First of all, this hub is all about how to get visitors to your hub or website to click on your Amazon affiliate links and then purchase whatever they went to go look at. That is all this hub is about.

Many marketers will use the technique of putting everything "out on the deck" for their visitor: "Hi! My name is Will James and if you buy that book over there, I will make money! But not only that, you will make money too! When you apply what the book tells you to do! Because I read it and have applied it... and now I'm making money off of you going over there, clicking it, and buying it from Amazon!"

You get the point... So anyway I thought I would delve into what I like to call subtle visitor manipulation, also known as the Cialdini Influence. On the Internet, it works better than the out-and-out used car salesman technique. Users on the Internet are overly cautious. I don't know about you, but I will check an offer out at least a couple times before I actually pull the trigger and buy -- even if it hardly costs anything.

In order to have an extraordinary conversion rate with Amazon affiliates, you have to get into the Visitor's head. You have to figure out The Secret of what exactly is going through his or her mind at the exact time that they're on your hub. Or else you have to find someone who already knows how non-buyers think. If you find someone who understands non-buyers, then they can divulge to you the secret. As soon as you get this, you will be able to convert at least three times as many people into Yes buyers.

All you have to do is turn enough of their no's into Yes's and you will have heroically converted them into a buyer.

People on the Internet are full of no's. People in the supermarket? They're full of yes's. They wouldn't be in the supermarket if they didn't already have a "list" of yes's coursing through their modies. Yes, yes, yes!

The bottom line of subtly manipulating your visitors into buying from your Amazon affiliate links is that you have to have a system that you can apply. If you have no system you are just going to be throwing up experiment after experiment... Persuading people to do things is not an art! It is a science. There has already been tons of scientific research into how to influence people to do what you want them to do. Study it and apply it. You will immediately be leagues ahead of all the amateurs flailing around blindly on Hubpages or anywhere else on the Internet.

Why ignore a century's worth of scientific data in an effort to rediscover what has already been discovered?

The truth about what works in influencing people to buy has already been written about in a hundred books by psychology professors and successful salesmen. They have the answers you need: Study them and apply them. And for God's sake act quickly and boldly!