Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Make Money Through Amazon

Amazon need not any Introduction. It is already a very big brand name. Since years it has established itself as one of the best online retailer seller. Yes, Amazon.com is actually an Online Retailer Seller. Like we see so many shops around us that are retailers, similarly Amazon.com is also an online retailer.

It has thousands and thousands of products under hundreds of categories that you can think of  to sell. Major categories of products include apparels, Accessories, Cosmetics, Electronics and Communication, Kitchen accessories, Furnishing and home Furniture, eBooks, Games, Toys, music CD's and DVDs, bags etc. You can think it as an online supermarket that has everything to sell.

Now the question comes if it is an online retailer shop how one can earn online money through it. There are multiple ways through which one can earn a good amount of money through it. Since years it has been paying out its members there commission as there earning. Some of the ways are:-

As an Affiliate
We all know what Affiliate Marketing is. And also how one can earn money through this. As i told you before also that there are number of sites that run multiple affiliate programs. Amazon.com is again one of those site that do offer such programs.

The best thing about amazon is that it has already set up itself as a renown organization. So, people or traffic that is diverted to it by you never has a second thought about its authentication or the affiliate programs authentication. You simply need to join amazon as an affiliate associate and then there you can search or browse through the product which one you want to promote.

Make sure before deciding which product you want to promote, you should build up your site or blog at least to a minimum set up requirement. After doing this submit your site to the search engines that will help you to get more traffic diverted towards your site. Traffic is always a key in Internet Marketing and money making techniques. If you are getting good traffic and some regular basis readers then there is a chance you will get a good response in affiliate marketing technique.

Now select those products to promote that relate to your blog or site. This increases the chance that readers will have a keen interest in buying it. Only thing you have to do is make your readers to reach to amazon doors rest Amazon will do it. Once they reach to amazon, then there is such a wide range of products that most of the visitors do buy something or the other thing from there.

Sell your products on Amazon Seller Central
Selling on Amazon is a program that enables merchants to sell their products and inventory on Amazon.com. Now the question arises what all products can you sell on amazon? First of all you need to sign up with amazon to sell items in the following categories:- Books, CD and Vinyl, DVD, Video/VHS, Baby, Beauty, Camera & Photo, Electronics, Grocery & Gourmet Food, Health & Personal Care, Home & Garden, Musical Instruments, Office Products, Personal Computers, Software, Sports & Outdoors, Toys & Games, Tools & Hardware, Video Games and Wireless Antennas & Boosters.

Now once you have signed up and started having sales the question arises how you will be paid for your products sale? Amazon takes around 14days to settle your account after registration. Once amazon receives money of the sale then it takes 5business days to settle the money into your bank account.

Now to add new inventory you have three ways to do so:-
  • Add Product feature on Seller Central to create one product at a time.
  • Seller Desktop, easy-to-use desktop application that can be used to manage and upload inventory one product at a time or in bulk.
  • Inventory files to create multiple products simultaneously.
Amazon charges $39.99 per month as a subscription fees plus a selling fee when an item is sold. Selling fee varies category wise. If you are looking to sell only a few products or expect to have less than 40 orders a month, then you should sign up as an Individual seller with Amazon which has no monthly fee but it charges on per product sold fee of $0.99.

Place your product ads on Amazon
If you have your products to promote and sell than also you can make use of amazon in doing so. Just sign up with amazon and create your product ad. Now you can place your products ad on amazon ad section. It will be verified by amazon. Once it is verified it will start appearing on amazons online shopping page.

For doing so amazon do charge you based on your products bidding price. You have to only pay to amazon when someone clicks on your ad. As the ad is clicked the customer is diverted to your site or blog. Now your product is visible to all those who are already a member of amazon or who so ever makes any purchase on amazon. Now through this you can reach out more and more people and more easily you will be able to sell out your product.

Everything like branding and purchasing is controlled by you on your site. This is again a very good way to make online money.

Self Publish with Amazon
If you are a author or you produce your own DVDs, video's, music CD's or anything like this of whose you have the copyright, then you can easily publish it with amazon and earn profit. If you re a member of amazon group then it provides you an easy and economical way to self-publish and make your content available to millions of potential customers of amazon.com.

On amazon you have the CreateSpace manufacturing-On demand-model that produces your products as customer order, so you don't need to make an upfront investment for your inventory. Again if you are publisher or author and hold digital rights to your eBook then you can make use of Kindle Direct Publishing. It is a fast and easy self publishing tool that lets you upload and format your Book for sale in the Kindle Store.

The most advantageous part of all this is that you don't need to make any large investment to create your inventory neither you need to purchase and shop or online space to sell your product. Amazon.com does everything for you and provides an easy way to make online money generating great profit.

Amazon Web-store
If you have your own products to sell may it be any digital product, eBook, CD, DVD, video, toys, accessories anything then you can easily open up your own web-store on amazon and can sell your products online to the millions of customers of amazon.com.

Amazon charges fees for doing so. It charges on per month basis or 2% of per item sold including payment processing charges and fraud protection fees. It helps you to generate more sale plus more traffic or say more viewers to your products.

Now here you know everything about how to make online money with amazon just from home so start now...

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