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While we continue to find success in selling and reselling name brand products on Amazon, many try and win with their own brand of product. This is what we call Private Label. We continue to explore our own custom brand of products, but we thought it would be a good idea to help clarify and explain what Private Label is.

What is Private Label

Private label selling on Amazon is like creating your own brand of products to sell online. Imagine you have a cool idea for a product people would love to buy. With private label selling, you can make it happen! You get to decide how your product looks and what name goes on it. It's all about making something unique that stands out from the crowd.

It Can Be Fun

Selling on platforms like Amazon, allows you to show off your brand and products to millions of shoppers. Every day, tons of people look for stuff to buy on Amazon, so you have a big audience ready to check out what you're selling.

Also Comes With Challenges

While private label selling on Amazon offers exciting opportunities, it also comes with its fair share of challenges. One of the main hurdles is the upfront investment required to develop and launch your own brand, including costs for product design, manufacturing, and marketing.

Additionally, building brand recognition and gaining traction in a competitive marketplace can take time, effort and tons of money in ads and marketing. Another challenge is managing inventory and forecasting demand accurately to avoid overstocking or running out of popular products, which can impact profitability and customer satisfaction.

Lastly, navigating Amazon's policies and regulations, as well as dealing with potential counterfeit or copycat products, requires careful attention to detail and ongoing vigilance to protect your brand reputation.

Winning Product of the Week

Title: Boulder Sports Badminton Set

Platform: Walmart

Cost: 6.99

Selling Price: 19.99

Margin: 21% / $4.25ea

Q&A

Every week we answer a question or two from social media or our subscribers.

This week, we got the question:

Good Question from subscriber, Holly!

When using OA, or Online Arbitrage, there are so many places to find products, almost too many too list here. We’ll dive deeper into that in future issues. When sourcing locally at retail stores we have found these to be some of the most successful stores to find and buy products, and then sell online.

• Menards

• Walmart

• Walgreens

• Marshall’s

• Kohl’s

• Cub Foods

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