How to Make Money from Amazon
Amazon Affiliate, Amazon Associates
Become an Amazon affiliate and earn a commission by putting
special affiliate links to various Amazon products on your site.
Affiliate marketing is a brilliant way to make some passive
income if you have a blog or website that generates a decent volume of traffic.
The idea is to promote products that align with your blog or
website’s mission. So, if you have a website about how to travel efficiently,
you may promote items such as packing cubes, sturdy suitcases or wrinkle-free
clothing.
The more page views you have, the more chances are that the
links will get clicks. No traffic means no chance that anyone will see those
links to be clicked on.
Amazon offers a progressive earnings structure on the
majority of merchandise and the more clicks and purchases you get from your
site, the more you can make.
Each time someone who comes through your website clicks on
the affiliate link, you’ll earn some money. You can earn anywhere from 4% to
8.5% of a sale.
Keep in mind that commissions are generally really low,
which is why you need a significant amount of traffic to your site.
Delivery Fulfillment Warehouse
Associate
You can filter your search by full or part-time positions
and by location. If you’re in a proper
location, you can apply to be a delivery warehouse associate for their
fulfillment centers, rotation centers, delivery stations, Prime Now locations,
Campus Pickup Points and customer service centers.
Amazon Handmade
If you make and sell handmade items, like bags or jewelry,
you can try selling your wares on Amazon Handmade.
If you make and sell handmade items, you can apply to join
Handmade, as long as your products fall under certain categories and must be
made entirely by hand, hand-altered or hand assemble and handmade by you or by
one of your employees
Handmade’s fees are much higher than other, as they charge
15% commissions and a $1 minimum referral fee, while other charges a 3.5%
commission and 20-cent item listing fee.
You’re paying a
higher price for Amazon’s massive, worldwide audience, but your profit margins
will be lower.
Their rules are strict, so make sure you check out
requirements to be approved.
Join as Mechanical Turk / MTurk
MTurk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that was created to
bridge the gap between what a computer can’t do and what a human can. Amazon
calls it “Human Intelligence Task.”
Amazon Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, is a way to earn small
amounts of money, completing easy, mindless tasks.
It includes data entry, transcription, categorizing, and
image recognition, to name a few.
You most likely won’t make a lot of money, but it’s easy to
do and pretty much anyone who can do this.
Amazon Services
Are you a whiz at fixing a leaky faucet, landscaping,
cleaning and organizing? Amazon has created
another way to expand the business,
through Amazon Services.
Similar to Task Rabbit or Angie’s List, Amazon Services
connects you with local professionals in your area to help you with various
household needs.
The list of services includes plumbing, handyman, house
cleaning and more.
If you are successfully matched with a customer who uses
your services, Amazon will take a 15 – 20% cut of the transaction.
Sell a product through Amazon’s
FBA
Some merchants choose to ship out products themselves, in
order to avoid hefty fees Amazon charges. There are pros and cons of doing
this, but if your product sells in high volume, it makes the most sense to ship
via FBA.
FBA means fulfilled by Amazon, and as a seller, all you
would need to do is ship your inventory of products to Amazon’s warehouse and
they take care of shipping it for you.
Selling a product on Amazon can be a great way to earn some
extra income, but don’t start selling without first understanding what it
entails. You run the risk of losing money if you don’t do your due diligence first.
Out of all the options listed in this article about ways to
make money with Amazon, becoming a seller has the greatest opportunity for you
to cash in on extra income, but it also involves the most amounts of research
and uncertainty.
If you want to really learn about how to sell on Amazon, it
takes a lot of due diligence, You Tubing, reading and talking to others who
have been in the business.
The competition to sell a product on Amazon is high. Who
knows if the product you choose to sell will even sell? It’s a bit of a gamble,
but once you figure out Amazon’s rules and oddities, it can be very lucrative,
particularly around the holidays.
Retail Arbitrage
Retail Arbitrage is the opposite of private labeling. Retail
arbitrage simply means buying low and selling high. Some sellers make their
entire living on just retail arbitrage and have carved out a lucrative niche
for themselves.
A lot of sellers who do retail arbitrage try to avoid the
cost of shipping so they simply drive
directly to the location and load up on cheap items they think will sell.
Therefore, many sellers spend a lot of time cruising through
their local Wal-Mart’s to find the best and cheapest deals on just about
anything. They buy up as many items that are on clearance and then sell it on
Amazon.
Amazon Merch, Sell Your Designs with
Amazon Merch
You can submit a
t-shirt design for other merchants to purchase. It’s a great way to connect
designers and people who need them to be made into shirts.
As with many selling caveats, it can be really competitive.
It probably won’t make you rich, and it’s possible you may
not even sell any of your designs, but it also doesn’t cost anything for you to
try, so if you’re creative and know how to make cool designs, it might be worth
a shot.
Opportunities to sell a design may be closely tied to things
that are timely or seasonal — remember those political shirts around the
elections? If you have an eye for riding the trends and understanding what
might resonate with people, on a shirt, give it a shot.
As with many Amazon selling opportunities, you have to get
approved from Amazon before you can upload your designs.
Work from Home for Amazon
If you want a job where you can be home-based, consider a
spot on Amazon’s virtual customer service team, also known as Amazon’s
Work-from-Home Customer Service Associate.
Virtual opportunities aren’t available everywhere but If you
live in a certain area, you may be able to apply for Amazon’s “work-from-home”
positions, given that you’re qualified and a right fit for the position.
The base pay is $10 an hour and full and part-time positions
are only available in certain areas, however, you can filter your search by the
work-from-home category and by location.
This is more of a seasonal position but has the potential to
become a permanent.
There were all kinds of positions listed, such as customer
service rep positions for those who speak a second language, other than
English.
There are also non-customers service positions that those
with a qualified tech background could potentially apply for, such as cloud
tech account managers and technical trainer.
Private Label Your Product
Private Label Your
Product, many sellers have opted to private label their item, which means they
are registering it on Amazon as their own.
The process for private labeling is more complicated than
simply buying an item from Alibaba and selling it.
The upside to selling your own branded product on Amazon is
that you always have full control for your listing and you can make changes to
your product, if you need to. Let’s say your customers complained about a
particular feature of your product, you could then make modifications to it.
For example, let’s say you sold pencils, but noticed a lot
of the negative reviews mentioned that they wished the eraser worked better,
and that the pencil itself was wider, for better grip. You can then take those
recommendations from reviewers and craft your own pencil and get it
trademarked.
Amazon Flex
If you have a reliable car and a Smartphone, consider
delivering goods through Amazon Prime.
Amazon Company currently pays anywhere from $18-25 per hour
and you need to download the app and answer a few simple questions before you can
get started. They emphasize flexibility and availability of shifts, but the
downside is there aren’t always opportunities in your area.
Camper Force
If you go to Amazon’s designated campground to pick up work
during the holiday season Amazon will
cover your campsite fees and may even pay for some of your utilities.
Amazon now offers a way for those people to make money,
while on the road.
It’s called Camper Force and basically, you can earn money
by helping Amazon pick, stow and receive merchandise orders.
It’s unclear just how much you can earn, but based on wages
for other ways to make money with Amazon, it’ll most likely be decent. You can
earn overtime pay and bonuses based on your time worked. For example, if you
stayed on for the entire holiday season, you’ll receive a bonus.
Amazon
Vine
If you regularly use Amazon and read reviews, you’ve
probably read one or two that says the person received a free product in
exchange for a review.
Just like Amazon Trade-In, you won’t get cash if you’re a
part of Amazon Vine, but you’ll get merchandise for free in exchange for a
review.
Basically, it’s a program that’s only offered to people who
leave consistent reviews for products, so not anyone can join.
If you enjoy writing about your experience with various
products, and tend to get a lot of helpful votes from the Amazon community, you
might be a good fit for Vine Voices.
Amazon Trade-In
Selling your used items individually takes some work, since
you’ll need to take photos, measurements (if it’s clothing, accessories, etc.)
and write a description.
This might be an easier option if you have a lot of old
gadgets laying around but don’t want to deal with the hassle of taking photos
and creating an ad to sell them online or have a garage sale.
Basically, all you have to do is gather your items, and
Amazon will give you an estimate of how much you will earn for it. It’s a
convenient perk if you’re a regular Amazon customer.
Even though you won’t earn any cash, you can use the Amazon
gift card to purchase everyday items, like toilet paper and groceries.
Publish an eBook on Amazon
You can self-publish an eBook on Amazon, and each time you
sell, Amazon takes a cut, ranging from 35-70 percent of the listing.
Writing and publishing an ebook sounds unachievable, and I
haven’t done this personally, but I know a lot about it because I’m an avid
reader of ebooks from Amazon.
I subscribe to Kindle Unlimited. Membership is $9.99 a
month. It’s given me an opportunity to not only read the eBooks and learn from
them, but I’m also able to see what kind of content resonates with others on
the site, through reading reviews.
Over the years, I’ve learned that you don’t need to create a
potential Pulitzer Prize book in order to get published on Amazon. Because it’s
a self-publishing platform, anyone can do it, and many self-made authors have
used Amazon to help strengthen their expertise in their particular subject
matter.
You can write about and publish something you feel very
passionately about. Many of the ebooks I’ve read aren’t very long either – a
lot are under 100 pages and very consumable.
The quality of the eBooks I’ve purchased over the years is
all over the place too, which tells me that anyone can do it.
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