Amazon is one of the most popular online shopping centers in the
world. Thousand of people shop there every day placing orders for
various items from different categories. Amazon made the way of
sh…
Amazon is one of the most popular online shopping centers in the
world. Thousand of people shop there every day placing orders for
various items from different categories. Amazon made the way of
shopping really easy. Within a few clicks of mouse you can get the
item you are interested in, delivered to your door in a few days.
So
keeping in mind the popularity and ease of shoppingon Amazon you could
use it to make money. Literally you can generate decent income with
Amazon as an associate selling Amazon products and getting paid
commission for every single sale generated.
Selling Amazon
products is a great option for people who want make some extra cash,
without the need of owning the product. Also it might be a great way
for network marketers to offset the costs ofpaid advertising that they
can fund using the income generated from Amazon sales. So it might be a
great way to make money for different people, no matter what kind of
niche they are interested in as the Amazon offer wide range of products
to sell from different categories. So everyone will surely find the
item in his own niche to make money from.
The way to become Amazon associate and to get started is quite easy and should take no more than several minutes.
Here we go:
- Visit Amazon site and scroll down to the bottom where you can findJOIN ASSOCIATES link. Click it.
- Then you can take GET STARTED tour and at the final stage, join the program by filling out the form with required information.
- After you application will get approved, you will be ready to go.
Once you’ve logged into your associate area you can find plenty of
tools that you can easily use to promote Amazon products such as:
product links, widgets, slideshows, banners etc. Usually you have html
code prepared for all of those tools that you can just copy and
pasteinto any website you are about to use for promotion.
And here we come to the most important aspect of selling Amazon products.
You
need to drive traffic to the website you are using to promote stuff in
order to convert visitors into customers. There are many ways to
promote Amazon items online.
- You can create free websites
and place links, banners and widgets to Amazon products on them. A good
example here are squidoo lenses. You can create free squidoo lenses (
websites) in several minutes each and use them to promote stuff. These
websites are really easy to create, and you can have as many of them as
you like. This way you can come up with several squidoo lenses, each
for different Amazon product. - Blogging is another effective and
free way to advertise.You can create a free blog and monetize it by
placing, links, banners and making posts on Amazon products. - Writing
articles is another way to generate sales from. For instance you can
write review of particular product and direct reader to your squidoo
lens to purchase it. - Also if you already have a website you can
add to it proper banners and links to Amazon products relevant with the
content of your website. So this way you keep all content and promotion
material related to the one topic. What it means is that you don’t want
to promote Amazon items as for instance: shoes on network marketing
website.
Those above are just examples of many ways to
promote and sell Amazon products. Driving the traffic to your
promotional campaign is that what it’s all about.