Real Amazonian Profit Plan Review

So, IS The Amazonian Profit Plan For The Recycle Bin?

Cutting to the chase: HECK NO!  Clear enough?

Maybe you haven't heard about The Amazonian Profit Plan yet.  I've written a couple of posts mentioning it on my blog, but this review is more in-depth so nevermind that.  The Amazonian Profit Plan is first off an expensive e-book when you compare it to other e-books.  I want to put that out there up front.  Regardless, I don't let a measly price tag (it's under $100 so who cares, really) keep me from true success.

Maybe that sounds like a lot to you.  Listen, my first hub is on getting out of debt - so I know all about lean times, believe that.  I have also owned franchises where your net worth had to be 1/4 of a million dollars (not hard to do here in San Francisco, BTW, my condo is worth a ridiculous amount of money considering the square footage).

Even so, it may feel like an arm and a leg when you first look at the price tag (it's really not that expensive!) but you know what?  I understand that.  I thought the price was low enough it was worth a peek, given there's a refund policy in place.

I bought it right away, thinking I'd just get a refund right quick...but you know what?  I'm glad I found it.  I didn't ask for the refund, it was worth that and then some.

The way I look at business expenses is really straightforward: if I can make the investment back, and at least break even within a decent amount of time (in this case I had a month to see any traction), then I keep it.  Otherwise, if it's not going to produce an income, I scrap it.

Let me back-track a bit.  I'm Joe Herschel, I'm an internet marketer and run a garage SEO business if you can call it that - all local businesses in the area.

I get paid well for what I do, thank you very much, but I'd rather make nothing but passive income.

I'm primarily a marketer with the chops for building a lot of websites pretty quickly, and a knack for getting a website to rank rather easily.

But because I make good coin at SEO, for a while my own business has been choppy at best: I'm always squeezing in a moment here and there, usually near midnight when my eyes want to close on me.  This has everything to do with The Amazonian Profit Plan. 

Because I'm trying to squeeze in my internet marketing efforts here and there, and when I've poured out the "quality" for my clients' projects, I've got but a few crumbs of time left for my business...

Which translates into a half-baked stab at web content, or at making a website look snazzy.

I'm usually in a hurry, in other words, and I bother to tell you that to illustrate the backdrop of where I'm at with IM, and why I believe that for a guy like me, or a person such as yourself, The Amazonian Profit Plan e-book may be a necessity.

I read that book is "for newbies," and I'm not a newbie - so I almost didn't buy it!

But I am busy - often too busy to "think" straight, so I make a lame stab at my own web content.  The net result?  My click thru's are dismal, my sales are down, and I don't see the progress I know I'm capable of.

You might be wondering: "How does this all tie into The Amazonian Profit Plan?"

I monetize my sites a number of ways: successfully with AdSense (I have 117 sites, net $1200 a month from these sites that I've optimized for AdSense, and they're pretty large sites at this point compared to my competition), Amazon, ClickBank, Azoogle, ShareASale - and there are other networks as well that I use. 

I've done fairly well with all of these networks in general...Except with Amazon...and it's frustrating!

And here's the beauty of Amazon: unlike my ShareASale sales (I do very well with them, I get $900-$1300 a month just from ShareASale) - Amazon is THE affiliate program of affiliate programs.

Think about it: you can get someone to go to Amazon and buy ONE product - but when many begin shopping, they don't stop.  It's like a grocery store online - "I went in for the milk, and came out with a rack of lamb, 2 dozen eggs, 2 gallons of ice cream, charcoal and diapers, too...oh, and the beer..." 

All that translates into:

A) more in your pocket

B) you get a higher commission based on the NUMBER OF ITEMS you sell.

With Amazon, it's not the amount of the cost of the products you sell, but how many you sell.  Hear me out on that: you can go from the 4% commission (which turned me off at first) to the 8.5% or so commission if you sell more...I dunno...Books.  Hair bands.  Tooth brushes...anything!

...and Amazon is the place to go for competitive shopping, for great return policies, and excellent customer service (at least it's been one of our fave places to shop - and if you're not doing so yet, get Amazon Prime - free shipping??!).  In a word: the sales resistance on Amazon is tremendously low - they're trusted.

Unlike...

So many of the ClickBank vendors (no offense to CB vendors in general) - it's a perception thang, you dig?

Even some of the ShareASale affiliate programs have the most dismal conversions on the face of the planet.  (Then again, it might just be me.)

That's the majority of the sales resistance brick wall: the sales resistance.  Amazon has very little of it, relatively speaking.  They rock at sales, and they know what in the world they're doing - which is why they're one of the monoliths that survived the "dot com" bubble back when (does that make me old?).

I hate to belabor the point, but it's needed: Amazon doesn't quite get the credit they deserve amongst affiliate marketers, and I'll be honest: when I got my first ShareASale check, and it was $419.47 from two sales - I thought Amazon was a joke when I ran some numbers.

I've changed my tune.  Why?  Largely due to several bloggers I respect showing some figures of their Amazon earnings - one of them even on here at HubPages (I don't know their usernames though) - they are making thousands of dollars a month from Amazon.

Yet I couldn't sell more than a few dollars...what a joke!  I have made bout $38k in sales this year, from January until August, on various projects - all for just a few hours worth of work (OK, per website it's more like 8 hours a piece for the core pages, I add pages later, but it's not "active" income - it's all passive is my point). 

I love that.  But Amazon?  $25.68...

It's a profit center that is real, and I can't stand that I've left so much money on the table.  Here's what I've been doing (( BEFORE )) reading The Amazonian Profit Plan:

Set up a site.  Monetize with AdSense, with ShareASale, with ClickBank...and heck, throw in an Amazon widget - you know, something really COOL like that sliding dealy-whack, that "widget" or this widget...pick a widget....heck, pick all of them.

I had widgets wherever I had spaces to place them.  I had the big widget with 12 or so products, thinking that the micro-sized "thumbnails" with the prices on there was a GOOD thing...

Then I tried the widgets that spin, you pick the products and the viewer can click the arrow to make it spin (I saw a competitor use the widget and thought it was a big deal, had to have it!).  My next target was the sidebar - I put so many widgets on my sites that they rivaled carnivals in summer, or the Las Vegas strip...

What a joke!  The sad thing was that I read that someone had success with this - the widget thing - he had made a whopping $64...and I actually took his advice!  What a horrid thing to say out loud, but there you have it: bad decision on my part.

What a loser move.  And to think: I was excited when I made $25.68...It makes me want to pull my hair out, or water board myself.

You know why I went widget happy?  Because my competitors did.  I have no idea if they "work," but now I'm convinced that they don't, at least not how I was doing it.

The Brass Tacks Of the Amazonian Profit Plan

You still with me?

Alright, what happened to my thinking? Well I found the blog of the ladies who authored The Amazonian Profit Plan. To be fair, they aren't the only people who caught my ear, but they were speaking my language.

They nailed my business plan to the wall and dissected it: I was in the market to build an army of websites, hundreds and hundreds, because they were going to be the "make a dollar" sites - and I wanted to make a lot of dollars = make a lot of sites.

Call them "micro niche" sites, whatever - they work. They make me a total of $2500-$3900 a month at the moment.

Maybe that sounds like "enough" to you - but I'm in SF! That amount just won't cut it, not if I want to quit doing SEO on the side (no offense to my clients - but I would like to retire).

What Paula and Wanda of The Amazonian Profit Plan were talking about on their blog was what I was missing, a winning strategy and blueprint that would convert into sales on Amazon.

This is a way to create quality sites that are bigger, better, and have better conversions with Amazon.

Without divulging the contents of their e-book, I have to keep this pretty general to respect their work (oh, and uh...I don't want them to sue me!).

You get a full-blown blueprint of their methods of picking the most likely to convert products on Amazon. This is half the battle, but not all there is - you have to be sure you can rank for the terms you target, too - so there's more of a process than just picking and forgetting.

Nonetheless, this was the information I was looking for: how to pick the "low-hanging fruit" so to speak. I needed someone to show me that (does that make me lame?). And I learned how they do their copywriting - as a salesman myself, I have to admit that I gleaned just a little from this section - but they confirmed that my approach was the way to go.

I did learn how they do it, and I'll tell you that their way was a shortcut I would have liked to see earlier in my "career" online. They get kudos from me for that tidbit - and if you're not a marketer or have a hard time writing, then you'll definitely get a great blueprint that you can apply to any program, really - though it is tailored to Amazon.

You will also get to see how they approach their business, and make it a system that anyone can replicate: this for me was what I wanted to get to, what I needed to see.

Nonetheless - especially in view of Christmas and Halloween coming up - you really ought to look at buying this e-book. Don't let the shopping season pass you by as you leave (like I did!) money on the table - it's about to get "hyphy" in the sales department at Amazon, as we say here in Cali.

This season, I'll be one of those happy IMers riding that wave, and in years to come, I plan on making Amazon more of a staple in my online business, thanks to The Amazonian Profit Plan. Thanks, Paula and Wanda - I personally needed this.

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(( Look, I'll level with you: I have NO IDEA if you'll "get rich" by getting this or ANY e-book, BUT if you read it AND you DO IT, I'm sure you will more than make your cost back given 60 days time. I have no doubt you'll profit from the Amazonian Profit Plan if you DO what it says. ))

** 9/17/10 Update **

It's official: this program works like a champ.  I've had time to test it out, build websites, promote them according to their plan (not usually my style and yes: I still use all my other tools, more on that some other time, some other Hub)...The result astounded me: 3%-6% conversions, and more traffic than I have to my other websites.

I've made $217...not too shabby for one review so far. Yes, "ONE" review, and this is because I'm still doing SEO for clients - but I'll gladly take that for 40 days work!  Now it's a matter of more reviews, more traffic, more websites - but this works!