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Is it possible to make a good living selling Amazon Products?

by Shannon Spoon
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Recently i started promoting Amazon products as an affiliate. I have built 5 sites now. My traffic from Jan 1st to March 31st was 52 unique visitors.
From April 1st to April 17 i have 76 unique visitors already.

My plan is to build 50 sites promoting various Amazon products. I like promoting Amazon products better than ClickBank because they are pretty much sold already on the product, you just need to tip them in the right direction. Attached is what i have made so far.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    Have you ever read Niche Marketing On Crack? There was an affiliate link on this forum somewhere. It pretty much exactly answers your questions and validates your assertions.

    TomG.
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  • Profile picture of the author spartanic
    I think you've already proven to yourself that its possible to make good money with Amazon products. Only 76 unique visitors and your already pulling that much money? Imagine if you were to get even more traffic to it. Good luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author John Atkins
    It's definitely possible. I know lots of people who make a living online
    by promoting products from just one affiliate program.
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    • Profile picture of the author blackjack
      If you can drive target traffic to your site then you can make money with any product or affiliate. It is all about driving TARGET traffic.
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  • Profile picture of the author robvegas626
    Isn't Amazon's commission rate extremely low? If so, if you're going to spend a lot of your time setting up sites to sell third-party products, you could be doing a lot better trying to move products that pay substantial commissions.
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    • Profile picture of the author Shannon Spoon
      Originally Posted by robvegas626 View Post

      Isn't Amazon's commission rate extremely low? If so, if you're going to spend a lot of your time setting up sites to sell third-party products, you could be doing a lot better trying to move products that pay substantial commissions.
      Yes it is low but Amazon is a trusted site known by just about everyone and their products sell really well.
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  • Profile picture of the author tommygadget
    Yes, you are correct robvegas626. I recommend doing a little research and using Commission Junction. You will be much happier with the $$ than with Amazon.

    TomG.
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  • Profile picture of the author Lauryn
    Niche Marketing on Crack sounds like the most hilarious name ever.
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    I Go Hard = "Slanguage" for putting forth a lot of effort.

    Don't be an arse and try to flip something you clearly have no knowledge of against me.

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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Franklin
    Shannon,

    You can do well with Amazon....Based on your screenshot, I would guess that you are promoting products that sell for under $100 each. I did that at first and as soon as I went for more expensive products, I saw much improvement! So take a look at your product mix and start promoting your more expensive products!

    Also be sure you really optimize each site before you move onto the next one.....Look at each site and see if each product permalink as well as your main site rank well on Google (1st Page)....It's tempting to scale up whereas the quantum leaps truly occur when you get lots of traffic coming to your site....That's where backlinks can truly help!
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  • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
    I have done pretty well with it over the past few months but I agree with BIG Mike ... diversify.
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