How To Get Started Selling on Amazon With Little To No Money

Ever since the TikTok video of me buying Extra gum at Sam’s Club to sell on Amazon went viral, I’ve received countless messages from people who are eager to get started and want to learn how they can do so.

The video received over 1.1 million views in 3 days and I went from having 10 followers on TikTok to having over 20K. I didn’t expect so many people to be interested in learning how to sell on Amazon. Nonetheless, I was completely unprepared for the avalanche of traffic headed my way. Hundreds of people have been messaging me every day asking me if I offer coaching, mentorships, step by step guides or a course.

When I created my videos, the goal was to post consistently and document my progress over time. I was simply recording what I do on a daily basis in order to make money online and advance myself financially every day. The goal was to be as transparent as possible. I did not expect it to take off immediately. While I received haters, I received tons of positive comments from people who found my content valuable.

I realized that people are hungry for information that could help them change their lives. I have immense respect for anyone who wants to put in the work to become better. That is why I have decided to work on a step-by-step guide to help people get started.

Unlike Shopify dropshipping, day-trading and private label, I would consider Amazon to be an easy way to make money online. Virtually anyone could succeed with this method, if they are willing to put in the work. That being said, few will succeed because they are not willing to do whatever it takes to win.

I had to do things that other people refused to do in order to make this happen. I was broke before the pandemic happened. I am no longer broke. I am not rich by any means, but I have a verifiable method of generating positive cash flow into my bank account that will make me rich in due time.

This blog will not be an Amazon FBA blog forever. I am not an Amazon content creator. I will teach you everything I know but I’m always striving for the next level. My goal is to get rich by any means necessary.

That being said, I love selling on Amazon and have no intentions to stop. This is the opportunity of a lifetime and could change many of your lives.

Taking action is the most important factor in your success. Learning from experience will do so much more for you than learning from YouTube.

Keep this in mind: There is no step-by-step guide to making you a successful Amazon seller. There are step-by-step guides for technical things such as packing a box and sending it to Amazon. However, being successful requires an entrepreneurial vision, persistence, determination, hustle, and work ethic. If you don’t have these factors, no step-by-step guide will do you any good.

However, if you take action, commit to learning, put in the repetitions and never give up, I can assure you that you will win. I can help you get there. The way I can do that is not through holding your hand and doing it for you, but by creating valuable content that teaches the game.

Many people say a $3 profit is not worth it. That is why they will never touch any significant sum of money in their lives. They are too arrogant and prideful to learn how to make $3 profit because it is “too little” that they will waste the majority of their lives sitting in a cubicle in the hopes of making $100k/year and retiring a millionaire.

Before I started Amazon, I was dead broke. I drove for UberEats and DoorDash when everyone else was too scared to go outside. Back then, gas was around $1.50/gallon and delivery demand was at an all-time-high. I took the money I earned from there and used that capital to get into used book flipping on Amazon.

I used to go to Goodwill, Value Village, Dollar Tree and Salvation Army every single day and scan all the books there and I shipped the profitable ones to Amazon. That is how I learned how to find profitable items, how to create Amazon FBA shipments and how to analyze data.

After successfully selling books for a few months, I decided to get into retail arbitrage. I showed up every day, put the time in and got real results. I’m currently in the process of scaling my operation to grow exponentially during this next year.

The moral of the story is that if you are determined, you don’t need a step-by-step guide. You will make it happen regardless. If you think a step-by-step guide will change your life, you’re delusional.

I’m in the process of creating an ACTIONABLE step-by-step guide for those who want it. This can help point you in the right direction and get you started.

Anyone who really wants to learn the game and succeed at it should follow my content and learn what I am teaching. It is all from experience. I do not speak on things I don’t have experience on. Read my blog posts, subscribe to my mailing list and watch my videos. You will absorb the information and it has the potential to change your life.

If you read this entire essay and understand what I am saying, you might have what it takes to make this happen.

If you read this and feel as if I didn’t tell you exactly how to start an Amazon business with little to no money, you might not be cut out for this business.

Read this multiple times.

Best regards,

Alex Chung

Photo: Amazon Prime logo on a package box by Marco Verch under Creative Commons 2.0