URL:

http://www.amazon.com/associates

What is Amazon Associates?

Amazon.com is the largest online retailer selling millions of products from books to cds to dvds to digital cameras to clothes.  Amazon Associates is Amazon.com affiliate system that allows you to feature Amazon products on your websites and make commission off of sales completed through your website.  The system is really easy to use and simple to setup.  An affiliate system is a method of recommending a product to someone else via a website or blog, and if someone purchases something by click on it from your site, the system tracks you as the recommender (affiliate) and gives you commission on the purchases made. (read more at Wikipedia)

What you may not know about Amazon Associates

Amazon Associates has this tool to create your own online store of items to sell.  This tool is called Amazon aStores.  With aStores, you get to select the products, you get to select the design, and then it has its own URL (web site link) that you can share with your family and friends.  What I am going to suggest you do is use Amazon.com aStores to create a Christmas wish list of all the items that you want, and share it with your family and friends so they know what you want for Christmas.  Not only are you making it easier for them to find what you want, they even have a simple shopping cart to make multiple purchase through your aStore.  With all of the purchases made, you make commission (Amazon Associates starts you at 4%, increases with more sales).  In return, take that commission you made from your friends and family and spend a little bit more on them.  After all this is Christmas time,  if money is short, here’s an alternative.

Watch this quick video I put together for you: