I joined the Amazon Associates Program about a month ago to give my website visitors some thing more than the product I offer. The product I offer Is Custom built doghouses. I do not sell them in large quantities, building these dog house takes time, especially when my main objective is to build a quality product that I know will keep your dog comfortable and safe from the elements. This may sound like a marketing ploy, its not.
I’m rather annoyed with Amazon
When I decided to join the programme I went to amazon.ca, and could not find any dog products to promote on my website so joined up at amazon.com created an A-store, set up a web page on my site, used their widgets and read their on how to pages, I included all the dog products they have to offer, including doghouse. I created a colourful static banner.
Having done everything I was supposed to when I set up with them. I received this email.
| Associate ID: ******* Hello Associate, We noticed that you were accepted to the Amazon.com Associate Program several weeks ago but have yet to refer a sale. Here are a few quick and easy steps to help you get started: 1. Build a variety of links with the click of a button: 2. Use our widgets to show rich interesting content on your site: 3. Build a specialized Amazon store for your site using aStore: 4. Visit our Best Practices pages to get tips and ideas to help you sell products and drive traffic to your Web site: We hope this information was helpful, and thank you for your participation in our program. Sincerely, The Associates Program Staff |
The bottom line to every business is monthly, quarterly or yearly sales figures.That's every businesses' goal and objective, but alll you hear about is how bad the economy is, I cannot force my visitors to buy some thing they don’t want.
It seems that the Amazon Associate program is not working on my site as confirmed by this email. even though it’s only been a month and some times things take time. I get the feeling Amazon wants me to sell their products and they want me to sell it NOW. I included them on my site, more as an addition rather than the main focus. So
I would like to thank the Amazon Associate program staff for letting me know that my site visitors are not interested in the products they have to offer and as such I will not be offering them any more.
-The above text is one way of showing how they could lose revenue from a simple email to a bruised ego.
-This is just a standard email they send all their associates who generate no sales,
-I will keep the program going, it cost me nothing to join.
-I will make changes to the products I promote, rather than having everything in pet products I will play with offering seasonal teasers.
-money will be made from this program, Hell that's why I joined,
So Amazon sit back relax and watch it happen.
Call me a dreamer, dreaming is what I do, before I venture into a new day.Everyday. with clear intentions.
