Best products to promote as an Amazon affiliate?

I see how much I get from the product. When it comes to earning money, you should be greedy. Choose products that pay you well instead of promoting hundreds of products that pay you $5 per sale.

Here's the thing...

Let's say I promote a pair of socks that retails for $1.99. The guy I send may buy the socks. Big deal, right? But - on impulse, or because he was looking for more than socks at the time - he buys a Samsung television for $1,999. Therein lies the beauty of Amazon.

The trick to Amazon - one of many, actually - is to find an unsaturated niche and build an authority site around it. What products you promote means nothing.

GRM

This.

To a little bit more than just "some extent"!

It depends also on your traffic demographics, and on your ability to establish credibility with your subscribers/visitors, so that they trust your recommendations. Amazon conversion-rates depend mostly on how the pre-selling was done. There are people getting 2% conversions and there are people getting 25% conversions (or even higher) for the same products and even with broadly the same traffic-sources. That depends not on "what the products are" but on "who the marketer is". Important to understand this clearly!

Don't set out to do this imagining that the amount of money you make will have much to do with "what products you promote". It won't, really: what you earn will all be about your own skills at pre-selling, at attracting the right traffic, and at building relationships with your subscribers. Amazon affiliate marketing is still "affiliate marketing"!

This thread may help you (just as it's helped many others here): http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...ml#post6608638



What?! No - sorry, Eddy, but this really makes no sense at all, given Amazon's bizarre commission-payment structure in which the percentage you earn, each month, on nearly all your sales, depends on the number of sales you make. It's essential to promote some low-priced products which will have very high conversion-rates. Otherwise you'll be getting 4% instead of 8%+ on all the more valuable things you also promote.

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I've had the most success marketing home-brew equipment and accessories. That's because I'm a home brewer and have quite a large niche blog. Promote whatever it is that interests you!

Firs think which market you can get access to. Then think what product will be most profitable for that market. Then take a look on Amazon and choose a product. You are going the wrong way.

I'd say choose products over $100 because those are what people typically want to get more information on, before buying.

Don't choose anything too big or heavy because the costs to send it make it uncompetitive with local shopping.

Don't choose anything that can be found in a typical WalMart, because people will tend to ask the sales-people there instead of searching past all the junk near the beginning of the search results to find your high quality product reports!

Do choose products that have plenty of buyers. There are two reasons, firstly that shows the product actually sells in practice, and secondly, your product reports should be mostly based on what real buyers say about the products, so you need products with plenty of customer feedback (although you can sometimes find customer comments off Amazon too).

Choose products that have at least 10 similar products in the same product area, because you'll want to put at least that number of product reports on a tightly-focused website, and your product reports offer good value by you researching which different alternatives are better for specific purposes, so you need a product area with some different choices.

That's about it really . . . it is easier when you start if you promote a product area if you are writing about something you are familiar with and have a liking for, although once you get used to the process it's not difficult to write about any product once you've read what buyers are saying and done some basic research into the products.

The product reports you write should be totally honest . . . no hype at all. I even remove the hype words from the manufacturers description too. You should usually write a product report on a single product, comparing it with other fairly similar products giving genuine practical reasons why one product is better for a SPECIFIC PURPOSE than another.

For example, when I was first doing Amazon sites I did a site on lamps. I wouldn't choose that product area now because it's too cheap so not many people look for additional information before buying, but anyway, after reading the customer feedback on one particular LED lamp, several people had said that another one is "much better" because that other one has a battery life of 10 times as long. What no-one had said was that the other one had a 10 times as long battery life, because its light output (lumens) was a tenth of the brightness! So obviously, it is better FOR SOME PURPOSES where you need long battery life, and a lot worse for others where you need a bright light more than long battery life. That's the perfect kind of thing to make clear in your product report . . . real practical advise that isn't obvious from reading the first few customer feedbacks.

So that's an over-view of how to do Amazon affiliate marketing well, and what products to choose. I recommend using a Responsive WordPress theme (there are lots of good free ones) because since more people read the internet on phones these days, you need to make sure your website is just as readable on the smallest mobile phone as it is on the biggest computer screen.

Hope that helps

Chris