Wow! Somebody has done their entire xmas shop through my links!

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   ryankettposted 14 years ago

   Either that or my new tactic has really worked. I was frustrated that I wasnt getting many sales from Amazon at the end of November, which is supposed to be the peak of xmas spending, so I tried something out.....
   
   .... I placed Amazon links for really high end and well known products on non-sales pages. For example, I have Apple Mac and Blackberry Storm products on pages about facebook....
   
   I only did this 36 hours ago; and have had 66 clicks with a 22% conversion rate since doing it..... before this I had never seen a greater conversion rate than 1%.
   
   I havent sold Apple Macs or iPhones or Blackberries.... but instead all sorts of lower end stuff.
   
   Cant be bothered to work out my earnings, will find out soon, but there are 15 items waiting to be shipped!

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      kirstenblogposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      If this keeps up you might be able to write a hub about strategies for amazon sales, I keep looking for good hubs on the topic and have not found that golden one yet

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         Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Kristen you don't need to read hubs amount making hubs. Just look at the Amazon hubs of hubbers who have reported success. I'm off to check out Ryan's hubs now.

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            kirstenblogposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Thats exactly what I did with your hubs! I went and had a look at how you were laying them out etc.

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            ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            Not sure what the point in looking at my hubs is.... all I did was stick Apple macs and iPhones on my busiest hubs.... this day was a complete one off! I guess it was 1 or 2 large baskets!

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      terrowhiteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      thats really nice.. congrats!!!

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      cosetteposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      good innovating!

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   prettydarkhorseposted 14 years ago

   wow, congrats ryankett

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   K Partinposted 14 years ago

   Way to go...very cool!

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   emievilposted 14 years ago

   Congrats Ryan

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   NaomiRposted 14 years ago

   Very cool!

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   Lisa HWposted 14 years ago

   Excellent.  (I think the person who bought all that stuff from Amazon might have been my kids' father.  He refuses to go into stores at this time of year, so his Amazon Prime account really gets a workout.  )

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   Bovine Currencyposted 14 years ago

   nice one

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   Nelle Hoxieposted 14 years ago

   Ryan that's fantastic news. I think your new strategy is brilliant. Too many hubbers put their products at the end of the page. You're very smart to put high end products near the top on non-sales pages. (If I had any non-sales pages, I might give it a try. )

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      rmcrayneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      I was thinking of doing this on my most viewed hubs, but would probably have put the Amazon capsule at the bottom.  Not sure if I'm getting enough page views at this point to make a difference, but it will be my project tomorrow.

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   jenblacksheepposted 14 years ago

   So do you earn money if someone clicks on your links to get to Amazon and buys stuff from there, even if it's not the products you have advertised?

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      ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      Yes, as long as they purchase on that same visit (e.g. dont close their browser).

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         Lily Roseposted 14 years agoin reply to this

         Actually, Ryan, doesn't Amazon have a 30 or 60 day cookie?  So anytime someone who has been on Amazon through one of your links goes back and buys anything (within that time frame), you get credit.
         
         Since Amazon doesn't give you real-time reporting, I check the previous day's orders every morning and yesterday I freaked out when I saw that there were 16 orders from the day before!  I think only one item was something I had on my hub.  Of course, this morning there was only one order shown for yesterday!

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            ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

            I think that Amazon now has a single session cookie? I believe that people such as Mark Knowles have lost about a third of their sales after Amazon changed this.... I dont think it was ever as much as 30-60 days though Lily Rose....

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               Lily Roseposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               Wow, I had no idea it had changed (I don't rememeber exactly what it was!)  I have been doing very well with Amazon lately and I assumed that people were going back and buying within the cookie's time frame - maybe I'm doing better than I thought then?

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                  ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  The end of November and beginning of December is always the busiest time of the year..... as many people get their final monthly pay cheque before christmas. Same happened to me, I sold 15 items in 1 day two days ago.... more than I had sold in the 4 months previous!

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               Lily Roseposted 14 years agoin reply to this

               I just looked it up and it's a 24 hour cookie, but it ends if the person makes a purchase, so even if they go back (after making a purchase) within 24 hours it will not count.  Well, you learn something new everyday, right?  This was it for me!

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                  ryankettposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                  Oh ok, well 24 hours is not many! I think that most of my sales must have been to the same person, they included 5 DS games and 3 books on the same topic..... so somebody went on a spree! A couple more would be nice!

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                     rmcrayneposted 14 years agoin reply to this

                     I thought recently on the forums word was that Amazon cookie was now single episode.  If someone clicked on Amazon from your hub, then navigated away to comparasion shop, then came back and purchased items, you still would not get any percentage.

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      kirstenblogposted 14 years agoin reply to this

      So long as its within the life span of your 'cookie' with them yes

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    tantrumposted 14 years ago

    THAT'S GREAT !!! CONGRATS

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    alexandriaruthkposted 14 years ago

    congrats,

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    shazwellynposted 14 years ago

    I think that is great!  You are a true inspiration for us wannabes!!
    
    Thanks for posting xxxx

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    glendoncabaposted 14 years ago

    Thanks for the post.  I have started to experience amazon sales lately, too.
    
    But y'all know I'm way low on the learning curve.
    
    And I write on so many topics.  Not necessarily products.

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    itcollposted 14 years ago

    wow...you are really lucky ryankett

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    Crazdwriterposted 14 years ago

    Nice job ryan! Congrats dude!

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    Research Analystposted 14 years ago

    This is great news, thanks for sharing!

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    Csjun89posted 14 years ago

    wow cool stuff
    
    congrats on the dollars rolling in for christmas, a few more weeks ahead before it trickles off!

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    sunforgedposted 14 years ago

    yep...amazon is only a session cookie now - the 24 hours is still in effect only if an item is placed in the shopping cart
    
    You have one session for item to get in cart and 24 hours for the cc info to be sent to buy it.
    
    I keep getting confused though..it could have changed again since the last time I read it line for line

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    Lily Roseposted 14 years ago

    Just copied this from Amazon:
    
    4. Referral Fees
    We will pay you (in accordance with Sections 5 and 6 below) referral fees on certain Product sales to third parties. For a Product sale to be eligible to earn a referral fee, the customer must click-through a Special Link on your site to the Amazon Site and during a single session, add the Product to his or her shopping cart, purchase the Product with digital fulfillment (e.g., digital download or streaming) in the case of Digital Products, or purchase the Product via our 1-Click feature. The session begins when the customer clicks through a Special Link on your site to the Amazon Site and ends upon the first to occur of the following events: (a) 24 hours elapses from the customer's initial click-through, (b) the customer places an order for a Product that is not a Digital Product, or (c) the customer follows a third party link to the Amazon Site that is formatted with an Associate’s tag. We will only pay referral fees on eligible Products after order, payment, and shipping or, in the case of Digital Products, digital fulfillment have occurred.
    
    It's a little confusing, but it does seem to be a 24 hour cookie and if they go back within that 24 hours and add an item to the cart and check out it counts - am I reading that correctly?

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