Promoting Amazon product that cost $10?

nishaagarwal

12 years ago

just promote amazon products which cost more than $ 150 which gives good commission

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iazarr Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by nishaagarwal

just promote amazon products which cost more than $ 150 which gives good commission

Can anyone else post their opinions?
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- robg1 12 years ago
  
  I dont see it as a bad idea. Obviously you would have to sell more items seeing as they are low cost, but if you can generate the traffic then it should work.
  
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Adie

12 years ago

$10 products would give you 40 to 70 cents per sale. That is not a bad idea as people may tend to buy other things than those being promoted.

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steven Clayden

12 years ago

its not a bad idea. Most marketers will target low cost products on amazon to bring the commisson levels up for higher end products. Go for it.

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yossi yagudaiv

12 years ago

hey my friend - the answer is yes !!! Go for it !!

If you dont have any competition - Do it with squidoo ( not your own keyword site ).

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MeelisM 12 years ago

Well I'd say it depends on what's your strategy.

Promoting cheap items that people buy lots of is a great way to increase your commision %. Let's say you promote these cheap items and sell a lot of them every month. And you promote something that costs $500. Without selling cheap items you would get 25$ for every high priced item sold, but with the cheap items being sold you would get $45 each time. Plus the cheap items sold and additional items people pick up always stack up and you get more money anyway

So I'd say - always promote everything you believe is good and people need. Then you will make money
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RoniShwartz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by iazarr

Is that smart? I will get something like $1 from each sale then. All items in that niche cost around $8-12. That niche have pretty low competition and have around 400k extact monthly searches! You think it is worth to invest money and time in it? I have enough money to start only one project so I must be sure that it is worth it. btw How much it should earn if I rank on first position for that KW that have 400k+ monthly searches?

It is a very tricky question, iazarr (and I must confess I also think about it alot), as not only do you need to have big traffic to make money, but you also need good conversion rates (and to hope that some of your blog-visitors would also buy other products, while shopping at Amazon via YOUR affiliate link...)

The bright side of the story, as you already mentioned, is that there are TONS of products you can choose from, and some of those niches are relatively competition-free, as most Imers do not wish to make less than US$ 1 per sale...

How do you intend to promote this US$ 10 Amazon product? Is it a direct sale from your blog/wesite, or are you going to build a list and try to sell it through there, while trying to get more added value?

If you invest in building a list around this niche/product, can it become a "jumping board" to related niches that are more profitable ?

I personally have very little experience with Amazon, but everybody keep on saying that once your client goes there, he/she are very likely to buy things they didn't plan to buy, and that is the great thing about being an Amazon affiliate... I wish I could hear more from experienced Imers.

Good luck, Roni

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RoniShwartz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by iazarr

Is that smart? I will get something like $1 from each sale then. All items in that niche cost around $8-12. That niche have pretty low competition and have around 400k extact monthly searches! You think it is worth to invest money and time in it? I have enough money to start only one project so I must be sure that it is worth it. btw How much it should earn if I rank on first position for that KW that have 400k+ monthly searches?

It is a very tricky question, iazarr (and I must confess I also think about it alot), as not only do you need to have big traffic to make money, but you also need good conversion rates (and to hope that some of your blog-visitors would also buy other products, while shopping at Amazon via YOUR affiliate link...)

The bright side of the story, as you already mentioned, is that there are TONS of products you can choose from, and some of those niches are relatively competition-free, as most Imers do not wish to make less than US$ 1 per sale...

How do you intend to promote this US$ 10 Amazon product? Is it a direct sale from your blog/wesite, or are you going to build a list and try to sell it through there, while trying to get more added value?

If you invest in building a list around this niche/product, can it become a "jumping board" to related niches that are more profitable ?

I personally have very little experience with Amazon, but everybody keep on saying that once your client goes there, he/she are very likely to buy things they didn't plan to buy, and that is the great thing about being an Amazon affiliate... I wish I could hear more from experienced Imers.

Good luck, Roni

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RoniShwartz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by iazarr

Is that smart? I will get something like $1 from each sale then. All items in that niche cost around $8-12. That niche have pretty low competition and have around 400k extact monthly searches! You think it is worth to invest money and time in it? I have enough money to start only one project so I must be sure that it is worth it. btw How much it should earn if I rank on first position for that KW that have 400k+ monthly searches?

It is a very tricky question, iazarr (and I must confess I also think about it alot), as not only do you need to have big traffic to make money, but *you also need good conversion rates (and to hope that some of your blog-visitors would also buy other products, while shopping at Amazon via YOUR affiliate link...)

The bright side of the story, as you already mentioned, is that there are TONS of products you can choose from, and some of those niches are relatively competition-free, as most Imers do not wish to make less than US$ 1 per sale...

How do you intend to promote this US$ 10 Amazon product? Is it a direct sale from your blog/wesite, or are you going to build a list and try to sell it through there, while trying to get more added value?

If you invest in building a list around this niche/product, can it become a "jumping board" to related niches that are more profitable ?

I personally have very little experience with Amazon, but everybody keep on saying that once your client goes there, he/she are very likely to buy things they didn't plan to buy, and that is the great thing about being an Amazon affiliate... I wish I could hear more from experienced Imers.

Good luck, Roni

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dfs_dean

12 years ago

Originally Posted by RoniShwartz

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How do you intend to promote this US$ 10 Amazon product? Is it a direct sale from your blog/wesite, or are you going to build a list and try to sell it through there, while trying to get more added value?

Before anyone tries adopting this approach you need to realize that Amazon's guidelines say that affiliates will not put affiliate links in emails. Don't put your Amazon affiliate account at risk.

Peace

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RoniShwartz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by dfs_dean

Before anyone tries adopting this approach you need to realize that Amazon's guidelines say that affiliates will not put affiliate links in emails. Don't put your Amazon affiliate account at risk.

Peace

Thanks for the useful advise/warning, but I guess you can still build "Amazon "shops" and embed them within YOUR website/blog, and dthen irect your subscribers to those pages... I assume that is NOT against Amazon's guidelines.

Cheers, Roni

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myob

12 years ago

Originally Posted by RoniShwartz

Thanks for the useful advise/warning, but I guess you can still build "Amazon "shops" and embed them within YOUR website/blog, and dthen irect your subscribers to those pages... I assume that is NOT against Amazon's guidelines.

Cheers, Roni

It is a common marketing technique to build lists using nominally priced products, then promoting progressively higher end products to buyers/subscribers. Amazon's TOS specifically prohibits direct affiliate links within emails but otherwise, email marketing to opt-in lists is perfectly acceptable.

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RoniShwartz

12 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

Amazon's TOS specifically prohibits direct affiliate links within emails but otherwise, email marketing to opt-in lists is perfectly acceptable.

I was talking about creating "shops" in Amazon and embedding them within your website, so the URL that will appear on your email/newsletter will be something like: YourDomain.com/bookshop-number1

If I'm not wrong, that should be perfectly acceptable by Amazon, as you send your readers to YOUR website (although it is nothing but an Amazon products-page), and it also protects your affiliate links from commission-hackers (especially if you have affiliate links within free eBooks that you distribute...)

What do you think ???

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myob

12 years ago

@ RoniShwartz,

I don't see anything wrong with that approach regarding Amazon's TOS. But you may find that if you present too many choices to your prospects they often will not make a choice at all. What I do is recommend one niche product at a time with its own stand-alone mini website. After each purchase, subsequent emails recommend an additional relevant product.

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Lucian Lada

12 years ago

Originally Posted by myob

What I do is recommend one niche product at a time with its own stand-alone mini website.

Why do you use stand-alone mini websites instead of a page on your main website? Is it because you offer more information, and want to get every questions of the prospect asked? or is it because you don't want them to access the review pages from your main website, therefore not letting them know what product comes next in line?

Just (very) curious...

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myob

12 years ago

Originally Posted by Lucian Lada

Why do you use stand-alone mini websites instead of a page on your main website? Is it because you offer more information, and want to get every questions of the prospect asked? or is it because you don't want them to access the review pages from your main website, therefore not letting them know what product comes next in line?

Just (very) curious...

In my experience, conversion rates soar when subscribers are presented with one product at a time. What almost always happens is that once on the Amazon site, they will also purchase several other surprisingly unrelated products.

There is sort of a psychological trust factor when you can position yourself to "recommend" one specific product at a time, in contrast to the much less effective "review" model of a whole bunch of products on one massive site. But, that's just me.

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Leslie B

12 years ago

I have sites that promote big ticket items through Amazon, and sites that promote the lower priced items. The first group brings in nice amounts, the second group makes sure I yank up my commission percentage rather fast.

If you feel that the niche is worth pursuing, even if you won't get that much of a commission, then go for it. Having those items that sell pretty well each month are great to get your percentage from 4% to 8%

Leslie

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aprilm 12 years ago

You can make a pretty penny promoting low priced items IF you sell ALOT of them. Does your website get lots of traffic, or do you have a means to get your affiliate links in front of lots of targeted traffic? If not, I'd go for the higher priced items. I have a luxury goods site that I promote high end items on. I dont get a ton if sales, but all it takes is ONE sale for a really nice pay day.
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- theerapat 12 years ago
  
  It's not wrong that you can promote low cost products.
  It's easy to sell and to increase conversion rate.
  
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seobro

12 years ago

Oh I hate amazon. Get use to making pennies. That is no way to make money. What you get is 4% commission. Also, it has very poor conversion.

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Michael Franklin 12 years ago

Originally Posted by seobro

Oh I hate amazon. Get use to making pennies. That is no way to make money. What you get is 4% commission. Also, it has very poor conversion.

Well with Amazon, it's all about scaling up your sites so you end up with a higher commission rate as well as a lot of unrelated sales....With scaling up you also learn what converts best...So you just double up on the winners!
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cooler1 12 years ago

Originally Posted by seobro

Oh I hate amazon. Get use to making pennies. That is no way to make money. What you get is 4% commission. Also, it has very poor conversion.

Poor conversion? What planet you on.

4% commision? It starts at that, but can go as high as 8.5% depends on the volume of sales.
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Dr MaxIM

12 years ago

It is worth doing this, but I would have multiple products on your website to increase traffic and a chance of sales.

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Randall Magwood

12 years ago

That's 1 drawback of Amazon's affiliate program. But if you promote alot of expensive stuff, you will see more money since Amazon is a HIGHLY converting site.

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Allissa

Banned 12 years ago

There IS a very smart reason to promote a less expensive Amazon product, and that is to gain the volume of Amazon sales each month that puts you into a higher percentage bracket on ALL your sales. Of course, this only makes sense if you ALSO promote higher cost products too!

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AuthorityRush

12 years ago

I use low priced products to boost my overall commissions. Amazon's tiered affiliate payout platform gives payouts on all products due to the total number of products sold. So even if you make one cent on something, if that makes your overall commission jump from 6% to 7%, that one sale can be worth quite a lot.

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tofrar

12 years ago

Also dont forget to build list. For sample if you are selling in dog niche you can collect many pet owner and then later send your list some offer.

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12 years ago

I promoted silly bands once when they were popular and did very well.

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kindsvater

12 years ago

You can promote product X and people buy product Y in Amazon. I sometimes see the weirdest, absolutely unrelated purchases. I don't pay attention to price if the product is relevant to my site and what visitors may be interested in.

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Vadimarket

12 years ago

Why not build/purchuse site and promote a whole bunch of amazon products instead? Unless you're focused on one specific product. But yeah, 4% commissions...

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pizzatherapy

12 years ago

Marketing for amazon is certainly a numbers game. The more numbers, the more you are in the game.

As has been pointed out: the more products you sell, the higher your commission per cent age increases. So you want to make a large number of sales.

The weird thing is that Amazon as far as I can see does not differentiate between high ticket items or low ticket items.

It all depends on your number of sales. The more sales the higher commission rate. So you do better by getting targeted traffic to your site...

I would research why there is such low competition in this niche. If no one is buying, it does not matter how much competition you have...

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blueeyedboy

12 years ago

It depends on the number of sales you get in a given month. This is not a bad idea continue..

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Alessandro Zamboni

12 years ago

Hi Iazarr, that is an awesome idea, because first it keeps motivated also with low income.
Second, people that are buying your little items, can add also other things to the Amazon cart, and you will get commissions.

For example, on my Halloween costumes ecommerce, prices are around $30/$50, but sometimes I sold tablets, shoes, watches and dress.
I like selling little items. It motivates me to reach new sales and make new websites.

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