Getting Started With Amazon Affiliates

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Hello Guys,

I am quite new here and I have just saw unbelievable power of Warrior Forum. I am really happy I am member here.

Still saying that I am wondering if someone with experience could give me an advice regarding Amazon Affiliates. I was reading loads of posts here on forum but as I am quite new at online business (with no HTML or website building skills) it is just too much of information to take right decissions so I would be extremely glad to get any suggestions from experienced affiliates.


I have also found some courses with good feedback here (still do not know maybe there is something better at the moment):

Johnben1444 course

Prosociate course (still do not know if it is still working as it seems that owner has gone..)

Ecommerce-Twist course

and

josylad course (which has great feedback as well)



Saying that I would want to ask couple questions:

1. Should I find a web designer to create me an Amazon Affiliate Store (if yes maybe you could recommend someone?) or I should buy any of those courses and try to build it myself? I would really appreciate if you could recommend me the best course for newbie available at the moment if you could

2. Can I apply to Amazon.com if I am living in UK (as I think there would be much bigger traffic in US)? And how many stores/blogs I can open with same Amazon Associates account?

3. As I have saw that wee need TAX number doing Affiliates with Amazon should I register for self-employed in UK?



I know probably it would be the best to buy all of those courses and just learn from them but sadly the budget is too tight at the moment to afford that. Saw a lot of people selling those Affiliate stores on Fiverr but I think I would just waste money that way..

Would be Thankful for your time and advice
#affiliates #amazon #associates #started
  • Profile picture of the author DWolfe
    I would recommend you reading this thread and pay attention. http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...000-month.html
    Some good stuff in here.


    Hold of buying any course right now till you have a grasp on things. What was popular a few years ago to make sales on Amazon has dried up. You need to know how to market before applying for a Associate Account. They have a 90 day window to make a sale now or your account will be closed.

    You need a target niche that brings buyers to your site. Once you sign up for Amazon Associates read the forums message board for more help. Building a e-commerce site is a different animal than building a review site or authority site. You will need skills to run a decent e-commerce site. Most in the e-commerce section of the forum. I have seen in the past seem to struggle.


    Do you have any physical stuff to sell on Amazon ? Look at the section about selling on Amazon. You can sell on Amazon without joining fulfillment by Amazon. Personally if you know you have no skills to build a web-site find some one who can build you one. You may waste to much time trying to make your first site work. Remember if you apply to Amazon the site has to be decent or they will not let you in. Good Luck !


    Here is a link to Amazon's selling page http://services.amazon.com/selling/p...SCSNav_mmdesT2
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    • Profile picture of the author ebayer777
      Hi,

      Thanks for your advice. So yes thats why I am looking for a good/up to date course which would provide me with a specific information how to choose a good niche and market my store/blog. As it is too much information about those things on internet and everyone is talking different.

      Regarding outsourcing website creation I am wondering about that but I am confused because I have no skills myself and as I understand I will need to outsource each little task which pops up later on regarding website..

      Selling physical products on Amazon is one of my future plans so thats why I am going thro Amazon Affiliates to lift my budget for that.


      Once again appreciate your advice and I am going right now to check your recommended threat
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  • Profile picture of the author onSubie
    Great advice from DWolfe. The recommended thread is a well known and very good one. Read it thoroughly.


    In answer to your questions:

    1) You can outsource but wait until you know what you want. As DWolfe said, there is a big difference between store, blog and review type sites.

    Avoid "done for you" package sites until you know what you are doing and can fix them. As you learn, take a lot of time looking at other amazon affiliate sites and reverse engineering them.

    You can find Amazon site by Googling the disclaimer:

    "is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program"


    2) This depends more on your traffic and buyers than you. You can apply for an affiliate account at any Amazon. Each Amazon is different so if you are getting U.K. traffic to a U.K. blog you would want to be in the amazon.co.uk program. If you have a blog aimed at U.S. traffic then you would need to be an amazon.com affiliate.

    I use .com domains with primarily U.S. traffic so I use amazon.com even though I am in Canada.


    3) There are two types of taxes. Sales tax and income tax.

    As an affiliate, sales tax is usually taken care of by the vendor and then you are paid a commission. For Amazon you don't have to worry about collecting sales tax. In fact, states that try to implement some sort of online tax get cut out of Amazon's affiliate program.

    Income tax is what you declare to your government. You would have to declare your Amazon commission as income. How this works depends on your country. In the U.S. and Canada you don't need a license or anything do do business as an Amazon affiliate.

    Amazon needs a tax form. This depends on the program you are in. I am with amazon.com but Canadian so I need to simply submit the form that declares I am not in the U.S. so Amazon does not have to report my commissions to the IRS.
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    • Profile picture of the author ebayer777
      Thank you for your valuable answer

      I am also wondering will I be able to create multiple Amazon Affiliate stores/blogs with the same account or I will need to create new one for each site? As I would want to create 5 of them by the end of this year.

      Also maybe anyone could suggest any GOOD up to date course which would help me to open that affiliate store, find a profitable niche and market it?



      THANK YOU
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      • Profile picture of the author discrat
        One of the best Authorities on the Subject here at WF is Jan Roos. You can do a search and find him and his Courses.


        - Robert Andrew
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        • Profile picture of the author ebayer777
          Originally Posted by discrat View Post

          One of the best Authorities on the Subject here at WF is Jan Roos. You can do a search and find him and his Courses.


          - Robert Andrew

          Hi there,

          Thanks for advice! I have saw his course but he is charging 495$ at the moment. I am sure that it is worth every penny but just I can not afford that amount of money at the moment

          I would go with something cheaper for beginning..
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  • Profile picture of the author hardworker2013
    I wonder why you want to just be an Amazon affiliate, there are lots of lucrative networks out there
    to make money from like CPA networks, JVZOO and Clickbank that pays you up to 75%
    commissions. The basic rate of commission for Amazon is 4% which means you will have
    to sell a whole lot of items to make some good money or you will have to try and sell high ticket
    items on Amazon which are hard to sell.
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    • Profile picture of the author ebayer777
      Originally Posted by hardworker2013 View Post

      I wonder why you want to just be an Amazon affiliate, there are lots of lucrative networks out there
      to make money from like CPA networks, JVZOO and Clickbank that pays you up to 75%
      commissions. The basic rate of commission for Amazon is 4% which means you will have
      to sell a whole lot of items to make some good money or you will have to try and sell high ticket
      items on Amazon which are hard to sell.


      Hi there,

      I am not limiting myself with only Amazon Affiliate. But still I know I can make money with it and 200$ a month would be great to achieve

      After I will set this up I will go for ClickBank ect. as I know this would require some more capital to do.

      Appreciate your comments so much! Thanks.
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      • Profile picture of the author AntonioSeegars1
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        • Profile picture of the author ebayer777
          Originally Posted by AntonioSeegars1 View Post

          If you use the right techniques, you will be able to achieve your goal of making 200 a month. As far as clickbank goes, you don't need a lot of money to do this unless you want to use paid advertising.

          Hi,

          Yes, exactly I will do only paid advertising for ClickBank so I need some capital first.

          Still wondering which affordable course for Amazon Affiliates should I choose to start things rolling as it is pointless to read all those threads where everyone has different opinions and it is just confusing me.

          I will be really happy to read all those after I will finish with the basics as I have already found Gold Mine on this forum by clever girl LindyUK and gentleman myob who shared some secrets.

          Thank You!
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    • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
      Originally Posted by hardworker2013 View Post

      I wonder why you want to just be an Amazon affiliate, there are lots of lucrative networks out there
      to make money from like CPA networks, JVZOO and Clickbank that pays you up to 75%
      commissions. The basic rate of commission for Amazon is 4% which means you will have
      to sell a whole lot of items to make some good money or you will have to try and sell high ticket
      items on Amazon which are hard to sell.
      This is a bogus comparison. Always was. Always will be. There is a reason those other programs offer 75% commissions. Amazon is one of the best at conversions. Because of that, 4% (which is just the base commission by the way) can be extremely lucrative - far more lucrative than the 75% offers, provided you know what you are doing.
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