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Inside Amazon.com

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“work hard. have fun. make history.” Those words greet you as you enter Amazon.com’s PHX6 Fulfillment Center in Phoenix, AZ. Amazon.com has well over 100 fulfillment centers around the world, working around the clock to ship to customers. On Cyber Monday 2014, Amazon received 436 orders per second. How do they get all of those products out the door? I got a better idea of how it all works when I recently toured PHX6.

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I have been selling books via Amazon Advantage since 2000, and I have been a customer even longer. As an Amazon fangirl, when they started offering tours of some of their fulfillment centers, I jumped at the chance. Apparently I didn’t jump quite fast enough, though—the earliest date available was one year away. Last week, that date finally arrived.
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3 Incredible Reasons To Become An Amazon Associates Member

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Amazon Associates is Amazon’s affiliate marketing program. With Amazon Associates, you can make money by referring customers to Amazon.com. It can be as simple as putting a link on your site. Then, when your readers click the link, go to Amazon and buy something, you get paid.

Affiliate marketing doesn’t have to be difficult. Too often, marketers try to talk about how complicated it is to male sales with certain programs, and the fact of the matter is that it can be easy, if you know what affiliate network to join and how to use it to your advantage. If you have a website, any type of site, you have a platform to be successful with affiliate marketing. One of the easier platforms to work with is an option that comes from the powerhouse site Amazon. Amazon Associates is one of the best options that you can sign up for, and if you are not a member yet, you should look into it. Here are 3 reasons you should become a member.
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