You can easily join in with the thousands of people who make money selling Amazon products and do very well for yourself. Amazon is the world's largest book store, though now it sells just about everything else too.

Amazon has been in existence almost as long as the World Wide Web itself. Since its beginnings in 1994 as a simple book store, Amazon has moved forward to now sell music, software and electronics, as well as furniture, garden equipment, toys and lots more.

The name of Amazon is one of the most trusted online, and you can use that to your benefit. They were one of the first companies to launch an affiliate program online. They launched their Amazon Associates program, as they call it, in 1996.

The Amazon Associates program is as simple as any other affiliate program. You join up, which is free, and you insert the special code you receive from Amazon in the underlying HTML code of your website pages.

This will display Amazon products directly on your web pages. If someone buys a product from your website, you will be credited with the sale and you will receive the agreed percentage of the price.

Amazon does not have the highest paying affiliate program online. In fact, they are often known for their low percentage for those starting out, which starts at 4%. However, it can rise to 15% once a number of factors come in to play.

You may be thinking that an affiliate commission of 4% is not much on say, a music CD costing around $15. You are right, but you don't have to just sell low priced items. If you promote Amazon products that sell for say, $500, then 4% becomes $20 commission per sale, which is a lot more interesting.

Amazon has some really great tools for you to use. Building your own Amazon store is very easy and can be very profitable too. Rather than trying to be everything to everyone, as Amazon does, you will fare better if you specialize. This is easy to do with their Amazon Associates program.

For example, you could set up a website that sells only golf clubs. You could focus it even tighter still and make it a website that sells only Wilson golf clubs. In this way you will find it easier to promote your website as you are only trying to attract people who have an interest in buying golf clubs made by just one particular manufacturer.

This is the secret to making a success with selling Amazon products - specialize! Amazon itself can afford to be everything to all people. You can't. If someone conducted a search on Google for the keyword phrase, "buy wilson golf clubs" and your website came up in the top position of the results, don't you think they might click on the link to take a look?

This is how specializing in just one area works so well for a small business venture. You are giving a very small segment of people exactly what they want. When someone searches for "wilson staff di5 irons," to use our example again, they are not interested in Callaway or TaylorMade golf clubs, or any other kind, and because they know what they want to find in exact detail, they are very likely ready to buy too. This is how you can make money selling Amazon products.