How to make money online with Amazon

Making money online even in a recession is what a lot of people would want to do, to at least supplement their current income, if any. What if I tell you that you could actually make money online than on a full time offline job? mean making money online can itself become more profitable to you than if you were keeping a full time, 9 - 5 job.
I have spent some year blogging and have blogged a lot around the make money online niche which includes various ways of raking in continual profit from your online activities such as writing articles, blogging, Selling other People's Stuff, using websites to make money, web design and hosting, buying and selling or even reselling domains names or even selling digital items like pictures and e-books. All those mentioned activities could work well for you from wherever you live and even if you are on a vacation somewhere in the Bahamas or the Obudu Cattle ranch in Nigeria.

In this context, I'd like to blog about how you can make money online with Amazon - The Biggest online retail store.
So how do you do this? Well it is all about the Amazon Affiliate Program which you can sign up for at this location - https://affiliate-program.amazon.com.

The Amazon Affiliate program is all about affiliates making money online by promoting Amazon products.

What you will need:
- A website where you can add content and promote your ads
- Writing skills
- An Amazon Affiliate account

A website where you can add content and promote your ads
In order to start benefiting from this sort of online business, you will definitely need a website of yours like a product blog or article site where you can talk about why an Amazon product is cool or not. The website should be able to let you make product reviews about the items that you are promoting while at the same time embeds your affiliate code at the right spots to ensure that every buyer your refer that buys converts some commission for you.
If you are not ready to set up your own website, there are other ways to promote your ads and this could be by using other people's website. An example of a free website that allows you to write and publish is Hubpages, another is Helium and so on. The thing about using a third party website to promote your site is that it gives your more time to focus on just writing without bothering about other things like setting up domain name, hosting and managing spam. However it may also reduce our earnings since you would be sharing your earnings with the host for hosting you account.

Writing Skills
If you are not good at writing or typing up sentences or composing an essay, then you may have to rethink your strategy and find ans alternative way to promote your Amazon products. However the most profitable and effective way of making money promoting Amazon products is if you can create your own content using your writing skills. This gives your platform its uniqueness and would enhance search engine traffic. You would need to have good writing skills in order to make reviews of the product or service you are promoting. Writing well for search engines is good but you also need to write for people and so how you will be able to bring a compromise between the two is essential to make a profitable presence on the web marketing Other People's Products.

An Amazon Affiliate Account
Having a website and making product reviews is good for promoting Amazon affiliate products but it is not enough to make money with Amazon. You also need to have an Amazon affiliate account and this you can do by going to https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/ to register.

What is requires is you signing up with a valid email account and your other personal information. You will then be given and amazon affiliate id which will be attached to every product code you generate and want to promote from withing your amazon account.

So once your registration is approved, just head over to amazon and select the products you want to promote, generate the code and embed it into your website's template where you have reviewed their product.

If you've got all of the above, then you are already on your way t making money online with the Amazon affiliate program. Amazon credits you up to around 10% of the price of a referred product once it is sold. One of the hottest selling products is the Amazon Kindle and there's already a second improved version that comes with Wifi. You can promote these and any other items in order to make s huge turnover for your business.