Do you love shopping on Amazon? If so, why not take it a step further, and use Amazon to make extra money? Yes, you can make money on Amazon, which will greatly offset your spending on the website. Let’s take a look at seven ways that you can use Amazon to add to your current income.
1. Try Third-Party Selling
A lot of things that are sold on Amazon are sold by third-party sellers. This is a great way to sell niche products, your own artwork, etc. There are various plans you can sign up for, ranging from $0.99 per item sold, plus selling fees, and an 8-15% referral fee of up to $39.99 per month. You can also use Amazon to fulfill all orders, including storage, picking, packing, and shipping. This way, your items will be eligible for two-day shipping trips.
2. Join the Affiliate Program
Anyone who owns a blog or website can join the Amazon Associates program. Basically, you include links on your page that will direct customers to Amazon product pages. If customers use a link on your page and buy something in a qualifying sale, you can earn from 4-10 percent. You can do your part to earn more money by giving people an incentive to click on the links. For example, if you have a blog about pet care, you can link it to pet care supplies on Amazon.
3. Sell Original Content
If you have created DVD’s, CD’s, MP3’s, books, etc., and they are all original, Amazon is a great place to sell. You can sell downloads directly from the Amazon website through CreateSpace. Royalties are paid whenever a product is sold on the platform. Your products will receive free universal product codes, so you can sell them directly on Amazon. Just like with third-party selling, your products will be eligible for two-day shipping.
4. Get Discounts for Doing Reviews
When you use Snagshout to create honest reviews on the discounted products you shopped for, you can receive some pretty huge discounts. In some cases, discounts are as high as 90% off the regular retail price. You can even get a lot of free stuff, and many items will only cost you a dollar. You aren’t necessarily getting paid to shop, but the discounts are so great that it is the next best thing. You can even write reviews on the go from your smartphone, set a VPN on your device so it looks like reviews are written from different places and people.
5. Do Small Tasks
You can do online tasks through Amazon Mechanical Turk and earn a lot of extra money. Tasks are small, such as describing an image in 10 words or less (get paid $.10 per description), or do product reviews for as much as $2.50 per review. This may not seem like much, but if you do enough of these tasks, the money is really going to add up.
6. Sell Hand-Made Items
What? Isn’t Amazon just a place where you can buy new stuff? It’s not any longer! Now, there is Amazon Handmade, where you can sell your hand crafted items to Amazon customers (there is a 12% referral fee). It doesn’t matter what type of crafting you are into, if you make it, you can sell it there. Amazon is hoping to be the next Etsy and more. You don’t even need to use professional photos or product UPC’s.
7. Sell E-Books
Becoming a published author has never been easier, thanks to Amazon Kindle. You can write any type of book that you want, and within a few minutes, have it created and published on the Kindle platform. Within two days, it will be in Kindle stores all over the world. You don’t have to spend a lot of money to have books printed, and you can keep as much as 70% of the revenue. You can also join the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library, which lets Prime members borrow e-books, giving written pieces even more exposure.