Everyone is familiar with the Amazon website. No doubt about it, they are one of the most famous online shops on the planet. They might even be one of the most famous retailers full stop. But what do you associate with Amazon? DVDs, Books, CDs, personal gadgets and electronics. I suppose these days the Amazon Kindle reader might be the first thing a lot of people associate with Amazon.
The fact of the matter is that Amazon sell an incredible range of items at their online retail outlet. You can purchase all sorts of things for your home, lightbulbs, hoovers, pots and pans, tools, toys and games. You can download music and video without having to wait for a CD or DVD in the post. You can even do your grocery shopping on Amazon.
Which is all very interesting of course – but what are the implications for you? If you’re interested in making money as an affiliate then the enormous range on offer at the Amazon store offers a tremendous opportunity for you. There’s certain to be something that will interest your potential customers – all you need do is get them to visit the Amazon website using your affiliate link and Amazon will do the hard sell on your behalf.
Amazon, of course, is very efficient when it comes to getting people to buy stuff online. It’s what they do for a living – and they are extremely good at it. Over and above all the extremely efficient sales ploys that they have tested and perfected over years – the free shipping, the suggested complimentary items that would go well with your chosen goods, the e-mails when there’s a special offer – they enjoy a high level of both brand recognition and trust amongst the buying public. Combining the high levels of trust generated by the Amazon brand along with similar brand recognition and trust of the products on offer – Apple, Sony, Microsoft to name but a few – makes it easier for you to achieve a stellar sales conversion rate.
Amazon’s affiliate scheme – they call it the Amazon Associate scheme – is one of the oldest in existence. That’s a sure sign that they’ve got something right and that the scheme is a good one, both for the company and the affiliates who promote it. There’s no joining fee so there’s no financial risk to you. You will require your own website – but that can be just a free blog if you like. Amazon will want to approve your blog or website. This is quite a simple process. In a nutshell, if you don’t have any hate, racist or “adult” content on your site, and as long as you don’t use the word Amazon in your url, Amazon will probably approve your site. In the unlikely event that there’s a problem, you can apply again as many times as you like using an alernative site or blog.
The sign up procedure is free, simple and fast. In just a few minutes time, you could be marketing items form Amazon’s enormous portfolio. So rather han spending all your time promoting e-books that very few people want, you could be selling real stuff to real people and making real money.