how you can make money with amazon

You can either join as an Amazon affiliate or you could use Amazon to sell products. Joining as an affiliate is very easy and all you really need is a good website/blog that has traffic coming to it. Once you have applied and been accepted they will show you where all the tools to promote different aspects are. You can promote certain objects, stores or even have a search option. You will receive at least 4% of all purchases made and as your sales increase so will your commission. Selling on Amazon is also great, you have millions of users logging on daily to the site but be careful, Amazon will not tolerate any bad sellers so make sure you ship on time always. Good luck with Amazon, they are amazing!

If you join Amazon Affiliates, you need an Amazon account in the country where the products are that you want to promote. All you do in that case is to promote the products via your blog or website, place a link (which Amazon generate for you) for that product in the article or on your page and hope that people will use the link to buy the product. When they do, you earn a certain (quite small) percentage of the cost of the product. If you are an Amazon seller, you can add your products to existing entries for the same product and choose the price you want to charge. Amazon will pay you a fixed amount to cover postage and they will also charge a fee when something is sold. You need to research your actual shipping costs carefully, know what you have paid for the product and decide what profit margin is acceptable. A good business person also builds in the 'hidden costs', such as time and stock depreciation and storage costs (if you hold a stock). It can be quite a complicated calculation and a spreadsheet is useful. Amazon do state their fixed and variable costs on the websites, so it is not too difficult to calculate those. More complicated are the postage rates from your country and the cost of packing. If you are dealing in small, light items, you may make a profit on the amount that Amazon pays you for shipping. More than likely, however, you will make a loss, so you have to build that loss into the price you charge.