Do you want to learn step by step exactly how to make money on Amazon without selling anything?
Probably you have a thing against selling, or just are not cut out for it and you still wish to make some bucks through Amazon.
It’s possible.
and I’m going to show you about 6 powerful ways you can make money off Amazon without having to sell a single thing.
All I need you to do for me is to go through this list carefully, chose one or two of the methods, and work with it.
The more consistent you get with working with a particular method, the more you get to understand and you’ll be able to get really cool results from it.
Without wasting much of our time I’ll now go ahead and list them for you + explain each step by step.
If you have questions feel free to let me know in the comment section and I’ll try to reply as soon as possible
Let’s get started.
Top 6 Ways to Make Money on Amazon without Selling
- Promote Your eBooks
- Become an Amazon Affiliate
- Review Products
- Buy and Resell Products
- Compile Book Lists
- Give Away Your eBooks For Free
#1 – Promote your books
The first on the list is to promote your book.
If you’re an author, you can promote your book on Amazon even if it’s not for sale there.
How?
By including a link to buy the book (even on a different website).
That way, people who visit your Amazon author page will see that you have other books available and be tempted to buy them.
and as you already know, Amazon is a very big website with billions of traffic daily, you can leverage this and make some sales of your book without actually selling on amazon.
#2 – Become an Amazon affiliate
Another way is to join the amazon associates program as an affiliate, this is called amazon affiliate marketing
Becoming an affiliate with Amazon is one of the best ways to make money online using amazon without actually having to sell.
You can earn commission starting from 1% to 10%
When someone buys a product through an Amazon link on your blog, you get a commission. The percentage of that commission varies by product category, but typically it’s 4%.
For example: if you referred a friend to the Amazon store and they ended up buying a $100 television, then you would get $4.00 for that sale.
To get started as an Amazon affiliate, you will first need to create a blog where you can direct traffic from.
When your blog is created, write helpful articles and get traffic to it.
Then signup for amazon associates.
It’s very simple to do.
Once this is done, you’ll be able to Amazon product links and make money, you can easily make between $100-$1000+ a month with amazon associates or an affiliate program
This is what the majority of people do to make thousands of dollars from amazon monthly without selling anything.
#3 – Review products
This one’s very simple and self-explanatory.
One really good way to make money off Amazon without selling anything is to simply find a product you like, buy it, and leave a review.
Yes, you make money by reviewing other people’s products.
No selling at all.
There used to be an official program by amazon called the “Early Reviewer Program” where you’re selected to test a product, leave reviews and receive free gift card”
It’s now closed though but there are still some Facebook groups you can join where sellers pay you to leave amazon reviews of their products.
Note: You have to be careful as this is against amazon tos.
#4 – Buy & Resell Products
This is another powerful way to earn passive income off amazon without selling anything directly.
Buying and reselling on Amazon FBA (Fulfilled By Amazon).
This is called private labelling and it’s the easiest way to build a business of your own and take advantage of the massive opportunity that is eCommerce
#5 – Compile book lists
Amazon allows its users to compile their own lists and sell them for profit.
So if you want a good and easy way to make money off Amazon, you can do it by creating and sharing Amazon book lists.
You can do this with your existing library or a list of books you don’t want anymore.
Create an account on a site like BookScouter and create a list of what you want to sell.
And BOOM!
Set the price for your list and wait for buyers to come to you.
Easy money right?
#6 – Give away your ebooks for free
To make money on Amazon without actually selling anything you can consider the possibility of giving away your ebooks for free and asking readers to pay for shipping costs instead.
Woah! cool stuff I guess?
How do you even do that?
By creating your own fulfillment by FBA (Fulfillment by Amazon), you can start offering free shipping immediately!
Then the next thing is to start promoting your eBooks on social media channels like Facebook, Twitter etc.. or even on YouTube.
Create an attractive book cover and write a brief summary of what readers will find inside the book.
Target users who belong to niche groups related to your books and ask them if they would love a free copy, only pay for shipping.
This is how to make money on Amazon without selling
As said earlier on, pick one or two methods and work with them and you’ll get results.
What do you think about these 6 ways? Is there anyone you’re currently working with?
Let me know in the comment section