Amazon Affiliate Income-Is it really possible to make over 1000 a month?

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I am running both authority sites in Clickbank and Amazon and both sites are now in their 3 years old with nearly thousands of pages. My Amazon earning is more than 12 times lower than CB and I think that's enough data to convince myself why I prefer CB....

I'm pretty sure that's not true! Why would any one bother promoting big ticket items if they capped the commissions at $25!

In fact, I'm only getting started working on my new Amazon affiliate sites...

Using the marketing methods discussed here in this thread, affiliates are doing this routinely from just one product on a standalone presell page. However, as mentioned from the onset, it ain't gonna happen with a static "review" site - no matter how well it ranks.

Tremendous.

I just wish I'd known how to do some of that when I was 16 ...

Thanks for this idea Lindy. Just curious, with the stores your daughter has selected and the list she has built of 10k subscribers - what is her monthly avg income? Did it take her long to build her list? Any help you can offer would be greatly appreciated!

Are some of your sold items electronics? Electronics are capped at 4% commission.

Definitely taking notes on this one too!

Hello senshai,

Your very welcome!

Some advice, NEVER EVER give up. My first year in IM I made the grand fortune of US$408 in profits. I was trying to sell ebooks on ebay.

10 years later, my Dad and I have one of the largest privately owned IM Business's in the world. If I had given up ???

Lindy

Hello Myob,

Although I like the advice you give in general, and for beginners it is perhaps better to learn from the ground up by first learning how to promote single products, I do disagree with your statement that common cause of failure with Amazon Affiliates is from trying to promote more than one product at a time.

In fact, I think the opposite is true. I think most Amazon Affiliates fail because they are only promoting one (or a small handful) of products at a time.

With our Business's my Dad and I use both Out Of The Box and Logical thinking, and we have grown huge IM Business's within just 10 years.

Some of our thinking for Affiliate Marketing is based on the following:

Shopping Experience - selling a single product, or even a handful of related products is like going back in time a hundred or two hundred years, when a shop may have sold a small range of pots and pans and nothing else. Or people may have gone to a Butcher to buy their meat, then to a Baker to buy their bread, then to a Market to buy their vegetables and so on.

Of course some people still do that, but what is more popular today? Large Department Stores or Supermarkets where people have the choice of thousands of products in one place. Even smaller shops on our High Streets (or Main Streets) offer from hundreds to thousands of products.

Now even Amazon itself is a good example of this, they started as a bookseller, but what do they offer now? Just about everything - because they understand that people prefer a one stop shopping solution. They also understand, just like Department Stores, Supermarkets, and many other Business types such as Home Depot for example, that a customer may come in with a single product purchase in mind, but because of the huge amount of products offered and on display, they are likely to walk out with a number of items, not just the single item they came to buy.

Now it is jus logical thinking, if you are offering your customer jus one product, that's all he or she can buy from you. Or until they hear from you again and you offer them another single product, which they then might buy from you if they havn't already bought it from someone else, because they didn't even know you sold that item too.

The Affiliate Business Model that I put forward is hugely successful for us. Build Niche Interest Lists > Use Newsletters with Multiple Affiliate Offers > Sending them to our Stores or Websites where they have the choice of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of related interest products.

I gave an example of one of my Daughters Business's where she has 5 Amazon Music Stores, another related Store and a ClickBank product, but in total could be way upwards of 100,000 items. Someone going there to buy a Guitar for example has a choice of over 26,000 Guitars and then they could look at thousands of related accessories. If they want to do some home recording, well here is another store with just as many items. They don't have to think of going anywhere else ever again, because they have found she has a Music Superstore. They are likely to buy more than the single product they came looking for, but they are also likely to come back often to buy more, because they now know that everything they can ever want is right there in these stores.

I'll give another example, I have a Newsletter relating to young Women, from maybe 18 years of age to mid 30's or so. One advertisement in all my Newsletter issues is for an Affiliate Shop that sells perfumes, makeup and skincare products for Women, but also a huge range of men's fragrances and products, over 14,000 products in all. Can you imagine any Woman going in there and only buying 1 single product? Nooooo lol. Us girls need our beauty products, and we also buy products for Boyfriends or Husbands, even our Dads. AND we jus luv shopping, so how many sales do you think I'd be missing out on if I was offering 1 single product at a time?

For that same niche and in each Newsletter I am also promoting Affiliate Shops offering Clothing, offering Jewellery, offering Handbags and Purses, offering Sunglass's etc.

Women need all those things, and heaps of them. lol. Would I be a very smart girl to offer them just a tiny few products and let them buy everything else somewhere else? Nooooo! lol

Is it harder to do then jus promoting single products. Not that much harder, Sherri is only 16 still and she's making more than an adult wage every week just from her Music List of bit over 10,000 singers/musicians/bands. My Dad and I are making around maybe two million dollars a year just from our Affiliate Marketing to about 8 different niche markets. So our Affiliate Model is well and truly proven, and I have fairly well outlined it I think in a number of posts in this thread, I think most could follow it, or can ask more questions.

So that's why I think you are wrong in that aspect of your advice.

Lindy

Thank you, Lindy. I also incline to the longtail keywords reason. Will continue testing. But the more products you have on your store, the more longtail keywords keywords your store has, isn't it?

Hello myob,

Remember I'm a Woman so I want to get the last word in! Thanks for your detailed reply, but I still think I'm right though! lol

But saying that, there is certainly more than one way to do most things. My Dad is Australian and he uses a funny saying: "There's more than one way to skin a cat", so yes your way will work too, jus not as good as my way. lol Jus razzing you.

I'll answer your last question first. So far we have never really tried selling any products in the high price range. Your talking about products ranging in price from $1000 to $100,000 or more. Certainly would be good commissions to make on sales like those, but really, how many ordinary people can afford to spend those sort of amounts, compared with people with lower spending power? Say when I drive into London, I see more people driving lower priced cars than I see driving Porsche's. (I have to admit I'm a bit of a spoiled girl, my Dad bought me a Porsche Carrera for Christmas a couple of years ago) Or say with wrist watch's, Most Guys wear a watch but I will rarely see a Guy wearing a Rolex watch.

We don't have as many niche lists as you, you say you market to 96 lists where we have only 10, including Sherri's, but we are making around two million dollars profit per year from our lists, selling lower priced items to repeat buyers. One of our lists is large, with more than 100,000 people and does account for about 75% of that profit.

I am familiar with split testing, we do it in other IM ventures with email Subject Lines and Copy etc, but have never done it with Affiliate Marketing. I guess you mean split test your way against ours but I know that would way lower our sales. Perhaps the difference here is that you are mainly marketing high priced items and we are marketing lower priced items?

You say - "By promoting only one product at a time to our niche list subscribers, we are establishing foundations for long-term relationships and trust through a series of successful business transactions."

K, we are doing this in a different way. We are also establishing same foundations and trust with our list subscribers by way of our Newsletters, in fact most likely on a much more personal level than you do. We include personal stories about ourselves and our staff in our Newsletters, so over the years our subscribers have got to know us on a very personal level. As an example here, We have a special Christmas Newsletter (nothing being sold in it, jus newsy Christmassy things) and we also send out an eChristmas Card that we design ourselves, both are sent to everyone on our mailing lists, and we get thousands of eChristmas Cards back from our Subscribers. I think that would be unusual for most Business's, for their customers to have such a personal involvement with a business that many send return Christmas Cards. Our subscribers come to know us and our staff personally, by our names and our photos. They have watched Sherri growing up in photos, they have seen photos of our pets, our cats sleeping on top of our computer monitors for example, jus little personal things in our Newsletters that make us more like Family than just another Business they deal with. Likewise to your comment, our customers are unlikely to buy from anyone else with products that we offer.

Your comment - "But, are we really that much different in marketing approach? Our prospects get sent to a website where a million+ products are being sold. " Your right, we're not that much different, your likely to be just as passionate about your Business as we are, loving what you do the same as we do. We just have different approach's.

It's just that, my way is better than yours! lol lol lol.

Blessed Be

Lindy

Hi,

Linda, you are genius!


best wishes
marco005

So is your ad promoting a product/offer or are you using FB ads to build a list? Seems like with SLF you kind of instantly get a list of sorts. As long as people keep using Facebook they will see your offers. That leads me to my next question. How is the CPC on those super targeted ads? I used FB ads to promote a FB page for likes and it cost me about .20 cents per click. A bit more than I hoped to spend (I'm a penny pincher). Being able to laser target with IDs seems like a huge advantage and may justify the cost.

I'm starting to build my lists now that I have some websites ready, any tips or advice you can give based on personal experience? Paid or free methods. Websites have already made money and I'm looking to reinvest it in the business. I think that is the key for amazon or any type of affiliates.

Check out the two WSO's by Sojourn on Facebook combined with Amazon and listbuilding for Amazon, this is what I will be implementing as well as following the advice of Linsey and Myob in this thread.

Jus to expand on my post above re Newsletter content.

Where can we get content from? Answer is everywhere!

If say my niche was for Internet Marketing - I could most lkely find enough interesting content to re-spin jus from signing up to a number of other high profile Internet Marketers Newsletters. I might also use the Warrior Forum, see what questions people are asking and use those in my Newsletter - providing answers - again I could even use good answers provided in WF as basis for my own answer content. I could use content from Google search's on IM subjects etc.

If my niche was the Pet Niche - well I often read and watch beautiful or funny stories video's about pets and animals. I'm sure other Pet and Animal lovers would like these too, so I could use these as some content, and supply links to the videos.

If we find any good content or articles on a subject we are interested in, we will copy them into a Word Doc for that subject - we are building up our own content database for that subject for possible future use.

In any Niche I was promoting, I wouldn't restrict myself to jus Online content that I could find either. Are there print Magazines available for that topic? OK, so I could pinch content from them and re-spin it, or be getting ideas for content from their articles.


You have to think outside the square, don't restrict yourself to being in a very small box with the way you think.

Lindy

Hello ravenx,

It doesn't tell them we will be sending them links or prep them to purchase from us. I'v never seen a landing or squeeze page that does that.

It tells them what we are giving them, about our Music Newsletter in my examples, gives them reasons why they should get our free Newsletter.

It's graphical, very Muso so attracts their attention fast. I'v read where people say the new thing in squeeze or landing pages is like Web 2.0 or Wordpress style, really plain. So do those people like Magazines without pictures? Example: If you were selling anything to do with Harley Davidson motor bikes do you think having a nice picture of a Harley Davidson bike on your pages might just get attention. yesss.

The Newsletters are the key to our way of selling, the links are scattered through the articles, sometimes we can relate the article to the Ad, but they don't look out of place. You read a Magazine an you expect to read Ads too.

Lindy

This ^

I actually had a WSO on how to make money with Squidoo and Amazon - it works, yes BUT you should always aim to own your own content.

I have had many lenses deleted for spamming and honestly the content was unique but they were in an effort to sell Amazon products.

You CAN still use them but you will need to invest A LOT of time on making the content absolutely amazing and then you have no real guarantee that they will not lock your lens.

If they do you can still download the content but it is best to build your own sites from the outset.

Once you have a product that is bringing in sales from Amazon if you own the site and the content you can sell it too for a lump sum.

Simple Version: Always own your own content and build your OWN network of sites.

Chris

Good point, but I wouldn't knock them completely.

Web 2.0's are still good for backlinks, so, always send your web 2.0 traffic back to your main affiliate website.

I had no idea it was 100,000, I imagine they were mostly garbage lenses.

Or were they just light on content?

Lindy, just to clarify: are your store pages actually Amazon's aStores embedded on your site? Thanks.