Best 11 Solutions to Create Your Private Label and Sell on Amazon FBA

Best 11 Solutions to Create Your Private Label and Sell on Amazon FBA

it’s a complete guide of how to do private label when you import from China,Learn the Best 11 Solutions to Create Your Private Label and Sell on Amazon FBA.

you know that private label is a key feature of products. It helps to market the product, attract the attention of customers, allow customers to tell it apart from other brands. And, it provides product information such as ingredients, instructions, date of manufacture, etc.

Last year we supported more than one hundred clients from the U.S. They required our assist to import from China and ship the goods to Amazon’s FBA center. Although most of them are new to online marketplace selling, they really attach importance to design their own packaging and add private label to each product for branding strategy.

There are too many articles on Internet telling people advantages of private labeling, but no one shares their experience about “how to do Your Private Label”, or “how much Your Private Label costs” for private labeling products when importing from China.

As my team helped these new Amazon sellers add private labeling for products in various categories, we have derived 11 most common solutions for adding your label/logo on products in this article. You will learn many ideas about how to add own brand on products.

What is Private Label?

Best 11 Solutions to Create Your Private Label and Sell on Amazon FBA

Private label is the logo or pattern on products manufactured by a contract or third-party manufacturer and sold under a retailer’s brand, it represents the seller and helps build customer loyalty.

If you want to start the business that imports from China and sell on an online marketplace like Amazon, here’s the simplest and best way to do it: find a good product or a product niche with limited existing competitors, choose quality items from China, add private label on the product, and start to market the product under your brand.

Private labeling is the best way for customers to distinguish your products from others. If your products are always built with high quality and good design, customers will pay higher prices and stay loyal to your brand. And of course, your margin will be way much larger than selling national branded goods or your supplier’s brand.

How to Private Label Your Product and Packaging

For most categories products, you can add a private label (your logo) on product body or packaging. I have concluded 11 main solutions for private labeling that my team has dealt with all kinds products for our clients, and they are listed in the above graphic.

The 5 solutions in the left part of this graphic are for adding your logo on the product. These solutions are applied to products made from different materials. The six solutions in the right side are ideas to add your private label on product packaging.

Below, I will introduce all 11 solutions clearly, and also let you know the estimated cost for each solution in China. By learning all of these, you will not be overcharged by Chinese suppliers, and you will get ideas about how to add private label on your products.

Solution 1: Screen Printing (or Silk Screen)

Screen printing is the most common and widely used method for adding a private label on both product body and packaging. It can be applied to products made from almost all kinds of materials such as: plastic toys, glass bottles, stainless cup, rubber dumbbell, etc. If you are buying more than 500pcs/item, screen printing is the easiest and cheapest way to add your private label.

Most Chinese factories can offer screen printing service for free if you can buy more than $2,000/item. Or they will charge you around $60 fee for creating printing plate of your logo, and around $0.02/product labor fee for printing. If the supplier doesn’t offer the service, you can easily find a printing supplier in China to do the job.

The only drawback of screen printing is that it’s not suitable for multi-colored patterns, especially gradient color design. If you want to print your gradient color logo on products, you have to think about thermal transfer. Or you need to find other solutions than printing.

Solution 2: Thermal Transfer (heat transfer printing)

Thermal transfer printing process is more complicate than silk printing and it requires a temperature range from 140℃ to 180℃. Therefore, it’s a little bit more expensive than silk printing and has some restrictions on materials. It’s applicable to ABS, PE, PP, EVA, leather, stainless steel, wood and glass etc.

If you have a really fancy pattern with gradient color, thermal transfer would be your best choice. Last year my team helped a domestic company in China to print their logo on nonwoven bag via thermal transfer. The cost is around $100 for creating the printing plate, and $0.04 printing fee for the 7x7cm size gradient color logo. You can use this case as reference.

Solution 3: Laser Printing / Engraving

Laser printing, or laser engraving, gives your product a rather high-quality appearance. If you take a good look in the market, you’ll see almost every gift store is filled by items with laser printed logo, words or patterns. Personally, I like buying a present with my friend’s name and a lovely sentence on it and laser engraving works perfectly for this purpose.

Usually it doesn’t require huge MOQ as there’s no need for platemaking. My supplier only charged me less than one dollar to laser my client’s logo on a stainless steel bottle sample two weeks ago. For mass production, it may cost you $0.01-$0.15/unit, depending on the quantity and size.

Solution 4: Molding

The solution molding is to make your private label in the product mold, which means the logo is there when the product comes out from machine, and this solution can be applied to all plastic, rubber or metal made products.

The advantage of this solution is your private label looks more nature and higher quality than printing, but the high cost is its primary disadvantage. Customizing your logo in a product mold means you need to change supplier’s mold or even create a brand new mold. And you will absolutely not choose this solution when you are not buying big quantity.

In my experience, there’s no extra cost to make the molding private label, but factory will charge you fee for changing mold or creating mold, and the price depends on products. Usually a mold for plastic items costs $1,000 to $3,000, and mold for metal products needs $500 to $1,000.

Creating molds also needs 15 to 20 days, which means it takes much longer time than other solutions.

Solution 5: Machine Embroidery

Embroidery is mainly applied to items made of cloth, such as garments, caps and bags. It’s more durable and appears higher level comparing to silk printed logos, and there are no color fading problems with this solution. However, it costs more than screen printing0.

I prefer to sorting embroidery into two types. The first type is to embroider the logo directly on product (like the ARCTERYX on above picture). But it’s not quite suitable for very small and complex logos. By my experience, an embroidery like this in 4x5cm size is about $0.2.

The second type is to make a patch (like the right side of above image) and sew it on product. Normally the embroidery factories make these patches and sell them to garment manufacturers. This way allows multi-color and complicate patterns, such as football team badge, national flag, logo of motor corporation, etc. Most vendors have minimum order amount of $50. The unit price for a 5cm x 6cm logo with four colors is like $0.12.

Solution 6: Woven Label

Woven labels are mostly used for fabric made products such as bags, hats, jeans and shoes. It’ll be great to try to add your logo on a woven label for those products made of fabric or partially fabric.

The price is always related to label material, label size and order quantity. For a 2x4cm size woven label, unit price will be around USD0.1 and MOQ will be about 1,000PCS.

Solution 7: Sticker Label

Sticker label is absolutely the cheapest and simplest way of all the methods. To find a stick label supplier is very easy. Normally the MOQ is 3,000 for one design.

If you place order for 1,000 products but get 3000 pieces of sticker label with your logo, you can ask your product manufacturer to keep the remaining stickers for future orders and normally they will be happy to do it.

Solution 8: Paper Cardboard

If your budget for packaging is limited, you don’t want to spend $0.2 or $0.3 to make a box for your goods, and you don’t want to make stickers and devalue your product, then I think you may consider trying another option – paper cardboard. Print your private label and all other information on a cardboard and pack your goods with it.

Paper cardboard is the best option for low cost items like socks. It’s about $0.35 to buy a pair of sock from China, and the paper cardboard is around $0.03/pc.

Typically retailers prefer using paper cardboard for tool or kitchen products category because it enables customers to see the product easily. For example, the Lemon Sqeezer in the image above is packed with a simple printed paper cardboard and costs around $0.08/pc.

Solution 9: Hang Tag

Hang tag is also one of the most economical ways to private label. It’s usually applied to categories like apparels, toys, tools, fashion jewelries, etc.

Many clothes and jewelries brands select the hang tag to present their label. Usually it’s made of ivory cardboard or kraft, sometimes made of plastic or even metal. In fact, many people choose to use 300gsm ivory cardboard most because of it’s economical (the same material of most business card you get from Chinese trade shows).

Solution 10: Printed Poly Bag

This is actually a type of packaging. And it’s also a way to add private labels. Comparing with other packing method, printed poly bag is kind of simple for large quantity goods. As the printing plate is about $80/color, manufacturers usually demand tens of thousands as MOQ. If you are not planning to buy the product of this quantity, choose other private label solutions will be much better.

Solutions 11: Customized Box

Making your own design and printing it on a customized box is suitable for almost all product. Surely it’s the most expensive solution among these 11 ways. A nice fancy box can easily make your product look great. It’s also a way to add extra value and sell with a higher price.

Box packaging is a very large industry. The price is related to different material, technique and machinery. Take the cheapest box – corrugated case as example, for 3000 pcs of 8”x4”x4” corrugated case with your pattern on it, the unit price is around $0.16. If you want to do a firm one like the Iphone box, it might cost you at least $0.75 each.

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