Amazon and Associate*O*Matic
The next step in our adventure is getting the Associate*O*Matic program and setting up a store as an Amazon.com affiliate. This program works in a similar way to the BANS program where you develop a niche store but drawing from the Amazon site and all of it’s products. Every time someone from your site makes a purchase you earn a percentage of the profit.
I found that you should make a complementary Amazon site with your eBay site and cross promote on each site. Not every niche works together but most do. I started with a sports site on Amazon selling jerseys, bobbleheads, toys, whatever, for my local pro and college teams. Then I made a site on eBay selling sports memorabilia and collectors items and promoted the one site on the other. I also got affiliated with several sports related companies and put their banners up so if you liked sports, and after all, that’s why you came to one of the sites, you had a lot of stuff to look at and buy. No matter where they went and bought, I got a piece!
I also had a blog about my local area sports and advertised my sites as well as my affiliate companies. It is important to get multiple streams of income, a person may goe to your amazon store and decide he doesn’t want a jersey but does want a collectible bobble head, so you have him covered!
This is where using Host Gator and the multiple sub domains comes in handy and saves money. Say you get the domain xyzcompany.com and get set up on Host Gator. Let’s then say you want to make a site about Florida sports. Your first site is your Amazon site where you sell logo items, jerseys etc, and you call it, flsportsshop.xyzcompany.com. Next, your BANS shop about sports collectibles, called flfanshop.xyzcompany.com. Finally you make your Florida sports blog, called flsportsblog.xyzcompany.com. You now have 3 sites, one domain charge, one web hosting charge, and with Host Gator you can keep making sites using this same method.
Now click on the banner below and get your Associate*O*Matic program!
