Do You Sell Books? Try out the Amazon aStore Beta
I just learned about the Amazon aStore Beta in a blog post on Linda Buquet’s “5 Star Affiliate Programs” site.
Here is a sample aStore widget:
And here is the the standalone store version that resides on Amazon. (Admittedly, not very pretty…)
However, creating an aStore to place on your own site is pretty easy. You just:
- Choose either categories or individual products that you want to display.
- Give the page a name.
- Select a theme or input colors for the Amazon portion of the page.
- Give your bookstore a title.
- Choose either a right or left-hand sidebar.
- Select which options you’d like to display in the sidebar.
- Click “Finish” and get a simple link for to your store, or a link to embed your store in either an inline frame or a frameset.
As Linda pointed out, the drawback to keeping visitors in a frame on your site is that they can see that they are not on a secure server.
To get around this problem, she suggested adding something like “All orders go through Amazon’s secure order server” to the top of your pages. Good idea!
Learn more about Amazon aStore.
Cheers ~ Ros
Secrets To Their Success - September 2006
The September 2006 issue of “Secrets To Their Success” is now available and it features…
- Frank Sousa, (I’ve talked about Franks success before) who launched his first “totally ugly” web site in 1996, in a desperate bid to make some cash.
This year he’s on track to make *$750,000* with nearly 300 web sites that sell everything from football jerseys to flowers to software programs.
Better yet, his sites are fully automated, so they practically run themselves!
Find out how Frank has used affiliate products and joint ventures to grow HUNDREDS of profitable streams of income for his business!
Way to go, Frank!
- Lisa Kuykendall, a former secretary and single mother of three who took a chance one day and blew her ENTIRE paycheck at an outlet store — then resold all her purchases on eBay and DOUBLED her investment!
Now she’s making *$600,000* in annual sales, selling rugs and other home furnishings on eBay!
Find out how you can implement the same strategies that Lisa has used to become a PLATINUM eBay seller who has up to 300 listings up for auction at any given time!
- Jamie Coyne, owner of the ‘Net’s only LIVE 24-hour radio station playing songs by Elvis tribute artists, gets some tips from IMC on how to create a paid membership site that’s SO jam-packed with valuable benefits, his target market would be crazy NOT to join!
Plus, the IMC folks show him how to use a long salesletter to *laser-target* a specific niche market and how to fine tune his business model through rigorous testing, so that he’s able to present the BEST offer at the BEST price — in order to generate the BEST profits!
Get inspired! Read “Secrets To Their Success” every month!
Cheers,
Ros
Affiliate Scam Alert: Bogus Merchants
I caution those who read Super Affiliate Handbook AGAINST affiliating with merchants that place affiliate links on their sites. Links out for which you WON’T get paid.
Fortunately, most merchants ‘get it’. They don’t cheat their affiliates in that way.
However, yesterday I ran across a relatively new form of deviant… an affiliate site posing as a merchant site.
Learn more in “Scam Alert: Affiliates Posing as Merchants“.
Cheers ~ Ros
