Sunday, February 14, 2010

I Took the Amazon A-Store Plunge


After putting it off for a while, I finally decided to take the Amazon A-Store plunge. For those of you who haven't heard of an A-store before, it's a store that is made up of Amazon affiliate products. You pick the products and then when someone purchases a product, you get a percentage of the profit.

I knew that niche marketing was important in setting up the shop. As a vegetarian, I always have problems finding high-fashion products that don't use animal materials, so I decided to create a Vegetarian Fashion store. I also incorporated a blog onto the site to drive traffic using SEO blog posts.

I set up the store on a Google Blogger site, just like this blog. I integrated the store into the heading and then placed the blog postings at the bottom of the page. I have no idea if this will be successful or not, but I will monitor my progress and report back.

I'm really just feeling my way through this process blindly. I really enjoyed choosing my products and setting up the site, but I have had very little success with affiliate marketing. I decided that it might be worth my time to invest a little more effort into the process though.

Anyway, I would love to hear any advice from those who have had some success with an A-store. I am sure there are some marketing tips that I am missing. I'm curious to see how the first month of the store pans out. I'll make sure to report back on my progress and let everyone know what worked and what didn't.

2 comments:

  1. Nice site,

    I do not have an A-store ,but it may be a good idea to use Twitter for more marketing (Your target audience is unique).

    For specific A-store help, see if A-store have a forum/message board for member suggestions.

    Fellow Suite Writer,

    Cherrine

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  2. Hey Cherrine,

    Great ideas. I will definitely look into the forum. I've learned a ton that way on Suite.

    Thanks for visiting and commenting!

    Cheers,

    Elizabeth

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