🚀 Building a Successful Amazon FBA Business: The Best Free Tools to Use
Are you looking to become a top seller on Amazon? Then you need to make sure that whatever product you're going to be selling has existing demand from shoppers and is profitable. But how do you find those products without investing a fortune in the right tools? The good news is that using the right tools and apps to find the best products doesn't have to be as expensive as you might think. In fact, some of the tools that I like to use are completely free. In this article, I'll be reviewing the best free tools that you can use to build a successful Amazon FBA business.
📝 Table of Contents
1. Introduction
2. Helium 10: The Essential Tool for Product Research
3. Aliprice Search: Finding the Right Supplier for Your Product
4. WeChat: Messaging Suppliers on the Go
5. Chat GPT: Analyzing Customer Reviews with AI
6. Conclusion
7. FAQs
1. Helium 10: The Essential Tool for Product Research
If you're looking to find the best products to sell on Amazon, then Helium 10 is the tool for you. With Helium 10, you can check whether a product has demand or is profitable. The best part is that the essential tools that you need to use when you're assessing a product's demand or profitability can be used entirely for free.
To use Helium 10 for free, search for the Helium 10 Chrome extension on your browser, install it, and then head to Helium 10 to create a free account. If it asks you to link your store to Amazon, just press cancel, and that's all there is to it. Upon registering, you'll be given access to a limited number of product research tools on their website, all for free.
As part of the free plan, you're able to run Helium 10's sales demand estimator up to five times. All you need to do to use it is search for the product that you want to sell, press Helium 10, and then press X-ray. If you've gone over your allowance of five searches and you still want to see how much demand there is for a product that you've just found, then all you need to do is look at the top four products' best seller rankings, which Helium 10 displays in a box above each listing. Head to Helium 10's free sales estimator, plug in your values, and then just press calculate.
In addition to that, if you click into any product that you're interested in selling once you've installed that free Chrome extension, a new section is going to load underneath where the bullet points are. There you can check your competitors' stock levels, see sales trends over time, and most importantly of all, calculate profitability. And that is all for free. How awesome is that?
2. Aliprice Search: Finding the Right Supplier for Your Product
Finding a supplier for a product that you want to sell on Amazon can be time-consuming and challenging. But not if you're using a free Chrome extension called Aliprice Search. It allows you to find the supplier of any product just from the main image that's being used on Amazon. It makes the entire process of finding the right supplier for your product a complete breeze.
To use Aliprice Search, download the extension from the Chrome Store, head to Amazon or any website that has got an image of a product that you want to sell, roll your mouse over the image, and then click the small magnifying glass that now appears. This free app will then scan Alibaba as well as a load of other websites, and literally within seconds, you'll be presented with a mountain of suppliers that can all manufacture the exact product that you're just looking at. An essential app to get that makes sourcing products an absolute walk in the park.
3. WeChat: Messaging Suppliers on the Go
One of the best things about Amazon FBA is that much of the business can be run entirely off your phones, including when you want to source and then contact suppliers, which can all be done for free. For finding and initially reaching out to suppliers whilst you're on the move, I would start with the Alibaba app. And then once you're ready to begin your negotiations and further develop your relationship, move over to WeChat.
WeChat is essentially the Chinese version of WhatsApp, which your supplier is more likely to have. Messaging suppliers on WeChat can be a great way to get replies quickly, which really does matter given the time difference. It's also great at helping you build a rapport and therefore getting discounts and access to new products early. While it is free, it is invite-only. So in order to get it, you're going to need to ask your supplier on Alibaba or ask around in the Facebook and Discord groups.
4. Chat GPT: Analyzing Customer Reviews with AI
One of the biggest challenges that you'll face when you're looking for something to sell on Amazon is finding a way to improve upon the product. This is time-consuming and boring, and it used to involve you having to comb through thousands of customer reviews in order to understand what recommendations customers were making. But not anymore, because with the help of AI and the free plan of Chat GPT, this analysis can actually be done in a matter of minutes.
To use Chat GPT for free, head to chat.openai.com, create an account so that you can use Chat GPT for free, and then once you've done that, load up any product listing that you want to analyze on Amazon. Then, using Helium 10's free Chrome extension, run the review insights tool. Once it's loaded, select all of the poor review scores of one to three using the filters, export, and then repeat the same exercise for the good review scores so four to five. Within each file that downloads, you can then copy and paste the text of up to 50 reviews straight into Chat GPT and then instruct it to analyze the content and create a list that summarizes the top five things that customers like and the top five things that customers dislike about the product.
To go a step further, you can also ask it to recommend five different improvements as well as anything else that you can think of that might be useful. And all of that, including using Helium 10's review insights tool, can be done entirely for free in less than 10 minutes. Not bad for something that used to take me hours if not days.
5. Conclusion
Building a successful Amazon FBA business means that you're going to need to invest at least a couple of thousand in buying the right products to sell. But using the right tools and apps to find the best products doesn't have to be as expensive as you might think. In fact, some of the tools that I like to use are completely free. By using Helium 10, Aliprice Search, WeChat, and Chat GPT, you can build a successful Amazon FBA business that gets results.
6. FAQs
Q: Do I need to pay for Helium 10 to use it?
A: No, the essential tools that you need to use when you're assessing a product's demand or profitability can be used entirely for free.
Q: Is WeChat free to use?
A: Yes, WeChat is free to use. However, it is invite-only, so you'll need to ask your supplier on Alibaba or ask around in the Facebook and Discord groups to get it.
Q: Can I use Chat GPT for free?
A: Yes, you can use Chat GPT for free. Just head to chat.openai.com, create an account, and start analyzing customer reviews with AI.
Resources
- Helium 10: https://www.helium10.com/
- Aliprice Search: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aliprice-search-find-the/ohjgjgkpkjgjgjgjgjgjgjgjgjgjgjg
- WeChat: https://www.wechat.com/en/
- Chat GPT: https://chat.openai.com/
