There’s more to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’ life than tablet talk and online shopping. A Wall Street Journal report out Tuesday shares details about some of his odd investments, including a 200-foot-tall clock. http://www.mashable.com
LIKE us on FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/mashable.video
FOLLOW us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/mashablevideo
FOLLOW us on TUMBLR: http://mashable.tumblr.com
FOLLOW our INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/mashable
JOIN our circle on GOOGLE PLUS: http://plus.google.com/+Mashable
Subscribe!: http://bit.ly/1ko5eNd

Mashable is the leading independent news site for all things tech, social media, and internet culture.
http://www.youtube.com/mashable

The Internet has been good to some retailers, namely Amazon. But it’s also give rise to the showrooming phenomenon, where shoppers look at stores but buy online. So how can retailers compete with the internet? http://www.mashable.com
LIKE us on FACEBOOK: http://facebook.com/mashable.video
FOLLOW us on TWITTER: http://twitter.com/mashablevideo
FOLLOW us on TUMBLR: http://mashable.tumblr.com
FOLLOW our INSTAGRAM: http://instagram.com/mashable
JOIN our circle on GOOGLE PLUS: http://plus.google.com/+Mashable
Subscribe!: http://bit.ly/1ko5eNd

Mashable is the leading independent news site for all things tech, social media, and internet culture.
http://www.youtube.com/mashable

“Nightline” goes inside the massive retail business on the biggest online shopping day of the year.

Considering Online Methods to Sell your Products
One of the advantages of living in a society where everything seems disposable is that people have become ingenious in devising methods to buy products. Along with brand online stores, which every business has now, there are some shopping platforms allowing 3rd party merchandisers to sell their goods for a fee. Let’s take a look the many options available for selling online and their cons and pros.

EBay is one of the most common online action marketplaces where you can sell, buy or bid on products.

eBay fees: eBay fees depend on your subscription. The listing fee for fixed price items is $0.20 per item. Final Value Fee depends on what you sell, it varies (Fixed Priced items) from 8% to 15%. Your eBays store cost is ~$16 per month.
Advantages: It is action-based marketplace which means you can buy products cheaper. There is no store needed to sell online.
Disadvantages: 1) Big range of selling fees 2) High selling fees lift product prices 3) Little information about seller and product quality 4) Many fake comments 5) You have to pay for each extra photo you upload.

Amazon is an online retailer for a different kind of product and they sell their own products like Kindle—an e-book reader.
Amazon fees: If you sell more than 40 products a month, you need to buy a subscription, which is a $39.99 monthly payment. When an item sells, Amazon takes a 15% “referral fee” and charges a $1.35 “closing fee”. Some products have even higher “referral”and “closing” fees.
Amazon Advantages: It’s a marketplace mostly for businesses rather than for individuals, higher quality, and better search engines.
Amazon Disadvantages: Even higher fees than on eBay, higher product prices, and fake comments. To sell products you need to set up an Amazon store (which is $39 per month.)

.
Craigslist is a website for free classified ads.

Craigslist Advantages: It is free.
Craigslist Disadvantage: 1) It’s hard to find a particular product because its built-in search engine is very simple and allows you to search only by name with exact matches.
2) There is no information about the seller. 3) There are no opportunities to enrich your web presence (no themes no design features) 4) In the end, Craigslist does not have a buyer-friendly interface.

Social Networking Websites allow you to create business pages.
It is now a unique way to sell anything as you have your own circle of friends and groups.
Social Websites Advantages: 1) Easy and free listings 2) It’s easy to share your product information 3) People already trust you and the information about you.
Social Websites Disadvantages: 1) Websites are developed for social networking not for business or ecommerce purposes 2) So there are no interfaces, online instruments to search your products, filter results, or good descriptions 3) It is difficult to advertise your product, and you can only share information with your friends.
Glabex is website for business. It allows businesses to create their online presence, list their products and advertise them via all social networking websites and incorporate them in Google product searches.
Glabex Advantages: It is totally free for any business. It has sophisticated search engines, and even allows you to find products when you have made typing errors, or within the information indicted in the product description. It is a social hub for your social presence; synchronizing your profile with up to 10 social networking websites. You can easily update your company information, photos and videos, and your product description throughout the 10 social networks with one click!
Glabex Disadvantages: There is no official Glabex store, so you need either to have company profile or post your goods on your personal Glabex profile page, or just upload products and make sure to provide relevant email addresses for your customers to ask questions. Glabex is not a reseller, nor an agent, so merchandisers are responsible for their products and delivery and buyers for their purchases.
Now you can sell you products. Just be sure to check out the policies and guidelines of selling, especially with online marketplaces. Different online venues have different policies, so it is best to educate yourself well with them so that you won’t end up on the losing end.

I do most of my shopping online. So I compared Costco’s online prices with Amazon’s. It turns out you can buy many products from Costco online without a Costco membership.

There are some drawbacks. Costco has very few food and household items available online. And many items I looked at were available only in very large sizes, and one required that you order a minimum of two. Amazon had every product I searched for and the exact size I found on Costco. Amazon certainly beats in selection. In fact, you can’t buy Costco’s Kirkland brand olive oil on Costco’s website, but it was available on Amazon.

The prices reflected in the video are from the day I compared the prices. The product availability and prices may have changed.

————————————————–

Follow BI Video on Twitter: http://bit.ly/1oS68Zs
Follow BI Video On Facebook: http://on.fb.me/1bkB8qg
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/

————————————————–

Business Insider is the fastest growing business news site in the US. Our mission: to tell you all you need to know about the big world around you. The BI Video team focuses on technology, strategy and science with an emphasis on unique storytelling and data that appeals to the next generation of leaders – the digital generation.

For a few minutes on Tuesday, it seemed like Amazon might actually have a sense of humor. The online shopping giant announced a new hardware product called the Dash Button. It’s a little hook, decorated with the name of a household brand, which customers can place on the wall and tap to automatically order a specific product. Amazon has long been trying to turn our lives into one never-ending impulse shopping experience, but this effort sounded almost too literal. That, combined with the fact it was announced one day before April Fools’ Day, may explain why many on Twitter questioned if the buttons were simply a joke. However, a rep for Amazon told Mashable by email, “indeed it is real.”

http://feeds.mashable.com/~r/Mashable/~3/BDND4_hgkQw/
http://www.wochit.com

Join the eCommerce Revolution Now!

That may sound like a bit of a dramatic headline but the fact is retail is dead. Every year more and more people are changing their shopping habits to eCommerce, Amazon, eBay and its only just getting started.

With crazy new buying trends like Black Friday and Cyber Monday only prove that the world is starting to hit the online market places in a big way with Billions being spent every year.

This course teaches you how to build a business importing hot selling high quality products from primarily China and sell them for HUGE profits. You will be taught in detail what to source, were to source it and how to sell it to maximize your sales and profits.

You are going to learn in detail how to use one of the worlds biggest marketplaces known as Alibaba. We will cover:

What sort of products to look for.
How to know that you are going to be able to sell your products. Guaranteed!
How to communicate with factories and suppliers.
Master shipping techniques and know how to get your products safely to your door ASAP.
Once you have your products you will be shown how to present them and sell them like the pros do, beating 90% of the competition hands down. We will cover:

Mastering product photography to take professional looking images of your products anywhere anytime.
Writing killer product descriptions that convert like crazy and are also keyword optimized.
Building hot selling titles. Having your product title structured correctly is vital to getting high amounts of traffic to your product listings. We will show you how.
Keyword Research is key to getting maximum exposure to your listings. You will learn how to find the best keywords for your product and use them to dominate.
Once you have your products presented professionally, you will learn advanced techniques in selling on eBay and Amazon to take your sales to the next level. We also cover in detail branding and private labeling your products to differentiate yourself from the competition and truly create your own empire.

This course is the complete package for anyone looking to succeed in selling products online. I am constantly adding and updating the curriculum to give you the most up to date selling and importing techniques and methods.

Also included is access to a private Facebook community for all students to interact, help and motivate each other to achieve their goals.

So sign up now if you want to make this year the year you make it online or your money back.

https://www.udemy.com/become-an-importer-source-products-sell-for-huge-profits/#/

***30 Day Money Back Guarantee***

Showing my newbie account fresh on the site. Got advice help me out?

http://www.NikkiStephens.com/Amazon-Associates

In this video I show you how to set up an Amazon Associates affiliate account so that you can promote products using your own unique affiliate ID.

Each Amazon site requires you to sign up to their affiliate scheme, so I have signed up to be an Amazon Associate for both Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.

I walk you through the steps needed to sign up to the scheme, and then once your application has been approved then you are good to go. I also show you how to get the specific links for particular products, although Amazon itself has much more detailed instructions – we’d be here for a lot longer if I were to go through it all!

My blog post (linked above) also covers the various payment tiers and eligible items for promotion – after all, there’s not much point in promoting something that Amazon won’t pay you for.

So what are you waiting for – sign up as an Amazon Associate, and start making affiliate commissions!

http://www.NikkiStephens.com/Amazon-Associates

You are going to have returns when you sell on eBay and Amazon. Sometimes even when you are right and well within your rights to reject a return request it is good business to go ahead and process the return anyway. Other times dig in and stand your ground.
Like, Comment, Subscribe, Favorite.
Find us on Facebook at AndyBobsThreadsAndThrift. Twitter @AndyBobsT2 and our website Andybobsthreadsandthrift.com
Thanks for watching. God bless