The reason people dont make anough Sales

Discussion in 'Amazon' started by djuicePK, Oct 19, 2008.

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Reason : Why people cant make a lot of sales

Poll closed Oct 29, 2008.
  1. A lot of compitition

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  2. Short Cookie Time

    38.5%
  3. Dont want 4% commission Rate

    15.4%
  4. No propper e-commerce style template

    30.8%
  5. Not using some right kind of Associate Script

    30.8%
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  1. #1
    What would be the reason people cant make a lot of sales though amazon associates?
     
    djuicePK, Oct 19, 2008 IP
  2. AffliateBang

    AffliateBang Peon

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    I think any affiliate program, whether it's Amazon, Ebay or anything else gives you what you put into it. There are people that are making six figures through Amazon because they take the time to develop a professional looking user-friendly site. No matter which program a person chooses, they need to sit back and think, "What can I do that no one else is doing? What unique experience can I offer my visitors?"
    (Note: I am not claiming to make six figures, but I am inspired by those who do. If they can make it, so can the rest of us.)
     
    AffliateBang, Oct 19, 2008 IP
  3. wounded1987

    wounded1987 Well-Known Member

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    personally, Amazon and eBay programs are very diffrent, ebay provides rss, while amazon provides much more. as far as which program can earn best, i think the best will be to combine all of them, and have your own stock of products, for example you sell some cell phones and you use amazon to sell them, now you do your research and see which cell phone is in demand and which is not, then you take that cell phone and can create your own stock of cell phones to sell this model, so that people can order it from you, while other items from amazon. now let's say that you feel you can't provide that cell phone and you can't have a stock, what you do is create the shop, combined with eBay RSS, now near your items that your store can sell, you can add the RSS from diffrent companies (buy.com, etc if they have one), now you add something like "You think you can find cheaper?" and then you add prices from the other stores, via rss. now, when a person visits such site it creates a confusion, because he sees your prices, and then sees via the RSS cheaper prices, and would go via the RSS to ebay to buy it. so combining both on your store will give you the max results, you need to do the research and see how much you earn without the rss and how much you earn with it. for example most of your visitors who come from google traffic using buy keywords probably are not familiar with eBay sites and so on, because if they would, then they wont do google searches. now most of those visitors can do extra mile and search for cheaper prices but some wont, so you need to see how much of such visitors you have and act accordingly by providing the extra comparison option in your site so that visitors wont leave your website.

    Now the other thing i want to mention is that people are complaining about low CTR with astores, etc.
    it's very important where your traffic is coming from and how good is your store looks, personally i would never touch astore because you can't increase the CTR because the CSS and editing is very much limited, for example you can't add the RSS that i mentioned before, and other stuff, for example you can't create a corporate identity with it. Astore is only good as a SEO prospective, and for buyers who pays much attention to the url and see that the astore is provided by Amazon, and they can be safe by purchasing through it.

    Another thing you need to consider is to develop your own e-commerce system, so that it will be unique and meet your needs. But that's in the long term, once you established a site, traffic and SEO.
     
    wounded1987, Oct 19, 2008 IP
  4. Paul Arne Wik

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    #4
    Dont put in enough effort cause of the low cut?
     
    Paul Arne Wik, Oct 20, 2008 IP
  5. m_wc

    m_wc Well-Known Member

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    a lot of people use same e-commerce style scripts and templates. Buyers dont find a better reason to shop from their website instead of amazon.com

    I think CTR can be increased with some good script,manual content and good template
     
    m_wc, Oct 20, 2008 IP
  6. kekada

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    i havent signed up for it yet, i want to know if its actually worth the effort?

    and also does it work along with adsense or is there any issue with it?
     
    kekada, Oct 20, 2008 IP
  7. Heather48DD

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    You need a solid 100% original website and High Traffic.
    No high Traffic, no money.....think about it.
    I guess I'd say you need about 25,000 hits a day and maybe out of that 50 people will check out your affiliate sales area's. It numbers run about 1 person in 500 will check out an Amazon.com ad you have posted. People who think the number is 1 in 100 are only fooling themselves.Try 1 in 500 to 750
     
    Heather48DD, Oct 20, 2008 IP
  8. naochan

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    #8
    I say it's because of Short Cookie Time. If it's life time is minimum a week, I'm sure we'll get more sales :)
     
    naochan, Oct 20, 2008 IP
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    Agree with naochan.. short cookie time
     
    tmnicelt, Oct 21, 2008 IP
  10. nhangen

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    short cookie time, low commissions, and competition from Amazon.com are all factors why I consider Amazon a poor choice. I still use it, but not as my primary affiliate source.
     
    nhangen, Oct 21, 2008 IP
  11. Sem-Advance

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    Lack of common sense.

    Greed - Trying to sell items with high prices. Nobody is buying a $2,000.00 television online. If they are their either filthy rich or dumb....:D

    Websites look like crap.

    No effort.

    Using organic SERP to drive visitors who are doing research and not buying.
     
    Sem-Advance, Oct 21, 2008 IP
  12. Sthman

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    Bcause I have many pages, I try to use Amzn Omakase widgets, which show the items according to what is on my pages (like Adsense), but they dont work! items are not connected to my pages, so I stop Omakase :mad:
     
    Sthman, Oct 21, 2008 IP
  13. wounded1987

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    not if you have an e-commerce site and the products are offered to be purchased, and people that are coming, each is a potential client that came to purchase something, if you have such thing then your conversion can be 10% like most of the good sites i.e ebay, amazon.

    not if you create a niche identity for the shop, people wont go to amazon, they will go to your store instead and then the cookie period doesn't play a role.

    still, people are searching for items from google with reference of "amazon" keywords and "ebay" keywords, so there are people that are buying.

    depends which organic search keywords are being promoted.
     
    wounded1987, Oct 22, 2008 IP
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    thank for sharing but i prefer ebay its more cookie
     
    okiiii, Oct 22, 2008 IP
  15. Chancey

    Chancey Well-Known Member

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    I think that people aren't putting enough effort.
     
    Chancey, Oct 23, 2008 IP