Amazon is one of the most popular online shopping centers in the world. Thousand of people shop there every day placing orders for various items from different categories. Amazon made the way of shopping really easy. Within a few clicks of mouse you can get the item you are interested in, delivered to your door in a few days.



So keeping in mind the popularity and ease of shopping on Amazon you could use it to make money.

Literally you can generate decent income with Amazon as an associate selling Amazon products and getting paid commission for every single sale generated.

Selling Amazon products is a great option for people who want make some extra cash, without the need of owning the product. Also it might be a great way for network marketers to offset the costs of paid advertising that they can fund using the income generated from Amazon sales. So it might be a great way to make money for different people, no matter what kind of niche they are interested in as the Amazon offer wide range of products to sell from different categories. So everyone will surely find the item in his own niche to make money from.

The way to become Amazon associate and to get started is quite easy and should take no more than several minutes.

Here we go:

1. Visit Amazon site and scroll down to the bottom where you can find JOIN ASSOCIATES link. Click it.

2. Then you can take GET STARTED tour and at the final stage, join the program by filling out the form with required information.

3.After you application will get approved, you will be ready to go.

Once you've logged into your associate area you can find plenty of tools that you can easily use to promote Amazon products such as: product links, widgets, slideshows, banners etc.

Usually you have html code prepared for all of those tools that you can just copy and paste into any website you are about to use for promotion.

And here we come to the most important aspect of selling Amazon products.

You need to drive traffic to the website you are using to promote stuff in order to convert visitors into customers. There are many ways to promote Amazon items online.

1. You can create free websites and place links, banners and widgets to Amazon products on them. A good example here are squidoo lenses. You can create free squidoo lenses ( websites) in several minutes each and use them to promote stuff. These websites are really easy to create, and you can have as many of them as you like. This way you can come up with several squidoo lenses, each for different Amazon product.

2. Blogging is another effective and free way to advertise. You can create a free blog and monetize it by placing, links, banners and making posts on Amazon products.

3. Writing articles is another way to generate sales from. For instance you can write review of particular product and direct reader to your squidoo lens to purchase it.

4. Also if you already have a website you can add to it proper banners and links to Amazon products relevant with the content of your website. So this way you keep all content and promotion material related to the one topic. What it means is that you don't want to promote Amazon items as for instance: shoes on network marketing website.

Those above are just examples of many ways to promote and sell Amazon products. Driving the traffic to your promotional campaign is that what it's all about.