Earn With Omakase And Other Affiliate Programs
I’ve been with Amazon Affiliates for a while yet I have not effectively sold any Amazon product.? I often found it troublesome to look for appropriate/relevant links to my postings. It was a tedious task. I also don’t really get income from clicks (unlike Adsense) so I didn’t like it that much.
I’ve found an interesting add-on feature that they now have called Omakase. This new feature might just change my mind about Amazon Affiliates. From their website:
“Omakase - leave it up to us! Omakase links will show an Associate’s visitors what they’re most likely to buy based on Amazon’s unique understanding of the site, the user, and the page itself. To create Omakase links, simply modify the template and appearance elements below and copy the resulting code on to your page. Then leave the rest to Omakase!”
First question that came to mind was, “What the hell is an Omakase?” Fortunately, they have the answer in their FAQ:
“Omakase is a Japanese word meaning ‘leave it up to us’. It is commonly used in Japanese restaurants for a meal where the chef uses their experience and knowledge to select and prepare the meal for a customer without specific directions.” Cool indeed!
If you are an Amazon Associate, click on “Build Links” in your account. Now you can see this:
It has similar features to that of Google Adsense. I’ll check it out and see if it gets me some income.
In the meantime, there are actually many other affilate programs out there. One of the more notable ones include commission junction. The basic idea here is for you, the entrepreneur, to act as a middleman between the seller and the buyer. You get commissions for every item succesfully bought. It’s called affiliate marketing.
Since I was already in Amazon I looked for some interesting books about online affiliates. One affiliate networking book looks like an interesting read.
A book review on this product says:
This book is very well written and as a newbie to affiliate marketing I found it easy and pleasant to read.
Rosalind is definately a successful affiliate so that was a plus.
What I found most useful is her advocation of keyword analysis BEFORE embarking on a particular niche as well as the use of marketing metrics to regularly measure what campaigns are working (and those that are not, of course).
Buying this book will not make you a super affiliate — but if you use it and take Rosalind’s advice — with the realistic expectation that it will take some work and time, then this is your book.
Afterall, Rosalind has been doing this stuff since 1998…you’ve got to stick with it for it to pay off!
lisa wilson
www.ebook-utopia.com
I’m intrigued enough to want to look at it but the US$59 price, and the fact the Amazon book deliveries to Manila (Philippines) can be a hassle, is deterring me.
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Comments
Is my browser screwed up or is Omakase broken? I can see your Google-Ads, however below the line “Products For Review” I read “Not Found/Apache/…rcm.amazon.com Port 80″.
May I ask what browser yuo are using? I’ve used FireFox and Safari on Both Mac/Windows Systems on different computers. They look ok there. It must be something with your browser or .host file settings? I’m just guessing.
Omakase is nice but I doubt I’ll get revenue from it. Adsense is still much more reliable
hmmm.. i’ve yet to discover this and set it up in our site.. will be dropping you an im for help okay?
Thanks for the hint! It wasn’t the hosts file but you brought me on the right track: There was an entry of rcm.amazom.com in Netinfo Manager/machines.
Hey, No problem Walter. BTW, I see on your site that you are a media artist. What do you work on?
Thanks for your interest! Currently I’m working on two projects: “Semifiktive Halbwahrheiten” is what I call a (fake) news generator. It searches for recent news headlines and combines it with images from yahoo image search (http://www.rafelsberger.at/semifiktive-halbwahrheiten). I will use the generated pictures for a video.
The other project is “RhNav - Rhizome Navigation”. It’s about graphical navigation interfaces based on user attention data / behaviour analysis. The idea is to give users something back to for the access data they leave everywhere and not just supervise them. I’ve been thinking about this for quite some time now and it’s interesting to watch how awareness of attention data is becoming a topic these days. If you’re interested, take a look at http://rhnav.berlios.de.
In the past I worked more on some movies: http://imdb.com/name/nm1301842/ (Dont’ ask me how that photo made it to imdb :))).
Kind Regards,
Walter
So, how did your photo get on IMDB? Haha just kidding. Looks like come cutting edge stuff there on your work list.
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