anallawalla - 1:52 am on Apr 10, 2005 (gmt 0)

I have been making in the low two digits a day from all sources, and I started last July and more seriously last December. Yes, several of my WW friends make 3-5 figures per day and while I know some of their models, I don't have the time or expertise to do the same. There are advantages of living in the right place or knowing the right people, or simply having a site that is fairly old and indexed everywhere.

Today I almost fell out of my chair. One of my sites sold a $9000+ item, giving me over $900 commission. I have to cross fingers that the sale is not reversed, but if this doesn't convince me that AM is alive then nothing will.

Another surprise for me is that I pride myself in building lean, well-SEO'd sites that rank well and I sometimes spend a whole day to build and upload a site with thousands of pages.

But the $9000 product sold off one of those "instant store" scripts supplied by the merchant! I never thought that such cookie-cutter scripts (that you implement within 10 minutes and your site looks 99% like the next one) could work. I won't say that ever again, although I do my SEO stuff on such scripts too. Perhaps I should reconsider other cookie-cutter scripts I dismissed and install them on a hundred sites?

Here is an Amazon tip: The best money to be made is not from their books or magazines. OTOH you cannot ignore these items because they help you make the unit sales to reach the higher levels of commission.

Scepticism is your worst enemy in AM. You will miss out on making easy money if you don't jump in (with both eyes wide open).

- Ash