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Make Money Online Using Amazon?
by Marty White
Published on this site: December 7th, 2006 - See
more articles from this month
Not many people know this, but you can actually make money
online using Amazon.
Amazon have set up an affiliate program (they call it the "
Amazon Associates Program"). The theory behind the Amazon
Associates program is amazingly simple. By sending traffic to
the Amazon website, you will earn a commission (between 5%-10%)
on all of the sales that result from any visitors that you send.
This is great because it means you do not have to get involved
in product fulfillment. You have no stock to store, you don't
have to pick and ship orders and, perhaps most importantly of
all, you don't need to get involved in any customer service
activities. All you have to do is be purely a marketing machine
and send traffic to Amazon's site.
Of course, the real trick - in fact the key to making this all
work - is to send traffic to the Amazon site at a cost that is
less than the revenue you receive from Amazon. If you are able
to do that, then you can definitely make a tidy profit in the
process.
Now, there are a number of options open to you for creating
traffic. You can create traffic for free by writing articles,
creating your own blog or even by setting up a website of your
own and going through the lengthy process of optimizing your
website for the search engines so that your website is listed near the top of the search results. These three methods are
time consuming, but they will get you results if you stick with
them.
Another way of generating traffic, which unfortunately is not
free, is to create advertising campaigns using one of the many
pay-per-click options that exist. This basically means using
Google Adwords or the similar services offered by Yahoo! and
MSN.
If you hadn't already noticed, every time you do a search in
Google, you will see a series of paid advertisements down the
right-hand-side. You can create adverts that will be displayed
when the user types in specific search terms.
So you can pick specific products from the Amazon website to
promote and set up a specific pay-per-click campaign for each
of these products. Each time the user clicks on one of your
adverts, Google will charge you for the click, hence the term
pay-per-click. You, in turn, point the user to Amazon's
website. If this whole process costs you less than the
commission you receive, then you make a profit.
Simple as that!
Well, not quite. But help is at hand. If you are interested in
learning how it is possible to make good money as an Amazon
Affiliate, visit my website now for more information.
Marty White - is the author of The Amazonian
King Super Affiliate System http://www.AmazonianKing.com
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