing that I do when I look at my phone in the morning is look at my sales, right? Three, four years ago, it was the first thing that I did, but now the feeling has gone a little old and I look at other things because I know there's money. I know that I'm selling stuff. I know that the business is running. And so it's probably the third or fourth thing that I look at. But imagine you waking up and of course, all of us I'd be surprised if you don't. Go on your phone and you look at things and instead of opening up Instagram, you look at your sales and you realize that you've sold hundreds if not thousands of products while you were sleeping, right? Especially here while in Greece, I'm seven hours ahead and so I usually go to sleep at this time if not earlier and so there's still six or seven hours Where you guys are, at least people in, let's say, Eastern time zone and in Canada and the US. And so when I wake up, I see usually double the sales as to when I went to bed. So this feeling never gets old. This is one of the best feelings ever. And that's why we're all here. We're all here to make money while we sleep and not be tied to just making money with our time, right? Now let's get into the million dollar question that everybody asks. Is Amazon saturated? Okay. Amazon is like what? One of the top 10 companies in the world, right? They're a trillion dollar company. It will never be saturated, okay? Let me just say that right off the bat because Amazon is worth more than all of these other retailers combined, okay? And on top of that, the loyalty that Amazon has is insane. 82% of people who Essentially shop on Amazon, not only shop there, but they have prime memberships. They're paying $10 to $20 a month just to have fast shipping, just to have good returns, no questions asked, just to be able to have really good perks when it comes to buying on Amazon. 82%, that's huge. That's huge intent showing you that people are always coming back to use Amazon. 50% of all sales that happen online in the world happen on Amazon. So think about that, right? Another thing that I always like to think about is like, do you think that the world is going more online or less online? The answer is more online. We're only getting more and more sucked into the web, sucked into AI. We're getting more and more dragged into the world of being online. And so shopping online is only going to grow. It's only going to get easier. People are soon going to be using AI assistants to shop. They're soon going to have AI sensors in their fridge and in their cabinets to be able to just make orders like this. AI assistants in their washrooms. I sell very high expensive skincare and coffee. So imagine that. Imagine one day you're running out of coffee, boom, they order it again. It's at your door the next day, if not in a few hours. Now they have drones that are literally dropping off Amazon packages. Like all of this shit is getting easier for the consumer. So it's only going to create more business on Amazon. Something to understand is that Amazon is a marketplace. People like us are selling on Amazon. People like us are creating brands and people like us are becoming the experts that other brands need to use Amazon. And this is why I got into it seven years ago because I was like, look, if I become an expert, I can do so much. People will come to me. I will have a skill that no one else really has. And I will become valuable. People will come to me and pay me to bring their products on Amazon. And that's exactly what has been happening. And this stat tells you that 60% of all sales on Amazon Are due to people like us. People like us, we call each other third party sellers. We've generated one hundred and fifty six billion dollars in twenty twenty four. OK, people like you and me. I've generated a hundred and fifty six billion dollars last year for Amazon. OK, like this number is incomprehensible, right? Sounds big, but it's big. It's massive. OK, imagine if you wanted a business that just does a million dollars a year. Right. That's pretty much my business. If you if you do US and Canada together. That is 0.001% of all of this that is done by people like us in one year, right? Like it's insane. Like we're asking for something so small that would completely change our lives, right? If we had a business that does a million dollars a year, that means you can quit your job, that means you could travel, that means that you can work and build your business from anywhere around the world and you're happy, right? That's all we're asking for. Literally 0.001%. Okay, so don't think this business is saturated. This business is absolutely not saturated. It's just a matter of commitment. It's a matter of putting yourself in the right position and it's a matter of really just learning and doing. Okay, a lot of people don't do that. A lot of people will just try it and think that it'll work in two months and then quit when they think, when they realize it doesn't work. Okay, guys, let's get into the models of Amazon. Okay, I want to quickly educate you on the different ways of selling on Amazon and then get into the ways that I recommend. Okay, number one, retail arbitrage. This is when you go into a physical storefront, you buy something for cheaper, and then you go on Amazon and you sell it on Amazon for higher. Arbitrage is simply when you buy somewhere low and you sell somewhere high. Retail arbitrage is again when you physically go into the store and you look at coupons and you look at sale dials and you try to find something that's cheap and sell it high on Amazon. Online arbitrage is when you do that concept, but you do it online. No physical presence, no going into the store. You literally just do it from your computer. You find products that are cheaper on let's say Target.com or Sephora.com or Costco.com. You buy it there, you ship it, send it to Amazon, you do everything online. The third thing is wholesale. Wholesale is when you buy wholesale, when you're buying, let's say 50, 100, 200 units of something from a distributor, from a wholesaler, usually maybe even from the brand directly, and you then sell it on Amazon as a retailer, right? So you're buying a big bulk for a cheaper price, and then you're selling it on Amazon as a retailer for a markup. The fourth one is private label. This is when people go to China and they create new products or they simply white label it, meaning they'll take a product and they'll just put their own brand on it. Physical customizations like different color, different size, you know, of course, these days, you need to do a little more customization, make it a little better, make it a little more niche for your customer demographic. But you're in charge of product development, you're in charge of packaging, branding, manufacturing, inspection. And then bringing it all the way from let's say China or India or Mexico and bringing it to Amazon in the US or wherever you want to sell. And then that's when the real challenge starts because that's when you have to make sure you have good photography, make sure your keyword optimized, make sure that you start running ads and competing with all the other options that your customer has. And you're starting with zero reviews. So it's a lot of work to get your brand recognized. Okay. And so this is definitely like the hardest model, especially for someone who's never sold online before, but I'll explain a little further in a sec. The last model that I wanted to bring up is dropshipping and this is a model that is banned on Amazon. And to be honest, it's a little less popular now. It was very popular like two, three years ago. There was a lot of automation services who offered this. Until they realized that they were getting banned, they were getting blocked, deactivated, a lot of money was stuck. This is something you don't want to do. This is essentially when you list an offer on Amazon and you can buy it from Walmart, but you don't do it. You only do that when someone puts in an order. And when someone puts in an order, that's when you go on Walmart and you put in their customer's address and then Walmart ships it directly to the customer. And you're like, wow, what a smart model. But no, because the customer receives the product from Walmart and they're confused. They're like, huh, like I thought I'd shopped on Amazon, right? So they might complain. And if Amazon finds out it's against their terms of service, they're going to shut you down and keep your money. I've had many people tell me horror stories of 40, $50,000 just stuck in their account. And they bought all these products with their credit cards and their credit card bill is coming up and it's a mess. So if you ever hear about dropshipping specifically on marketplaces like Amazon and Walmart, stay away. It is not worth it. Now the difficulty of models I've kind of represented here just to give you an idea. I would say that arbitrage is the lowest hanging fruit. It's the easiest to just get started with because you can physically go into the store and start scanning or you can do online arbitrage where you're just looking for something that's cheaper and selling for higher. But you ultimately want to get to mom and pop, which I didn't really touch on yet because this is a model that I created myself and that I'm doing myself. It's a perfect transition from arbitrage into mom and pop and mom and pop is a perfect transition into wholesale and then wholesale, maybe one day you can do private label. Private label is definitely Mount Everest, the peak, you know, you're not going to climb Mount Everest tomorrow if I told you to go hike. Private label is something you should do later down the road, maybe a couple of years down the road when you're familiar with Amazon, when you've made some money with Amazon. Private label is definitely a great model, but it takes time. Arbitrage, mom and pop, wholesale, that's the ascension. That's the way we should take it. Step by step. We don't want to over, you know, we don't want to like overpressure yourself. You don't want to get overwhelmed. You want to take things step by step. You want to make money. You want to prove it to yourself and then tackle the important thing later. So this is what I was saying here. I'm not a fan of retail arbitrage. Well, I didn't say this actually, but it's true. I'm not a fan of retail arbitrage because you physically have to go into the store, okay? It's not a good investment of your time. You go there and you scan a hundred different things and you finally find something and you can only buy what's on the shelf, right? It's like five units of something. It's not a good investment. Online arbitrage, on the other hand, is way smarter because you're not going physically somewhere. You can do it off your computer and you can get a quick taste of selling products online. You can get a quick taste of what's working and what's not working and so to really learn Amazon and make money while just doing it off your computer. Now, after that, after like three, four weeks of doing that, maybe a little longer, like a month and a half. Going into mom and pop arbitrage is a great model because you can start to scale those same products that works for you, but with physical storefronts or online storefronts that have access to the actual wholesalers. So you're almost piggybacking off of their connections and working with them to be able to get those online arbitrage products in bulk. We'll touch on this more and I'll explain it to you more on how that works. But this is the progression. Online arbitrage, mom and pop arbitrage, then getting into wholesale. Wholesale is when things get really, really interesting. That's when you can actually buy in bulk. That's when you can work with brands directly, which is this brand that I just brought on, a chocolate brand. They want to work with me exclusively because they know I'm an Amazon expert. They're not going to sell to anyone else, just to me, and I will focus on selling them on Amazon and I will take a percentage off the top as their vendor, as their retailer. That's in the wholesale world, right? This is all the progression into then to get to wholesale. Now let's talk about the 2026 strategy, the AMW formula, okay? It touches on exactly what we've just been talking about and exactly the progression because I'm a huge believer in progression. It's all about progression. It's not about tackling Mount Everest. It's not about doing private label. It's about doing little things by little things, seeing progress and then getting to that, that final vision. Visitor is asking, it seems like everyone is a visitor. Can you explain the mom and pop arbitrage? I will, I will. It will be the M of AMW, okay? First, we're gonna talk about online arbitrage, which is the A of AMW and then we'll talk about mom and pop. Don't worry, I'm gonna get pretty deep into that because it's a concept that I created and that I really highly recommend and that I'm doing myself. But before we get into mom and pop, online arbitrage is where I see you starting. Okay. And this is where you can start literally tomorrow. The idea is that we buy popular products that are already in demand and we make them available for purchase on Amazon. Okay. The whole idea is we just focus on products that are already selling. We don't create listings. We simply jump on them if they're good because we've analyzed that they have sales already. Where are we buying the products? We're buying them from retailers, online retailers like Target, Sephora, Vitacost, Costco, you name it. And then we're flipping them on Amazon. This is a perfect example. You can see here on the left that these are different stores like Kohl's and Sephora and on the right we have the actual Amazon links for the products, for the same products. And with promos and deals or even just discounts on their websites that are pre-positioned We can use them to get the product for a cheaper price from the stores, right? It's all about buying it lower on the retail stores and then selling it higher on Amazon, right? We need to have that arbitrage, that difference. Okay. And so this is an example of a list that you guys can get. This is a list that I'll share in a second as well. This is a perfect example. We're buying, let's say eyeliner. From Sephora for $14, we can use a cashback tool to give us an extra 2% cashback discount. We can even buy gift cards and get a discount. This is something that's like more of a technicality. It's all about finding ways to make the price cheaper wherever we buy it. And then go sell it on Amazon for more expensive. You can see here, this product here is on Amazon and this is a profit calculator that I'll touch on later down the road. This product is estimated to do about 300 units per month in sales on Amazon. If we take the price and we put the price here, we can see the difference of how much this product would be. And we can make the difference. That's the whole idea here. Okay. Now, I'm going to do this demo a little later down the road. I think actually, yeah, we could probably do it right now. Yeah, let's do it right now. I'm going to share my screen here with you guys. And before I get started, I just want you guys to confirm that you can see my screen. Let me know in the chat if you guys can see my screen. I want to do a live demo for you guys to show you exactly what it looks like. These are all different products. Awesome. Okay. I'm getting a bunch of yeses. Great. Okay. So look, this list is given to me by the leads feed. Okay. They're a partner of mine. And they find products for you that you get on a daily basis and they organize it just like this. Okay. You can see the title of the product. You can see the stores you can buy them from. You can see the prices that there can be bought from. You can see any promo codes that are available. You can see the shipping prices if there are any. And then just kind of like the breakdown of all the fees and the prices. But the most important parts are these, right? Because this is the store URL, the link where you can buy it. And then you have the Amazon link where we want to sell them. Okay, so we'll visit this in a second. But I want to show other details that are very important. Okay, this is a very important one, sales per month. And that also is very relevant to this number here, ROI. Okay. You can see all of these products have a return on investment of more than 30%. That means that if you're putting, if you're buying a thousand dollars worth of products, this one should give you back $1,360. Okay. It's 36%. A return on your investment because you're making 360 bucks if you spend 1000 bucks, right? And some of these are crazy. Some of these are 272%. We have a 64 one. We have 100%. So, like, these are all really big numbers. And that's what I was trying to say about online arbitrage. Your ROI is very big, but you're also only limited to buying so many. And that's exactly what this last note is here for. You can see you can only buy 15 units, you can only buy 4, you can only buy 10, you can only buy 35. The limitation of online arbitrage because we're buying from online stores that have maximum quantity. Okay, but they have great return on investments. And so again, remember, this is a list that you guys can get. This is the list that I get from my partners in the leads feed by simply signing up for them. Okay. And of course, I have something special for you guys at the end of this call that includes this, but this is something that makes your life so much easier. This is something literally it does all the heavy lifting for you when it comes to online arbitrage and all you have to do is just look at the products and evaluate them. Okay, so let's do that right now. Let's evaluate one product together. Okay, so the first thing that I would do is I would open up the store URL and I would open up the Amazon URL. Okay, so Right off the bat, we can see that a product like this is selling for 58 bucks. Okay. And if we look at the Amazon listing, we can see that it's being sold for 86 bucks. Okay. So great. Right off the bat, we can see we can buy it low from the website and sell it high on Amazon. Okay. One thing we can see right away is that this product Has sold at least 100 units in the past month, which is a great indicator that it is selling. OK. AMZScout has tools that we can use to analyze even further. And that's what makes this way easier and way more predictable. We're not trying to guess. We're not trying to just buy anything and just send it to Amazon and hope that it sells. Everything we do is calculated. Everything we do is data driven. Okay. And so we want to look at the ranking. We want to look at the sales and we can see this orange line represents sales. And so you can see here, this is the number that we're looking at. And so huge, right? Like we want this number to be up. We want this number to go up so we can see that there are sales, which is great. Tells us there's a lot of sales. And if we lower this to only two months, we can see That on a daily basis, it's selling at least a few units. Okay. So that's huge. And then we have our profit calculator. Okay. So $58 here. And let's just imagine that with shipping and prep, it'll probably be an extra $3. So if I put $59 here and make sure we're using FBA, the FBA column, if I put $59 here, we can see our profit margin is about 23%. We're making about $24 per unit. Okay. So we're buying it for 59 and we're selling it at 105. And so that gives us about $24 per unit. Unknown Speaker: Okay. Speaker 1: And again, you can see here the estimated monthly sales, 104 units. Okay. And so if we want to see if there are other sellers on this listing, we can see here, there's about 11 different sellers on the listing. And so we'd want to analyze the sellers. We'd want to see how we can take most of the sales. This right here is a perfect example of a third-party seller. You can see here, not only are they a third-party seller, but they're also shipping FBM. So just by us doing FBA, we would outdo this seller. Amazon likes it when you're FBA and we always want to do FBA because then Amazon will put us right in this little box and people shop mostly in this box. Almost no one goes in here and clicks and like looks around the other sellers. Okay, so this is a great example. Let's do one in Canada as well. These are all leads in Canada. You can see London Drugs, Instacart Canada, so on. So again, 88% ROI, huge. Let me pull these up and make sure that we can take a look at them. Let me close this. I've been blocked. Maybe it's because I'm in Greece. Let me pull up the second lead here. This is also London Drugs. Yeah, they're also going to block me. Okay, let's do Instacart. Let's do Instacart. Let's see if that's going to show up. Okay. So interesting. I've never bought anything off of Instacart before, but you can see here and it doesn't really tell you the price. I don't like that right now for this example. I want to show you guys something quick and easy. So let's look at these retailers. Let's see if we know any of these. I don't know any of them. Um, let's maybe pull up this one here. Okay, awesome. So this is a great example. This product we can buy directly from the website, like from the brand website, right? And look, I was just going to close this because force of habit, like I hate pop-ups, but 10% off is huge. Of course I want 10% off. Again, remember, in online arbitrage, we're always trying to fatten up our margin. We're always trying to get any discount as much as possible. So yes, 100%, put your email in here, get the discount and then order as many as you can to sell on Amazon. So not only is the product already on sale, but you can get 10% off of this. Maybe you can get free shipping. There's 60 in stock. It's crazy, right? And look at this, you get even more bigger discounts if you buy more. So huge, huge. And like this is where actually like this is how I travel business class for free. I put all of this on a credit card. I put all of this on American Express card. And not only am I I'm buying inventory and saving and then selling it and making money, but I'm also collecting a shit ton of points on my American Express cards and I can travel business class for free. I can travel just in general for free. I can book hotels. If you do this in bulk, you have no idea how hand in hand a business like this goes with traveling. One of the reasons why I started to travel full time is because I realized I'd be an idiot if I wasn't traveling the world, if I wasn't taking advantage of this business that's perfect for traveling and collecting points. So you can see exactly here what I'm talking about. Let's go with the Amazon listing here and let's see what the listing looks like. And so we can see here, okay, quickly again, 69.79 and we're buying it for 29.99. Huge, huge, okay. Of course, I just wanna make sure that it's the exact same product. So like 60 ML, we can see here, is this 60 ML? Yeah, I zoom in and just make a quick check there. Make sure that it's the exact same product, hair growth spray. For hair hair growth spray. Perfect. Perfect. So this is like exactly it and like look at the margins like 70 bucks, right? So like if we're buying it for 30 bucks, right and that doesn't even That doesn't even account for the bulk discounts or the 10% that we could get from being a subscriber to the email. Let's just say 30 bucks, right? And let's imagine it's free shipping, but let's imagine that we have to pay about $2 for prep, okay? That's about $32 that I'm gonna put here. And we can see here that we make about $21 per unit. All right, where'd it go? Right here, $21 per unit. That's a 67% return on your investment. Unknown Speaker: Huge, huge. Okay, that's per unit. Okay, and this sells about 50 units, if not more than 50 units per month. Can we get the estimate here? Okay, the estimate here is not available, but Amazon is telling us 50 plus bought in the past month. So huge, huge, right? There's 14 other sellers and we just want to make sure again that we're FBA, right? This guy's FBM. So just by doing FBA, we could take over this box. Okay, let me know if you guys have any questions in the chat, but that was our live demo. I wanted to show you guys what's available, what's possible, right? And we're just simply going through these products and we can see so far we've gone through two and they're both viable. They're both ready to go. All you needed to do was analyze them and then place the order and move forward. It's as simple as that. Speaker 1: I've tried to make this as easy as possible. It's just a matter of doing the work, learning, and then taking it to the next level. Of course, remember, this is not the end-all be-all, right? We don't want to do all-in arbitrage forever. We just want to do it to make some money, to learn the process, because we can't buy that many units. We can only buy a limited amount of units. But then we want to take it to the mom and pop. Then we want to take it to wholesale, which I'm about to touch on. Let me know if you guys have any questions. But this was essentially the whole idea of online arbitrage and what we can do. And of course, the AMZScout tools that we'll be using to be able to analyze and make sure that we're making smart decisions. Remember, these are the things to keep in mind about online arbitrage. And this is the truth. I want to have a no filter with you. I want to tell you exactly the shortcomings and the reason we do them. So you have a perfect understanding as to why I'm recommending this. Okay. Online arbitrage The barrier to entry is low. I just shared with you two great products out of a huge list that get sent to people who have signed up for that list. So the competition can get high because people are just getting the leads. It's as easy as that. They just have to analyze it and do it. And so being very quick and having speed to the lead It's very important with online arbitrage. You want to act quickly. You want to analyze quickly and then buy them quickly and send them to Amazon quickly. Understand that you'll have winners and losers because of the competition. Some of these products will have some competition when you're analyzing it and then because the leads go out, all of a sudden 15 sellers come in. That doesn't mean that you'll lose money, it just means that the prices will start to come down because there's more competition and so you have to just kind of wait for the prices to adjust again. Unless you are quick, if you are quick then you can be at the beginning of that curve and you can sell before everybody gets in. So that's kind of the point here. The last thing is this will not make you rich. This is just a stepping stone. I have a friend who does $800,000 a month just doing this model. Obviously not with the leads that get sent to you. He has his own team that finds him leads. He has a huge team that just find him leads specifically for like his niche, but he does $800,000 a month in sales just by flipping from retail store to Amazon. So it's doable, but to me, it's not something you want to get deep into. You want to use it as a stepping stone to get to the next model. And the next model is mom and pop arbitrage. Okay. We had somebody ask if I could dig into this more. Well, this is the time. Okay. Mom and pop arbitrage is a great model for after you get some experience with online arbitrage, after you make some money to then transition into this. And I say that because online arbitrage, and especially with the leads that we just looked at, it's a great way for you to get Some sort of experience with all sorts of different products, right? We looked at a hair growth spray and before that we looked at some music equipment that people use maybe to like record music, right? And there's all these different niches, different categories and it's a perfect starting point for you because you have no idea right now what you want to sell and what's a winner. And so if you're exposed to all these different products with online arbitrage, These leads are being sent to you. You start to then understand, huh, like this hair growth spray worked really well for me. Let me try to find more products like it or even let me try to find products exactly like that. But let me try to find better pricing. Let me try to buy in bigger bulk. And so instead of buying just a couple units from the retail store, like I just showed you, You can now try to partner up with some local stores in your neighborhood that are buying it in bulk. They just don't know that they can sell it on Amazon for way more in terms of profit, but also in terms of units sold. And so that's where you come in. You come in as an expert and you try to find these stores and work with them. And this is all, this all started for me being in Vancouver a couple of years ago. Me going into a supplement store. And this supplement store was not like a franchise. It was just like a one-off owned by a family. And it was in a very small, quiet plaza in North Vancouver. And so think like off the highway, just a very small store with like one person working in the store. And so I go into the store and I'm looking around, looking at all these different products and I'm like, I've seen all of these products on Amazon before. And so I started speaking with the owner and I started to get to know her and I realized that the owner was Persian like me. And so I spoke with her in Persian, in Farsi, which helped in obviously getting to know them. And again, this is where the relationships and being a people's person comes into play. When you can talk to people and tell them what you do and show them and tell them the opportunity, that's when things get interesting, right? And so they have access to all these different products from a credible distributor, but they're not doing much with it. They have a small store with very little foot traffic. And so I'm speaking to them and understanding her and her family's position with the store and I realized that they bought the store not to make money and to become a business tycoon. But it was to simply just be in the country. They bought the business to show the government of Canada that they're here to spend money and that they're here to do business. And so they bought this small vitamin supplement store to simply be able to start getting their citizenship in the country. And I asked them how big this was and they told me that the business was pretty crap. They only had one customer come in every hour. So pretty barren and not a lot of people would come into the store to buy anything. So obviously I started thinking, huh, I've been selling on Amazon for the last few years. I resell very similar products like this on Amazon. What if we could work together to take some of these products and sell them on Amazon? Or more specifically, what if we could look at a catalog together of your distributor and try to pick out the products that do the best on Amazon and place orders? What if we work together to do that? Right? And so they're like, you know what? Let me talk to my husband. Let me talk to and let me see if they're if they're willing to do this. And, you know, after a couple of days, I get a phone call and the husband said yes. So I took my computer to their store, literally sat there with their son. And I started to do my research and started to look at all the different brands that they have in the store and started to see what opportunities there were. And lo and behold, After a couple days of researching, I found some really, really good products that they could order directly from their supplier and I ordered about $30,000 worth of products. Of course, not in one sitting, but in the coming months, I ordered over $30,000 worth of products with them. And this was a few years ago when I wasn't even selling in Canada because I started my business selling in the US and I was like, okay, I always want to do Canada. And this allowed me to start selling on the Canadian marketplace in a matter of days. Okay. And this is why I started to really follow this and teach this and start to really advocate this because I realized If I could just partner up with these people who already have these connections with wholesalers and distributors, why should I spend months trying to go to trade shows and trying to build these relationships and try to convince people that, hey, I'm an online retail expert. I can just work with these stores. And just work and piggyback and piggyback off their suppliers. I need to convince a person who is very similar to me to just give me a chance. And that's way easier than trying to convince a huge wholesaler or distributor that they should open up an account with you. Okay, so I hope this sheds some light into what Mom and Pop is and what I've done. And here are some pictures of products that I had ordered. The products came to their store and I got them to just help me repackage them a little bit. And then we got UPS to pick them up and we sent them directly to Amazon's warehouse to do FBA. So this was huge. This was really, really cool. And this is exactly what I want you guys to do after you do online arbitrage. Now, the reason why this is good for us is because we're skipping the whole trying to meet distributors and wholesalers, but we're still buying from credible and authorized distributors. This is really good for the store because the store, especially if they're very quiet, like the ones you just saw where they get one customer every hour, this is a chance for them to sell A thousand units to you and make the difference. They can simply make the difference and be able to make a little bit more money with you being there as a customer. Okay. And this model can easily get you to 10 to $50,000 in revenue per month. Because you're now buying in bulk. You're now buying from a distributor but through a proxy, right? Like you're buying it through the mom and pop. They're technically brokering the deal to you, okay? And after a few months of this with experience, you can then simply decide to go even bigger, which has been wholesale. Okay, so these are all stepping stones to wholesale. These are all stepping stones to ultimately get your own wholesale and distributor accounts. And that's exactly what the AMW formula is. A again stands for online arbitrage, M mom and pop and W stands for wholesale. So this is the perfect methodology for you to go from nothing, knowing nothing about Amazon, selling something in the next few days, next few weeks and then ultimately building your business to get to the level where I am. Now, let's break down some of the numbers here, guys. We're almost done and I want to just make sure that you see exactly how you can make your 1K. I would say that most products that are under 10% ROI, I don't even touch. The products we looked at on the list are 30% ROI. So that means that if you're spending a thousand bucks, you're at least making $300 off of that thousand bucks. Some of the products that we looked at are 30 to 60% ROI. That's 30 to 60% ROI. That you can make on each product, which is huge. We saw that together on that list. Eight to 10% is considered a good yearly return in the stock market or real estate. Compare that, understand that. That same eight to 10% is great for a two-week return for us on our Amazon store. If you're putting money in your stock market and you're just sending it into a IRA or not even an IRA, sorry, what's it called? Like an index fund? Those are supposed to give you 8-10% on your money in a year. We're looking at that same return in a matter of weeks when we're building a business and we're selling product. The real question is how can you make $1K or more in 30 days? I always recommend you start with $500 to $1,000 just to get started, just to start with online arbitrage. And the idea is that once you get that familiarity, you then want to buy more product and invest in different products and diversify. The more money you invest, of course, the more money you can make. With a 35% ROI on average, you would need to invest about $3K for inventory to make your first $1K. Okay, so understand that. To make this realistic, to make your 1K, you need to probably buy at least $3,000 worth of product to make 1K in profit. Now, just to get started, you just need a couple hundred bucks, right? You reinvest your profits and grow your capital and buy more product over time. If you only have a few hundred bucks, that's fine. But if you want to hit the $1,000, then you want to invest more capital, okay? But it's all about stepping stones. It's all about understanding the business and then just growing your trust in it and growing confidence and buying more and more product over time. How many sellers Join Amazon globally every year. It's a number. Type that number in the chat and let me know. The first two people to get the answer will get the prize. And we'll send it to your emails. How many sellers join Amazon globally every year? What do you guys think? Who's got the answer? All right, we got Rick who said around 1 million and then we have Visitor who said 1 million. So look, I don't have your names. If you came in with Visitor, I don't have your name. So tell me your name. Whoever the first Visitor was, who is your name? What's your name? Because you're right. Rick and the first Visitor, you're right. The answer is 1 million. It's actually over 1 million. And what's crazy about this is that most never end up selling a single product. Because everybody's like, yeah, Amazon's so easy. Yeah, like, let me just get on Amazon and sell them and make so much money. But no, like, I want to say 80%, if not more, never even end up selling a product. Okay, we got Kai, right? I think it's Kai and then we got Rick. Guys, if you guys can provide your email in the chat, then we can get the AMZScout team to send you your free guides, okay? But yeah, it's crazy. Over a million people sign up every year and 80%, if not more, never even sell anything because life gets in the way and they thought it was much easier than they thought.

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