How To Sell Products On Amazon Like A Pro

If you do any sort of affiliate marketing, no doubt you have heard of Amazon and are probably already an affiliate of theirs, recommending their vast range of products to your readers. Let’s look at how to sell products on Amazon.

If you have never tried it before, you will be surprised at how easy it actually is to do. This is providing that you are willing to put some time and effort into it. All it takes is a little perseverance and the right education.

What Is Amazon And How Did It All Start?

I’m not talking about the Amazon Jungle here, merely a huge online shop which stocks everything one could possibly think of.

Amazon was founded in 1994 by Jeffrey P. Bezos. and he incorporated the company (as Cadabra) in July 1994.

The name Amazon was founded soon after because the Amazon River is the largest in the world, and the letter “A” would help the company to show up at the top of alphabetical lists. The site went online as Amazon.com in 1995.

They started off by selling only books before moving onto other things. Jeffrey Bezos knew from the beginning that he wanted Amazon to be an everything type of online store.

Jeff Bezos originally wanted to give the company the magical sounding name “Cadabra.” Todd Tarbert convinced him that the name sounded too much like ‘cadaver.’ He then wanted the company to be called Relentless, and if you visit Relentless.com you can guess where it navigates to.

He finally chose “Amazon” because he liked that the company would be named after the largest river in the world, hence the company’s original logo.

The logo itself is the company name. Amazon, with an arrow below, pointing from A to Z, representing that they could provide every product in the alphabet and also customer satisfaction, as it forms a smile.

Amazons headquarters is in Seattle Washington United States

In the beginning, a bell would ring every time a purchase was made and the staff would gather round to see if anyone knew the person who made the purchase.

Soon the bell was going all the time and they had to turn it off.

Amazons stock was opened to the public in 1997 under the Nasdaq symbol AMZN at the price of $18.00 per share. The stock prices over the past 10 years have increased from around $20 a share to nearly $170 per share.

The last great climb in stock prices began in 2008 and the company has managed to stay on top. Amazon’s goal for the stock price is $400.  The progress has gradually continued steadily over the years and there is no sign that this company’s growth will stop anytime soon.

What Does This All Mean For Me And You?

Did you know that we can all get a slice of the Amazon pie? All we need to do is sign up as an Amazon affiliate and promote products of your choice. If you manage to sell something then you will get paid a commission.

Unfortunately, Amazon is known to pay notoriously low commissions compared to other affiliate companies out there, but the good part is that it is easier to sell products from Amazon than any other place on the internet as people know the name and brand, and trust that they won’t lose their money when buying from them.

The products are also well priced, which encourages your customers to buy there rather than elsewhere.

So the trick of how to sell products on Amazon like a pro is to work on selling large volumes of different products, and you can build up your own Amazon business over time which can end up paying you really well.

How To Sell Products On Amazon

So, What Is The Best Way To Go About Building A Business That Can Sell Amazon Products?

If you want to become great at affiliate marketing and sell other people’s products through Amazon, the best way to get started is to build a website.

It is best to base your website on a specific topic, and also a niche topic that is not too broad.

For example, a niche topic of how to lose weight would be very broad, but a topic like Keto Diet Tips is definitely more narrowed down.

Take a visit to Amazon.com and see what they have to offer if you don’t have any ideas in mind.

If you click on departments, you will get an idea of what they sell. Let’s go to pet supplies for example.

As you can see there are over 50 000 results.

Personally, I wouldn’t build a website about pet supplies, as this would be way too broad and you will find lots of competition out there for broad keywords.

Narrow down your search to say for instance ‘poodle products’ or ‘amazon parrots.’ In this way focus on attracting a specific type of person to visit your website.

Try to choose a topic you know something about or would like to learn something about, as there is nothing worse than trying to come up for content for your website and you don’t know what to write about or the topic doesn’t interest you. You will end up throwing in the towel after just a few articles.

I chose cockatiels and you can take a look at my niche website by clicking here.

The idea of having a website is to provide people with helpful advice and also do product reviews or find products to sell that will help your audience and explain both the features and benefits.

Over time, as you produce more and more content, you will get more and more visitors to your website.

Once you have sufficient visitors to your website each day, I would say over 30 visitors a day, then I would apply to become an Amazon Affiliate.

The reason you should wait until the traffic comes is that once you sign up as an Affiliate with Amazon, you have to make a sale within 90 days. You won’t make a sale unless you are getting traffic, and you are not allowed to buy from yourself or you will be banned.

How To Monetize Your Website With Amazon Products

There are many ways in which to do this, and I am going to tell you my favourite methods.

Once you have applied as an affiliate, you will go into your dashboard and it should look something like this. I am going to use Labradors as an example here and I want to see if I can write an article about Labrador Jerseys. I would like to see if they have any products like this available.

Type the product name that you would like to find in the search box and click on go.

Unfortunately, they don’t have too much there, and the one product they do have is a jersey for a few different types of large dogs. It costs $9.99 which is reasonable, but the commission would probably be under a dollar for each jersey you sell.

If your post ranks well and gets lots of visitors you may well end up selling many jerseys and getting fair commissions. If there is not too much competition out there for Labrador Jerseys and if people are looking for this type of product you may do well. Remember this is only one post on your website, so many posts like this and the commissions will slowly add up.

You will need to do some keyword research to see if this is a viable product to write an article about. I do all my keyword research using Jaaxy.

If you decide to use this product, click on the get link button. Don’t be scared of promoting more expensive products. You may sell fewer of them, but the commissions are a lot higher.

You will now see three tabs. You can choose if you want text and image, which gives you an image like the one above, text only or image only.

I normally use text only and then image only, and in that way, I can have a text link to the product on my article and also a picture of the product which people can click on. Once you have the type of image that you want, you simply click on Highlight HTML and then copy it.

Paste this into the code editor section of your website, not the text editor for it to show correctly.

It should look something like this on your website, depending on what you are promoting.

Your readers will be able to click on the heading or on the picture to go straight through to Amazon to purchase the product via your affiliate link.

I hope that this article has inspired you to get started with affiliate marketing. How to sell products on Amazon can be a great way to earn either a part-time or full-time income over time.