<story><title>I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/6lmotf/i_make_10000_per_month_with_the_amazon_affiliate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdslw</author><text>For me, number one takeaway is, &amp;quot;he has a worker paid 600&amp;#x2F;700 usd per month (superstar)&amp;quot; who I suppose is generating much more value than 7% (700 of 10000).</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Some interesting takeaways further down in the OP&amp;#x27;s answers:&lt;p&gt;- Has &amp;quot;zero&amp;quot; web dev experience; everything is built on Wordpress and plugins.&lt;p&gt;- Gets &amp;quot;a couple hundred thousand PV&amp;#x2F;mo&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- He picked an broad niche that he himself doesn&amp;#x27;t particularly care about.&lt;p&gt;- Amazon&amp;#x27;s change to their commission rates last month hurt his income by about 25-30%&lt;p&gt;I found this part amusing:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I filled my site with a few dozen high quality pieces of content, then started outreaching to other bloggers in my niche, either asking for a guest post or asking them to check out a piece of content&amp;#x2F;infographic I just created and asking them if they&amp;#x27;d &amp;quot;share&amp;quot; (link) it with their audience (aka the skyscraper technique).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I get these goddamned emails every week, sometimes a dozen from the same person asking me to mention their blog post about SQL because I happen to have a page that ranks fairly high for some general SQL info apparently. Never thought the SEO actually paid off (these request emails look like they&amp;#x27;re generated from a template that can be easily automated(.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>acveilleux</author><text>In the beginning, his copywriter made the same 0.05$&amp;#x2F;word and the poster was making 0$&amp;#x2F;month.&lt;p&gt;So the copywriter has shouldered no risk either. He&amp;#x27;s also free to try and get more per word but he might be in a place where 0.05USD&amp;#x2F;word is actually pretty decent income.</text></comment>
<story><title>I make $10k per month with the Amazon Affiliate Program</title><url>https://www.reddit.com/r/Entrepreneur/comments/6lmotf/i_make_10000_per_month_with_the_amazon_affiliate/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>rdslw</author><text>For me, number one takeaway is, &amp;quot;he has a worker paid 600&amp;#x2F;700 usd per month (superstar)&amp;quot; who I suppose is generating much more value than 7% (700 of 10000).</text></item><item><author>danso</author><text>Some interesting takeaways further down in the OP&amp;#x27;s answers:&lt;p&gt;- Has &amp;quot;zero&amp;quot; web dev experience; everything is built on Wordpress and plugins.&lt;p&gt;- Gets &amp;quot;a couple hundred thousand PV&amp;#x2F;mo&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;- He picked an broad niche that he himself doesn&amp;#x27;t particularly care about.&lt;p&gt;- Amazon&amp;#x27;s change to their commission rates last month hurt his income by about 25-30%&lt;p&gt;I found this part amusing:&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &lt;i&gt;I filled my site with a few dozen high quality pieces of content, then started outreaching to other bloggers in my niche, either asking for a guest post or asking them to check out a piece of content&amp;#x2F;infographic I just created and asking them if they&amp;#x27;d &amp;quot;share&amp;quot; (link) it with their audience (aka the skyscraper technique).&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I get these goddamned emails every week, sometimes a dozen from the same person asking me to mention their blog post about SQL because I happen to have a page that ranks fairly high for some general SQL info apparently. Never thought the SEO actually paid off (these request emails look like they&amp;#x27;re generated from a template that can be easily automated(.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>elmigranto</author><text>That is working for someone vs owning something. It wouldn&amp;#x27;t make much sense otherwise for either party.&lt;p&gt;I mean, imagine you work for a company and come up with a change that saves a million a year. Surely you don&amp;#x27;t expect to receive that million, do you? On the other hand, it&amp;#x27;s not your problem if sales go down this quarter, since your contract pays fixed salary.</text></comment>