Amazon Astores
These internet stores are easy to create
, no HTML is necessary and you can populate your Amazon store with
whatever you like from the complete range of Amazon products , and
includes product search and shopping cart .
Astores
are a great way to get into ecommerce without the hassle of owning
stock / ordering stock / posting and packaging . And you can choose
from the vast array of products that Amazon sells , whilst benefitting
from a highly polished ecommerce platform provided "off the
shelf" by one of Britains largest ecommerce businesses.
If you would rather just get on with making money
as a merchant , and don't want to do anything technical then GoodSites
can create websites with inline Astore sites with your choice of
.co.uk or .com domain name , you will first need to open an Amazon
associate account ,
An example working Astore site is Summergoods
. Please use the contact form to enquire
about these mini shopping sites .
Goodsites think this is a superb offer from Amazon
, as you get all the Amazon shopping services like free UK delivery
over £15 to offer your visitors , whilst doing none of the
labour intensive tasks usually associated with running a shop ,
plus you get the web technology - a fully fledged shopping site
that can be populated with your choice of products with leading
brands at some of the lowest web prices already sourced direct by
Amazon from the manufacturers/wholesalers. THere are a few problems
, such as customer aquisition (the customer is not yours , you cannot
email them later on , as Amazon collects the customer details),
so it is a one off sale only . Also some customers get put off by
astores , preferring to shop directly with Amazon , and occasionally
their are tracking problems due to the ip/cookie tracking technology,
but if you can convert traffic into sales there is the feasibility
of profit to be made without the hassles discussed above.
Tip : Choose a niche theme , eg :
Fear of flying , and then smply let me know what categories you
want eg: books on fear of lying , videos on fear of flying , i will
obviously need to use " artistic licence " to create the
site but hopefully you will like the end result .
Then ....
To get traffic you will need to advertise your site
(as i use metatags you may get traffic for FREE from Google MSN
search engines etc. , but this is not
guaranteed). You could try also PPC on adwords and MIVA (other
search engines) where you open an account then choose keywords describing
your products and linking to the relevant pages on your Astore.
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