Amazon Free Course Lecture 01 | Amazon Free Course | Mirza Muhammad Arslan - YouTube

Assalam-o-Alaikum. I hope that you all are fine. On huge public demand we are going to fulfil your request.

Many of you have made us felt via your comments that the content is not in sequence.

Whereas it is in right sequence. It is just we do not bother to check it properly.

No problem at all. For your ease from today,

we are again going to start theoretical training of Virtual Assistant.

And if you possess the right intellect level,

I am sure that you do not have to join our paid course and you can start your Amazon Business by learning from this course.

Even if you do not have enough investment, after learning this course

you will be able to serve people as Virtual Assistant.

So, lets move to the topic. Today is our 1st topic, in which we get know What is Amazon? and how can we start working on it?

Amazon is an E-commerce platform where you open your shop (that is your account) and sell your products.

It is same as you see shopping malls in the country, like Packages Mall and Emporium Mall in Lahore,

Centaurus Mall in Islamabad, and you will also find many malls in Karachi.

You would have seen many different shops and brands in the mall. Similarly, Amazon is a mall, where many brands sell their products.

And when we sell our product with own name, we will also be considered as brand.

So, in simple words, to work on Amazon you will have to open your shop on Amazon. In easy words, you have to open your account on Amazon.

After that account opening, you will display your products on Amazon. In Amazon terms, product displaying is called product listing.

Just like any shop has racks, there is list on Amazon. Whichever product you want to buy, you click on it and add to cart it, make payment and leave and that product is delivered to you at your home.

Now, how can we create account on Amazon? If we see, the account creation on Amazon is relatively easy

but there are some policies and restrictions by Amazon that frustrates you at times as despite of fulfilling everything, your account does not get activated.

First thing you need to know is whenever you are going to create account on Amazon, which type of account should it be?

Just like you go to bank, they will ask you to which type of bank account you want to open? Is it current account or saving account or any other type of account?

You should know that there are two types of selling plans on Amazon. No. 1 is individual selling plan and No. 2 is professional selling plan.

First we will discuss individual selling plan. If you sign up your account on individual selling plan,

the first benefit you will get is that there is no subscription fee which generally Amazon charges on monthly basis.

On the other hand, there is disadvantage of it which is, you cannot sell your brand on individual selling plan

and Amazon will also charge commission of $0.9 on each sale which is other than FBA fee

.So, lets now discuss the other pattern, the second selling plan which is Professional Selling Plan.

When you sign up Professional Selling Plan, you can sell product with your name/brand name.

When we talk about Professional Selling Plan, Amazon will charge a fix monthly subscription fee

which is $39.99 which will be exchanged to your local currency as per your selected country.

Let me share something interesting with you, you can launch your brand in two different ways. There are two modes in Professional Selling Plan.

First is Individual and second is Business. Let me clear one thing here, please do not mix Individual under Professional Selling Plan with the Individual Selling Plan.

That is totally separate which we have already discussed and closed. Now we are discussing Professional Selling Plan under which

you can make two types of account No.1 is Business Account and No. 2 is Individual Account.

So, if you are going to sign up with Individual Account, you will have to share all of your personal information with Amazon

and if you are signing up as Business Account, you will have to share your business credentials with Amazon.

Let me explain it more. If you are signing up for Individual Account you will need, you should have

valid computerized CNIC (the one with chip), your bank statement, your email ID, your mobile number,

and you should also have Meezan bank, Faysal bank, or any other bank`s debit or credit card.

There are few banks of which credit cards are accepted and there are others of which debit cards are accepted at Amazon.

So whatever bank card you are using, you will get to know whether Amazon is accepting that or not.

So, we will not go into bank details as we are just getting overview here.

So, I have mentioned all the things that are required for the Individual Account. To sign up for Individual Account, Amazon will require two more things from you.

Just like I have explained debit and credit card to you, there are two methods, one is Charged Method and other is Deposit Method.

While signing up the account, you must provide this two information to Amazon. Charged Method means,

you have to share those card/bank details with Amazon, from which they can charge money

that is, your monthly subscription fee.

If you decide to do some advertisement on Amazon, they can charge you for that. Simply, any money you Owed to Amazon will be deducted via Charged Method.

Meezan and Faysal bank debit cards do work for this purpose and Amazon will charge you through that when you sign up the account.

Again, Amazon will not charge on Individual Selling Plan but on Individual Plan under Professional Selling Plan it will charge you $39.99 per month.

Now you know what Charged Method is.

The second method is Deposit Method. If Amazon has to pay you against the product that you have sold on Amazon, on which account it should pay you

so here you will have to share your bank account details.

But, if you are signing up from Pakistan, then currently Amazon is not allowed direct deposit into your bank.

For this purpose, you will have to induct another bank in the middle, which is also called Virtual Bank. For example, Payoneer, Hyper Wallet etc.

you will need such sources where money is first deposited in those accounts and then into your bank account.

Now come to Business Plan under Professional Selling Plan. In Business Plan,

you will have to share your business details. If you are operating from Pakistan, you should have Pvt Ltd. Company.

You will have to share business credentials, share Charged Method and Deposit Method,

email ID, contact number, bank statement, and share all the information of company directors.

After providing all the information, Amazon will congratulate you on your successful account creation.

Once account is created, you will be happy that it is now created and we can use it but, it is not like that.

Once you will enter your seller centre you will see that account is went into verification.

Once your account is in verification stage, Amazon will require some documents for verification and identity proof.

So, if you are individual, it will ask for utility bill and/or CNIC/passport.

So, you will share scanned copies of these documents. Many Pakistanis are making same mistake which is,

when submitting CNIC copy, they are submitting mobile pictures which Amazon is rejecting. So, when submitting ID card,

you will separately scan front and back side of ID card and upload it.

If you are submitting passport, then you have scan it as book, where you will scan first page and then the second page which is the signed part.

So, this is how you will submit these two documents. For utility bill you can use electricity bills and/or PTCL bills.

Once you will submit correct documents, your account will be successfully verified

just like so many of Pakistanis are now getting their accounts verified.

Same in Business Plan, your will share business details and company registration documents as a proof with Amazon and any other document that Amazon ask for.

Remember one thing, Amazon is very simple only if you keep it simple.

It is us who make situation complex.

For example, if Amazon asks for ID card, we suddenly get confused

and upload pictures that are taken from mobile camera, which Amazon will reject

as there is Artificial Intelligence and robots working on Amazon side and we have to completely abide by instructions.

Keep these things in mind and take your time to sign up your Amazon account.

Now, here comes a new situation.

You have signed up for Individual Plan under Professional Plan and now your business has grown

and you want to shift your brand to a company.

For this, you can at any time, switch from Individual to Business Plan. How?

You will have to undergo a text interview. Do not worry, it is very simple.

You will find a text interview button and press it then you will be asked about your company details.

Once you have shared all the details and saved it your account will be switched from Individual to Business.

I would recommend all that you should start from Individual Account and not from Business Account.

Once your brand is established, you can always switch to Business Plan.

The benefit of switching to Business Plan is that you can have your brand registry and trade mark easily

and as per my knowledge as I was talking to some consultants in the U.S

Amazon has now started giving trademarks to individuals which was surprising to me

So, if you have trademark with you, you can have brand registry by using trademark.

What is brand registry? Since it is our first lecture, you will get to know all the details about ‘how to get brand registry?’ in upcoming lectures.

So, today topic was about types of Amazon accounts and its basics

and now you also know that how can you switch from Individual to Business.

Here comes another question. Both Individual and Business comes under Professional Plan

and even if we have not even sold a single unit, we are still being charged $39.99 per month.

Can we avoid it? The answer is ‘yes’ it can be avoided.

For this, you have to down grade your current Professional Selling Plan to Individual Selling Plan.

How can you downgrade or upgrade? If you have your seller centre open

go to settings and then account info on the right bottom of the page

you will see the ‘downgrade your account’ option. If you click it

you will be downgraded from Professional Selling Plan to Individual Selling Plan.

But if you see upgrade option there it means you are already on Individual Selling Plan

and you can switch it to Professional Selling Plan at any time.

There is also a very important tab on the bottom of page which is ‘User Permission’.

This is very important for all Virtual Assistants since our course is all about Virtual Assistants.

You must have heard about ‘Child Account Access’.

There is no child account word on Amazon, instead, there is user permission.

So, of you get any client, he/she will not share login/password with you

instead, they will give you child account access by clicking on user permission button. Here the client will enter your email ID and name.

An email will be sent to your email ID with steps to follow to get limited access to your client`s seller central.

The access is to be controlled by the client and he can give you access as per requirement

like you may only get PPC access, inventory management access, account handling access

payments management access, or returns access.

So, in short, your client will give you access as per contract/agreement between both parties.

This was our lecture No. 1 of Amazon Virtual Assistant Training which you can also say is an over view and I hope that you would have complete understanding of things.

What is the Amazon account types and how can a Virtual Assistant can get access of their client account

for which we use word of ‘user permission’ which is also known as ‘child account access’

I hope that you have learned everything. If you have any question, do ask that in comment section below.

This all is just a theory and its practical is done under our ‘paid course’ which is started from first Monday of each month.

If you want to sign up for paid course, before you ask for course fee, you will have to undergo an interview.

So, if you want to register yourself for interview slot, below is the manager contact details book your slot now

so that your interview can be conducted and you can be told about what Amazon is for you.

Once you have cleared the interview, only then you will be informed about the fee and you can get yourself register in practical training after submitting the fee.

Take good care of yourself. Pakistan Zindabad.