If I'm Selling on Amazon, Do I Need a Separate Website?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9 • 638 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2016

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today's question comes from VK, who asks about selling seasonal items on Amazon. Does he need to set up a website to go along with his Amazon listings, or is it okay just to use Amazon and his email list? If you are just getting started, learn how to grow your email list at http://www.100emails.com. A good platform for setting up online stores is Shopify (https://www.shopify.com/). Do you have a question about getting started? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/.

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0:00.0	AskPath.
0:05.1	AskPath.com.com.
0:09.0	AskPaths.
0:10.0	Hey, what's up, everybody?
0:12.0	Pathlin here and welcome to episode 761 of AskPath.
0:15.5	Thank you so much for joining me today.
0:17.0	As always, I'm here to help you by answering your online business questions five days a week.
0:21.0	All right. Now, here's today's question from VK.
0:24.2	Hi, Pat. My name is VK Shaw.
0:26.6	I'm planning on designing and selling greeting cards with small bracelets for the holiday season on Amazon.
0:32.6	If I'm just selling the seasonal item, should I also have my own website to sell them or have a website for information
0:38.5	about them? My plan was to utilize my email list and send out links to the Amazon pages for the
0:44.1	items. I'd like to keep things simple so I can focus on card design. Thanks for doing the podcast.
0:49.7	It's been very helpful. Hey, VK, thank you so much for the question today. I really appreciate it.
0:54.8	You know, a lot of people have been doing this lately.
0:56.8	They've been selling specifically through their email list, even without a website.
1:00.6	For those of you who have participated in the 100 email challenge, which you can still do
1:05.7	today, if you want, if you are just starting your email list, you can actually build your
1:09.3	email list now, even before you have a website or business. You can use it to validate your idea. You can use it to collect interest
1:15.3	and then use that interest list to determine what your blog should be about or what products you
1:21.0	should sell. If you want to check that out, go to 100emales.com. So 100emales.com, the numerical 100em 100 emails.com and what's cool is that a lot of
1:31.5	people are building their email lists and interest lists first even before website and if you
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