Ever Considered Earning a Living by Selling on #Amazon?

[Contributing Editor]

Amazon has grown into the world's largest online retailer. And though they're still neck in neck with eBay, they've continued to show significant financial growth. They started as a book service only dealing with companies in their humble beginnings. Today, virtually anyone and any business can create an Amazon seller account and upload their products to be sold on their network. Many people today who write books as a side business alongside their day job are potentially earning enough money to live off of. Surely, Amazon has provided a way for businesses and people from all walks of life to make good money from affiliating with Amazon via selling products and services.


Advantages to retailers and other businesses of selling on Amazon:

• Avoiding middlemen to sell their stuff
• Backend support "inventory, packaging, and tax pricing"Charging customers (in some cases) almost regular retail price and collecting more profit
• Earning credibility as a trusted Amazon affiliated merchant
• Easily capture new customers searching for related products and services "increased potential to show up and Amazon product-service retailer search results"
• Offering free shipping
• Paid quickly if the customer has a PayPal account - Special pricing as a "loyalty customer"
• Website marketing of products and services null and void

Disadvantages of selling on Amazon:

• Inability to capture e-mail addresses directly if a merchant decides to build a loyal customer list from past Amazon sales and used them directly for e-mail marketing
• No guarantee of consumer loyalty
• Potential high seller fees
• Unable to directly add a link to the merchant's website in hopes of driving traffic off of Amazon to encourage personal sales

As there are benefits to using Amazon to sell products and services and increase awareness about a business, merchants have to deal with the fact that they can't do anything they want on the world's most famous bookselling-service-product distribution network. As the Amazon platform continues to be a silent medium for businesses and everyday people to earn enough potential profit to live off of without working a traditional day job, they also have to take into consideration not only rules Amazon lays out all merchants to follow, but also understand accrued profit is not completely theirs, as Amazon potentially deducts seller fees like eBay does, before merchants and booksellers receive earned profits. This is how Amazon guarantees their earned income and keep investors happy.


'Stop Procrastinating'

What are you doing now online to your fullest potential of making money and using Amazon to sell your products? Are you still dreaming about making honest good money? Are you still in limbo wondering how your mindset will change and how uncomfortable you might feel at first after getting out of your current comfort zone? Now's the time to stop crying and whining about what's not right in your life, take a leap in faith, and imagine yourself earning "good money" from selling on Amazon and making money online from affiliate marketing by showing who has the business muscle for the hustle. It's now or never.