Make Money with Amazon Associates

Posted on September 18, 2008
Filed Under Affiliate Programs |

Here’s an affiliate program that has a huge variety of products to market from books to electronics to movies to clothing to toys. It’s Amazon Associates. There are few affiliate programs that are this diversified. I like an affiliate with a wide range of products because it makes it easier to track your sales by limiting the number of accounts you must monitor. The other bonus is the fact that Amazon is a very reputable company with a long history of success. There is little worry about Amazon not paying you or going out of business. Amazon is very stable and  profitable. They will be around for a very long time. Amazon’s customer service is outstanding. I have bought hundreds of books from Amazon in the past 15 years. I buy from Amazon for the same reason others do, great selection, great price, great service and fast shipping. This is why you want to sign up as an Amazon Associate. You just can’t loose with Amazon. People will buy from Amazon with confidence. It’s a no brain-er affiliate program.

You can earn from 4% to 15% commission on sales at Amazon.com. The commission depends on the product that is sold. General products pay 4% while endless.com products pay 15%. There are 2 different compensation fee structures, Performance and Classic. The Performance fee structure pays a higher commission when you sell more items in any given month. The Classic Fee structure pays a flat 4% of all products. Personal computers and laptops are capped at $25 and Video on Demand is capped at $1.50 per item. But this is still some good money especially when you consider you do not have to carry any inventory or ship anything. Here are more details on the Amazon associate compensation fees.

Amazon has been offering their Associate program for 10 years and has done a fantastic job with providing tools to promote their products. Once you sign up, login and click on the Build Links/Widgets. Now you will see a ton of ways to build promotional widgets and links.

Here are the choices you have:

Wow, that’s a ton of tools to help you sell anything on Amazon or their 3rd party sites. Amazon did a first class job with these tools. The Amazon Associate program is a great place to start for new Internet Marketers. The products are known to sell and the company has a great reputation which makes it an easy sell.

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2 Responses to “Make Money with Amazon Associates”

  1. PuReWebDev on October 8th, 2008 11:37 pm

    Awesome post about Amazon Associates. I run a few Amazon e-commerce websites myself, and I can tell you its not only fun, but financially rewarding. Nothing like waking up in the morning and seeing how much money you’ve made. Great post for sure.

    PuReWebDev

  2. admin on October 9th, 2008 10:25 am

    PuReWebDev,

    Thank you! I love Amazon. It has a great reputation and thousands of products. It’s easy to sell from Amazon too because people like and trust them.

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