Planning For Wealth

A couple of weeks ago I posted that I had created an Amazon aStore (Planning for Wealth Book Store).  Now I’d like to tell you about Amazon aStores.

What is aStore

aStore is a Amazon Associates product that allows associates to create professional online stores.  An aStore can be created in just a few minutes and requires no programming skill. 

Features

You can create up to 100 aStores per associate account.  Create as many pages are you want in each store with unlimited category and subcategory nesting.  aStores can be embedded into or linked from your existing website.  You have access to all Amazon products including product descriptions, reviews, and recommendations. Listmania and themed product lists are also availble from Amazon customers.  Amazon shopping card is already built into the store.

Advanced users can customize store nazigation directly on their own website and create customer systle sheets to enhance the look and feel of their aStore.

How does it work

Amazon Associates has a simple online interface you use to create your store.  Sign up as an associate if you are not already an Amazon Associate.  Amazon’s online interface will guide you through the process of creating and customizing you store categories, setup the look and feel of the store, and provides you with the info you need to link to your new store or embed it into an existing website.  No programming skill is necessary.  A new store can be created in just a few minutes.

Associates are paid a referral fee for all products purchased through their aStore.  See the Amazon Associates program for exact information on Amazon referrals.

How much does it cost

aStores are available to all Amazon Associates and are free.

How to get started

Sign up as an associate if you are not already an Amazon Associate.  Then visit the aStore section of Associates Centrel.

I’ve added a simple book store using Amazon’s aStore.  You can connect to it here — Planning for Wealth Book Store.  There is also a link to the store under Links to the right.  This is my first attempt at anything like this store.  The store doesn’t look too bad for only about 20 minutes of work.  I’ll probably be tweaking it off and on for a while so see if I can’t improve on it.  Be sure to let me know what you think of it.  As I have time I’m also going to look into how the Amazon eCommerce functionality works and figure out how to make an eBay niche store.  There are programs available that will auto generate scripts for Amazon aStores and eBay niche stores.  But for now I’m only looking for methods that are free.   So far I’ve only played around with HTML and PHP a little.  Guess I need to buckle down and get to work.