If you think of an online portal that offers everything ranging from a pen worth Rs.10 to a pen drive worth Rs. 1,000, the first name that is most likely to pop up in your mind is Amazon. 
Amazon, which is the world’s largest e-commerce company, has its presence in more than 16 countries and sells over 480 million products!
Huge, isn’t it?
By selling their products on Amazon, thousands of vendors around the world have made millions of dollars.
But in the digital era, this e-commerce giant can help you make money without even bothering to procure, maintain and dispatch any product.
Here’s how:
Amazon Affiliate Program is one of the most popular and reliable affiliate programs currently on the web.
And the wide range of products with an even wider customer base justifies why that is so.
The huge buyer seller network of Amazon allows you to promote any product out of millions of options and awards you with commissions as high as 12% for every sale.
With the Amazon Affiliate Program, people like you and me can have endless earning opportunities without directly selling any product.
Here are some ways that will help you in making money with the Amazon Affiliate Program:
- Find your Niche
Take a look at Amazon’s commission chart below:
As you can see, Amazon offers different advertising rates for different categories of products.
But do you think you should go with the product categories that offer the highest rates, say “Pantry” or “Apparel”?
Maybe not! Choosing the category that you want to promote depends largely on your own skills and knowledge about the category.
Choosing category to promote depends largely on your own skills and knowledge about it. Share on XPromoting many products from the same source is also a bad idea.
Here’s the thing; no one would want suggestions to buy a Jacket on a blog that reviews books.
However, your audience will love it if you review a novel and provide a link for purchasing it.
By finding a niche, you can target the people with specific type of interests and those interests are the prime factor that lures your audience to purchase the products.
2. Use Visual Appeal
Amazon provides numerous options for you to effectively present the products to your audience.
Although you can use text links in your content, using banners and visual promotional tools increases the conversion rate to a large extent.
3. Show your credibility
The internet age consumer is smart enough to understand the difference between a genuine suggestion and a sponsored advertisement.
The best way to promote affiliate products is to show your audience that the products you are referring are tested by you.
Usually, YouTube vloggers put the affiliate links for the camera, mike and other equipment’s they use.
Showing credibility increases you audiences’ trust and increases the chances of conversion.
4. Promote sales during holidays
People pay attention to sales and shopping usually during weekends and other holidays.
People pay attention to sales and shopping usually during weekends and other holidays. Share on XEven if a person is in need of a product, he/she might not be in a mood to shop during working hours.
Out of millions of products available on Amazon’s Affiliate Program, choosing the right product, promoting it to the right people at the right time is a challenging task.
But once you gain the knowledge of what works for you and what doesn’t, there will be no looking back.
Here are few other resources you might like:
6 Way to Earn More Money from Affiliate Marketing
5 Ways to Make Money from Internet Without Investment
All the best. Please feel free to comment on this blog in the comments section below.
