What Do You Do If You’re Not An Amazon Associate?

I’m hearing from a lot of you that you are not amazon affiliates at this point. I’d like to address a couple things about this.

I wasn’t accepted to the Amazon Associates Program.

If you have applied and were not accepted by Amazon into the associates program don’t worry. The reason I’m hearing the most is you don’t have a website. That’s easily taken care of. You can start a blog on blogger, add some content to the blog and then reapply.

A blog definitely counts as a website, just make sure you have 5 or 10 posts on it before you submit your application.

Can I still make money if I’m not an amazon affiliate?

Absolutely. I keep hearing “I’m gonna have to split my money with Squidoo though”. Guess what? 4% commission is better than NO commission. Really, I’m not saying that to be harsh, but it is really easy to let excuses get in your way. It’s really easy to say “oh a 4% commission isn’t enough to make it worth it” well I’ve got news for you ~ it certainly can be. If you haven’t checked out this post on the amazon commission question I suggest you take a look.

The truth is Christmas shopping will begin in earnest in a couple weeks. You can keep finding reasons why things won’t work, or problems with how it ALL works and do nothing or you can get going, accept what you’ve got to work with and make  it work FOR you!!

Ok ~ my lecture for the day is over, but it really is the BIGGEST obstacle I see in newbie internet marketers ~ themselves.

So today we’re going to talk about making money with Amazon when you’re not an affiliate.

Amazon provides 6 different modules to help you create an Amazon income.

Here’s a quick video showing you the modules and how to get to them and add them to your lens. I’ll go over my 2 favorites in more detail, but feel free to look at the others and see what you think or how you might use them.

So you’ve probably guessed already my two favorite Squidoo amazon modules are the Amazon spotlight and the Amazon search modules. Let’s take a look at how these two work in more detail.

Amazon spotlight module:

This module lets you call attention to one particular product on amazon. This is particularly good for what we are doing. This module can actually be a great visual call to action. So if you can’t link directly to amazon I highly recommend you grab this module and put it somewhere in the middle of your lens as a call to action.

For this module you can fill in the title and description ~ I usually leave the description blank. When it asks a little further down why is this product worth spotlighting I like to use a review of the product there ~ you can get it from Amazon or you if you’ve used the product write your own.

If you do a search via the find products link you will get a bunch of options. When you find the product you’re looking for just click the add this product button and it will automatically go to your lens. (just like the video module)

When you save your module you will find there is a great picture of your product. There is also the text you added to recommend why people should get the product. You can also mention how much they can save on the product by buying today at Amazon within the review area or in the description.

In the module you can also click the display options. This will let you turn on/off anything you don’t want showing. I much prefer to show how much savings there can be instead of showing the actual price of the product so I turne off the price.

With a nice review and a mention of how much savings they can expect this can be a great call to action if you can’t link directly to Amazon.

This is getting pretty long so I will write another post for the Amazon Search Module. Which is a fun one too!