I have read many post in the Amazon portion of this forum about folks makeing $2,000 to $3000 a month. I recently read post where a guy stated he just started hisr store, did some adword marketing and already made $200 in net profit for the month, so far. I think a person would have to sell $10,000 worth of products or there about to make that kind of money. I know $200 a month is possible and much more. I personally have not made a dime yet. But I am very new to online marketing in general and particularly Amazon marketing. Ask me again in six months to one year.
Yeah some of the numbers I see on here are a little dodgy. With my most recent astore that I have been starting to market, I've made 2 bucks. I have a lot of work to do still in the marketing realm, though, so I'm still hopeful. I don't expect to make $20k with an astore, but I see the potential there to make a decent amount with a group of astores that are effectively optimized and marketed.
Anyone that posts here that they make $500 a month on a single astore is living in a fantasy land. First of all, why would anyone spend that kind of money on adwords for an astore instead of spending money on a full featured Amazon store first. It makes no sense. Secondly, a stand alone astore would have to be highly customized to have the confidence of any consumer, I don't care how good your articles and adwords campaign are. An astore is not a stand alone solution, it is a tool. I make a few hundred off of my astores, but I have 7 of them embedded in blogs with other products, there is no way that they will convert that way on their own. I could be wrong, but I have never seen an astore that looks that good to make hundreds all by itself.
i think your right.lol It's not easy to sell product in amazon if your store is not highly traffic site.
I've never made any money from an Amazon aStore directly, but I have sold some turnkey custom websites that incorporated an aStore on the front page. Those types of sites were really hot a few months before Christmas, but have since dropped off. I sold mostly on eBay and a few on Sitepoint. I do agree that it is a waste of time and money to drive traffic to just an aStore site. I would spend the extra time and create something much more rich in content that has customer value and then drive PPC traffic to the site. You will do far better in conversions and hopefully in return business.
I've never had success with my Astore. Maybe I will try embedding it inside my blog as well. However, my normal Amazon text links and iFrames are making me $200/month currently.
I was unlucky enough to buy one of these Amazon aStores integrated into a website on eBay at a hugely inflated price. Big brand names, expensive website, I truly thought I was buying something with monetizing potential. Boy, what a sucker I was! I never made a dime from the Amazon Store, even though it was a great looking site. People don't buy from your customised aStores, they log on to Amazon direct when they want to buy, simple as that. Think for yourself, when you want to buy something, are you going to buy from someone's crappy little aStore on a website? Of course not! It has to offer you something very special, something you can't get at Amazon.com, before you will consider buying there. The only way you stand a chance to sell Amazon products is to integrate it into a blog, where you provide product reviews, discussions, product ratings, etc etc and you focus on specific products, not an entire store full of little pictures.
I am trying product landing pages and using on page SEO to get traffic. Is this similiar to an aStore? People google a product, my page is returned in the results, they click on it and then click on the link to amazon and buy the product. Do aStores work like that?
When i first started, astores made a couple of hundred a month. Then after moving to AOM conversions increased up to as much as 60-70% due to a highly targeted demographic. Astores can rank in search engines #1 even with the right seo and backlink structure. The best thing about that is you can trademarket the hell out of them and no one can do anything unlike normal websites where you can lose your domain. But the secret is to get content, and backlinks otherwise astores are like the 1,000,000,000,000 others out there.
Wow, sorry to hear about that, but you are correct, an astore should be used as a tool..a little niche catalog.... either on your site, or linked from it. You have to have complimenting content to go along with it or else it's just a simple island blowing in the wind. An astore by itself is nothing, I don't care how great your header, or CSS modifications are...it's not a fully functioning store, but an astore with great content makes you loo as if you have a relationship with Amazon just for your site. That's the way I look at it.
J_Dog This thread contains good examples of aStores I'm referring to. IMHO the only stores on this thread that stand a small chance of monetizing is from member BONUSONLINE: Confirming HMansfield, an aStore by itself is nothing. Good content & backlinks definite requirement. Here's an example of a site selling Amazon Products that I think has monetizing potential (not my site OK): http://ehorrormovie.com/
Drupal CMS + Amazon Store Module + good domain name + selling books, movies and videogames = - 10000 visitors/month - 300 clicks to Amazon - conversion rate of 4.5% - 10$ a month