Marketer Explains How He Made $438 From A Single Article With $1 Investment And An Hour Of Work

I love these types of success stories. While $438 may seem like a small amount of money to some of you, there are a lot of people out there that could really use an extra couple hundred dollars a month.

Problog from the Warrior Forum writes:

“1. First you’ll need an Amazon Associates account for this method to work.

2. Next you’ll need to create an article but not just any affiliate promotional article – it has to be an article that appeals to a wide range of readers. I’ll tell you exactly what topic I used – “Top 20 Weirdest Items on Amazon”; the reason I chose this topic is because it has the potential to go viral which it did. I wrote it myself but if you are not very good at writing you should outsource it. I used only plain text links like this:

20. {Funny commentary about product}{Affiliate link – plain text}

19. {Funny commentary about product}{Affiliate link – plain text}

etc.

If you guys want to see my actual blog let me know and I’ll post a link to it for you to see exactly how it looks.

Do not use image links or people won’t be as tempted to click and see the actual product.

3. I set up a free blogger blog for this but you can easily use your own hosting if you have it. At the time I just wanted to create something quickly so I went with blogger.

4. Publish your article and set up your social buttons like Share on Facebook, Digg, Twitter, etc.

5. Now you need traffic; what I did was I went to Mturk and posted a hit – Digg my post for 1 cent, that makes 100 Diggs for $1. For those of you who don’t know what Mturk is it’s a place where you can post small tasks – hits, for people to complete for just cents. Now, posting tasks like these isn’t really allowed on Mturk but I’ve seen many people do it and I’ve done it many times myself but last time I received an email from them to remove my hit so it would be a good idea to find an alternative for Mturk. I did some research and found that there are a few people on Fiverr that will get you 100 Diggs. The goal is to have your story on the first page of Digg.

My story quickly became viral, people were sharing it on Facebook and forums so I got $438 in my Associates account for that month from just that one article. Not bad for an hour of work.

Now, don’t just go and everybody write the same article about the weirdest items on Amazon, come up with something original and something that a lot of people will find interesting. Hope this will help some of you make some cash.”

These types of articles would be great to use in conjunction with my 2800+ visitors a day traffic strategy!

Marketer Reveals 10 Tricks To Making Over $1,000 A Month With Amazon

A marketer over at the Warrior Forum who claims to make over $1,000 every month from Amazon has revealed some of his tricks. Making money as an Amazon associate is something I never looked into much because of their low commissions, but this forum post has me wondering if I should dabble in the Amazon world.

“- Create a variety of sites, but there are two types of products you should focus on, high volume and big ticket.

- Create high volume products sales sites (think razor blade and handle type products, things people NEED) to market products that people NEED to buy, and buy on a monthly basis.

- Once you have traffic to your high volume product sites tell people to buy in bulk this simple trick will turn a person from buying 1 item, to 10 items and your commission from $1 to $10! People actually read your posts, and a little push is all they need to spend more.

- You want to create sites for small ticket items to increase your payout. Amazon has a tier for their commission, you have to sell over a certain amount of products to reach 7%, 7.5%, 8% etc. Sell a lot of small ticket items to increase the payout for your big ticket items.

- Also create sites for big ticket items. You may only sell one or two laptops a per week, but getting $25 commission is pretty sweet!

- Know the payouts – some items have a cap on the commission, or lower payouts. Electronics generally have a 4% commission, but other big ticket items pay upwards of 7%.

- Avoid the cap – Some items are capped, when I sell the computer the most I can make is $25, when I sell a treadmill I can make up to $100.

- Try to make sites around what people like to buy online and are expensive. What do you buy online, or look for online, stuff that is small and expensive are more likely to be bought online like watches, sunglasses, video games etc. These are good things to make sites about (an authority domain around video games would KILL on amazon).

- Convince people to buy – before I post the affiliate link I like to remind people of the benefits of buying online, stuff like better prices, more shopping options, free shipping, delivery right to your front door. This likely pushes a few extra people to buy that normally might now.

- Your affiliate links are important. I find the best conversion is in text links, and adding the affiliate link to the images. A little buy now button in your image will help increase clickthroughs. Really all you want to do is send people to Amazon, who knows what they will buy.”