Hi, I'm thinking of setting a site up for CD reviews with links to amazon to get paid for the advertisement. I live in the UK, will I: a) be able to use their program? b) make much money? How does it compare to Asense? Cheers for the help guys, much appreciated. RJP1
Thanks gamefray, I'm guessing you'd class a £10 CD as low priced then? How does the pricing work? Is it based on how many successful items they sell or what? Cheers RJP1
Well the problem with low priced items is the commission. On average, a $10 US CD would only get about 6% commission. So thats only $.60 So to make $6, you would need to refer 10 CD's. However, if you are referring lots and lots of people, then they are likely to buy more then just CD's, which will get you other sales. So I guess it depends on the traffic also.
So if I refer someone to a CD, then they navigate to a book, computer, whatever, will I get the commission for that item instead? Or doesn't it work like that? Thanks for the help by the way, appreciated! RJP1
Anything added to thier cart within 48 hours from the day they visited, will be counted. You will receive commission when those items are finalized by the buyer, and shipped by the seller.
Wow, sorted then! Sounds a good little program. Best get cracking on this new site! I'll show you it all when it's done! Thanks, RJP1
I have a blog which promotes a singers new CD. I find I get a lot of additional sales when people add other items to the basket so not only are people buying the CD but also books/dvd's, other CD's and even electronics and clothes. On the CD's alone I need to sell volume to make anything decent, it's on the US site and the CD is only $7.99 but I'm managing to sell around 20 a day, however once the album is out for a while I guess this revenue will slow down a lot. I've made a rotating Amazon ad with the most popular additional CD sales which has helped. I'm sure the design could do with some tweaking but I'm terrible at that kind of thing
Hi CanaryWharf Firstly, thats a cool place! I saw Steve Vai at the London guitar show there this year! Secondly, please take a look at www.MusicMouth.co.uk, it may interest you. It is the site I am discussing, and as a fellow muso (it seems), may interest you. Do you you want to add Colbie Caillat to the site? Best regards, RJP1
What's nice about Amazon's affiliate program is that they sell so many items on their site. Granted they have one of the shortest cookie periods out of all the affiliates, they have one of the largest catalogs, so I think it balances out. Gene K (posts here sometimes) did a very good blog post justifying the shortened cookie period vs. the abundance of items. The only items sold through my site are books, but every month there are extra items tacked on to orders, and usually the average price of those items is higher than the average price of books. I see that as an added bonus.
I have a web site that I use to promote my own music, but as an experiment I tried using Amazon UK and US affiliate ad links to commercial CDs in the same genre. I also set up an aStore. Unfortunately I didn't have any luck with it, except one purchase of some speakers. The main thing I used Amazon affiliate links for was when I posted info and reviews on new albums in my forum, with links to buy the CDs on Amazon. Although those forum threads tend to get lots of views and pretty good rankings on search engines, they've not made any sales - I guess most people who visit probably know they can find better prices on CDs than Amazon and just ignore my links.. But with a good proper dedicated reviews site like yours with lots of different genres, hopefully you will have more success than I did.