Making Money from School Girl Skirts and Wedding Rings

We had a great reaction to the launch Joomla Books yesterday butA quite a few people had questions about our monetization strategy:

"Why use Amazon when the commissions are so small? For every book you sell the reward is only a few cents on the dollar. Surely its much better to aim for commissions that pay $5, $10, $15 or more each time, right? Right? .... "

Wrong. Amazon Can Be a Great Source of Profits

Check out this list from Darren Rowse over at ProBlogger.net. He wrote three Photography book reviews and his readers earned him $130 in commissions by buying those books 62 times. The thing is, they increased his commissions by over 300% because they browsed elsewhere on Amazon and picked up over 150 other items,. Included in the list were:

Schoolgirl Cotton Poplin tie front shirt and Stretch Plaid pleated skirt
Wheat Germ Daily Shampoo 250ml
Charbroil Chili Pepper Roaster

Yes, people are odd. But there's money to be made from their oddities. Done correctly, a referral to an Amazon product is a much more personal and target way to sell a product than using Google Ads could ever be. Using Amazon inside of your Joomla site is particularly easy because there are about a dozen Amazon extensions available.

The wierdest product we've ever sold through Amazon?

Probably a gold wedding ring grabbed by a visitor who clicked on a North Georgia fishing book. Not particularly romantic, but we wish them well :)

What's the strangest thing you've ever earned commission on?

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December 09, 2009

es, people are odd. But there's money to be made from their oddities. Done correctly, a referral to an Amazon product is a much more personal and target way to sell a product than using Google Ads could ever be. Using Amazon inside of your Joomla site is particularly easy because there are about a dozen Amazon extensions available.