I love these kind of questions, it tells me flat out that people are NOT thinking about a business, but a get-rich-quick technique.
I could just as easily substitute “Amazon Websites” for “InfoProduct Minisites” or “Adsense Websites” and the same mistake will have been made.
Think of it this way, what is someone came up to you and asked you “If I setup a store with a red brick front entrance will it make money?”Â
Does that make any sense?
No!
What you want to ask is “If I set up a business to sell outdoor camping supplies (as an example) to middle-aged consumers, can I make money?”Â
Amazon websites are not MAGIC, it is like any other online business…
1. You must pick your niche
2. You must know the keywords that buyers use to seek out products
3. You must generate traffic (understand that conversion on pretty much any site works at 0-5% with most solid sites working consistently at 2-3% so you will need 100’s of visitors each day before ou will make sales consistently)
4. You must have a compelling landing page that gets your customre to take action (click through…most will simply click away and go to the next website)
5. You need to keep this working – even as search engines change their algorithms – what you have today could be gone tomorrow.
For this reason, I strongly suggest you look at the bigger picture – start an online business to target a niche and make selling physical products from Amazon a PART of your overall monetization of that niche.
For example, we target a niche within Yoga where we sell ebooks we have written, but we also offer yoga gear from Amazon and Commission Junction – this is in addition to ad-based revenue from classified page, etc…
Look at it as a real business rather than just Amazon websites.
Please leave a comment if you GET THIS…it’s important to steer away from money-making-techniques to understand what starting a real business is all about.
