My first FOUR AMAZON affiliate SALES - in ONE DAY

While I'm not an expert on Amazon Affiliation network, my suspicion is that maybe they landed on amazon's website through your affiliate link and made a sale on a different product other than the one you were actually promoting.

That's great you will find out that a lot of your sales will be unrelated to what you are actually promoting. As far as your commisions not showing up, they will once your item ships i believe.

Shannon

Congratulations. You're now officially an active Amazon affiliate.

Your sales won't show up under the Earnings/Commissions Summary until the items have been dispatched, and the reports have been updated for that day.

Congratulations. It took me 3 years to make my first Amazon sale! And now I sell plenty every month.

You can't always tell what works or doesnt.

As others have said, they'll credit you with the commission as soon as the items ship. It's their standard practice. FYI - I sell lots of stuff totally unrelated to what I'm promoting every month. I'm sure that happens to other Amazon associates as well. It's just part of the game. Congrats on your first sales.

That happened to me. My first Amazon "sale" was actually the purchase of 13 items I wasn't even promoting. Pretty cool how that works huh?

Congratulations, keep up the work and maybe you should investigate in what items where purchased and maybe broaden what you are promoting.

amazon is pretty awesome... not too keen on teh short cookie life but still nice easy money :-)

Well done... took me ages to get more than one order in a day..lol

Danny

Absolutely nothing surprising in case of Amazon. That's how the sales happen there - you promote a monkey and sell a donkey instead. That's what has happened to me all the time. But its still good - much better than people going on Amazon and buying nothing. Amazon coverts like crazy if you know how to "milk the mind" of your visitor in the presell phase.

Congratulations, I want try affiliate too..any suggestion?

Nice going there bud. I know you're feeling great right about now. Keep it up!
Mike

The short cookie life is horrible imo, but hey, you get to ride on their brand name, and making sales on products that you're not actually promoting that others just happen to buy is definitely a bonus

The first payment of 45pence has come through... I shall keep you informed.

Any idea why Amazon reports are about 2 days old as well?

thanks for useful information...

You've just illustrated how wonderful cookies are. What probably happened is that someone landed on Amazon via your product affiliate link, had no interest in what you were promoting, but got intrigued by something else on there which they then proceeded to buy (and which you got credit for because of the cookie deposited on their computer).

Congratulations, awsome with the cookies

Congratulations! Lets make 10 a day!

Congrats on the sales! I remember my first ones too. They commission was .12 or something meager. Now I go for bigger ticket items, but still love the side sales you can get when people go shopping.

not bad...I hear amazon affiliate network can be very sustainable if you can figure out a good niche

I just made my first sale yesterday, too... and also of a completely random product.

Congrats!

Happens all the time and is one of the benefits of Amazon Associates - you get paid for things people buy while you still have your cookie on their comp - I've had all kinds of really crazy stuff being bought through my links that are completely unrelated; I say, don't worry because you're earning that affiliate cash

I sold a 211$ vacuum cleaner today and it's not even in my promotions.

I'm not complaining. EVER.

Congrats.

My few Amazon sales were never for what I was promoting.

wow keep up the hard work man!

before you know it you will be reaching your goals in no time!

I'm up to $3.12 now ...

Still not breaking the bank, but great to see the money coming in.

Yeah Amazon is weird, I earned a big commission on a grill the other day and don't promote grills at all. It seems like all you really need to do (in my experience anyways) is just figure out a way to get a bunch of traffic through your affiliate links and Amazon takes care of the rest. It's such a weird beast compared to many other affiliate programs out there.

So jealous of you guys...I'm in NC...Amazon Affiliates banned here

The sales only went through yesterday. I think that your commission will show up in 4 business days.

Is Jesse Helms still alive?

congrats on your success - maybe I should try Amazon also??

like an archeologist!!

Good one, I can assure you the feeling never ceases, no matter how many sales you get

Congrats! no matter what, you are still credited for the sales you refer to Amazon.

Just this morning, I received a cheque from Amazon for over $2,000 for my "hard work" while spending time in coffee shops..... I took a photo and posted it on my facebook profile.... giving hope to people that making money online is real.....

The economy is irrelevant as long as you keep making money online.

That's the beauty of being an Amazon Associate actually...

People gripe about its low commission rate constantly but fails to understand they're comparing apples to jackfruit when they're talking about Clickbank and stuff...

The former has running costs like inventory, 3rd party merchants, etc. the latter are all VIRTUAL products with almost no overhead beyond bandwidth.

The margins for physical products are so low, that's why stores like Circuit City are extinct.

If those naysayers actually had experience running ANY retail business with physical products before, they'll already know that single digit margins are common for most stores, especially if sold under consignment.

To have the minimum of 4% and all the way up to 8.5% on ANY SALES MADE through your aff link within the 24 cookie is big if you have enough sales.

You get credit for ANY items sold on Amazon... and your quantity/commission bump is based on ANY product you sell regardless of value.

If it takes 10 sales to jump from 4% to 6% commission, you can literally sell 9pcs of 99cent item and sell a $1000 item for the 10th and you'll get 6% on ALL 10 items you sold! (as long as it's not electronics/computers, which are capped at 4%/$25, respectively).

That's why it's good to cover different niches and price points when building an Amazon-based business.

There are many who promote >$300 items but have multiple ebook/kindle/mp3/low-priced goods niche sites to help bump their commission rate up regularly.

I started my 3rd Amazon site earlier this month and someone bought 15 items in one gom, that almost single-handedly bumped by commission rate from 6% to 6.5 when my photography site got stuck at 6% post-Panda.

Oh, don't forget you're not limited to the US as well because you can maximize your foreign Amazon traffic clicks as well with a simple plug-in.

Granted the sales from non-US shoppers can't compare, but over time, it'll add-up for markets you never targeted in the first place. I've made around 10 sales in EU so far hehe.