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Hello, YouTube. This is Austin with another video. This time I’m going to answer the question. What is Amazon affiliate marketing before we get going? Make sure that you like and subscribe so I can continue to bring you valuable content for new affiliate marketers. So here we go. What is Amazon affiliate marketing?
First, to answer that question, you need to know what affiliate marketing is. Really quick affiliate marketing is a person linking a customer that has a perceived need to a product. And the way to do that, one of the best ways or biggest ways to do that is to use amazon. com. So if you have an Amazon associates account, or if you’re looking to get into affiliate marketing, you can affiliate market with Amazon.
So the way that it works is you link a customer with a need, the customer purchase that pro purchases that product and you get a commission. With Amazon, the commission can range between four and 10%, and you are paid out at a later date. So you benefit because you’re getting a commission for recommending a.
We’re promoting a product. The customer fulfills his need or perceived need and Amazon gets another sale. Most people talk about Amazon affiliate marketing because Amazon is the biggest retailer in the world. And in the past, it was also a nice affiliate check because people would load up their cart and buy, it’s not uncommon for someone to go to Amazon looking for let’s say scotch tape and wind up buying scotch tape and glue and a lamp and tires.
So that’s why Amazon is a great. Opportunity for many people it is free to join as it says there and you can get started I would say in as short as a half an hour. So how to sign up it’s really easy As I mentioned, it’s free to join you click join usually amazon links your Amazon associates account to your Amazon account.
So if you don’t have a normal Amazon account, you’ll have to create one. So as it says here, you’ll create your Amazon account. Once you create your account, you’ll just have to follow the steps for signing up for Amazon associate. The setup process probably takes about 15 minutes. And you’re going to want to make sure that you have a few things handy.
It’s going to ask what type of, how are you going to promote the product? Most of the time you want to make sure that you have a website that you are going to use to promote your Amazon associates products. Because that’s the best way to get approved. Once you have completed the information.
Like I mentioned, it probably takes about 20 minutes. You will be approved. This approval will be a trial approval. You will not receive a full or unconditional approval until you have made three qualified sales. So you want to make sure that you are cognizant of that. One interesting thing though with Amazon is they let you reapply for free.
So let us continue. Once you are here this is the overall dashboard. Not really important. What is important is product linking. You go to product links, and this is where you’re going to find your links to promote the product that you’re interested in. So if I click on product links and then I can type in a keyword, so let’s say let’s say pen.
These are all of the different products that you could potentially promote. It actually gives you the sales rank the price. And so the price is actually really important because the commission that you’ll get is, let’s say between four and 10 percent of this price. So if you. Sell one of these zebra pens.
You are going to make 76 cents on the high end. So you want to make sure that you’re targeting items that are high enough that you actually receive a quality commission for. Anyway, you find a product Then you come over here to get link. You can click the drop out, drop down here, and you can have the option of copying and pasting the full length, or you can do the shortened link.
The shortened link is most often what you’ll see and YouTube videos, or you can click get link here and it’ll take you to a few different options. It’ll take you to more options. You can do text and image. So if you’ve ever gone to a website and you’ve seen an image like this is an affiliate link.
You can use the html code. You can actually change the colors if you wanted to make it red See as you can see there Let’s make this Yellow the words yellow and then you can make the price something different So you have a few different options with regard to putting up your affiliate links So again, this is the text only which I already showed you.
This is with the html here’s the standard link and then a shortened link as well. Then you also have the option of just doing the image only. So as you can see, you can just place that in there, place this link in your on your website and this will appear. Offer listing. We can change it. We’ll do medium.
There are a bunch of different options in here for you. You can do banners. Instead of paying like AdSense for banner or having AdSense on your websites, you could actually just put this Amazon link and it will look like this. These are all of the different options. When I’ve had these on here, I haven’t seen a huge.
Return on investment. I mean it’s free, but I didn’t see anyone really click those You can you also have the option of doing native shopping ads mobile pop over Or you can link to any page. So that’s the very overall basic understanding of amazon associates in amazon affiliate marketing What you want to do is once you have your links You want to find different mediums to promote those links.
By far the most best and consistent way is to promote on your medium, your channel. So if you have if you have a blog, you want to promote them on your blog. If you have a YouTube channel, you can definitely promote on YouTube. Facebook is going to be a little bit more challenging. You can promote on Twitter, Instagram, really any social media, but you’re going to find the most long term sustained success using.
Your own channel, your own your own website. So why not use Amazon for affiliate? This is actually a very important question and very important topic. Amazon over the last few months has been cutting down on the amount of commissions. So at one point you could get a 25, 30 percent commission on an item that was sold.
Then I would say probably six months ago that was cut down to a range of four and ten percent on items sold. Most recently they have added more items to the four percent commission and that’s a huge difference if you’re if you’re looking at that, depending on the amount of money that you’re making or potentially could be making the difference between four and 10 percent is huge.
So you might want to reconsider using Amazon if you are concerned about the affiliate commission. Also I would be concerned if you can find. The product somewhere else, maybe a higher quality maybe it can ship better. It really all depends on the product. Amazon is great for affiliate marketing, but it’s not the only answer.
It’s not the final answer. There are other solutions that are out there. Let’s say you’re selling plant seeds. You can find a affiliate. Products or you can affiliate market plant seeds. So that’s something that you should consider other issues with Amazon is they offer, it’s a six month trial.
And so after six months, if you haven’t made the three qualified sales, you’ll have to create a new. Amazon associate account. You’ll still use the same Amazon account. You just have to create a different tracking id. So that’s another half an hour gone that you could be investing in something else So that’s an issue Also, if you don’t make a sale in a year you can be kicked out They can boot you basically for no reason if they don’t like something on your website, you can be kicked out If they feel that you’re trying to game the system in some way out.
You really have no, no recourse. You can obviously appeal or attempt to appeal, but you’re limited to what you can do. So those are some of the issues with Amazon. You do have other options. You could use other big box stores like Target or Best Buy or. Anything near you that has an affiliate program.
I would say most, most large stores have some sort of some sort of affiliate program that they’re using to help promote their products. It’s almost crazy for a store not to have it because, They still make the sale. They’re getting, they’re still getting 90 percent of a sale. Whereas they may not have gotten anything before.
So definitely check out other big box stores. There are places like ClickBank that help you that promote that hyper affiliate products. Share sale is another one. These are all options to find some places to affiliate market The absolute best thing that you should do though with regard to affiliate marketing is promote your own products Once you have an audience once you have a following You want to go out there and promote your own product or service.
Most commonly, once your website or your medium gets big enough, whether it’s YouTube or website or Instagram you can start selling maybe courses or information products. The benefit of selling an information product on your website is you receive 100 percent of The sale versus with amazon if you’re selling a similar product in amazon, you’re going to receive four percent of the sale for example, let’s go back to that pin pen example That pin was four dollars and I believe 76 cents or was it seven dollars and 46 cents.
Anyway Let’s say you get 10 of that. That’s seven dollars. That’s not right. That’s 74 cents yeah that’s 74 cents. However, if you sell an information product online for 9. 99, you make 9. 99 less whatever taxes you need to pay. So it’s ultimately once your traffic gets large enough. Finding a info product or finding something that you have created or purchased with the ability to resell is certainly the way to go.
All right, so that is it for today. I just want to spend a few minutes talking to you about the Amazon affiliate marketing and how to do it and why you should do it and maybe some better alternatives. Before I let you go, make sure that you like, and subscribe, check out the links below to get started with affiliate marketing.
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