Amazon Associates - A way to sell books and more

Amazon Associates (or affiliates) has been around for many years now.

The % you can make is upto 15% (yes 15 !!!) on some products (currently, if you refer to endless.com, you will get 15% on commission) . You also get nice payback on specific items.

Lately, they came with a new 8.5% for Kindle products.

The idea is that the more items and buyers you refer, they higher is your commission. This is a proactive method (remember - don't be passive).

Payment for qualifying associates, is done approx 60 days after the eligible month (Payment for January gets paid on late March, etc..)

*A nice item was lately added to Blogger (however) I find it easier to use the link builder tool, than the fixed gadgets provided.

Why another affiliates news blog?

I really looked for a simple site where I could get the information I was looking for.
What's an affiliates? How to I register? What do I need to do?
Well, I will try and explain what I've learnt in the past years.

So, what's an affiliate?

Google, Wikipedia and everyone else has many explanations for it. I will say it as such: It's a passive way to make some bucks, but only if you don't act too passively. Confused? well yea, consider this:

You have an Amazon associates account, but you do not publish it anywhere. Well, the point of actively marketing your new association is the whole point behind the association.

So, we have gone through the first phase. Now, how do I know if a site has an affiliates system? The answer is that most business sites have some kind of an affiliate system. There are many names for that, from Affiliates, Referrals, Associates, Friends network and more. Along my posts I will try to bring to you the better ones I come across (and some of the bad ones as well) and also the diversity of the business and areas that have these. For this blog, I will consider all of the systems by the same name: affiliates.

If you wondered of my blog name, If you got here, it worked. ^^