Suppliment Niche

I've promoted a lot of weight loss supplements in my time.

I always did best when I was promoting a free trial + S/H.

The user would get a $50-$60 product and just pay like $5-$9 for shipping and handling.

You ideally want to promote what is hot...what is Dr. Oz talking about, etc...

I also always saw higher conversions when a pre-sale page was used.

Anyway, that's my 2 cents.

jacopo7

Find a few of the biggest marketers in the supplement niche and reverse engineer what they are doing. Go through their sales funnel, see how they are promoting, sign up for their email, see what they are sending out. Don't try to reinvent the wheel, do what is working and model that.

Chris

Very good niche. I have a blog about this niche and traffic is good.

You need to research what is selling well before you can decide what to sell.

If you are any good at research then you can do this but it takes a while, if you have a bit of money you can hire someone to do some research so you have a basic understanding of what to sell and then you can see how your store goes.

No two stores will be the same so you will need to see what the hot sellers are and then adjust accordingly.

Best of luck.

You can try market health and do a comparison of niche programs in the health/supplements niche

how about organic supplements? Nutrition companies are making moves to go certified organic.

While you may not want to private label your supplements it might be more profitable.

Anyone that wholesales you supplements is probably already selling them on Amazon themselves. So you will not be able to beat their price.

Private labeling will only have a one time up-front cost for setting up your label then every order will be the same.

prices on private label supplements tend to be quite a bit less than just wholesaling established names.

Do some research and see what you come up with.

al

Since you've already decided to work in weight loss niche the next step is product research to find the most profitable and less competitive product in that niche. You can do it manually or hire someone and Amazon product research software will also help you find few products from your chosen niche.

Typically, look for a product which is small, lightweight and the size is that can fit in a shoe box. For any particular product you can simply have the idea about the sales performance of that product by quickly looking at the listing itself. Bestseller rank is the most important, lower the number better the rank which means better sales. Apart from this number of reviews, rating and the number of offers on the listing also give you hint whether or not this product is popular. In this way you can understand the popularity of the listing but you can't estimate sales. For sales estimates again an Amazon sellers' software will help you know the estimated sales of the top products.

You can add to those free trial a review from the customer, it is beneficial and it can boost your product.

Caution has to be exercised with this though, because such offers are usually very aggressive. Meaning that people usually are automatically billed for several months worth of product as soon as the trial date ends. They make it very tough to call in to cancel before the trial date is over. Imagine having to wait hours on the phone in order to have the person on the other end "accidentally" lost the call. Doing it on the internet is no better.

One more thing. The reason I know this is because I went through this experience with such an offer. It was for one of those brain enhancing supplements that's supposed to help with focus and concentration. Paid $8.99 for shipping and handling. Trial period was 30 days. After 28 days I got billed for 3 months worth of product and it cost $199.99 plus shipping and handling. It was so impossible to get in touch with anybody over the phone or email that you just give up and take the loss.

You're looking to "start" within the supplement and weight loss niche?

Are you looking for a product to sell? Do you mind being an affiliate for one? You said you dont want private label supplements or products, so i'm assuming that you dont want to create or license one either.

The only affiliate offer that i can advise is something called "MoreNiche". Google it.

Thanks Randall, I took a look at MoreNiche and this is basically programs where one is sending traffic to companies for affiliate sales, correct?
My understanding of affiliate commissions is that is a one time sale, and no backend or repeat business. No list making. And would not be something I could advertise on Amazon. Would you agree?

For Weight loss,
try jvzoo, choose product, create funnel, to capture lead, now second, create your own product, ebook, super easy, use the software for one click ebook from page or post, then sell that as your own product, but make sure you know how to design all this stuff.
So hope this helps you.

Smartprofitmoney hello, thanks for the response. A few of questions...
1. "try jvzoo" This is where I purchase a sales funnel, correct?
2. Are you suggesting channeling an affiliate weight loss/fitness product through the funnel to capture leads?
3. And last, "create your own product" are you referring to creating a private label, and an ebook to go with it?

jacopo7, if you're still looking send me a PM. I market a nutritional line and have customers that have been buying products from me every month since 2001 because these products actually do work. The initial sale and monthly residuals will blow your mind. Complete sales funnel is already set up for you and there are no products to stock or ship. Your only job is marketing and I can show you how to do that. Just let me know if you're interested and what country you live in.