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There are a lot of ways you can earn online when you have your own blog or website. Today, I’m going to share with you on how to make money with no money with Amazon for all you beginners out there.
Earning through Amazon is one of the most popular ways for people to make money online but not everyone knows how to do this successfully.
You can start this journey with no money but if you’re really serious about making a living online then free is not going to get you that far which I’ll go into in this post in great detail.
But, building an online business promoting Amazon products certainly has the potential to earn you a great passive stream of income if done right.
Even with so many online shopping sites available on the internet, there is no doubt that Amazon is one of the biggest and most reliable to promote with in the affiliate marketing space.
In 2016, it was known that people spent more than 100 billion US dollars on the site alone. So, your chances of earning through this platform look pretty good.
Let’s check out the following:
- The Amazon Associates Program
- How To Get Started For Free
- How To Choose Amazon Products For Best Results
- How to Promote Products From Amazon
- Types of Content You Need to Create
- Ultimate Guide To Building A Successful Amazon Affiliate Website
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The Amazon Associates Program
The Amazon Associates Program was launched in 1996 and is one of the pioneering online affiliate marketing programs out there.
The platform has more than two decades of providing solutions to help bloggers and website owners earn money by promoting countless products from Amazon.
What happens is these bloggers and site owners will become Associates (affiliates of Amazon) when they apply to the Amazon Associates’ program.
Once approved, they will have access to their custom affiliate links in which they will use on their blog websites.
When their blog readers click on these links, they will take the visitors to Amazon to check out the products; and if they buy products from Amazon, the blog owner will earn a commission on all products bought in that session.
Anyone can join the program and it’s absolutely free but where are you going to get your blog for free?
How To Get Started For Free
First, if you’re going to do this for free, you’ll need a free blog website to work on.
But, where are you going to get a free website that also gets you help? You see, once you are starting this journey, you will encounter tons of questions and things you have no idea about.
Sure you can get free websites just about anywhere, but they are not all equal, meaning they don’t all have a support system like the one I use.
Most of them will not even offer you any kind of training or resources for help.
This is why I want to show you how to get your free website at the affiliate marketing training platform I use.
They are the premiere training platform to learn from if you want to learn how to do affiliate marketing successfully.
They have two memberships and the free Starter membership is the one that allows you to have some limited use of their awesome platform which will be enough to get you started.
PLUS, you will have 10 free lessons to get your blog website set up with the right foundational pages that you’ll need.
Where is this awesome place at?
It’s at Wealthy Affiliate (read full review here)!
So, here are the steps to get you started for FREE:
Step 1: Sign up at Wealthy Affiliate for free here
You don’t need a credit card or anything, just create your free account first.
Step 2: Start Your Free 10 Lessons
Once you’re signed on, go to the left menu on your dashboard and click on Training, then click on Online Entrepreneur Certification, Level 1.
Once you click on Level 1, you’ll access the 10 free lessons.
Go through the 10 lessons and set up your website with the lessons.
Once you are done with your 10 lessons and have done all the tasks in those 10 lessons then you can move on to Step 3.
Step 3: Start Writing SOME Content First
BEFORE you apply to the Amazon Associates program, you should have some content on your blog website.
After the 10 lessons, you’ll have the foundational pages, but you have not had written any “posts” or articles yet on your blog, so what you’re going to do is this.
Since you’ve already picked a niche and started your blog, you can start blogging a few posts about your niche. Some things you can write about are:
- Foundational aspects of your niche – give people a general overview of what your niche is about and how it works.
- Support aspects of your niche – what aspects do you think people in your niche are struggling with? You can offer information to help the people in your niche that can either improve something for them or help them how to get help.
Since you’re doing this for free, you will have to figure this part on your own but, if you upgraded to Premium, you’ll have access to the rest of the training which tells you how to write and what to use in your content that will bring you tons of traffic.
But, the point here is that you have some content on your blog first before you apply to Amazon or you may not get approved.
Also, you don’t want to apply too early since you only have 6 months to get your first sale and it better not be from you, your friends or family as Amazon will be able to tell.
Step 4: Apply To Amazon
Simply create an account with the Amazon Associates Program here. The approval will usually take 24-48 hours after signing up. Once approved, you’ll get your unique affiliate links.
You’re going to include these affiliate links on your blog and if you don’t know how, you can just search “how to add Amazon links” in the Wealthy Affiliate search bar (top middle) when you’re on your dashboard.
When your readers click your link and buy something, you will be given up to 10% commission for each sale you generate.
What’s more, you’re not only going to earn from the product you were linking to, but also to other products your readers are going to buy through your affiliate link.
Sounds really good, right? However, it’s not as easy as it seems. Being an affiliate, not only for Amazon but as a whole, takes time, effort, and making the right decisions.
With that said, let’s take a look at the proper way on how to make money with no money on Amazon.
How To Choose Amazon Products For Best Results
People will buy almost anything on Amazon. With countless products available, it shouldn’t be hard for you to find great ones to promote. But, keep in mind that your products should align with your niche.
You can start searching at the Best Sellers page. You can check the Departments found on the left side of the platform.
Pick the category that relates to your niche best. You can select a broad category then narrow it down to the specific products so you can target users who are looking for certain items.
When it comes to the price, I recommend that you go with items that are priced somewhere in the middle, around $50 – $200.
Those that are priced low might be easy to sell, but the commission you’re going to receive is quite low.
On the other hand, you might get a higher commission on expensive products, but they are hard to market.
Another thing you need to keep in mind is the quality of the products. Make sure to check product reviews and ratings before deciding to promote.
How to Promote Products From Amazon
When you take a look at Amazon Associates, you’ll notice that there are several ways you can get your affiliate links.
There are three ways you can promote Amazon products: through banner ads, text links, and native shopping ads.
- Banner Ads – They are considered to be the easiest approach to getting a link to your site. Unfortunately, they are also known to be unreliable in making sales.
- Text Links – By far, they are the most effective in generating sales.
- Native Shopping Ads – They look really attractive; and can convert better as it’s supposed to blend into your content and made to feel it’s part of your content.
- Image Ads – Image ads are also very effective and the only way you are allowed to use images from the Amazon website. If you’re caught download their images and then uploading them to your site, you will be banned from their affiliate program.
Types of Content You Need to Create
Now that you have an idea on what products you’re going to promote, the next thing you’re going to work on is how to create content that is compelling enough to make your readers click your link.
Product Reviews
This is the most common type of content that affiliates make to encourage their followers to buy from Amazon. You can simply pick a product from your niche and write a review about it.
While you can choose any product, I still strongly suggest that you go for something that you know or have experience with.
Product reviews should also be honest. Don’t make it so pitchy that it becomes too obvious you’re trying to market the product.
If there are disadvantages, you have to mention them. This way, your readers will trust you and know that you are sincere with all the content you make.
Product Comparisons
Products come from different brands, so it could be confusing for many to decide which to choose.
People love reading posts about product comparisons before they make the final decision.
To make your audience buy the products you recommend, make sure you provide accurate and honest information.
Best Products Lists
Making a list of the best products will entice people to buy those from the top. As always, you need to be honest on your content.
You also have to provide complete and accurate information that is enough for your readers to make the decision.
How-To’s
Many readers are first time buyers. This means that they have tons of questions in mind on how they’re going to buy the best product.
How-to articles will guide them when making the first purchase. For instance, you can write about “How to Choose the Best Lipgloss” or “How to Find Reliable Vet Clinics in Town.”
Promotions and Discounts
Amazon offers promotions and discounts almost all the time.
You have to be alert when there are sales on the products that are related to your niche. These items can be easily marketed because all people love buying things at lesser prices.
You just have to make sure that the product falls in your niche to prevent people from making the impression that you’re only trying to sell them something.
ULTIMATE GUIDE TO BUILDING A SUCCESSFUL AMAZON AFFILIATE WEBSITE
So, this is the approach on how to make money with no money on Amazon but there’s one more thing I want to show you and I saved it for last because it’s the best kept secret on the Wealthy Affiliate platform.
My friend Dylan, who also learned from Wealthy Affiliate and has had quite a few successes with their training and building Amazon sites, has this FREE training that will 10x your Amazon affiliate site by doing it the way he does.
He has created a full free training tutorial of the method he uses to build his Amazon sites and you can have this for FREE:
You may be able to learn what he’s talking about in his tutorial but you must know that he assumes that you’ve already done the training at Wealthy Affiliate.
Therefore, if there are things you don’t understand in his training, that’s probably because you need the training at Wealthy Affiliate first in the course I showed you above.
Ultimately, it’s up to you how you want to learn. You could just upgrade to Premium at Wealthy Affiliate from the beginning and learn it properly with all 5 levels and 50 lessons, as well as Dylan’s training.
Or, you can try to do it for free with Dylan’s training and stay Free as a Starter member.
If you want real success, Premium is the way to go, I’ve been a Premium member since Sep 2016 and has had my own successes with their training as well.
If you sign up to Wealthy Affiliate from this post, you will also get my FREE Coaching services that you can have if you upgrade to Premium.
You’ll have a personal mentor by a Super Affiliate.
To Your Success!
The process may seem simple, but your experience is going to be different from others. Your journey might be smooth or not, which will require you to have a lot of patience.
You also need to work hard for it. Some take months before they make a sale, but once they do, the flow of commissions is continuous, and the wait was totally worth it.
With enough time, commitment, and hard work, earning through Amazon is a great route for any affiliate.
I hope I will be able to help you in the near future!
If you have any questions about how to make money with no money with Amazon or its affiliate program, and anything about affiliate marketing, please do not hesitate to leave me a comment below! I always reply to my readers!
Thanks for visiting,
Hi Grace Thanks for this post, it really explains how to do it as I’m a beginner and had no idea how. I guess using no money methods isn’t going to work for the long term, and I should really be doing this properly with a website?
Yes that’s correct Alice, building an affiliate website will build you a long term sustainable online business. It’s actually not as hard as people think and when you’re guided by the lessons at Wealthy Affiliate, you really can’t go wrong.
So I hope you will start your free account here!
I can’t wait to help you on the platform,
Grace