How do I make extra money online as an Amazon Affiliate? I shop a lot on Amazon, but how do I make money and get a paid check from Amazon?
Journey back to 2010
In July 2010, I started out this blog and initially, I was thinking to blog about make money blogging without making any online income myself. I took couple days just to know how to install WordPress and customize a premium theme from themesheep.
Blogging and writing is not my strength and interest. I created about 3-4 post in 2010. That’s it. I’d say it wasn’t very successful. Blogging involves a lot of work and commitment.
Then what? I was looking for different ways making money online and talked about “Creative Ways”. Indeed, every work or projects involve a lot of time, energy, and creativity. I went nowhere.
Finally I made some extra money online in 2011
Thankful that I was hooked to Chris Guthrie’s Blog since June 2010. I was impressed with how he makes money with Amazon Affiliate. Some of his posts were eye-opening to me.
I saved a little bit early this year and paid $97 in March 2011 for his premium video training course Niche Profit Classroom (Original Price Site) – See the discount below. Indeed, it’s one of the best investment I have for my Internet Marketing Business. Note: I find that I learn much more in video instead of reading blogs. And you?
I finished up all his video (3 hr) in a few days. Grab the core concept, ideas and started creating a few product niche sites. The Azon WordPress Theme was a premium customizable theme and I love it. It helps me creating authority site fast and it is still one of my favorite Product Review Theme.
His Coaching Support is valuable way more than the cost. I learned so much by reading others’ questions and Chris’ feedbacks. Chris is very responsive and got his feedback within 1-2 days.
I’d say I am a hard-working student in the class. I was just focusing on writing great product related content and how-to following the training. Keep working on driving traffic to my niche sites. I had my first Amazon Affiliate Sales in May 2011. What? It was just $0.92?
Seriously, the first dollar that you make online is precious. I still remember the excitment I received my first Adsense check from Google. Don’t you?
And over $10 in June. How nice? Indeed, the process and system was working out – sort of out of my expectation. Do people really read my niche sites and click through to buy on Amazon?
Unfortunately, Amazon suspended all Californian Affiliate in July. My Amazon income stream was just CUT off.
Since I had some traffic to my sites, I switched all over to Adsense and made some money from July-Sept 2011. Stay tuned and I will blog about my Adsense income journey.
If you really focus on ONE business model, spend time on it although it may take a few months or a year, it just works. I’m not telling you making money online is fast and easy. I have read tons of information these 2 years and spending hours and hours on the computer screen after long day full-time work.
Since Oct – My Amazon Income rocks in
Thank God that Amazon re-activated the Amazon Affiliate program in California early Oct 2011. Since then, I have sudden “success” due to the growing SEO Traffic.
I had a killing month in Nov 2011 due to the shopping seasons and it goes even better this month – Christmas Shopping Season.
As of writing, I had break-through record in the early Dec. I am working hard to hit 8.25% commission rate this month.
- Dec 1 to 5 2011 Amazon Affiliate Income
It was a long journey this year and 2011 is almost over.
How do I make extra money online as an Amazon Affiliate
This is how I get paid check from Amazon. To see my blueprint and steps-by-steps in Video Training, feel free to check out Niche Profit Course.
Step 1. Do market research and find the right product niche to promote.
Step 2. Build a niche mini-site with WordPress
Step 3. Write great product review content
Step 4. Drive Traffic to my sites. I do SEO and Search Engines bring in hundreds of traffic everyday to my sites.
Step 5. Monitor and Optimize my conversation rate.
Step 6. Repeat 3-5 in loop on this site. Or move on and start with step 1.
Finally, wait and receive my Amazon paid-check on monthly basis.
Is it You?
Maybe you are hopping around and going after Shiny Objects. I do and I am a WSO sucker. I buy information products here and there and going nowhere. I have tons of pdf and video on my harddisk that I don’t even have time to digest and open them. Sounds familiar?
If you have been looking for an Internet Marketing Blueprint and success business plan, there are tons in WSO, isn’t it? I am thankful that I found one and I just stick with it and get A’s in it. I’m still learning and trying new things everyday.
$97 is a huge investment for who looking for jobs or waiting for next assignment. Chris is generous to open door to his training with a killing price.
I promote it whole-heartily as it changed my life and bank balance in 2011.
Sorry, it was a long journey and kind of boring, isn’t it? Sorry to tell you that there is no short cut making money online fast. There is just a better training out there. It worked for me at least. You just need to grab ONE, focus, work hard, and be there.
I am his honor student and promoting this killing WSO deal before it’s closed. I paid $97 full price early 2011 and wish I got this no-brain deal. Anyway, TIME is money. How much IM education could you get with $30? It not only comes with the video training, but the bonus Azon Theme is super optimized and converting. You properly notice general premium WP themes cost way more than that.
Your success is my passion. Feel free to drop by my blog and claim your WordPress training on the right side bar if you need one.
Comments
Do you buy in Amazon Affiliate Business Model? Would you share with me about your first make-money-online experience? I’d like to learn more about your Make Money Online Journey as well.
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I’m the same way. I’ve bought lots of “shiny” WSO offers just because the price was right. Some of them I’ve yet to even open.
I’ve never had much success with Amazon. Good to hear that you are doing well in December, and its nice that California reopened the affiliate program.
Good luck the rest of the year.
mike
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Hey Mike, thanks for dropping by. I found out I just need to focus ONE or max TWO business models. Adsense is my 2nd beat.
I hope I could grow my Adsense empire to 4-digit a month soon.
This is really encouraging;) thank you. I have had some experience with Amazon affiliate program and find your stats really awesome. Good luck and keep it up;) I ll be back for more
Tram, thanks for dropping by. It’s fun and great to meet other bloggers like you and learn from each other. Internet business is a long journey and could be boring working on the computer screen all the time.
Kent -
I’ll be following your blog with interest, as I’ve been considering Amazon for a while now.
Continued good luck with yours!
BTW, my blog-site is (obviously) a work-in-progress.
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Hey Richard, Amazon is just one of the niche business models. Anti-aging definitely is a great niche. I’d suggest you to write great reviews and promote related products online.
Hey Kent, that is really nice. You purchased the stuff and you shared it for free :d (of course I don’t mean the details). Anyways as you said blogging is a serious business. Many people take it for granted but it needs more commitment and sometimes investment to finally get it right. If making money is what you are after then you might be disappointed but the commitment and the effort need to come first. Just like it is in the KINGDOM of GOD you have to seek it first.
Great job Kent catch ya later.
I’ve been making money with AdSense over the past 6 months and decided that it was time to try affiliate marketing too so put my hand to Amazon. I haven’t had a great amount of success so far and after buying some WSO’s and not having much luck I decided to but Chris Guthrie’s Niche Profit Course this morning as it was on a special and I follow his blog anyway. It’s got some great content and I’m looking forward to putting it into action and hopefully getting some income from Amazon.
Good Luck.
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Adem, welcome on board. Chris’ NPC is an awesome training course. This is my blueprint to make extra money online as an Amazon Associate.
Good luck with your journey. Looking forward to follow up your progress later.
Yay! I made my first Amazon affiliate sale on my new site created using the NCP. $3.30 income! I’m hoping that once I increase traffic I will get more sales.
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Your rock and beat my first sale.
Sure you will get more sales once traffic rolls in.
Hey dude
Just signed up through your link!
I have been doing Adsense and am on track for a $2k month this month. I have a feeling that Amazon is a similar play – and that many of my Adsense sites would probably suit Amazon better. Looking forward to it!
Matthew, thanks! I hope you enjoy NPC as I do.
I am sure that you will add another strong income stream with Amazon Affiliate program. Let me know if you need anything.
Thank you for sharing your experience, and good lick with you, keep up! I am not in touch with the Amazon really, it seems to be a great platform for business. I could get a lot of info in your blog.
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Yes, Amazon Associates is a great business platform. Your goal is to send traffic to Amazon, people buy various products and you will receive the commissions.
Hi Kent,
I have made more sales through Amazon than any other affiliate system that I use. The commission rate could be higher but still, a sale is a sale.
take care…
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Justin, nice to know. Amazon rocks. I made pretty good sales and traffic in Dec and sold more than 2000 items and hit 8.25%. It’s do-able in peak shopping reasons.
I hope I could hit 7% and even 8% on monthly basis. Will see how it goes this month.
Kent,
You say that you do SEO; is your site on the first page of Google to make this sort of income?
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Yes, I have hundreds of content pages on various niche sites and have hundreds daily traffic. Some keywords are the 1st and 2nd pages, some are out of 500+.
I’m more in digital products, but I do make some physical product sales in the forex market (not Amazon). You did a great job.
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Frank, digital products is my favorite too. I make 10% commission in some of those sales. Are you into Forex market?
Just read your post over on Chris’ blog and wanted to stop by and say congrats on ending 2011 with great success.
Out of curiosity, how many Amazon sites do you have up that are making money each month?
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Wesley, thanks for dropping by. Nov and Dec was the shopping reason and I had crazy success. Dec was even better.
Traffic has been slowing down in Jan as expected. I gonna release my first income report early Feb.
I have about ~20 sites doing Amazon and Adsense. Some have zero traffic and not even ranked yet. I have about 5 Amazon Niche Sites making decent income with NPC formula and Azon theme. I gonna grow them even further as Authority sites and build out new ones every week. It’s just a number game.
I highly recommend you to check out NPC WSO if you didn’t get NPC yet. The Azon Theme is very optimized and converting which is well worthy more than $30 as a premium WP theme. Before taking NPC, I knew very little about Amazon Affiliate. Chris sold his site for 6 digits with the same theme for reasons.
That’s pretty awesome stuff Kent. Chris’ NPC was actually the first thing I ever bought in the IM world. I went through the course and felt like it was impossible, so I switched to Adsense. Now I make more with Amazon, haha. I’m still using his Azon theme on a couple sites.
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When did you get NPC? Did you get “mad” with the WSO price drop?
Wesley, I felt the same way about the impossibility too.. I made $0.92 in the first month.
Amazon banned all CA Affiliate back to July and I switched all to Adsense and made my first Google check. Just thankful that they re-opened so I could ride in the shopping reas
For Adsense, you get paid once there is a click. For Amazon, even though you drive some traffic to them, may not convert very well.. sometimes I only get 5% conversation rate, sometimes I could get more than 10%. It’s just a number game as an engineer you do.
Meanwhile, I’m trying to diversify a little bit and hope to get A’s in Clickbank and Ebay EPN this year too.
Great job again, Kent! I am still on my way to learning the Adsense game. Once I do, I’ll need to pick your brain and start down the Amazon route.
I have also reached out to Chris Guthrie in that regard.
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I love Adsense because it’s just simple and works. Once your niche sites have decent traffic like 30-50 daily impressive, clicks will come in.
I’ve been in computers for years, but now that I’m a stay at home dad, I figured time to sit down and be serious! I’ve been reading blog after blog attempting to get better at this.
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