Make Money Online With Amazon Mechanical Turk (mturk.com)

Newbie and Experienced Marketers… Please Pay Attention To Amazon Mechanical Turk!

Amazon.com has released a service whereby Newbie Marketers can start making small money completing tasks at the comfort of their home and Experienced Marketers can start driving traffic and actions to your sites, affiliate products or internet marketing services.

This service, which you can join at no-cost (you can get started easily if you have an affiliate account to promote Amazon.com), is known as Amazon Mechanical Turk or mturk.com.

What Is Amazon Mechanical Turk All About?

In a marketing sense, Amazon Mechanical Turk is a market place where Advertisers (known as Requester, in Amazon.com’s term) will list out a series of actions that’s needed to be completed by the Workers, like:

A Number of HITS Waiting For You To Make Money From...

• Doing a review on a iPhone Application (must have iphone though) or
• Write a 400-550 word article on a Self-Catering Holiday or (please see image below)

In exchange for this completion, the Workers can expect to earn like $4 for an article or $0.01 for a quick recipe review. These earned funds can then be transferred (anytime) to your U.S based Bank Account or to Amazon.com Gift Certificate Balance.

How Do I Complete A Task And Make Money As A Worker?

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Case Study: Zoomii and Amazon Web Services

I was reading my online newspaper site a few days ago and I came across one corner article sharing the “Website Of The Day” and that article was featuring Zoomii.com - an online bookstore featuring all the books (almost) on Amazon.com.

Also I shared with you back then my posting on “Are You Using Amazon Web Services Technology?” So happen, this site is related to what I have posted.

And for you, this is another real case study that you as an affiliate marketers or budding entrepreneurs can use as an effective business blueprint.

So let’s take a good look into this “lucrative” business model:

1. The creator of the site has a passion for books and goes to a bookstore often. This is a niche market for him. What passion do you have that can be translated to a business?
2. This is not a new online bookstore that’s trying to compete with Amazon.com. Rather this is a collaboration and a win/win situation for both. The creator of the site is an affiliate of Amazon Associates Program. Any sales of the books will give him a commission and a good sales relationship with Amazon.com. Ideal Affiliate Marketing!
   
3. Gone are the days of deep programming… Why so? This site is hosted on Amazon Web Services - the EC2 and S3 services. If you are interested in using some of the products and services that Amazon.com is offering and will like to save time on creating a storefront (not the same as Zoomii.com). Check out this link: http://solutions.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=1260
4. With revolutionizing technologies like FireFox 3 (loading speed) and the iPhone (the site has a few similar interface) - you do not have to worry about issues like the “site is lagging and taking donkey years to load”. What does this mean to you - you are not alone online. Whatever plans you may have for your “next big thing”, there are ready technologies that you can tap into.
5. Making Better Money Online is faster than before. This site is just more than a month old and many are already picking up the existence of such a site. What this will mean is that if you have a feasible idea or a good affiliate product to promote - work on it, as soon as possible, and let the internet and the media pick them up for you!

There you go! So for all the affiliate marketers and entrepreneurs out there… work on your products and marketing today and make better money! And for all book-lovers out there, you have another bookstore to go to today, not the physical one but the online Zoomii.com.