1). Sales Estimation Tools

IMO, this is by far the most important tool when you are doing product research. You absolutely need to have some kind of indication about if a product is in demand or not.

You have a couple of tools you can use for this but here are my favorites:

1). Jungle Scout

2). Helium 10

3). Viral Launch

2). Alibaba

When I am doing product research I always have 1 tab open with Alibaba. This way I can quickly do a price check. This will give me a rough idea how much the product cost will be. I will still need to request quotes to get a more accurate price later though.

Here is can quickly see that I can manufacture a garlic press for around $0,90 – $1,30. This is a very rough price, but it will be enough for me to continue with my product research.

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3). Amazon FBA Fee Calculator

Of course we want to know if we can make a profit on our product. There are loads of different profit estimators you can use but I like to stick to the official Amazon FBA fee calculator. It’s free and it’s from Amazon itself!

I simply enter the $1,30 product cost I found on Alibaba and enter the $1,30 product cost that I found on Alibaba. Now I can see that with a sales price of $9,99 I will make about $3,40 profit on this product.

4). Product Database

Ok now that we have our profit & sales estimation tools ready, we need to actually find some product that fit our criteria. When I first started out with Amazon FBA I would just browse Amazon.com all day until I found a couple of products that would fit my product research requirements. Although this way I found a couple of decent product, I would have to spend multiple days of just browsing Amazon. So very time consuming.

Nowadays I just use a Product Database where I enter all my requirements and the database will spit out a huge list of potentially great products

You have a couple of options when you want to pick product database. But the biggest Amazon databases are currently:

1). Jungle Scout

2). Helium 10

3). Viral Launch

5). Trend tool

And the last tool I use when doing product research is a tool to spot any trends. We want to know if a product is seasonal or not. Here you have a couple of options as well:

Google Trends: Great to spot general trends based on Google searches.

Jungle Scout Pro Chrome Extension: Great to spot Amazon trends.