Ürünlerini Amazon'da Sat - O Pazarlasın - İngilizce

Although many ecommerce merchants consider Amazon to be tough competitor, some online shopkeepers can boost sales and send traffic back to their own site using two of Amazon's ecommerce services.

Selling on Amazon and Product Ads on Amazon are two Amazon services that many retail ecommerce businesses can use, taking advantage of Amazon's brand and web traffic to improve sales. In this Ecommerce Know-How, I will describe these services, explain how to use them to improve your business, and point out the potential costs and pitfalls.

Selling on Amazon is Like a Comparison Shopping Site, But with More Traffic

According to Internet data company, comScore, Amazon.com had more than 54.5 million unique visitors from the U.S. alone in January 2009. That amounts to a lot of potential customers searching on Amazon for products of all kinds.

For a $39.99 monthly fee, Amazon will let almost any ecommerce merchant upload inventory to the Amazon site, either manually adding items, uploading them as a text file, or using a free Amazon application. Your products will be listed alongside similar or even identical products on sale from Amazon or your other competitors much the same way that shopping or price comparison tools list a number of sellers and their offer prices.

Any of Amazon's 50 million monthly visitors can find and select your products, placing an order through the Amazon payment interface and shopping cart. This means that a customer might have products from your site, Amazon, and other online retailers all bundled together in one order. If that doesn't bother you, this Amazon service can send a lot of orders to your store.

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A Few Gotchas When Selling on Amazon

Although this service can be a powerful marketing tool, there are at least four things to watch out for when selling on Amazon.

First, Amazon can be particular about the products they list and offer little recourse when they (frequently) make a mistake. For example, Amazon refused to list a toy cap gun that I sell in one of my stores. I was told that it was a forbidden item. But my competitors had listed the identical toy. When I tried to communicate with Amazon, I was sent to a useless set of terms and conditions.

Second, Amazon will control the shipping prices, so you will need to pad your item's price. Perhaps, as a ploy to get you to use Amazon's own fulfillment services, selling on Amazon will force you into razor thin shipping prices, and make it impossible to recover the cost of your packaging materials. You can still turn a profit, but you'll have to watch your margins very carefully.

Third, only list profitable items. Many of your competitors are not using this tool well; in fact, they are undercutting their own profits. Just as with price comparison sites, some merchants are offering their products too cheaply, don't be part of the problem. List items with a reasonable profit margin built in; no one should treat ecommerce like a charity.

Finally, don't forget to factor in the monthly fee. $39.99 is very expensive. If you are not getting 100 or more additional sales each month from Amazon, you're not getting your money's worth.

Place Ads on Amazon

If you would rather not list your items on a competitor's site, but still want to take advantage of Amazon's traffic, consider placing pay-per-click (PPC) ads that will send customers back to your store.

The service is very similar to Google AdWords, but in many ways provides a more targeted audience. Amazon does require some minimum bids for popular categories. When this article was written, those minimums included:

• Apparel and accessories 30-to-50 cents per click
• Baby 15-to-25 cents per click
• Computers and peripherals 55 cents to $1 per click
• Electronics and office 40 cents to $1.25 per click
• Furniture 40 cents per click
• Health and beauty 60 cents to $1 per click
• Home and garden 15-to-70 cents per click
• Jewelry and watches 20-to-75 cents per click
• Sports and outdoors 25 cents to $1 per click
• Tools and home improvement 30 to 50 cents per click
• Toys 15-to-25 cents per click

Some categories require preapproval from Amazon before you can post ads, others will be up and running just a few minutes after you set them up.

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Summing Up

Many ecommerce sites can take advantage of Amazon's millions of monthly visitors by either listing products directly on Amazon or by running targeted PPC ads.