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Our Best Amazon Day for November 2011

Paula — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 13:30:03 +0000

Over the past couple of years we have made it a habit to reveal our income for our November-December Amazon sales but as many of our regular readers know we decided to no longer do that for various reasons. (You can read the reasons why here). However, we know that hearing about others successes is...

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My Method for Getting Traffic Quickly

Paula — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 12:11:08 +0000

This is a guest post by Ellen C Braun After following Wanda and Paula’s advice about how to write a product review from the Amazonian Profit Plan, I spent about three full days creating my review page. The word count hovered a bit over 3,000, there were lists of bullet points, and a compilation of...

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What Happens When Amazon Dumps You OR How to Diversify

Paula — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:46:55 +0000

Amazon seem to be sticking to their guns with their latest California update. For those that aren’t aware of the changes, recent tax laws have resulted in Amazon terminating the Amazon affiliate accounts for those affiliates residing in California. UPDATE TO THIS POST – OCT 2011 – Amazon have re-opened their associates program for California...

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How to Sell Your Own Products on Amazon – A Success Story

Paula — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:22:56 +0000

“Opportunities are everywhere.” I sure wasn’t confident about that a few years ago… Starting a business was something that I had always wanted to do, but I didn’t see how I could do it. Thinking it would be a good idea to build entrepreneurial skills, I left my first job out of college to get...

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Alright – You Have the Traffic So Why Aren’t You Converting

Paula — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 04:25:11 +0000

One of the things we struggled with early on in this business were conversion rates. Although we had reached the point where we were getting a decent amount of traffic, we just weren’t making much money from all our hard work. Our earnings at the time were around $1000 a month and that’s not chicken feed by any...

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Help – Amazon Removed the Product!

Paula — Fri, 13 May 2011 01:57:43 +0000

As you build more pages with links to Amazon products, inevitably, as either Amazon or the retailer withdraw or move products, some of the url addresses will either change or disappear. The link will then go to an Amazon 404 – Document Not Found. These links are leaking money from your web site! On a...

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The Top 5 Mistakes People Make When Writing Product Reviews

Paula — Mon, 02 May 2011 13:00:38 +0000

Writing product reviews is an important part of our business. We know that the better our reviews are the better the sales will be. We learned this first hand when after writing hundreds of poor quality reviews we decided one day to change one page on one of our sites to a long detailed helpful review. This...

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How I Finally Forced Myself To Focus on Just One Niche (Okay, Just Two Niches!)

Guest Author — Fri, 15 Apr 2011 03:59:51 +0000

The youngest of our three children was just three years old back in 2005 when I discovered Internet Marketing on the heels of a two-year long stint at one of those sell-soap-and-vitamins-to-all-your-friends businesses. The concept of unlimited income potential, the flexibility of the web, and the idea of working from home without having any meetings...

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Do We Really Have to Prove How Much Money We Make?

Paula — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 13:10:35 +0000

As our regular readers know, we have been at this business for a lot of years now and for most of that time we weren’t making much money. Which is why in November 2009, when we made an astounding $14k in one month we were so excited that we felt like sharing it with everyone....

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Name the Newsletter Competition – $50 Amazon Gift Card to Be Won!

Paula — Tue, 18 Jan 2011 03:21:30 +0000

Just recently we decided to change the format of our newsletter which so far seems to be working quite well. Prior to this our emails were random and didn’t really say too much. We just didn’t feel good about it so we knew we had to rethink it all. So since ’quality’ is our focus we decided to redo...

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