I love Amazon and love it for the wide variety of products they offer, the competitive prices, and the whole shopper experience where you guess what else you would likely buy and what you would normally do. It’s a smart site and those who shop regularly can’t help but come back for more.

What started as an online book distributor has grown into a true global retail giant offering every item imaginable and growing. With such an impressive range of stock and customer base, it’s easy to see what business opportunities may be possible for someone looking to jump on the Amazon bandwagon. And the good news is that you can jump on the bandwagon and start making big money online by marketing and selling Amazon’s range of products yourself, and here’s how.

Amazon offers several ways to allow you to connect to their entire catalog and sell, however some of them require a certain degree of technical proficiency and programming skills to take full advantage of their APIs and data sources. You won’t have to worry about these or your programming knowledge. In fact, you don’t need any technical skills other than minimal computer experience and common sense to get your own Amazon store up and running and ready to sell in less than an hour.

As an Amazon Associate, you’ll get all the tools you need to quickly create your own store, choose the products you want to sell, customize the look and feel of your site, and easily implement it into your own web pages.

Here are the simple steps for you to use right away:
1. Register on the Amazon website as an Associate. Link at the bottom of the page under ‘Join Partners’.
2. Sign in and choose an ID for your store so that Amazon can track your sales.
3. In the aStore tab, choose the product category you want to sell and either individually select items or let Amazon choose your entire range from that category.
4. Select the colors you want to use, including your store’s font, size, and wording.
5. Choose what the buyer will see when they are on a certain page of your site. This could include accessories that go with your item, similar items, and customer reviews.
6. Preview your store to see how it looks and how it works.
7. Copy the HTML code Amazon automatically generates for you and paste it into your own web pages. Get on your server and your store is ready to go out and sell.

It really is a simple step by step process and if you take the Partner Tour when you log in you will see how it all fits together.

There is no reason why you can’t do this right away and join thousands of people who are enrolled in the Associate scheme and make good money selling online this way. Your potential income is up to 10% of the value of the basket and since the process is free, you really have nothing to lose but everything to gain.

You’ll also find banners, widgets, and text links to help you drive traffic to your site and increase your online sales. If you’ve ever wondered how to start selling online but felt intimidated, then your own Amazon store is the perfect way to test the water and create an additional income stream.

To make things easier, watch a free 30-minute training video at The Money Room that painlessly walks you through the steps above. You will have your own Amazon store in less than 1 hour. Guaranteed.

I wish you all the success!