The major affiliate program I use is one which you should all be familiar with is Amazon.
The key reason I use Amazon is:
- it is known by everybody (or close to)
- is a big brand
- has a good name
- people trust it to buy from
- it has a massive range of products
… and the biggest and most important thing for me is that it enables you to create tailored RSS feeds with your affiliate id incorporated.
Now if you look at the affiliate markets I talked about in my previous post, you will see a lot of references to electronic equipment.
For the electronics related niches Amazon offer a flat 4% (as of April 2008) but for all other products the fee varies from 4 to 8.5% depending on quantity shipped on a monthly basis – except Amazon Kindle which for the moment is a flat 10% until they build up market share I guess.
Now if you look at the major affiliate markets I talked about being e.g. computers, video cameras, digital cameras etc. a flat 4% on the purchase price of e.g. a Canon PowerShot A720IS 8MP Digital Camera costing $199.95 is $8.
Start selling one of these a day through your blog and with just 30 sales per month, there is $240 which meets my monthly blog target just like that.
Do you see the power of using this affiliate program now?
