Archive for the 'Amazon.com' Category

High gas prices seem to be helping sales at Amazon.com! Here’s the article on that “Amazon Shrugs Off High Gas Prices, Weak Economy”
While millions of customers have kept Amazon in business, they’ve never managed to make their investors very happy.
Maybe this will change that trend. As gas prices skyrocket and consumers want to save on [...]

Amazon.com will be selling office supplies and going head to head with Staples, Office Depot, etc.
“With our enormous breadth of selection, we have paper, pencils, sticky notes, pushpins and much more, all available for purchase with the click of a mouse, 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” said Chris Rupp, director of merchandising [...]

This just caught my eye as I was surfing at Amazon.com… Amazon.com is now offering “Pay Per Click” ads for your online marketing pleasure.
Unlike other pay per click systems, you could actually upload your customer catalog, set pay per click limits, and advertise away. The people who click are sent to your site and purchase [...]

Now that they don’t allow iframes due to the spammers, how do you put up Amazon links?
(You’re supposed to use their module, but some people want to keep ALL the money for themselves!)
Here’s a great page on that.  Looks like you could use it on any HTML page, not just Squidoo.

Amazon has upgraded their aStores. If your site is “family friendly” realize that in the past at least some stores customers have complained about adult products showing up for “innocent” sounding keyword searches so direct linking may be required for your site.
New aStore Features
With the release of our latest features we have increased your ability [...]

From Steve Weber
Any unknown author can put his eBook up for sale on Amazon.com who meets three basic requirements:
1. You own the rights to the book (your question implies that you do, and have not sold the rights to another entity).
2. You must supply an ISBN (International Standard Book Number). You can purchase an ISBN [...]

I’ve blogged about folks being able to use Amazon’s “underutilized assets” before to help run your business. Here’s how you may see that work - coming to an auction near you.
From the Business Opportunities weblog

The New York Times:
Your next eBay purchase could arrive at your door in a brown Amazon.com box.
Amazon.com, the online retailer, is [...]

StrengthsFinder 2.0: A New and Upgraded Edition of the Online Test from Gallup’s Now, Discover Your Strengths
StrengthsFinder 2.0 is the new version of the StrengthsFinder assessment. This tool is VERY useful in any management situation so that whether you’re helping a non profit organization or a business, you’re helping people what the do BEST and [...]

Steve Weber brought this handy book selling tool to mind. The best way to price your inventory and decide what to sell in the way of books is to know a product’s Amazon Sales Rank. As the rank goes up, you may want to up your price… or reduce it for faster sale as the [...]

It’s amazing the number of books you can pick up on half.com and amazon.com where the shipping costs more than the book!
Here, one marketer asks book selling guru Steve Weber whether he should join the folks who sell books that cost less than $10 a piece?
I think you should experiment with making your cutoff $6 [...]