How To Make $1,000 A Month Reselling Items On Amazon

How To Make $1,000 A Month Reselling Items On Amazon

Want to earn a healthy side income? Try building an Amazon affiliate site!  You've probably heard about how much money you can make online on Amazon affiliate. Maybe you've even set up a site yourself, tested it out, and found that after getting everything up and running only a few bucks in affiliate income came flowing in after a few months.

I’ve been using Amazon’s affiliate program for a little over two years and during that time I’ve had a lot of success with it. In fact, this income source was the second largest chunk of my total $150k+ 2010 income. If I hadn’t sold one of my larger Amazon focused sites last year for six figures this income source would have easily eclipsed $100,000 by now.

Here Are Ways To Make Money With Amazon

Select Your Niche Critically

The niche you choose is the absolute most important decision you can make.

It’s easiest to make money using Amazon’s affiliate program if the people coming to your website are looking for a specific product that your website discusses. It’s more difficult to use a website like mine here and make money linking to physical products because the people coming here are looking for advice on how to earn money online – not what speakers they should buy.

Make Product Images Clickable Affiliate Links

Roughly 20% of my total Amazon income has come from simply making all of the product images on my websites clickable affiliate links.

Product Review Articles Convert Best

Doing a quality product review for a product directly related to your niche is a very smart way to gain higher click thru rates and increased sales, but only if your review is higher quality.

Ideally you contact the manufacturer’s marketing team or PR agency and get them to send you a demo unit of the product to review, but this takes a lot of effort and may not be worth it on a smaller traffic site (at first).

Trust me you want to convince the reader to investigate their purchase options by the time they finish reading an article, which is why I’ll always include links to all of the products mentioned in a review at the end of the article.

That way it’s an easy transition from learning about the product during your review and then at the end it’s time to make a purchase.

Link To Amazon.Com Frequently

I have already mentioned  this in the previous few tips but I want to make sure you understand that each link inside one of your articles is another opportunity for a visitor to click through and make their way onto Amazon.com.

It’s common for me to link to Amazon five to ten times in a single article ,more if I’m doing a product review.

Sell Large Quantities Of Inexpensive Products

This is to  Boost Your Payout On High Priced Products.  One thing I do is have websites that are set up in lower competition niches where the items typically aren’t as expensive and where it’s easier to sell these products in larger quantities ($50 or less). Then I have other niche sites that sell more expensive products at much higher prices , $500 and more  that are sold less frequently.

So this way I get to use the increased quantity of sales from these lower priced product websites to help me get up into higher payout brackets so instead of making 6% on that high end item I’ll get 8% instead.

Build An Email List

Building an email list is way easier on a physical product oriented website.

This is because People don’t have their guard up when they are researching a physical product to .So what I like to do is offer some type of freebie like a buyer’s guide or some type of information that provides more details about the products they’re researching.

For my newsletter provider I use Aweber and highly recommend them. Overall I could attribute at least five to ten percent of my total income due to my email lists because I like to focus on promoting products heavily to my lists during the holidays which leads into my next tip.

Publish A Monthly Bestseller List

Amazon has a bestseller page found simply at Amazon.com/bestsellers and so one thing I’ve done on my site is publish a bestsellers list and simply mention the currently trending bestsellers. Generally speaking the cream rises to the top so if you write an article talking about the bestselling products those are likely to be the best products your visitors are looking to buy anyway.

Just go to Amazon.com/bestsellers and look for your respective niche category. I shoot for top 5 or top 10 products.

Use Multiple Tracking Id’s For Each Website

By default Amazon assigns you one tracking ID like blahblahblah-20 but you can create additional tracking ID’s here up to a total of 100. If you hit that total you can always ask for more so feel free to be liberal with your creation of tracking ID’s for your websites.

You wouldn’t install the same Google Analytics code on every single website you own right? Of course not, because you wouldn’t be able to tell how much traffic each of your websites were receiving individually. So the same thing can be said for tracking the money you make on your websites. In the past I’ve gone so far as to create 15 different tracking ID’s for use on a single website.

Use Native Shopping Ads Over Static Banner Ads

I suggest using Native Shopping Ads instead which is essentially a replacement to the carousel style ads but allows for greater flexibility. You can display products by recommendation from the content, by search or with other options. 

Link To Products Inside Your Content

Simple text links in the content of an article are the most effective way to get web visitors to click. People trust the body of the content on a page more so than any other area of the website and I know this because the tracking data I’ve collected.

Roughly half of my Amazon income comes from basic text links posted inside the content body area of a blog post or page.

Don’t Create An Amazon Astore

When I created an Amazon Astore tool to “build my own store” I found it converted terribly. Less than 1% of my total income came from Amazon Astore pages before I stopped using them. If you’re not familiar with Astore’s just take my word for it when I say they suck.

I know people like to shop, but sometimes I believe they’d rather just find a resource that tells them what the best deal is instead. Whatever the reason, the tracking data I used to track my Amazon Astore’s showed that they routinely underperformed.

Use Easyazon To Earn More  Money With Amazon

It is an easy way to automatically populate information from a WordPress plugin that I had developed based on the needs I had for building Amazon centric websites. The plugin allows you to insert information and affiliate links to Amazon in a much faster way than creating the links yourself by hand from Amazon.com.

Basically what the plugin does is allow you to quickly insert a text based affiliate link, the image of the product as an affiliate link, a product information grid, convert US Amazon links to UK, GR etc. via link localization etc. etc. and have all those things be affiliate links to Amazon.com so it does a great job of improving click through rates.

Note that the plugin is currently only $47 and available at EasyAzon.com

 Write Sales And Promos During The Holidays

Holidays include  Black Friday Week, Cyber Monday and Cyber Week.  Well, it is lower during other holidays like Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Presidents Day, Valentine’s Day etc. but you can still promote various sales during these holidays as well. I target every holiday because Amazon creates an actual dedicated sales page every time one of these holidays come around. The deals shared on these pages are generally really good too.

So I’ve shared earlier like linking as many times as possible, making the product image clickable and then sending out an email to my list etc. to get even more conversions.

Though some of that traffic pop is also attributed to the day I mail out to my email lists though

For the structure of these articles I like to target a frequently searched keyword such as “Cyber Monday (My Niche) Discounts” etc. because I know people search for “Cyber Monday” and “Black 

Friday” millions of times each year but they also search a longer form version like “Cyber Monday (My Niche) Discounts” as evidenced by the above traffic graph from one of my Amazon sites

Get People On To Amazon.com

Most of my earnings came from products people bought because I happened to be the one that sent them onto Amazon.com. I sold a watch a while ago for $5,000 and got a $400 commission but I don’t even own a website that even remotely discusses watches. This is one of the other reasons why I love using Amazon’s affiliate program.

When you send someone to Amazon.com you get a percentage of anything they buy for the next 24 hours (30 days if they added an item to their cart) so if you can just get them onto the website and they happen to buy something completely unrelated you’ll get the money for it.

Amazon spends millions of dollars on improving the way they get people to convert. The fact that they provide a custom user experience for every person that goes to Amazon.com based on the buying behavior and viewing patterns tells me they know what it takes to close a sale. Some of the best closing advice I can give is to simply find ways to get your visitors onto the Amazon.com webpage and they’ll take care of the rest.

Create A Product Comparison Grid

Creating a product comparison grid for all of the products within your niche and allowing people to sort by various features is a great way to get some additional sales. I’ve used this tactic on several of my websites and the product comparison page alone can add an additional 5% to 10% income increase for a website.

 Insert  a Buy Now Button Into Your Articles

This is something that EasyAzon could do for you, but if you don’t want to spend the money you can simply insert your own buy now button and turn it into an Amazon affiliate link.

 Publish A Recurring Deals Post

The easiest ways I’ve done that in the past is to just do a weekly deals post. So what I’ll do is publish a post every week with the best deals for my niche and then incorporate all of the previous tactics I’ve discussed above to link to the products on Amazon.com. 

Depending on how often you publish articles you could do it more or less frequently .I’ve seen some websites do these style of articles every day.

 Use A Website Layout That Improves Conversions

The one thing I found through constant testing is that the layout of your website matters when it comes to how well it converts casual visitors into affiliate sales.

Armed with this knowledge you’d think that people would spend more time testing their theme or website layout to determine the optimal way to make money from their website right? Well, I still see some of the worst converting themes around and that’s why I actually paid for a theme to be created specifically for these physical product focused websites I had been building.

Use Fulfillment by Amazon

You probably already know that many items on Amazon are sold through third-party sellers. This is why you sometimes order a product from Amazon but it doesn't arrive in Amazon's traditional brown packaging; the third-party seller has handled the fulfillment and shipping part of the sale.

Fulfillment by Amazon lets third-party sellers like me turn the fulfillment and shipping part over to Amazon. We send our items to Amazon, and the company stores our items until they sell. When someone buys one of our items, Amazon ships it to them. Here's a short video that Amazon created to explain the FBA program.

So There You Are With A You Need To Make Money On Amazon