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Starting with nothing?

by Shannon1ford
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Hi all, I hope this is the correct place to ask for help.

I have tried marketing various bits and pieces until recently starting my own (amazon) astore for books I have written a few articles on ezine and have a blog about books I like.
Is there anything else I should do? I have been trying for a year on all sorts and have so far made nothing.

I probably am not hugely suited to online marketing but due to health reasons I cant seem to get any other job so all help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Shan
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  • Profile picture of the author richgrad
    understand that if you're relying on books to make money from amazon, you need to sell a lot a lot of them!

    amazon commissions are between 4-10%... if you're selling a $20 book, that equates to $0.80 to $2 of commissions per sale.

    If you want to make like $100/day then you have to sell more than a hundred books...

    Maybe you want to focus on the more expensive items in amazon...

    That said, amazon has a 24 hour cookie whereby if the person buys anything, those items are also counted as sales to you..

    You'll be better off promoting things that have complementary products... eg a DSLR camera where the person is likely to buy additional lenses, batteries, tripod etc... rather than books...

    Just my 2 sense (pun intended)
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    • Profile picture of the author waken
      Originally Posted by richgrad View Post

      understand that if you're relying on books to make money from amazon, you need to sell a lot a lot of them!

      amazon commissions are between 4-10%... if you're selling a $20 book, that equates to $0.80 to $2 of commissions per sale.

      If you want to make like $100/day then you have to sell more than a hundred books...

      Maybe you want to focus on the more expensive items in amazon...

      That said, amazon has a 24 hour cookie whereby if the person buys anything, those items are also counted as sales to you..

      You'll be better off promoting things that have complementary products... eg a DSLR camera where the person is likely to buy additional lenses, batteries, tripod etc... rather than books...

      Just my 2 sense (pun intended)
      Exactly...

      Or you can try other affiliate network as well.. perhaps CPA is a better option.
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      • Profile picture of the author SmartFX
        If you want to make a good earning by sitting at home, online money earning is the best method of all.
        There are many techniques for earning money in internet. You can earn great deal of money by submitting articles on Ezine and properly optimizing the articles.
        You can submit the same article by simply rewriting it and submitting it in several article directories. You can backlink to your Amazon store from this articles and create inter and self backlink among the articles. It has many advantages.
        It will increase the traffic to your site with less effort and have a growth in sales. And the articles will also add some extra income to your account through advertisement by Google AdSense and similar advertising tool.
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        • Profile picture of the author rft123
          Affiliate marketing is not particularly glamorous, but you can earn a nice living as an affiliate. The important things to consider is to make sure that you have good products to market, and that you have solid marketing methods because without traffic, you aren't going to make much money.

          There are many methods of generating inexpensive and free traffic; however, they are tedious and they may take a bit of time before they start to work. Start with a couple of traffic generation techniques, and continue to work those. It will definitely take some patience and persistence, but it will start to work if you keep doing it. For example, articles are great, but you need to be consistent with submitting your articles.
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          • Profile picture of the author Jill Carpenter
            Originally Posted by Shannon1ford View Post

            Thankyou all for you tips you have inspired me to work harder at it. Hopefully I can find a market inline with the things I enjoy and figure out a way to advertise it that works for me, although any tips would be greatly appreciated.
            Also to Chris sorry I'm not working at all and I dont feel knowledge-able about much except for Migraines but I believe theres already a lot of advertising for that already.

            Thank You all.
            Who cares that there is a lot of advertising for that? People are always looking for natural cures and new cures, and if you have some information that may help someone you should definitely give this some thought. I do believe I came across a clickbank product - an ebook for migraine solutions.

            Eventually everyone want's page one for their website, but you don't have to be on page one to get traffic, and you don't need to be there to make money either.

            You having personal knowledge on the topic makes it an easy sell for you.
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            • Profile picture of the author ozduc
              Hi Shan,
              I definitely recommend taking a look at what Mark offered in the first post after yours. Affilorama has some excellent free training that will help you in your journey with affiliate marketing.
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  • Profile picture of the author TJCarter
    Hello there.


    You need to concentrate on generating traffic to you blog. Traffic is very important if you want to make money online. NO TRAFFIC, NO BUSINESS.
    I find one of the best ways to generate traffic is by submitting articles but there are many more ways. Keep your blog constantly updated. This way whenever someone visits, they will find new content this increasing the chances of the customer coming back to your blog again and again.
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    • Profile picture of the author ChrisGuthrie
      I'd echo some of the opinions shared here as well. What I would suggest is pick one specific niche and work on JUST that since it sounds like you currently have a day job as well.

      I would suggest you start something around a topic you're already very knowledgeable about.
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      • Profile picture of the author Marian
        There are lots of other stuff you can do! Did you submit your feed(s) to feed directories, your site to direcetories, your article to more article directories?

        Have you created Squidoo, Blogger, Wordpress, Hubpages pages yet? Have you promoted the stuff using Yahoo Answers, signatures, ad swaps, ezine ads?

        Have you bookmarked the pages, articles, blog? Work on it every and you'll see the results, that's sure!

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  • Profile picture of the author Shannon1ford
    Thankyou all for you tips you have inspired me to work harder at it. Hopefully I can find a market inline with the things I enjoy and figure out a way to advertise it that works for me, although any tips would be greatly appreciated.
    Also to Chris sorry I'm not working at all and I dont feel knowledge-able about much except for Migraines but I believe theres already a lot of advertising for that already.

    Thank You all.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ernie Lo
    I cant recommend you go with Amazon to be honest. If your selling really expensive items it may be worth it bit for products around $30 its not worth it.

    Your better off going with a different affiliate network that pays more commission or even try Adsense.

    For example I normally make a certain amount per month in Amazon, but with using Adsense Ive made that same amount in the first 5 days of the month!
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  • Profile picture of the author Wechito
    Hi,
    If you want to sell your own ebooks I don' t think Amazon by itself is the best way to do it. As others have already said, you will just receive a low commission for each sale.
    You can sell your products using clickbank. That way, besides having affiliates that will promote your products in exchage for a comission (50-70% is a good deal), you can sell them directly.
    You will have to build a sales page and get traffic to it using articles, email, PPC, or your own blog.
    Focus on writing a good sales copy and generate traffic to it. As always, getting traffic is the hard part. But if you work hard on it, you will.

    Good luck!
    Wechito
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    Try dropshipping and better products probably.
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  • Profile picture of the author Daniel Brock
    Originally Posted by Shannon1ford View Post

    Hi all, I hope this is the correct place to ask for help.

    I have tried marketing various bits and pieces until recently starting my own (amazon) astore for books I have written a few articles on ezine and have a blog about books I like.
    Is there anything else I should do? I have been trying for a year on all sorts and have so far made nothing.

    I probably am not hugely suited to online marketing but due to health reasons I cant seem to get any other job so all help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks in advance,
    Shan
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  • Profile picture of the author tschlotter
    The quickest way I've found to make cash is through promoting instant commission affiliate products, most with programs that use the RAP script. You get paid directly into your paypal account and there are products available in many different niches. You could mention them in your blog, write articles about your favorites, etc. Good Luck!
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