Proximity Marketing testblog

Everybody knows the Amazon website. They are definitely one of the best known online webstores on the planet. They could very well be one of the most famous vendors period. But what do you associate with Amazon? DVDs, Books, CDs, personal gadgets and electronics. I suppose these days the Amazon Kindle reader might be the first thing a lot of people associate with Amazon.

In fact Amazon offer an incredible range of items at their online retail outlet. You can buy all sorts of things for your home, hoovers, pots and pans, bed linen, tools, toys and games. You can download music and video directly and do away with the need to wait for a CD or DVD in the post. You can even shop for groceries on Amazon.

Which is all very interesting of course – but what are the implications for you? If you’re interested in making money as an affiliate then the enormous range on offer at the Amazon store offers a tremendous opportunity for you. There’s certain to be something that will interest your potential customers – all you need do is get them to visit the Amazon website using your affiliate link and Amazon will do the hard sell on your behalf.

Amazon, as you would probably expect, is very good at getting people to buy stuff online. It’s what they do for a living – and they are extremely good at it. Over and above all the extremely efficient sales ploys that they have tested and perfected over years – the free shipping, the suggested complimentary items that would go well with your chosen goods, the e-mails when there’s a special offer – they enjoy a high level of both brand recognition and trust amongst the buying public. Combining the high trust levels for the Amazon brand with similar brand recognition and trust of the products on offer – Sony, Apple, Microsoft for example – makes it easier for you to achieve a high sales conversion rate.

The Amazon affiliate program – known as the Amazon Associate scheme – is one of the oldest in existence. That’s a strong sign that they’re doing something right and that the scheme is beneficial to both the company and the affiliates who promote it. There’s no fee to join so there’s no risk for you. You do need your own website – but that can be just a free blogger blog if you like. Amazon will want to approve your blog or website. This is quite a simple procedure. Basically as long as you don’t have any hate, racist or “adult” theme to your site, and as long as you don’t use the word Amazon in your url, Amazon will probably approve your site. If there is some minor problem don’t worry – you can reapply as often as you like using a different blog or site.

The sign up process is simple, free and fast. In just a few minutes time, you could be marketing items form Amazon’s enormous portfolio. So rather han spending all your time promoting e-books that very few people want, you could be selling real stuff to real people and making real money.