You can sell virtually anything with amazon, that's why it's great. The not so great part is the low commission compared to other affiliate programs. However, I know that there are plenty on this forum making money with amazon. A good way to do it is probably to set up a few niches sites such as a cooking site and sell cookbooks from amazon. Good luck.

I actually just set up a site and put one amazon widget on there to start with along with a few other ads from different affiliate programs, but have not start promoting it yet so can't tell you how well it works for me, yet.

Amazon has the oldest internet-only retail store brand and that is a big asset to boast. You can sell practically anything from consumer goods, CDs DVDs electronics, etc. As with most physical products, commissions tend to be low, however. Also, provided you reach the minimum commission threshold, your 1st payout will take around 2 months to come through.

What I like about amazon is that it allows you to customize the way you show their products in your blog/website, and has some terrific-looking widgets that convert very well. Have a browse in their affiliate section or astore and you can get the creatives, etc that you can then put in your blog.

I think there are several folk that do really well with Amazon. I am gradually switching my sites from ebay over to amazon products. If you can find a good higher end product niche that is where it really pays.

I just started doing this on my blog just the other day.

I wrote a new post with actual content on it and I hyperlinked
a few items I mentioned in the post that can be purchased on amazon.

One was a copywriting book and another was the Flip Ultra HD.

You can get direct links to any product page in the marketplace.

They even give you amazon widgets, one of which I remember seeing
that gives you a search box that drops your cookie. Pretty slick.

Feel Free to check out how i casually slipped it in on my blog
in my latest post

My blog's url is in my sig file.

While the commissions are small, it is some of the easiest money
we will ever make.

And just like Brian Tracy says... "Everything Counts"

That Amazon revenue will pay for something

Jason

I actually heavily promote amazon products during specific months of the year. It works really well for me and make a good living just from this when i promote it.

The hardest part is making your first sales. Once you do that then you get to figure out all the techniques that actually work.
MArketing amazon requires slightly different tactical steps then making any other type of product. Agian this is based purely off my experience in the trenches. I am sure other more expereinced warriors may have different opionions and doing much better at this.

The cool thing about it is when i send people over to amazon, they are a conversion machine. Generally off season i could get a 2-3% conversion. Nothing great.

During peak season like November and December it goes as high as 20%/

Now that i have some real data on the products that convert and the sites that work i hope to ramp this up more significantly and hire a team to promote this next year.


I will share one tip that works. (Amazon + Hub Pages).

Right now i have at least 3500 views a day on MY HUB page lens for Christmas products that i direct directly to amazon.

The key is knowing how to do amazon long tail keyowrd research. It is very different than picking niches. I get the keywords directly from amazon itself.

Another quick tip - people who buy on amazon usually end up buying other products. So if you sell one product you immediately get 10 other producst that people buy at the same time.

These are all buyer keywords and products. These are gold.

Anyway it has taken me over 13 months to figure the details out and i would be happy to share them with you.

If you have specific questions in specific areas on marketing with amazon, i would be more than happy to answer them for you.

One caution. I have not found this to be an overnight success. I took me at least 4 months to making a few hundred bucks a day after i got started, so please dont give up even if you are not seeing results immediately


Neil

@Jon Tees "

Do a search here for a forum member called Dan Brock, he has an amazon teaching course that is probably the best I've seen. It coaches you through the steps to making bucks with a do this, now do this, etc approach.I'm not making $ yet but this is the first course that doesn't just gloss over crucial steps that I've found, so I've learned a lot, fast, and fairly pain free too, cheers Roger

Neil, sounds like you need to do a WSO with that info!

Yup I've had success but unlike Neil my success literally was overnight. I am using super laser focused websites that rely solely on holiday traffic though. For anything else, I'm sure Neil is absolutely right that it takes time to make it work. And my sites will probably only net a very few sales after Christmas so it's a short term thing whereas a long term approach is definitely going to take longer.

My keys to making it work included having more than one site and having each site feature one single product. Some products don't convert at all, some convert at a high rate. I did use a very low cost PPC campaign (around $2 for every $100 earned) and that helped with highly targeted traffic.

There are a few things I really like about Amazon as opposed to info products or even other physical products through CJ etc. One is that the commission is tiered and it's really easy to get from the bottom level of 4% to something like 7%+. Another thing I like is that people tend to buy more than one thing so you get credit for whatever you're promoting plus whatever else people put into their carts (and sometimes it's nicely valued stuff like computers!). Finally people see Amazon and they trust it. A lot of people don't trust online sites but Amazon is a super trusted name and people are eager to buy from them making your job a heck of a lot easier.

I found that the sites I built to promote Amazon products didn't really cut the mustard, but a couple of blogs that I put an Amazon widget on, do ok. They don't make me a fortune but every little helps.
Strange though because I only added Amazon as an afterthought.

My personal experience with Amazon is not the best. I too added to my site as a secondary source of income, so that considered it was never going to be a huge earner, but the conversion on it is so bad it earns peanuts, and small ones at that.

The cool thing with amazon is the upsell.

It has been mentioned here before. You sell mustashe trimmers and get affiliate commision on a 2.000 dollar TV. Cool.

I have about 10 Amazon site earners and they do nicely for me.

Between the $50-$100/m range for each site.

You need to target higher priced items with a lot of search traffic for it to be worthwhile.

Those niches do exist though.

I am making money selling Amazon products. You need to get some highly targeted traffic to your website to make money with Amazon.

Amazon is a great affiliate program. Its great for beginners as it easy to make sales and will give you the confidence and skills needed if you want to eventually go full time in affiliate marketing.

Its also great for advanced marketers as its easy to scale up and make a good income from Amazon.

Read Neil's reply a couple of times, he's got some great info in it.

I've had most success targeting visitors that are "ready to buy." I think a lot of Amazon affiliates make the mistake of creating sites that provide good info about a large niche (hi-def TV's for example) and placing links to Amazon from their site. But, they get disappointed when they don't make many sales. That's because they are targeting info-seekers and not visitors that are ready to buy.

Try to go a little deeper like targeting certain size hi-def TV's (to follow the above example) or even certain models and your conversion rate will go up. This will also help you rank higher in the SERPs.

Also, read and become familiar with their operating agreement (TOS). Buying from yourself is not allowed as was mentioned earlier in this thread.

You can make money with Amazon selling high end and low end products. There is no "one method" for Amazon.

To say you'll only make money during the Holidays is laughable. People buy from Amazon all year. Maybe you'll make a few more sales(maybe not) but you can make money with Amazon all year round.

If people are buying it on Amazon, you can make money from it. A company like Amazon would NOT invest so much into their affiliate program if it was not working.


Their are a lot of people making a killing with Amazon. I'm talking $30-$40k a month. :-)



Ron
Proud Amazon Affiliate with a large network of sites.

I've heard that Amazon do weed out the purchases you buy for yourself through your own affiliate links. I think they initially credit you with the sale and then deduct it the next day.

One thing worth remembering is that the comission levels rise with the number of items you sell, not the monetary value of your sales, so it can be useful to include low ticket items in your mix. It only takes selling a handful of these to push the comission gained from selling the big TV into the next level.

The Amazon affiliate program has been pretty good to me, although I've been woefully neglectful in return and would no doubt do much better if I ever got round to doing much in the way of promoting the sites I use it on. Sadly, you can get everything on Amazon except a sixty hour day

I am very new to this stuff, but on my first blog amazon is the first link I put simply because it has such a towering reputation above all other online stores..

If people recognise and trust the symbol and name so they will buy from it far more often than some obscure back street alley shack.

Yes, the commission may be crap on paper but would you prefer a commission rate of 30% with few to no sales from a company with no kind of brand awareness or a commission rate of 5% with 50+ sales from one of those sites that absolutely everyone has heard of and trusts? (for the most part lol)

I've just finished creating four amazon affiliate sites based on keyword niches. We'll see how it goes! I know that the commission structure with amazon is low so maybe it's all about having a good amount of sites out there.

I used to promote ebay with great success, well I say used to I still do but with teh new affiliate commission structure it is still not as good as it was.

However Amazon for me has been a tough one to crack, I just cant seem to get it to convert. I will when I get back round to them again see if I have over looked something. But the short cookie life makes it real hard!

Good luck

Danny

You could create your own books and sell them on Amazon. Check out this warrior's wso ..

http://www.warriorforum.com/warrior-...ng-method.html

hmmm you say that, and people say that banner ads are not effective however they still get clicked!

Only time will tell and a bit of testing


Danny

I signed up with Amazon a long time ago and promptly forgot about it until just recently (this year). Squidoo actually opened my eyes to the potential when I noticed that I was getting sales through some of my lenses. Thus, I have redirected some of my effort to promoting Amazon and its products.

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I've made money with Amazon and the conversion rates are pretty high, compared to some info products.

You have to be careful when you choose products to promote. I've had some web-sites that were getting a lot of traffic, but nobody was buying. It's because the item is so large that it costs a fortune to be shipped.

A lot of people shop ONLINE for things like books, dvds etc but shop 'OFF-LINE' for things like furniture etc. That is why you have to ask yourself "would a person look for something like this online?" or you may end up wasting time.

1 tip: pet products sell pretty well on Amazon

I was doing ok for a while by doing ppc ads for certain products or for a category. Then Amazon changed the rules so that was not allowed anymore. Have not really tried to sell much since then with them.

But I know some people doing really well with it by creating review sites etc.. or articles.

I set up an Adsense site a month ago for a product priced at about $550 and added Amazon (maybe not the best idea, but I am testing). Someone actually bought it! I made $23 and change. Better than my Adsense return on the page.

I do quite well with amazon in the holiday season. They do not use paypal, but depend on direct deposit into your checking account. This is great because they have a mountain of gift products. Unlike sadsense you do not live in fear of having your account suddenly terminated because a friend clicks on one of your ads. If your friends buy amazon products everybody is happy, and then some.

ooooh some great info here!

I might just spend a few months heavily promoting amazon again just to see if it is as good as ebay was!

Danny

I forgot to mention how to pick products to sell i.e. niche research for amazon.

I use three methods and i am going to reveal the first one tonight,

You may think it is so easy, it can't work, but am only only revealing what works from my perspective and it makes me money. this is not theoritical but gets me $$$ in my account.

Okay so method 1 to pick product.

Use the amazon bestsellers in each product category.

here is my little system

Amazon lists the top 100 bestsellers in each product category from the number to 100 item in order. These are products that are selling

They then tell you how long it has been in that position, the numbers of days in the top 100 and whether the product sales is trending up or down.

Generally speaking when i look on the first page of amazon for a product bestseller i am looking for a product that has shot to the top quickly and taken the fewest days to get there.

So lets a product appears on number 11 spot and only been in the top 100 bestseller positing for 49 days, then what this tells me is that this is a hot product.

You will see that items appear in the top 100 spot for hundreds of days and my rule of thumb is as follows
is it in the top 20 spots for less than a 100 days and is the trend going up.


The reason i wnat this below 100 days is i know that it has more potential to go up and this product will sell for a longer time. If the product has been in the top spots for 400 days then it may not be popular or hot and it is a short term sale.

Remember this is actual sales information. This information represent products that are buying phrases and amazon is making money off them

Again this is just a rule of thumb. sometimes if i have a gut feel and validate this product in different ways, then i may break the rules to test this out.

I watch the trend closely every days across all categories and watch for the rising bestsellers that are new and could be in the bestseller list for a long time.
Oh, and you can pay someone in elance $3 a day to do this research for you and email to you. This is killer information to promote and associate info product as well.


However i strongly recommend you start doing this yourself as you will get a gut instict for the market.
step 2 - i write a quick product description on social media page for that keyword, hub pages are my favorite. throw it up and watch it. maybe build a few backlinks (20-30)and see the traffic and sales.

Nothing heavy just a few hours of work, If it sells and i make a sale or two., game on.

If not i go onto to other amazon products,

I used to do this is the past...create a nice blog, pick products, do everything right waste my time etc and no sales. That was dumb of me. It is like buying a ferrari with a stick shift but i only drive an automatic car. what a waste.

My philosophy now. if it does not convert to sales first why waste any time on it. test it if it makes money then promote.

Remember amazon products that we are promoting are already hot products. i dont need to convince anyone to buy this (though i have a specific method), so if people find my page and this product it should make a few sales on its own before i do heavy lifting

Anyway once you understand how to read and apply this data, keyword research the amazon way is sooooo much easier.

I will share more tactics later on.


P.S i really dont know how to include screen shots etc so this may not make sense right now. If anyone is kind enough to show me how to insert this, i could make a much more visual post. But i hope you get this method.
take care
Neil

I found it funny the other day when I heard someone refer to Affiliate Marketing as a scam. I asked "How do you like Amazon?" he said he loves it and orders most of his books from there. lol I said "Well, you may have been scammed then since Amazon uses affiliate marketing." ;-)

Back to the topic though, You can definitly make money with Amazon but you need to know what you are doing. And as mentioned before in this thread the greatest part is that all purchases count. I one time tweeted about some free mp3 downloads. I did so with my affiliate link, not one person bought any music. But a cooking set was bought, some books, and an mp3 player.

Ahh I found it. You go here: Amazon.com Bestsellers: The most popular items on Amazon.com. Updated hourly.

Then you can choose any category you like to look at the top sellers.

That's great, thanks Neil!

Hey Roger,
When I clicked on that link, each item listed had a small line of text next to the item number with a red or green arrow and 'xxx days in the top 100'

I'm also finding this thread very interesting, some possibly useful information.

Neil, you say you then 'promote', what else are you doing other than the longtail posts?

Be well,
Allen

Yup, just what Allen said.

From that main page you can also go into subcategories to narrow your results.

That's a really great tool and I've already found some top products using it.

I made 3 sales on amazon without any effort whatsoever lol , I just put a little text link at the end of a few reviews and didn't even promote the site.... I only made like $8 bucks though off of all 3 items.... one of which was a 3rd party sale from amazon... the biggest sale I made though was the $80 one , which i think I made 2-4 bucks off it .... not alot but I think If I tried i could make a decent income off amazon

After poking around a bit though I've noticed that not all of the pages, or items, have the number of days in the top 100 information. As you drill down on categories, some have it, some don't?

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Amzon is still a great money maker. Because of it's low commission (4-6.5%) it is often overlooked by today's CPA / Affiliate marketers.

However, being the second largest e-commerce store in the USA / worldwide there is a lot of potential.

It all depends whether you find your niche, deliver some unique content together with a "store like" feel. We use our own program to find those niches and scrape Amazon's data and WFReview to import the product listings into WP. To keep the product information (mainly price) updated we use PhpZon (great tool).

hi,iam new here but intersted in affiliate marketing.learnt amason is a great place to start,please how do i start?

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Over $100K in yearly product sales and you get special attention and favors from Amazon not to mention much better commissions if you go that route.
There is a lot more to Amazon and it's workings than meets the everyday eye.

Amazons nice and easy to promote with SEO, I like building stores for it mainly because people buy so many other things after they click through your site. It's amazing to me sometimes what people will buy - that isn't what I sent them there for.

i have been using Amazon for 3 months now. After 6 months of learning the ropes in IM, this is where I earned the most. Do you guys use amazon autoposter? I read from one of the threads that his site was sandboxed because of this? Can anyone shed light to this?

The success neil has make me feel like going with amazon again, but past experience held me back.

i had used amazon affiliate program, but not to a lot of success, only a $0.54 mug sales. Mainly because of the amazon 24 hour cookies, i remove amazon and put adsense instead.

From my point of view, not everyone gather's their buying decision within 24 hours, and if they purchase after 24 hours, there goes my earning.

Don't mind me asking this newbie question, but for you all, how how you do all get the buyers to have the impulse feeling to purchase?

Or any advice for an amazon newbie?

I find Amazon easy to make money with. I have a much easier time selling actual, physical products. Just get them to Amazon, that is the trick. They will look around and buy something. As long as you sent them, the commission is yours. It is easy and fun to work with.

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Neil,


it's really no big deal. I posted that for new IMer's. You know as well as I that the sandbox issue gets tossed around a lot. I just wanted to post a something that would not confuse folks.


It certainly was not a insult to you or your success.



Ron

Hey warriors,

Just so you know i posted some great information on my other amazon bluprint thread on


"There are two seperate and distinct methods to this:

1. The amazon URL to google direct research method
2. Follow the amazon breadcrumb trail"

More tips and techniques to find winners. You will find these are easy research methods you will not find on other forums

Enjoy

I am planning of selling Amazon products. But I need to get some highly targeted traffic to my website to make money with Amazon.

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The only problem I find with Amazon is that their commissions are a lot smaller than other campaigns

I've heard people make much more with adsense with less work involved

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Amazon has brand recognition so sales can be easier to get. It can add up. I have not made much yet though.

Just discovered this thread and as I was thinking of doing some Amazon sites the info here is great. It seems that it can work really well for long tail keywords and choosing the right products - ie the best sellers!! So this has been encouraging and I will get to it!

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Amazon. being the oldest in the market, is very intelligent in its own terms. You can earn a lot, if you learn how to use the information, features for your product.

Need some help getting links from amazon. I get to the point where amazon gives the link in HTML but do not know how to convert it to my article or hub page. Can someone show me how to accomplish this.

Thanks In Advance

Thanks for the info. I guess I am trying to figure out on the hub page where to enter the HTML?

Not only does Amazon have low commissions, they can "fire" you for any reason. Just ask any ex-affiliate from Colorado, North Carolina, and (I can't remember what other state). Amazon did a mass firing because they were mad at the state we live in.

Seemed a bit childish to me.

Amazon's affiliate program was the first I ever joined, and it was back in 1997 or 1998.

Since then, we've gotten amazon.co.uk and amazon.fr and amazon.de and many others.

I have different usernames on the different Amazon sites. Have any of you figured out a way to catch buyers from either England, US, Australia, Germany, and France, or do I miss the opportunity of making income, if I promote a think on Amazon.com, and my visitor is from England?

I want to earn money from online.I am trying up to 1 year but i can not get success.I have a Google adsense account but my visitor is very limited.There is any one who can help me.